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Men are not better than women at navigating, although they think they are 07 September 2018
Last year, more than 8,000 respondents in the Netherlands took part in a public survey on their navigation behaviour. Headed by neuroscientist Ineke...
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Winnie Gebhardt receives Honorary Fellowship 04 September 2018
Health psychologist Winnie Gebhardt has been appointed as Honorary Fellow of the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS) in recognition of her excep...
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First patients start earning discounts with healthy living 03 July 2018
Heart patients who maintain a healthy lifestyle can start earning discounts at shops or for trips out. The Tergooi Hospital is the first in the Nether...
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First guidelines for applying placebo effect in clinical practice 27 June 2018
It is becoming increasingly clear that the placebo effect has a great influence on medical treatment. An international, interdisciplinary team of rese...
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LUBEC treatment centre: bridge between support and research 11 June 2018
From anxiety disorders to an extremely unhealthy lifestyle. In the Leiden University Treatment and Expertise Centre (LUBEC) children and adults receiv...
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New website research programme Digital Society 15 May 2018
On 15 May the new website about the research programme Digital Society has been launched.
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Luana Colloca is coming to Leiden as a KNAW visiting professor in health psychology 23 April 2018
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has granted health psychologist Andrea Evers a visiting professorship funding for Luana Coll...
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Conference award and poster presentation for health psychologists 13 March 2018
During the 76th American Psychosomatic Society conference in Louisville, Kentucky from 7-10 march 2018 Aleksandrina Skvortsova was awarded with one of...
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Imagination can reduce pain 02 February 2018
If you imagine in advance that something is not going to hurt, this could mean you experience less pain. This discovery was made by health psychologis...
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Sylvia van Beugen wins ARPH Best Thesis Award 29 January 2018
During the 7th annual meeting of the Association for Researchers in Psychology and Health (ARPH) Sylvia van Beugen, from the Health, Medical and Neuro...
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Weightless in the name of science 11 December 2017
Laura Nijkamp’s biggest dream came true recently: she took a parabolic flight and was weightless for a moment. The BrainFly student team, which includ...
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VSNU presents Digital Society research agenda 24 November 2017
The Digital Society research agenda was presented by the Dutch universities during the VSNU Impact festival on 23 November.
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Who are you without that cigarette? 10 November 2017
Do you want to be successful at stopping smoking? If so, the main thing is that you should see yourself as a non-smoker. Psychologist Eline Meijer has...
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Open access: ‘You see that it works’ 26 October 2017
The Dutch universities are conducting a joint campaign to promote open access: free access to academic and scientific publications. Many Leiden resear...
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Leiden expands collaboration with Mexico 25 October 2017
A delegation from Leiden University is currently visiting Mexico to initiate collaboration with universities and science funding bodies in the country...