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Anna van Duijvenvoorde receives Heineken Young Scientists Award 29 June 2020
The 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 psychology 19 May 2020
Janna 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?’ 17 April 2020
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 Grant 06 April 2020
The 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? 04 April 2020
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 children 02 April 2020
A 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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Eveline Crone: 'Stay healthy' 01 April 2020
Eveline Crone: 'Many thanks to my amazing Brain and Development Research Center colleagues. I am so thankful for the 15 fantastic years. It is also ex...
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Don’t underestimate the developing child brain 12 March 2020
Children’s brains react in the same way to social feedback as adults’ brains. But handling frustration or aggression after being rejected is a differe...
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Children in court proceedings should be heard at much younger age 02 March 2020
On 2 March 2020 the report Kind in proces: van communicatie naar effectieve participatie (Children in proceedings: from communication towards effectiv...
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Genetic predisposition to social anxiety disorder measurable in the brain 13 January 2020
It was already known that social anxiety disorder often affects more than one person in the same family. But research by PhD student Janna Marie Bas-H...
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Psychology Awards 2019 20 December 2019
The theses awards go to Maud van den Eijnden (MSc) and Michael Aristodemou (MSc research). PhD candidates Frank Doolaard and Meriem Manaï wrote the be...
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Social brain active in childhood already 09 December 2019
Exclusion elicits the same response in children as in adolescents and adults. That is what psychologist Mara van der Meulen found when she studied bra...
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Celebrating 30 years of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child at the (Y)our Rights Festival 12 November 2019
It is 30 years ago this month that the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was ratified. UNICEF is celebrating this on 20 November in collaborati...
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School absenteeism: A universal problem in need of solutions 01 November 2019
The International Network for School Attendance launched an inaugural conference in Norway, playing host to 14 countries, 254 participants. Lead of th...
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Eveline Crone new ERC Vice-President 31 October 2019
Eveline Crone, Professor of Neurocognitive Development Psychology at Leiden University, has been elected as the new Vice President of the European Res...