450 news items found
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'Will you look at me?' How socially anxious people avoid eye contact 21 April 2023
Individuals suffering from social anxiety disorder (SAD) consistently avoid eye contact. However, in a non-clinical population, gaze avoidance in soci...
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Student lectures for senior citizens: ‘You can learn a lot from other generations’ 19 April 2023
Connecting generations, reducing loneliness and slowing mental decline: these are goals of the Oud Geleerd Jong Gedaan foundation’s lectures, which ar...
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Buurtlab 070 launched – sustainability research in, by and for the community 18 April 2023
Buurtlab 070 is a brand-new Leiden University project in which residents, researchers and students from The Hague work together to find climate, susta...
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A tour of University Building Spui: ‘We’re about to create something wonderful here’ 18 April 2023
A sneak preview of your future work or study place. That is a unique opportunity. Over twenty curious staff members and employees were given a tour of...
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Lockdown impacted brain development in young people 17 April 2023
What effect did the lockdown have on young people? Leiden researchers started a study of this in the first year of the covid pandemic. They discovered...
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You, too, have a bodily rhythm – and it affects your behaviour 14 April 2023
Leiden researchers Arko Ghosh and Enea Ceolini analysed the usage data of hundreds of mobile phones and discovered that our body has rhythms ranging b...
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Goodbye SPSS, hallo R: ‘Now we can help students who like statistics to excel’ 12 April 2023
After the summer, the SPSS statistics programme will be replaced by the new ‘R’ software for first year students. Hemmo Smit and Sjoerd Huisman, both ...
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Why we need to look underwater to understand our past 12 April 2023
Traces of the past remain hidden in rivers, lakes and seas. But we rarely look underwater and, as they say, out of sight is out of mind. In his inaugu...
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University elections: get to know the student parties 11 April 2023
The university elections are coming up. Sustainability, inclusion, student well-being… What do you think deserves more attention? From 17 to 20 April,...
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Out-of-control behaviour: why do youngsters sometimes go so far? View the vodcast by NeurolabNL 11 April 2023
Earning some quick money by drug trafficking, committing an act of violence or almost collapsing under performance pressure. In the four-part Neurolab...
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Peak performances by operating theatre teams: What makes care professionals resilient? 11 April 2023
Working in an operating theatre takes nerves of steel. High pressure, stress and unexpected developments during operations ask a lot of care professio...
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Research finds WiFi isn’t the only thing connecting us during video calls: so are our bodies 05 April 2023
Can we truly connect with each other through video calls? Yes, according to a recent study. Psychologists found our bodies synchronise almost as much ...
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Do you have a hard time with uncertainty? This may influence how you perceive the world 04 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...
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How should we use AI? The Islamic world may have an answer 04 April 2023
The secular West is struggling with the rise of AI, but so too is Muslim Southeast Asia. What can we learn from each other? Bart Barendregt, Professor...
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Playing bingo and walking with senior citizens for research into social cohesion 03 April 2023
Playing bingo and Dutch shuffleboard and going for walks with senior citzens is regular fare for Marieke van der Heijden, a master’s student in Cultur...