Fred Janssen is curious about how best to teach students and students to gain a good understanding of complex ‘swamp situations’. This is the subject of his inaugural lecture as Professor of Science Education at the ICLON and the Faculty of Science. Inaugural address 19 June 2017.

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

On 4 and 5 November 2021 an ICOG-workshop will be held on the cognitive turn in history. It is possible to attend this workshop online. The participants of the workshop are cultural and intellectual historians of the pre-modern periods and/or of the historiography of academia from a long-term perspective,…

In September 2019, Manon Mulckhuyse will start a position as assistant professor in the Cognitive Psychology Unit.

Brenda de Groot is a teacher at the Institute of Psychology, and assistant coordinator of the course Consciousness. She currently also conducts a study on the perception and evaluation of the moral status of animals, in cooperation with Dr. Mariska Kret. •

The main focus of our research programme is on adolescence, a key transitional period in human development. The programme puts emphasis on combined experimental behavioural and neural analysis of normative transitions and deviations in adolescent development.

Prof. Bernhard Hommel studied psychology and literature sciences at the University of Bielefeld, from which he received his MA degree (Diploma) and PhD (1990). Then he moved to the Max-Planck Institute for Psychological Research in Munich (Habilitation at University of Munich; 1997). He is co-founder…

In the MS Cognitietour, psychologists and neuroscientists from Leiden University discuss the latest scientific knowledge with MS patients and their loved ones. This leads to insights: 'One lady told how much stress she felt from all those caregivers around her bed.'

How is inflammation in tuberculosis controlled by interplay between autophagy and inflammasome signalling?

Mirre Stallen is an assistant professor at the unit of Social, Economic and Organisational Psychology of Leiden University.

Kyra van der Moezel defended her thesis on 7 September 2016.

Together with two other authors, Jaroslaw Kantorowicz from ISGA investigates the susceptibility to believing in misinformation.

From 5 to 7 June, the conference "The Senses, Cognition, and the Body in Medieval Devotional Practices" will take place at the University of Padova. The conference programme can be found below. The conference can be attended virtually through the registration link below.

Which intervention technique is more effective in reducing public speaking anxiety in children aged 9 – 12 years, exposure or restructuring cognitions?

We aim to create an innovative e-learning and virtual reality training that helps healthcare providers to optimize placebo effects and minimizes nocebo effects via their communication.

The Palaeolithic period extends from the earliest stone tools (and in Europe, earliest occupation) to the beginning of the current warm period.

PAIR, Psychoeducational Assessment, Intervention and Rehabilitation, is the online Open Access journal associated with ENPAIR.

Dr Lucy Rutten is a senior scientist within the research group Lifestyle Brain Interaction at the Cognitive Psychology department. In her work she combines a strong biomedical background with a broad interest in disease prevention, in particular, cognitive degeneration and Alzheimer’s disease.

Cognitive decline (amongst other problems with attention, concentration, memory) is a common symptom in patients with a variety of brain disorders and has been related to healthy ageing as well. People suffering from cognitive deficits are often significantly hampered in their day-to-day functioning…

Promotor: C.J. ten Cate

Many primary school children suffer from anxiety and their numbers are increasing. Psychologists from the Knowledge Center Anxiety & Stress (KAS) are developing and researching preventive training.

In the Netherlands, as elsewhere in the world, many patients who are in a palliative care trajectory prefer not to receive full or explicit medical information. This is more often the case for patients with ethnic or cultural minority backgrounds. As open-information provision is the norm, non-disclosure…

Henk van Steenbergen is an associate professor at the Cognitive Psychology unit at Leiden University. He heads the Affect, Motivation & Action (AMA) Lab, where he and his colleagues study the interplay between affect, motivation, stress and cognitive control.

Julia Folz is a PhD Candidate at the Cognitive Psychology unit under the supervision of Dr. Mariska Kret. Complying with her great interest in both Social and Affective Neuroscience, her PhD project in the CoPAN lab now allows Julia to look at mimicry of subtle emotional expressions in social interactions…

Hannah De Mulder is a University Lecturer at the Centre for Linguistics.

A research into for whom, when and why the Cool Little Kids intervention works.