Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. If there’s one theme running through his career, it’s the links between the University and society. In this series of pre-retirement discussions, Stolker will talk one last time to people from within and without the University. This edition…

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.

Anke Klein is an Associate Professor in the department of Developmental and Educational Psychology. She develops and studies the treatment of anxiety, mood problems, and related problems in children and adolescents, with a particular emphasis on parent–child mechanisms and intervention innovation. She…

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Semiha is currently researching the applicability of schema therapy for the treatment of social anxiety disorders among young adults who are also first-generation college students.

Evelien Broekhof is an assistant professor in the unit Developmental and Educational Psychology of the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University.

Yung-Ting Tsou is an assistant professor at Early Childhood Education, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. She is also a guest researcher in the unit Developmental and Educational Psychology of the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University.

Lotte van Dillen is professor of Social cognition and decision making at the unit of Social, Economic and Organisational Psychology of Leiden University, researcher and advisor at the Knowledge Center for Psychology and Economic Behavior (KCPEG) and a member of the Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition…

P. Michiel Westenberg is Full Professor in the unit Developmental and Educational Psychology at Leiden University.

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Nina Baranowska and Gianclaudio Malgieri have published a new blog post on Verfassungsblog: 'Towards a Legal Concept of Digital Well-being: Insights from the EU Commission’s Preliminary Findings on TikTok’s Addictive Design'.

In a new essay for Ethics & International Affairs, Dr Henning Lahmann, Assistant Professor of International Law & Technology at eLaw, addresses the question whether states should resort to social media to warn a civilian population ahead of military operations.

The Social Resilience & Security interdisciplinary programme broadens its scope by embedding two research projects lead by Dr. Joanne Mouthaan. The projects adress suicide prevention skills and mental health of Ukraine refugees. Both projects will be integrated in the programme with the aim to improve…

Assistant Professor Briitta van Staalduinen has received the Best Dissertation Award from the American Political Science Association, Section on Class and Inequality. Her dissertation, Ethnic Inequality in the Welfare State, aims to reconcile the persistence of ethnic inequalities in expansive welfare…

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

How can the university create a safer working environment? Ombuds Officer Marjan van Dasselaar provides independent and impartial advice on this matter. In her recently published annual report, she also provides a number of recommendations. ‘We’re all responsible for ensuring a culture of dignity and…

Iris Koele is a PhD candidate at the Developmental and Educational Psychology Unit of Leiden University's Institute of Psychology.

Vincent Walstra is PhD candidate at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology of Leiden University.

Evin Aktar studies the environmental pathways in the transmission of emotional disorders (depression and anxiety) from parents to children.

Egbert Jongen is Professor of Economics and Socio-Economic Policy in the Department of Economics at Leiden University.

Donna de Groene is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Archaeology.

Lotte van der Pol is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs.

Esther van den Bos is an assistant professor in the unit Developmental and Educational Psychology of the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University. She is interested in social anxiety as well as lighter forms of anxiety experienced by many adolescents, such as public speaking anxiety and test anx…

Researchers of eLaw, the Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University, published their research in Nature Machine Intelligence. The publication, written by Eduard Fosch-Villaronga, Pranav Khanna, Hadassah Drukarch, and Bart Custers, focuses on the legal and regulatory implications of…

Marike Knoef (1983) is Dean of the Tilburg School of Economics and Management, and professor of Economics at Tilburg University. Until February 2023, she held the position of professor at the Economics department of Leiden University and she is currently a guest researcher there.