29 search results for “risk-taking” in the Public website
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Jiska Peper
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Susanne Asscheman
Susanne Asscheman is a postdoctoral researcher in the unit Developmental and Educational Psychology of the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University.
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Eduard Klapwijk
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Too big to fool: moral hazard, bailouts, and corporate responsibility
On the 14th December 2016, Steven L. Schwarcz, Stanley A. Star Professor of Law and Business at Duke University School of Law gave the thirteenth Hazelhoff Guest Lecture. Professor Schwarcz questioned the often-heard assumption that systemically important financial institutions engage in excessive…
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Risky Business?
Behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying risky decision-making in adolescents
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Increased striatal activity in adolescence benefits learning
Heightened activation of the striatum that adolescents show in response to reward is often associated with risk-taking and negative health consequences. This article in Nature Communications investigates a potential positive side of this heightened activation. It shows that the activity peak in late…
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Daredevil behaviour of young people due to active reward centre in the brain
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 they are rewarded, PhD candidate Barbara Braams discovered. Personality, testosterone levels and social context also play a role in risk-taking.
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Rubicon for psychologist Barbara Braams
Developmental psychologist Barbara Braams has moved to Harvard University to study social influences on adolescents’ decision making in risky and ambiguous situations. NWO awarded her a Rubicon grant for talented scientists who have recently obtained a PhD.
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Lab facilities Brain and Development
What is the relation between brain development and social and cognitive development across childhood, adolescence and adulthood?
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Brain and Development
What is the relation between brain development and social and cognitive development across childhood, adolescence and adulthood?
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Career prospects
A master's degree in Psychology at Leiden University combines theoretical knowledge with academic and professional skills, making you an attractive candidate for many employers.
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Career prospects
A master's degree in Psychology at Leiden University combines theoretical knowledge with academic and professional skills, making you an attractive candidate for many employers.
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Psychology
The Institute of Psychology is responsible for innovative and interdisciplinary research and education within psychology and related disciplines.
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Research Handbook on Cross-Border Bank Resolution
This week has seen the publication of the Research Handbook on Cross-border Bank Resolution.
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Career prospects
A master's degree in Psychology at Leiden University combines theoretical knowledge with academic and professional skills, making you an attractive candidate for many employers.
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Veni award for psychologist Barbara Braams
Developmental psychologist Barbara Braams has been awarded with a Veni funding for her research about risk behaviour in young people. This award offers Braams the opportunity to develop her ideas over a period of three years.
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Research
The Institute of Psychology is responsible for innovative and interdisciplinary research and education within psychology and related disciplines. It focuses primarily on three broad areas: health and wellbeing, development and learning, and social, cognitive and economic decision-making. Its research…
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Dance and Play: A Comparison between Children’s Physical Play Events and Dance Improvisational Practice
Can children’s physical play events be considered as improvisational dance? And if so, what are the shared underlying structures and characteristics?
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The adolescent brain
Fundamental insights into the working of the adolescent brain help lecturers and parents to teach adolescents to function better. Professor Eveline Crone studies executive functions – such as planning and behaviour – in the adolescent brain.
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Eveline Crone to receive Ammodo KNAW Award
Professor of Neurocognitive Developmental Psychology Eveline Crone will receive an Ammodo KNAW Award. This was announced by Ammodo, an institute for arts and sciences, and the Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) on 25 January.
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Eveline Crone joins ERC Scientific Council
Professor Eveline Crone joined the Scientific Council of the European Research Council (ERC) on 13 January.
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Research Handbook on Cross-border Bank Resolution
This week has seen the publication of the Research Handbook on Cross-border Bank Resolution.
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Veni awards for seventeen young Leiden researches
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Veni funding to seventeen researchers who recently obtained their PhD. This award offers promising young scientists the opportunity to develop their own ideas over a period of three years.
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Career Prospects
A master's degree in Psychology at Leiden University combines theoretical knowledge with academic and professional skills, making you an attractive candidate for many employers.
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ERC Consolidator Grant for Eveline Crone
Eveline Crone surmises that adolescence also has a positive effect on social development. She believes, for example, that it is in adolescence that young people learn the skills of cooperation, sharing and helpfulness. She will be researching this hypothesis in the coming period with an ERC Consolidator…
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Hazelhoff Guest Lecture: Steven Schwarcz
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Tigers and people can live next to each other in India
When people and tigers use the same forest, their ability to cope and co-adapt to the influences of the other is much higher than currently understood. This is one of the conclusions drawn by Leiden BioSocial researcher Shekhar Kolipaka, who researched whether tigers can survive in human-dominated…
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This Week's Discoveries | 3 March 2020
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Publications
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