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How is social cognition shaped by our knowledge of language and stories?

Conference

To argue that people can control the relative contributions of goal-driven and stimulus-driven processes to decision-making and action selection.

Lecture

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…

A neuro-ecological perspective on adolescent prosocial development

In the Dutch media lots of articles have recently appeared based on interviews with Eveline Crone about the adolescent brain.

PhD Defence

Eveline Crone, Professor of Neurocognitive Developmental Psychology, has been awarded the NWO Spinoza Prize for her high-profile research on adolescent development. NWO announced the award on 16 June. What will Crone do with the award of 2.5 million euros?

The scientific world is a competitive place. Even so, researchers are often prepared to share their findings with colleagues. This applies particularly to men as a group: women are much less willing to share their work, whether it is with other women or with men. This discovery was made by Leiden and…

Cognitive enhancement reflects the use of any (legitimate) means such as for example food supplements to reach one’s personal best.

A neurobiological perspective on individual differences in social competence

... examines how different motives stemming from people’s interdependencies and social identities influence decision making in social contexts.

Why do some children confront social challenges with confidence, whereas others experience difficulties? What is the role of child temperament and child emotional dispositions? What is the role of parenting? This project aims to shed light on the mechanisms explaining shyness and confidence in response…

This doctoral thesis elaborates Langacker’s reference-point model by applying it to lexical semantics.

Avian Cognition describes the full range of avian cognitive abilities, the mechanisms behind such abilities and how they relate to the ecology of the species. Synthesising the latest research in avian cognition, a range of experts in the field provide first-hand insights into experimental procedures,…

What are the developmental pathways to social anxiety (disorder), the causal processes and maintaining factors? How do these factors interact in the development of social anxiety disorder? How can this knowledge be used to design and implement effective preventive intervention programs for youth?

Toward optimal measurement and greater understanding of youth cognition in school refusal and cognitive behavioural therapy outcome

Which adolescents are more at risk of developing social anxiety disorder later in life?

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Knowledge and culture subproject 1: "Music Cognition" of Leiden University Centre for Linguistics

The project aims at highlighting and strengthening Dutch research into the diversity of the world’s languages from a historic and a cognitive perspective.

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Observational, cognitive and physiological measurements in social contexts.

Negative perceptions of ambiguous social cues, social performance and physical arousal in socially anxious youth

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How is the development of physiological responses to social evaluation in adolescence affected by other normative developments, such as pubertal, socio-cognitive and psychosocial development? Are social anxiety and public speaking anxiety associated with characteristic patterns of stress responses…

Is blended care a feasible and effective treatment method for social anxiety in adolescence?

The idea that socially anxious people avoid eye contact because they are not interested in other people needs to be changed. They take their information from other physical sources, such as people's hands. This is the finding of Leiden psychologist Mariska Kret whose research has been published in…

Implications for health, demography & social-cognition.

Central elements in the research activities of all programme group members are: attachment, sensitive caregiving, and prevention and intervention.

How can we improve quality of life and study success in young, high-functioning adults with autism?

What relationships exist between different types of PLCs and cognitive differentiated teaching?