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1,149 search results for “emotion” in the Public website

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  Evelien Broekhof Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  e.broekhof@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Yung-Ting Tsou Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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

• Comparative Psychology Research project

  What is emotion in human and nonhuman animals? How do emotions get to expression and how do they impact on our interactions, our decisions to trust, distrust or cooperate? Why do we mimic and synchronise affective processes?

• Reflect react and interact Research output

  The roles of shame, guilt and social access in adolescent aggression

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  Karlijn van Heijst PhD candidate

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  k.van.heijst@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

• Dan Gao

  Dan Gao is a PhD candidate at Leiden University. She earned her master degree at East China Normal University, China in 2019.

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  Jean-Louis van Gelder Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  j.l.van.gelder@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Lotte van der Pol Guest Researcher

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  l.d.van.der.pol@luc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Esther Mertens Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  e.c.a.mertens@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Beyond iced coffee and face masks: ‘True self-care is about emotional awareness and living according to your values’ News - 9 October 2025

  In hun klinische stage leren Psychologiestudenten mentale steun bieden aan anderen, maar hoe zorgen zij als toekomstige therapeut ook voor zichzelf? Met video’s, podcasts en een panel wil Kelly Ziemer haar studenten de nodige zelfzorg-skills bijbrengen.

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  Nadia Garnefski Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  garnefski@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273774

• When speech becomes emotional Event - 16 December 2025

  PhD defence

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  Henk van Steenbergen Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  hsteenbergen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273655

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  Evania Lina Fasya Phd/guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  e.l.fasya@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Julia Folz Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  j.folz@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Xueting Zhang Researcher

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  x.zhang@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 0645793906

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  Sophie van Rijn Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  srijn@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Evin Aktar Senior assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  e.aktar@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275228

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  Lukas Kunz PhD candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  l.kunz@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Myrthe Veenman Researcher

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  m.veenman@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Emotional Regimes in Israel/ Palestine Event - 8 April 2025

  Lecture

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  Carolien Rieffe

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  crieffe@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273674

• Curious Minds Research project

  At the Leiden Curious Minds Centre, our research focuses on the relationship of exploratory behaviour and discovery learning to curiosity and the way children regulate their behaviour and emotions. We want to improve our understanding of how children can and do become more and more the captain of their…

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  Eric van Dijk Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  dijk@fsw.leidenuniv.nl |

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  Marieke Tollenaar Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  m.s.tollenaar@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273454

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  Boya Li Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  b.li@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Neurobiological and Environmental Determinants of Parenting and Child Development Research project

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  Peter Putman Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  pputman@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274818

• Mariska Kret receives Dr Hendrik Muller Prize 2025 News - 20 November 2025

  Professor of Cognitive Psychology Mariska Kret has been awarded the Dr Hendrik Muller Prize by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) for her pioneering research into emotions. Kret: ‘This prize offers a wonderful opportunity to give a boost to emotion research.’

• Towards a Cognitive Neuroscience of Prosody Perception and its Modulation by Alexithymia Research output

  This dissertation examines what network in the human brain is involved in the perception of prosody and whether activity within this network is modulated by the personality trait alexithymia.

• Assume that animals have feelings too News - 16 March 2022

  We should assume that animals can have feelings too. From an ethical point of view this should inform our dealings with animals, researchers from Leiden University and Utrecht University argue in an opinion article that was published in the scientific journal Affective Science on Thursday 10 March.

• Neuropsychologist Mariska Kret through to top 5 Science Talent News - 12 September 2016

  Neuropsychologist Mariska Kret is through to the next round in the 2016 Science Talent contest organised by New Scientist magazine.

• Confessing, Hiding, or Showing off? - Researching morality in young children Research output

  Brenda M.S. da Silva and colleagues designed and validated the “Moral Emotions Questionnaire” (MEQ) for identifying three major moral emotions in preschoolers – allowing to separately measure guilt, shame and pride at the youngest ages.

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  Anne Krause-Utz Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  a.d.krause@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276639

• Boys with autism respond more angrily to bullying News - 18 September 2018

  Boys who are bullied develop more fear and shame; boys who bully develop more anger and less guilt, which makes it easier to justify more bullying. Boys with autism respond more angrily to bullying than others, and thus make for an easier target. Developmental psychologist Carolien Rieffe and her colleagues…

• Self-regulation in boys with ODD/CD Research project

  Understanding individual differences in self-regulation in boys with ODD/CD on the level of brain, cognition and behavior

• Social exclusion Research project

  What is the relation between the experience and the act of exclusion?

• Adolescents who feel heard are less angry in online games News - 31 March 2018

  How do young people react when an unknown person gets under their skin in an online game? A sense of control over their social environment can prevent young people from quickly resorting to anger in such a situation, development psychologists Sheida Novin, Carolien Rieffe and colleagues discovered.…

• Wilco van Dijk on BBC about 'Schadenfreude' News - 10 December 2018

  Leiden psychologist Wilco van Dijk and communication scientist Jaap Ouwerkerk of VU University Amsterdam published a book about the emotion Schadenfreude. Van Dijk tells about Schadenfreude on BBC radio 4 All in the Mind.

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  Gert-Jan Lelieveld Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  lelieveldgj@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276615

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  Kia Radovanovic PhD candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  k.radovanovic@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Ruthie Pliskin Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  r.pliskin@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276762

• Rough-and-tumble play and the regulation of aggression in preschoolers Research output

  How does preschoolers’ play style relate to their aggressive impulses?

• Resonating emotions: An embodied perspective on alterations in facial emotion processing in autism and social anxiety Event - 17 January 2025

  PhD defence

• Chris Riddell is new Face of Science: 'Can't wait to share research' News - 9 March 2023

  Have you ever seen your friend smiling, and suddenly you started grinning too? PhD student Chris Riddell is researching how and why we copy body language. As a new Face of Science, he will take us along on his research journey for the coming year.

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  Marinus van IJzendoorn

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  vanijzen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Lisanne van Houtum PhD candidate/guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  l.a.e.m.van.houtum@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Emotion Deception in Negotiations and Bargaining Event - 20 May 2025

  PhD defence

• LUCIP Colloquium "Gender and Emotion in Chinese Thought and Cultures" Event - 8 May 2025

  Lecture

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  Guido Band Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  band@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273998