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NWO Open Competition funding for research into distracted consumption 17 May 2023
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded 400.000 euros in funding to Lotte van Dillen, associate professor at the unit of Social, Economic and Org...
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NWO Open Competition grant for two Leiden psychologists with promising research projects 16 May 2023
In the third round of the NWO Open Competition SGW-XS pilot program, development psychologist Anke Klein and neuropsychologist Marit Ruitenberg each r...
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Young people's burning brain questions bundled in new research agenda 10 May 2023
During ExpeditionNEXT in Middelburg, NeurolabNL youth, together with researchers from Leiden University and Erasmus University, handed over a unique r...
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New course Experimentation I: Programming Psychological Experiments developed with Grass Shoots grant 04 May 2023
Last year, Henk van Steenbergen received a Grass Shoots grant to completely redevelop the research master's course 'Experimentation I: Programming Psy...
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'Will you look at me?' How socially anxious people avoid eye contact 21 April 2023
Individuals suffering from social anxiety disorder (SAD) consistently avoid eye contact. However, in a non-clinical population, gaze avoidance in soci...
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Lockdown impacted brain development in young people 17 April 2023
What effect did the lockdown have on young people? Leiden researchers started a study of this in the first year of the covid pandemic. They discovered...
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New centre of expertise makes placebo research accessible for healthcare and society 14 April 2023
Positive expectations about treatment increase the likelihood of success. The new Center for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies Leiden is therefore pro...
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You, too, have a bodily rhythm – and it affects your behaviour 14 April 2023
Leiden researchers Arko Ghosh and Enea Ceolini analysed the usage data of hundreds of mobile phones and discovered that our body has rhythms ranging b...
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Goodbye SPSS, hallo R: ‘Now we can help students who like statistics to excel’ 12 April 2023
After 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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Out-of-control behaviour: why do youngsters sometimes go so far? View the vodcast by NeurolabNL 11 April 2023
Earning some quick money by drug trafficking, committing an act of violence or almost collapsing under performance pressure. In the four-part Neurolab...
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Peak performances by operating theatre teams: What makes care professionals resilient? 11 April 2023
Working in an operating theatre takes nerves of steel. High pressure, stress and unexpected developments during operations ask a lot of care professio...
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To what extent does your background and your own physical consciousness influence your experience in VR? 05 April 2023
Neuroscientists Ineke van der Ham (Leiden University) and Anouk Keizer (Utrecht University) regularly use VR in their research. Their experiences with...
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Research finds WiFi isn’t the only thing connecting us during video calls: so are our bodies 05 April 2023
Can we truly connect with each other through video calls? Yes, according to a recent study. Psychologists found our bodies synchronise almost as much ...
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Do you have a hard time with uncertainty? This may influence how you perceive the world 04 April 2023
Always taking the same route to work, going for that one dish in restaurants and going on the same holiday each summer: this may ring a bell for those...
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How can we live healthier lives? Universities and hospitals are going to find out 21 March 2023
Getting out and exercising rather than slobbing on the sofa, breathing in fresh air instead of cigarette smoke and grabbing healthy snacks instead of ...