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Getting students to perform better with innovative teaching 29 May 2018There is certainly some variation in terms of pupils’ performance and motivation. This is evident from the GUTS teaching innovation project conducted ...
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Two new women professors at Psychology Institute 08 March 2018Ellen de Bruijn and Berna Güroğlu, both of the Psychology Institute, have been proposed for professorships by the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sc...
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How life online influences young people 21 February 2018Young people spend a lot of their time online. Even so, we still know very little about how this intensive use of social media influences their develo...
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Shy parent, shy child? 16 January 2018Previous research has shown that extreme shyness is hereditary, but because shyness is such a broad concept it is difficult to identify specific genes...
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The adolescent brain makes learning easier 20 December 2017The brains of adolescents react more responsively to receiving rewards. This can lead to risky behaviour, but, according to Leiden University research...
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Weightless in the name of science 11 December 2017Laura Nijkamp’s biggest dream came true recently: she took a parabolic flight and was weightless for a moment. The BrainFly student team, which includ...
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Eveline Crone wins Dr Hendrik Muller prize 22 November 2017Eveline Crone, professor of neurocognitive developmental psychology at Leiden University, has been awarded the Dr Hendrik Muller Prize for Behavioural...
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Adolescents don't just think of themselves 30 October 2017Parents often see that when their sweet, socially-minded children become adolescents they change into selfish 'hotel guests' who think only of themsel...
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Prof. Ton Liefaard speaks in Strasbourg about children’s rights in the field of biomedicine 27 October 2017On 24-25 October 2017, the Council of Europe organized an international conference to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Convention on Human Rights...
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Students advanced LL.M. programme International Children’s Rights visit Dutch juvenile detention center De Hunnerberg 26 October 2017On 25 October 2017, the current class of students of the advanced LL.M. programme International Children’s Rights visited juvenile detention center ‘D...
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Right brain hemisphere also important for learning a new language 16 October 2017Novel language learning activates different neural processes than was previously thought. A Leiden research team has discovered parallel but separate ...
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The developing brain and behaviour 20 July 2017Our childhood years largely determine how we will fare later in life. In the first two decades of our life, our brain is still developing, which is cl...
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Spinoza Prize for ‘puberty professor’ Eveline Crone 16 June 2017
Eveline Crone, Professor of Neurocognitive Developmental Psychology, has been awarded the NWO Spinoza Prize for her high-profile research on adolescen...
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If your friends jump in the river… 12 January 2017Young people influence one another to take greater risks, although it's not quite that cut and dried. This is what development psychologist Jorien van...
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Greed and fear hamper cooperation 04 October 2016Everyone benefits when cooperation runs smoothly However, people often act obstructively. Why do they do that? Professor of Social Psychology Carsten ...