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Angelo Romano awarded as Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science 05 February 2023Social Psychologist Angelo Romano have been awarded the Association for Psychological Science (ASP) Rising Star designation. This award is presented ...
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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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Leiden Healthy Society Center: making Leiden the healthiest city in the Netherlands 10 November 2022How can the people of Leiden age as well as possible? And what is needed to reduce health disparities? That is the mission of Leiden Healthy Society C...
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Surprising insights, experiments and magic tricks at interactive ‘Wijsneus Festival’ 07 September 2022What should we do about litter in the countryside? Can you tell from camera images if someone is guilty? And what does your heart rate really look lik...
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Why people confess to crimes they didn’t commit 16 August 2022When under duress innocent suspects can make a false confession. Why is this? Legal psychologist Linda Geven will give a talk about this at the Leiden...
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Halima Bouras goes to the US with a Fulbright grant for research 12 July 2022Halima Bouras leaves for the City University of New York with her Fulbright scholarship. 'I am very happy with the Fulbright grant and excited to cont...
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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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The impact of climate change on groups of people 14 June 2022The socio-economic effects of climate change often do not receive enough attention. At the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) a group of researchers will p...
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Jojanneke van der Toorn on challenges and benefits of LGBTIQ+ employee networks 07 June 2022On 19 May 2022, Jojanneke van der Toorn and Workplace Pride organised the symposium 'LGBTIQ+ employee resource groups: Benefits, challenges and opport...
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Detaching students from the idea that everything you read is true 16 May 2022We expect students to be critical readers. ‘But how?’ they ask. ‘You read an article and it all sounds perfectly logical and convincing, so why should...
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Comenius teaching grants for four Leiden lecturers 03 May 2022Four lecturers from Leiden University will receive a 50,000-euro Comenius Teaching Fellow grant. This will enable them and their team to realise an ed...
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The parallels between quarrelling animals and humans 04 April 2022The journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society – Biological Sciences published its theme issue ‘Conflict across taxa’ on 4 April, which w...
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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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Back at the office? ‘Don’t expect to be productive right away’ 16 February 2022For some it will sound like music to their ears, but for others is may sound less appealing: now the advice on working from home has changed, we can o...
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Why do we like winners so much? 03 February 2022Hardly anyone in the Netherlands ever watches skeleton racing. But we’ll soon be glued to our TV sets when ‘our’ Kimberley Bos slides down the track a...