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Eveline Crone receives American Award for innovation 11 April 2022
Eveline Crone has been selected for the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Social & Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS). 'It's very special to get r...
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Autism with borders 31 March 2022
Autistic people have problems communicating their borders towards the non-autistic community and often do not feel respected. To not only change daily...
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Yung-Ting Tsou wins Poster Prize at Dutch National Autisme Congres 2022 28 March 2022
Developmental psychologist Yung-Ting Tsou's research is part of the Breaking the Cycle project. This project of the Focus on Emotions lab at Leiden Un...
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What drives Lotte van Dillen, the new Psychology Director of Research? 08 March 2022
Lotte van Dillen has every confidence in the new-style Executive Board of the Institute of Psychology. ‘If we work on the basis of everyone’s good int...
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Podcast: Prosocial Behaviour and Exclusion 01 February 2022
In this episode we talk with Mara van der Meulen about prosocial behaviour and social exclusion in children. Van der Meulen also explores the role of ...
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An app to help children overcome anxiety 14 January 2022
Anke Klein and her team have devised a fun and useful app to help anxious children. In the app, children can upload a video of themselves showing, for...
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Psychology Awards 2021 12 January 2022
Psychology teacher of the year is Anouk van der Weiden. The master thesis awards are for Irina Verhülsdonk and Christel Klootwijk. Eliška Procházková ...
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Talent Acceleration Grant of Medical Delta for Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam 17 December 2021
For the Train your Brain project, Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam received the Medical Delta Talent Acceleration Grant. 'My pilot project does not focus on ...
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Podcast: Social Anxiety Disorder 29 November 2021
Have you ever experienced the feeling of awkwardness when attending a party where you didn’t know anybody? Ever felt shy at a party within the first f...
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Three questions about delayed language development in children 14 October 2021
Around seven per cent of children have difficulty learning their mother tongue because they have some form of developmental language disorder (DLD). ...
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LEF grant for Semiha Aydin to pilot social anxiety treatment 06 August 2021
Semiha Aydin is one of the three first-generation researchers who received a grant from the Leiden Empowerment Fund to stimulate their scientific career.
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Eveline Crone new Corresponding Fellow of The British Academy 26 July 2021
The British Academy appointed Eveline Crone as a Corresponding Fellow to recognise her contribution to the SHAPE themes - the social sciences, humanit...
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Podcast: Self-image and study choice 07 July 2021
Laura van der Aar talks about the role of self-image in making decisions for future education. In her research, Laura investigated the importance of p...
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The power of compliments for young people, by young people 16 June 2021
After receiving positive feedback from peers, socially anxious young people feel as confident about themselves as their non-anxious counterparts. 'The...
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Michelle Achterberg receives Award for PhD Thesis on brain development in children 14 June 2021
On June 10, Michelle Achterberg received the prize for best dissertation from the Dutch Neurofederation, the network of Dutch neuroscientists, for her...