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New impulse for autism research in collaboration with China 17 December 2015
Psychologists of Leiden University and Peking University will collaborate to investigate the deficiencies in emotion recognition in children with Auti...
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Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, a Healthy Faculty 04 December 2015
The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences has become a lot healthier, thanks to the first Healthy Faculty event on 29 and 30 October, 2015. Healt...
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Measuring, knowing, and then what? 24 November 2015
There is a lot of measuring going on in mental healthcare, but not enough use is being made of the information from these measurements. This is what E...
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Carolien Rieffe appointed Honorary Professor at University College London 10 November 2015
Carolien Rieffe is appointed an Honorary Professor at the prestigious UCL Institute of Education, University of London. Rieffe already holds a profess...
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Daredevil behaviour of young people due to active reward centre in the brain 09 November 2015
Young people tend to take more risks than children or adults. This trend is related to the reward centre in the brain, which is much more active when ...
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Interdisciplinary approach benefits brain research 30 September 2015
How do practice and theory reinforce one another in neuroscience? Professor Birte Forstmann’s inaugural lecture on 2 October will be about building in...
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Two Veni grants awarded to Leiden Psychology researchers 10 September 2015
Two Leiden researchers of the Institute of Psychology have been given the opportunity to realise their research plans for the coming three years thank...
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Gratama Science Award for Jojanneke van der Toorn 09 September 2015
Jojanneke van der Toorn has been proclaimed the young and promising researcher of 2015. At the official opening of the academic year on 31 August she...
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'The university belongs to nobody' 31 August 2015
‘Universities are only the trustees of a complex intellectual heritage that they themselves did not create,’ said Stefan Collini, professor in Cambrid...
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Schadenfreude and the role in social relations 04 September 2014
Leiden psychologist Wilco van Dijk and communication scientist Jaap Ouwerkerk of VU University Amsterdam published a book about the emotion Schadenfre...
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Do placebos help against itching? 22 April 2014
If a pill containing no active ingredients still helps, this positive expectation is called a placebo effect. A negative expectation is called a noceb...
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Knighthood for Prof. Willem Heiser 04 February 2014
On 31 January 2014 Professor Willem Heiser (Psychology, Statistics and Data Theory) was awarded the distinction of Knight in the Order of the Dutch Li...
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Speed-dating to find your thesis supervisor 21 October 2013
Four talented students will have the opportunity to progress smoothly from their master’s study programme into a research career. Master’s students in...