Due to technological and societal developments, we are being flooded with more information than our brains can process. How does this affect our decision-making, both as individuals and as a society? And can we learn to make better choices? This is what Lotte van Dillen will explore with her profess…

Leticia Rettore Micheli is an Assistant Professor at the unit of Social, Economic and Organisational Psychology. In her research she investigates how situations of inequality, unfairness and scarcity influence our psychology as well as our behavior when interacting with others.

Iliana Samara is a researcher specialising in the psychology of attraction and social cognition. Her work focuses on how attraction captures our attention and influences the way we perceive and interact with others, as well as the role of coordination between individuals in forming romantic bonds.

Geert-Jan Will is a Marie-Sklodowska-Curie “LEaDing” Fellow in the Clinical Psychology unit of the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University.

Cognitive psychologists Eliska Prochazkova and Mariska Kret from Leiden University have won an Ig Nobel Prize for their research into the romantic click between people. They discovered that attraction between people can be predicted by synchrony in heart rate and skin conductance.

Brandon Zicha is Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at LUC. His research and teaching interest focus on how information is processed by social and political institutions and used to make collective decisions in modern societies, as well as the careful use and informed understanding…

Arash Pourebrahimi Andouhjerdi is a lecturer at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs.

To easily take part in group decision-making research, Jörg Gross, Assistent Professor Social and Organisational Psychology, launched a platform that allows students at the social interaction lab. Sign up to receive invitations if you are interested in taking part in on-going scientific studies in the…

Mark Dechesne's research is primarily focused on developing basic knowledge regarding human judgment, decision making, and beliefs, and the study of various societal questions in which these processes play an important role. The combination of basic principles of decision making and engaged social research,…

Fenying Zang is a PhD candidate at the Cognitive Psychology Unit, under the supervision of Prof. Sander Nieuwenhuis and Dr. Anne Urai. She got her master’s degree in basic psychology from the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Science. In her PhD project, she will explore age-related changes…

Synchronised heart rates and skin conductance tell us that people are attracted to each other. This explains why we feel a romantic ‘click’ with some people and not with others. This is the result of research by psychologist Eliska Prochazkova from the Leiden Institute for Brain and Recognition, which…

meditation, philosophy, psychedelic experience, research, zen, critical thinking, decision making, buddhism

Wouter Jong is a lecturer in Crisis Communication at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs at Leiden University since 2018.

Steven Miletić's research focuses on cognitive and neural modelling of decision and learning processes in humans, with emphasis on the human subcortex and on advanced methodology including hierarchical Bayesian approaches and ultra-high field fMRI. .

Johan Christensen's research focuses on the role of experts and expertise in public policy-making, both at the national and European levels.

Prof. dr. Anne M. Stiggelbout is Professor of Medical Decision Making at the Department of Biomedical Data Sciences at the LUMC. She is the initiator of the Innovation profile in Health Strategy and Quality of Care, member of the Permanent Committee for Academic Practice and member of the LUMC Value-Based…

Tim van Lit is affiliated to the Van Vollenhoven Institute as external PhD candidate since April 2021.

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Sophie Vériter is a doctoral researcher at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), Leiden University. Her research focuses on European foreign policy-making with a specific interest in hybrid threats, strategic communication, and the EU’s eastern neighbourhood.

RouJia Feng obtained her Master’s degree in 2020 at Shaanxi Normal University. In November 2020, she started to work as a PhD candidate at Social, Economic and Organizational Psychology department at Leiden University. Her research focuses on the interpersonal effects of expressing congruent and incongruent…

The bachelor's programmes at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, based in the city of international cooperation and politics – The Hague – prepare you for a future in governance, leadership, and diplomacy. In the administrative heart of the Netherlands, you will learn to tackle the challenges…

Natália Kubalová is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Political Science.

Simona Demková is an Assistant Professor in European law at the Europa Institute. She is leading a collaborative research project on the 'EU's human-centred digital transformation' funded by a Leiden University starter grant. Her research expertise covers a broad range of European law, including European…

Making use of social media is a good way to meet others or to hear about the latest news and developments. But it also has its downsides: disinformation, trolling, disrespectful comments and even the misuse of (personal) data.

Making use of social media is a good way to meet others or to hear about the latest news and developments. But it also has its downsides: disinformation, trolling, disrespectful comments and even the misuse of (personal) data.

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Chloe Gros is a Postdoctoral Researcher at eLaw – Center for Law and Digital Technologies. Her work focuses on responsible AI for critical infrastructure as part of the AI:Liner project as well as on science for robot policy as part of the ERC StG SAFE & Sound project.

Femke E. Bakker is Senior Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Science.