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• As new Professor of Social Cognition and Decision, Lotte van Dillen studies how we make choices in an information-overloaded world News - 23 September 2024

  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…

• Cognitive Mechanism of Conformity Event - 26 October 2023

  PhD defence

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  Annebelle Kok Postdoc

  Faculty of Science

  a.c.m.kok@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Workshop Generative AI & Embodied Cognition Event - 22 May 2025

  Lecture

• Striking similarities in how humans and other primates search for food News - 7 June 2022

  How unique is the human capacity for learning and adapting to an environment? In field research – in the rainforest and Artis Zoo – primatologist Karline Janmaat is studying how humans and other primates adapt to their environment in their search for food. She will give her inaugural lecture as Professor…

• multifaceted approach to understand cognitive impairment in MS: Exploring the nonlinearity of cognition Event - 22 October 2025

  PhD defence

• The interaction between Arousal and Cognitive Control Event - 9 April 2025

  PhD defence

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  Michel Mulders Plant / animal care taker

  Faculty of Science

  m.s.j.mulders@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275996

• Dutch Brain Cognition and Behavior Day Event - 25 March 2025

  Conference

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  Michael McCabe III PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

  m.d.mccabe.iii@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Arnout Koornneef Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  a.w.koornneef@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271861

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  Tessa Verhoef Assistant professor

  Faculty of Science

  t.verhoef@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277903

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  Marina Terkourafi Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.terkourafi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273159

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  Arie Verhagen Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.verhagen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Veronica Janssen Guest employee

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  vjanssen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  David Heyne Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  heyne@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Leticia Rettore Micheli Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  l.rettore.micheli@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Philip Spinhoven Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  spinhoven@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work News - 14 January 2022

  A basic income would not necessarily mean that people would work less. This is the conclusion of a series of behavioural experiments by cognitive psychologist Fenna Poletiek, social psychologist Erik de Kwaadsteniet and cognitive psychologist Bastiaan Vuyk. They also found indications that people with…

• Exhibition on scripts at Oude UB: Pseudo or Don’t News - 9 October 2023

  What is writing? And what looks like writing, but isn’t? The Pseudo or Don’t pop-up exhibition explores the boundaries of scripts. The exhibition will run at Oude UB from 9 to 26 October.

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  Nina Komrij Postdoc

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  n.l.komrij@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Melle van der Molen Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  m.j.w.van.der.molen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276042

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  Jochanan Veerbeek Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  j.veerbeek@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273399

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  Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto Guest reseacher

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.parafita.couto@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Illusions as the key: how spatial technology can help patients News - 23 November 2023

  Spatial technology such as virtual reality can help patients who have difficulty with spatial cognition, for instance if they keep on losing their way. In her inaugural lecture, neuropsychologist Ineke van der Ham will talk about the importance of avatars, the patient experience and room for innovat…

• Do you have a hard time with uncertainty? This may influence how you perceive the world News - 4 April 2023

  Always taking the same route to work, going for that one dish in restaurants and going on the same holiday each summer: this may ring a bell for those who don’t like uncertainty. Researchers are now discovering that this aversion affects how we understand the world.

• How to record a do-it-yourself video

• Major international study links genes to brain structural changes over time News - 4 July 2022

  There seem to be genes that influence how our brains develop over time. A large international consortium has discovered this with an extensive study. The results of the study were recently published in Nature Neuroscience.

• ‘Let pupils actively engage with texts to improve their reading comprehension’ News - 3 February 2022

  Young Dutch people’s reading skills have been declining for years. The main reason for this is that many have difficulty with reading at greater depth. Teach pupils to read actively in order to construct meaning is what Leiden researchers Paul van den Broek, Christine Espin and Anne Helder write in…

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  Niek Strohmaier Assistant Professor

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  n.strohmaier@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277997

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  Ellen de Bruijn Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  edebruijn@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273748

• Travel reveals the mind News - 16 April 2021

  Exploring the minds of our primate cousins in the wild, using under-exploited observations of their travel paths. A large set of observations of the travel paths of wild primates provides new opportunities for in-depth insights in the evolution of the mental abilities that primates, including ourselves,…

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  Fabiola Diana Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  d.fabiola@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Birte Forstmann Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  b.u.forstmann@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• 
  Li Liu PhD candidate - contract

  Faculty of Science

  l.liu@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274912

• The ascending arousal system and its impact on cognition Event - 6 June 2025

  PhD defence

• Between persistence and flexibility - The neuromodulation of cognitive control Event - 19 October 2023

  PhD defence

• Cognitive training and dynamic testing in the school domain Event - 16 October 2024

  PhD defence

• A safe work environment

  Regardless of whether you work at a desk or in a lab, all workplaces have their risks. As your employer, the University aims to create a healthy workplace and to limit possible health risks. Here you will find the main risks and measures that we take to reduce them.

• A safe workplace A safe work environment

  Regardless of whether you work at a desk or in a lab, all workplaces have their risks. As your employer, the University aims to create a healthy workplace and to limit possible health risks. Here you will find the main risks and measures that we take to reduce them.

• Functional MRI Analysis (Basics) Course

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  Dawa Dupont Postdoc

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  d.dupont@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Yena Kim Guest Postdoc

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  y.kim@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Eva Potters Management/office-assistent

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  e.e.potters@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273630

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  Pauline Ruygrok Management/office-assistent

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  ruygrok@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273737

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  Tonko Zijlstra Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  t.w.zijlstra@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Arko Ghosh Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  a.ghosh@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275123

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  Peter Snelderwaard Education and research staff member

  Faculty of Science

  p.c.snelderwaard@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Yoran Broersma PhD candidate / guest

  Faculty of Science

  y.broersma@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Alex Versluis PhD candidate

  Faculty of Science

  a.versluis@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727