News
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Combating loneliness in Living Lab 13 April 2021
Master's students of Vitality & Ageing work together with older individuals in the so-called ‘Living Lab’ to combat loneliness. You can watch four bri...
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No holiday plans? Go on a virtual trip this summer! 05 April 2021
‘Walking around in a new environment activates our brain’s learning centre. This allows us to learn better, even once we’ve returned to a familiar env...
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Larger pupils? You might just have gained someone’s trust 02 March 2021
Synchrony in heart rate, skin conductance and pupil diameter plays a big role in human social interactions, such as gaining trust or being attracted t...
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Rebecca Schaefer: 'Music and science bring people together' 19 February 2021
Rebecca Schaefer received the new science communication grant for the SNAAR Festival in December 2020. With the festival, Schaefer wants to make music...
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Andrea Evers awarded Proof of Concept Grant 12 January 2021
Professor of Health Psychology Andrea Evers has been awarded a Proof of Concept Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This additional grant is...
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Psychology prizes 2020 18 December 2020
The Psychology Teaching Award goes to the entire team of teaching staff. PhD candidates Wouter van Loon and Hilmar Zech wrote the best scientific arti...
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Orangutans yawn contagiously when they see others yawn 17 December 2020
For the first time, contagious yawning has now also been found in a species that roams its territory mostly in solitude and is less frequently engaged...
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Mandrills; timing is everything 04 December 2020
Mandrills keep track of how many days have passed to be the first to gather the food. This is shown by a team of researchers from the University of Am...
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If you expect an itch, you’ll get an itch 24 November 2020
If you expect something is going to itch, the itching really does get worse. Leiden health psychologist Danielle Bartels has proved the effect of nega...
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Vidi grant for psychedelics research Michiel van Elk 10 November 2020
What exactly do psychedelics do in our brains? To investigate this, NWO has awarded a Vidi grant to Michiel van Elk. The Leiden cognitive psychologist...
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Breast cancer patients remember more information if doctors show empathy 06 November 2020
Patients with incurable breast cancer remember more information about their treatment if their doctor is more empathetic during consultations. These a...
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Veni grants for eleven Leiden researchers 05 November 2020
Eleven Leiden researchers have been awarded a Veni grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The grant will enable them to develop their research ide...
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Mirror on the wall, who's the best at mirroring? 26 October 2020
The better you mirror each other's behavior, the better you appear to work together. In her PhD research at the unit Cognitive Psychology in Leiden, F...
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Daphne Tona maps the brain 07 September 2020
Psychologist Daphne Tona is one of the first to investigate a small nucleus in the brain stem 'in vivo' in living volunteers. That nucleus is involved...
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Margot van der Doef first Leiden psychologist to hold Senior Teaching Qualification 06 July 2020
'Continuing to work on my professional development is inspiring and stimulating, and it’s rewarding to have an influence on how psychology is taught.’...