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‘The details are crucial in court’26 May 2020Researcher Gezinus Wolters regularly has to determine in court whether a witness statement is reliable. How does he go about his work?
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Trade union grant for psychology research into the effect of a basic income25 May 2020Psychologists Fenna Poletiek and Erik de Kwaadsteniet have received a grant from the FNV trade union to research people’s attitude to work if they rec...
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Scratching is contagious when solitary orangutans are in groups25 May 2020If someone around you yawns, the chances are that you too will soon yawn. In orangutans it has now been found that scratching is very contagious. This...
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Aspasia grant for promising researchers in psychology19 May 2020Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam, Stefanie Meeuwis, and Eliška Procházková have all been awarded a share of the Aspasia diversity grant obtained by Mariska K...
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Fabiola Diana and Liza Cornet win FameLab Leiden pre-round30 April 2020The preliminary round in Leiden was cancelled, in part due to the corona crisis, but three young Leiden researchers were able to take part in the prel...
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Psychologist Zsuzsika Sjoerds takes over the Twitter account @NL_Wetenschap27 September 2019Zsuzsika Sjoerds seems to be busy with her research, her teaching, and open science advocacy. She will also take over the Twitter account for Dutch sc...
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LUF grants for six Leiden psychologists22 August 2019LUF grants for research projects have been awarded to Liesbeth van Vliet, Michiel Claessen, Anna van Duijvenvoorde, Laura Steenbergen, Kim de Jong and...
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Psychology talents present their research on Psychology Science Day 201901 July 2019On the Psychology Science Day 2019 bachelor students were granted a certificate for participating in the Honours Research Bachelor Project (HRBP) and ...
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Manon Mulckhuyse new assistant professor Cognitive Psychology24 June 2019In September 2019, Manon Mulckhuyse will start a position as assistant professor in the Cognitive Psychology Unit.
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Optimum amount of dopamine improves cognitive ability18 February 2019The ‘right’ amount of dopamine in the brain makes study participants better at solving certain cognitive tasks. This is the conclusion of Bryant Jongk...
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Zsuzsika Sjoerds nominated for the Woman in the Media Award - You Go Girl31 January 2019Vote now for our psychologist Zsuzsika Sjoerds to win the Woman in the Media Award 2018 - You Go Girl for her important work standing up for science ...
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Five ERC Starting Grants for young Leiden University researchers26 July 2018The European Research Council has awarded a Starting Grant to five early career scientists from Leiden University. They received funding up to 1.5 mil...
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Veni subsidies for sixteen Leiden researchers16 July 2018Sixteen researchers at Leiden University have received a Veni award from the Netherlands Organisation for Academic Research (NWO). This award offers p...
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Difficulty with emotions and lack of trust: Mariska Kret's Vidi research06 July 2018‘What a relief,’ was psychologist Mariska Kret’s reaction to the news of her Vidi grant from the national science financier NWO. The grant makes it po...
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Pupil size of discussion partners reflects trust03 July 2018During eye contact, people tend to mirror the pupil size of the person they are conversing with. This social mechanism is related to the trust an indi...