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A multi-million grant to keep the biological clock healthy 25 November 2020Dutch researchers are joining forces to conduct research together with a series of societal partners to keep the biological clock healthy in our moder...
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If you expect an itch, you’ll get an itch 24 November 2020
If you expect something is going to itch, the itching really does get worse. Leiden health psychologist Danielle Bartels has proved the effect of nega...
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Emotional abuse strongly related to post-traumatic stress 16 November 2020Children and young people who are victims of emotional abuse at the hands of their parents often report the symptoms of severe post-traumatic stress. ...
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Teach children who are deaf or hard of hearing more about emotions and social conventions 11 November 2020Children with hearing loss often fail to pick up on nuances in other people’s emotional responses. As a result, they do not always understand what is ...
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Vidi grant for psychedelics research Michiel van Elk 10 November 2020What exactly do psychedelics do in our brains? To investigate this, NWO has awarded a Vidi grant to Michiel van Elk. The Leiden cognitive psychologist...
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Breast cancer patients remember more information if doctors show empathy 06 November 2020Patients with incurable breast cancer remember more information about their treatment if their doctor is more empathetic during consultations. These a...
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‘A week feels like a month at the National Think Tank’ 06 November 2020In the National Think Tank (NDT) 20 young academics spend four months reflecting on how to solve a societal problem. Four participants from Leiden tol...
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Veni grants for eleven Leiden researchers 05 November 2020Eleven Leiden researchers have been awarded a Veni grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The grant will enable them to develop their research ide...
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NWO Vidi grant for 11 Leiden researchers 04 November 2020Eleven Leiden researchers have been awarded an 800,000 euro Vidi grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This will enable them to develop their own...
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Does the COVID-19 pandemic impact parents’ and adolescents’ well-being? 27 October 2020The COVID-19 pandemic and associated measures during the first lockdown in the Netherlands in March 2020 caused major changes in daily life. Parents w...
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Mirror on the wall, who's the best at mirroring? 26 October 2020The better you mirror each other's behavior, the better you appear to work together. In her PhD research at the unit Cognitive Psychology in Leiden, F...
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Sports Centre celebrates 50 years 21 October 2020Online competitions, online sports, dietary advice for staff and students and 'What do they eat for lunch?' The first 'volunteer' is Vice-Rector Heste...
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Alumna Fleur van Elk about studying and working 19 October 2020Alumna Fleur van Elk graduated cum laude for the research master's program Cognitive Neuroscience and started her PhD trajectory at the Erasmus Univer...
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Social Science Matters: How useful is deprivation of liberty? 14 October 2020A new bill is currently under debate in the Netherlands, advocating raising the prison sentence for manslaughter from 15 to 25 years. ‘This very serio...
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Turn left....No, the other left! 13 October 2020Around 15% of all Dutch people say they can't distinguish between left and right. People taking their driving test regularly take wrong turns and argu...