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Best friends forever? How the adolescent brain reacts to good friendsDuring adolescence, some young people have stable best-friend relationships, while others change best friends frequently. Developmental psychologist L...
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Psychology prizes 2020The Psychology Teaching Award goes to the entire team of teaching staff. The theses awards go to Robert-Jan de Rooij and Florian Thomas-Odenthal. PhD...
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Lockdown stress milder than expected, but vulnerable families hit harderDuring the ‘intelligent lockdown’ in the Netherlands this spring, the respondents in a Leiden study reported a mild increase in their stress levels. T...
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Three Leiden researchers receive Rubicon Grant for research abroadChemist Liubov Belyaeva, psychologist Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam and LUMC researcher Elisa Giacomelli have received a Rubicon Grand and will therefore ...
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Elseline Hoekzema investigates the impact of pregnancy on the human brain with European grantNeuroscientist Elseline Hoekzema receives a large European grant from the European Research Council (ERC). This ERC starting grant for promising young...
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An inclusive learning environment for children with communication problemsSchools are essential to children’s development and provide numerous options for growth. They also facilitate learning beyond the classroom and give c...
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Anna van Duijvenvoorde in Dutch media on social learningDevelopmental Psychologist Anna van Duijvenvoorde talks about her research on the development of brain and behaviour in adolescents. An important part...
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Black Lives Matter - New network of Dutch museumsHow are people of color represented in art collections? And do young people of color feel that museum collections reflect their norms and values? Deve...
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Anna van Duijvenvoorde receives Heineken Young Scientists AwardThe Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has awarded the Heineken Young Scientist Award 2020 in the Social Sciences to developmental ...
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Aspasia grant for promising researchers in psychologyJanna 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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‘Could the slide have coronavirus on it?’What do I do if Mum or Dad gets the virus? Could the slide at the playground have coronavirus on it? Can children die of the virus too? On 15 April, t...
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Anna van Duijvenvoorde and Stephanie Rap receive 444 Interdisciplinary Activity GrantThe Young Academy Leiden (YAL) has awarded an 444 Interdisciplinary Activity Grant to Anna van Duijvenvoorde and Stephanie Rap to organise a half-day ...
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Are autistic youngsters less prosocial?A common notion is that autistic people feel no need for social contact, that they are socially clumsy and show little prosocial behavior. But is that...
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Animated video in Dutch about corona specially for childrenA Dutch-language video shows children their new life during the corona crisis and gives them some guidelines to help them feel less worried. The short...
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Farewell to Eveline Crone: 'Stay healthy'Eveline Crone on Twitter: 'Many thanks to my amazing Brain and Development Research Center colleagues, it is sad to leave Leiden University. I am so t...