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Loes Janssen in NWO Synergy Award final 03 February 2021
Loes Janssen would like to foster well-being of families by using an app and sending families short and fun activities each day to do together. For th...
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Exposure therapy also helps patients with childhood trauma process the past 15 January 2021
Childhood trauma can have a lifelong effect. Many therapists do not dare to confront these vulnerable patients with their past because they are concer...
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It costs money to borrow money, but how much and for how long? 12 January 2021
Minou van der Werf advocates applying insights from social psychology to financial behaviour. Even small practical interventions can help people to ma...
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Best friends forever? How the adolescent brain reacts to good friends 12 January 2021
During adolescence, some young people have stable best-friend relationships, while others change best friends frequently. Developmental psychologist L...
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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. The theses awards go to Robert-Jan de Rooij and Florian Thomas-Odenthal. PhD...
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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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A multi-million grant to keep the biological clock healthy 25 November 2020
Dutch researchers are joining forces to conduct research together with a series of societal partners to keep the biological clock healthy in our moder...
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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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Lockdown stress milder than expected, but vulnerable families hit harder 05 October 2020
During the ‘intelligent lockdown’ in the Netherlands this spring, the respondents in a Leiden study reported a mild increase in their stress levels. T...