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Spinoza Prizes for physicist Michel Orrit and psychologist Eveline Crone 13 September 2017
Of this year’s four NWO Spinoza Prizes, two have been awarded to Leiden researchers. On 12 September, Eveline Crone and Michel Orrit received their pr...
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Veni award for psychologist Barbara Braams 01 August 2017
Developmental psychologist Barbara Braams has been awarded with a Veni funding for her research about risk behaviour in young people. This award offer...
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Michiel Westenberg brings together teaching and youth care for the National Science Agenda 10 July 2017
‘Equal opportunities for diverse young people’ receives a Starting Incentive of the Natonal Science Agenda of 2,5 million euros. In this project resea...
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A different take on differences between men’s and women’s brains 27 June 2017
There is greater variety in the size of men’s brains than of women’s. This could help explain why some psychiatric disorders such as ADHD and autism a...
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Spinoza Prize for ‘puberty professor’ Eveline Crone 16 June 2017
Eveline Crone, Professor of Neurocognitive Developmental Psychology, has been awarded the NWO Spinoza Prize for her high-profile research on adolescen...
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Responding to pupils with mild intellectual disability in education 15 May 2017
Mariëtte Huizinga, Dorien Graas and Anika Bexkens call attention to learning problems of children with mild intellectual disability in the classroom. ...
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How harmful is alcohol for the adolescent brain? 11 May 2017
Under 18, no alcohol. In spite of this slogan, adolescents still have access to alcohol. But how harmful is that one beer for the adolescent brain? R...
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Attention for autism in girls 12 April 2017
Autism spectrum disorders are more often diagnosed in boys than in girls. For Developmental Psychology professor Carolien Rieffe this raises the quest...
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Girls are better at masking autism than boys 01 April 2017
Girls with autism have relatively good social skills, which means that their autism is often not recognised. Autism manifests itself in girls differen...
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The importance of relating to others: why we only learn to understand other people after the age of four 24 March 2017
When we are around four years old we suddenly start to understand that other people think and that their view of the world is often different from our...
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Designing a smart city together 31 January 2017
How can we make clever use of new technologies to improve quality of life in cities? The answer is in the NL Smart City Strategy, which Mark Rutte off...
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Eveline Crone to receive Ammodo KNAW Award 24 January 2017
Professor of Neurocognitive Developmental Psychology Eveline Crone will receive an Ammodo KNAW Award. This was announced by Ammodo, an institute for a...
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Highly gifted children benefit from explanation as much as their peers 17 January 2017
We often assume that highly gifted children always perform at maximum capacity. Psychologist Bart Vogelaar discovered that this group too benefits fr...
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Eveline Crone joins ERC Scientific Council 13 January 2017
Professor Eveline Crone joined the Scientific Council of the European Research Council (ERC) on 13 January.
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If your friends jump in the river… 12 January 2017
Young people influence one another to take greater risks, although it's not quite that cut and dried. This is what development psychologist Jorien van...