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Leiden Healthy Society Center: making Leiden the healthiest city in the Netherlands 10 November 2022
How can the people of Leiden age as well as possible? And what is needed to reduce health disparities? That is the mission of Leiden Healthy Society C...
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Parents are too hard on themselves: teens more positive about their parenting 31 October 2022
Although it can be a challenge at times, parents should keep communicating with their teens. Also about how they parent. Research by developmental psy...
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WARN-D: Your personal code yellow - orange - red 23 October 2022
Imagine getting a notification on your mobile phone with your personal code for impending mental health problems or even depression: yellow, orange, o...
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Family matters 06 October 2022
Brothers and sisters within a family, with the same parents, experience their upbringing differently. As well as the impact of their own negative expe...
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“You look well,” said the oncologist, but she didn't feel that way at all 12 September 2022
Leiden psychologists Janine Westendorp and Liesbeth van Vliet have investigated types of communication that seriously ill patients may experience as h...
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Draw on behavioural science for a healthy lifestyle 31 August 2022
Healthy lifestyle campaigns are often unsuccessful. It is hard to get people to eat healthily or do more exercise. Behavioural science expertise shoul...
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Liesbeth Eurelings-Bontekoe was knighted in the Order of Orange-Nassau 29 August 2022
Emeritus professor Liesbeth Eurelings-Bontekoe received the royal award from the Deputy Mayor of Amsterdam for her great contribution to the quality o...
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YAL Outreach Grants to tackle disinformation 18 August 2022
Leiden psychologists receive an Outreach Grant from the Young Academy Leiden (YAL) to talk about facts and fables in their field of research. Marieke ...
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In memoriam: Dr. Daniëlle A. Hamstra 03 August 2022
On July 28, 2022, our dear colleague Daniëlle Hamstra passed away after a short sickbed. Daniëlle had been associated with the Clinical Psychology Sec...
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Mia Thomaïdou with Rubicon grant for research to US 25 July 2022
Mia Thomaïdou wants to investigate how criminal courts understand and use the increased knowledge of human behavior. Her Rubicon grant allows for two ...
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Kids become real scientists with Lil'Scientist 25 July 2022
Children are perfect scientists: they are bursting with curiosity, they want to know how the world works and they go exploring every day. Yet many chi...
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Behavioural expertise needed for lifestyle change 14 July 2022
The importance of a healthy lifestyle does not receive the attention it deserves, as the coronavirus pandemic made painfully clear. Twelve behavioural...
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Liesbeth van Vliet honoured with Heineken Young Scientists Award 12 July 2022
Leiden health psychologist Liesbeth Van Vliet receives recognition for her research on doctor-patient communication and its influence on quality of he...
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Heineken Young Scientists Award for three Leiden researchers 11 July 2022
Three of the four Heineken Young Scientists Awards for 2022 have gone to researchers from Leiden: chronobiologist Laura Kervezee, physicist Jordi Tura...
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Antibiotic treatments make us more susceptible to negative emotions 08 July 2022
People who have taken antibiotics in the past three months pay more attention to negative facial expressions, according to research by postdoc Katerin...