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Vibrant illustrations and mind-boggling graphs - Psychology students share insights into their research 07 July 2023Why do some smokers quit much more easily than others? Can we think ourself to insomnia? And does playing music together help to calm conflicts? Psych...
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New professor Elise Dusseldorp: ‘The longer you’re in research, the more humble you become’ 26 June 2023Elise Dusseldorp has been appointed Professor in the Methodology and Statistics of Psychological Research. In the same way that she spends her spare t...
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Award winners in Methodology and Statistics department 19 June 2023The Department of Methodology and Statistics proudly celebrates the remarkable achievements of two award winners.
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LUF grant for Sanne Willems 08 June 2023The Leiden University Fund (LUF)/ Gratama-Foundation has awarded a 35.000 euro grant to statistics researcher Sanne Willems. This grant enables her to...
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Goodbye SPSS, hallo R: ‘Now we can help students who like statistics to excel’ 12 April 2023After the summer, the SPSS statistics programme will be replaced by the new ‘R’ software for first year students. Hemmo Smit and Sjoerd Huisman, both ...
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Psychology Awards 2022 09 January 2023Psychology teacher of the year is Roy de Kleijn. The Master Thesis Awards are for Roosmarijn Goldbach en Matija Čuljak. Jeffrey Durieux receives the P...
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Three Leiden scientists win IFCS Cluster Benchmarking Challenge 23 September 2022At the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS) conference 2022 in Porto, psychologists Tom Wilderjans, Jeffrey Durieux and Julian ...
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YAL Outreach Grants to tackle disinformation 18 August 2022Leiden 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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Psychology Science Day 2022 20 June 2022‘Very interesting’ is what two bachelor students have to say about the stories by Liesbeth van Vliet and Niki Antypa during the Psychology Science Day...
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Gravitation grant for research into growing up successfully 02 May 2022How can young people grow up successfully and contribute to the present and future society? The consortium that is researching this will receive 22 mi...
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What drives Lotte van Dillen, the new Psychology Director of Research? 08 March 2022Lotte van Dillen has every confidence in the new-style Executive Board of the Institute of Psychology. ‘If we work on the basis of everyone’s good int...
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Psychology Awards 2021 12 January 2022
Psychology teacher of the year is Anouk van der Weiden. The master thesis awards are for Irina Verhülsdonk and Christel Klootwijk. Eliška Procházková ...
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Probability words: everybody interprets them differently 05 August 2021What exactly does it mean when your doctor says you have a ‘good chance’ of survival? Leiden researchers discovered that there is a big difference in ...
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Psychology prizes 2020 18 December 2020
The Psychology Teaching Award goes to the entire team of teaching staff. The theses awards go to Robert-Jan de Rooij and Florian Thomas-Odenthal. PhD...
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Alfons Chorus, founder of the Institute of Psychology: who was he really? 14 October 2019Alfons Chorus was the ‘founding father’ of Psychology in Leiden. His son Rogier Chorus recently obtained his PhD at Leiden University based on his bio...