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Inge Schilperoord nominated for the Dutch Libris Prize 2016 15 March 2016
Psychology alumna Inge Schilperoord works as a forensic psychologist in the Pieter Baan Centre, a psychiatric observation clinic. Her debut novel 'Mui...
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Bonobos’ attention attracted by emotions 14 March 2016
Bonobos – just like humans – pay more attention to pictures that show other members of their species displaying emotional behaviour than to neutral sc...
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Psychology student starts crowdfunding for cancer PhD research 11 March 2016
'We believe that developing a protocol to help people fight cancer is extremely valuable, given that cancer is such a prevalent and devastating diseas...
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Health psychologist Jos Brosschot professor by special appointment 25 February 2016
Jos F. Brosschot has been appointed as a professor by special appointment on the chair ‘psychophysiological mechanisms of stress in daily life’. This ...
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Vici grant for Bernet Elzinga 15 February 2016
Bernet Elzinga (Clinical Psychology) is one of the seven scientists from the Leiden University who has received a Vici grant of 1.5 million euros from...
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Vici grants for 7 Leiden researchers 12 February 2016
Seven Leiden researchers have been awarded a prestigious Vici grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
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Is this really my hand? 11 February 2016
A virtual hand that feels as if it is your own. Feeling happier because a virtual face is smiling with you. Cognitive Psychologist Ke Ma discovered us...
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Brain connections predict adolescent impulsiveness 29 January 2016
There is a link in adolescents between brain connections and impulsiveness. Leiden researchers have discovered that these connections also predict whi...
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Positive feedback activates adolescent brain 20 January 2016
Children and adolescents really do use their ‘smart’ brain areas. This has been confirmed by an extensive and long-running study of the brain carried ...
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ERC Consolidator Grant for Eveline Crone 19 January 2016
Eveline Crone surmises that adolescence also has a positive effect on social development. She believes, for example, that it is in adolescence that yo...
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Using sensors to measure playground dynamics 18 January 2016
Free playtime and physical play are of great importance to children's social development. That is the main conclusion of innovative research by develo...
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The restorative power of nature 18 January 2016
Have you had a busy week at work? If so, it’s better to take a walk in a natural environment than to go shopping in the city.
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Looking back at the Lorentz Workshop 13 January 2016
“Endophenotypes of Social Anxiety Disorder: Can we detect them and are they useful in clinical practice”
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Is lack of sleep bad for study performance? 07 January 2016
The Netherlands Association for Sleep-Wake Research is studying this issue. Lead researcher Kristiaan van der Heijden, Leiden psychologist and sleep ...
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ERC Grants for five Leiden researchers 06 January 2016
The European Research Council has awarded five Leiden researchers an ERC Consolidator Grant. These subsidies of up to a maximum of two million euros w...