1,665 search results for “social psychology” in the Public website
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Labour Law and Social Security
The Labour Law and Social Security department provides both bachelor’s level and master’s level teaching.
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Hearing Status Affects Children's Emotion Understanding in Dynamic Social Situations: An Eye-Tracking Study
Understanding others’ emotional behavior is essential for navigating daily social life. But how is such an understanding achieved? The eye-tracking study by Yung-Ting Tsou and colleagues shows that children with hearing loss adopt a unique visual strategy that makes uses of explicit visual information…
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Julia FolzSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Using sensors to measure playground dynamics
Free playtime and physical play are of great importance to children's social development. That is the main conclusion of innovative research by developmental psychologists and computer scientists from Leiden University.
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Brenda de GrootSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Social Anxiety and Specific Phobia in youth
Welcome to the Social Anxiety and Specific Phobia (SASP) Research Group!
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Eliska ProchazkovaSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Graduate School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
A warm welcome to the Graduate School of Social and Behavioural Sciences at Leiden University.
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Health and the social investment state
Recent years have seen a vibrant scholarship on health policy and politics. While much is now known about changes to health policies and institutions over time, this study finds that scholarship still lacks research on the linkages between health policies and health outcomes (Marmor & Wendt, 2012).…
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Trade union grant for psychology research into the effect of a basic income
Psychologists Fenna Poletiek and Erik de Kwaadsteniet have received a grant from the FNV trade union to research people’s attitude to work if they receive a basic income. How do they plan to find answers?
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Eveline Crone
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Language socialization in deaf families in Africa
Across cultures, parents help their children master the social and linguistic codes needed in adult life. Recent research on language socialization found important cross-cultural differences, pointing out the need for more diversity for a full understanding of this process.
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Social Feedback and Emotion Regulation in Borderline Personality Disorder: An fMRI study
What is the role of emotion regulation in coping with interpersonal feedback?
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Conspiracy thinking and social media use are associated with ability to detect deepfakes
Deepfakes are videos that have been manipulated to replace one person’s likeness with that of another. They can be difficult to distinguish from authentic videos. In our study, we found that people who score high on conspiracy thinking and people who use social media more are better at distinguishing…
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Topic: Persistent physical symptoms
Persistent somatic symptoms are long term symptoms that lack a clear medical explanation. These symptoms have a high prevalence where most people know someone who experiences such symptoms or they experience such symptoms themselves. Symptoms can vary greatly in and between people. While one person…
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Yung-Ting TsouSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Trends in social assistance, minimum income benefits and income polarization in an international perspective
Social assistance and minimum income benefits are important instruments as a safeguard against low income and poverty. There have been major developments in minimum income benefits both in developed and developing countries over the last decades. Our study collects several empirical studies regarding…
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Halima BourasSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Leiden psychology student is distant relative of Rembrandt
Benson van der Bij is a family member of Holland's most famous master: Rembrandt van Rijn. What does he think of this relationship? And did he know that Rembrandt was also enrolled as a student here?
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Bias or reality?
Negative perceptions of ambiguous social cues, social performance and physical arousal in socially anxious youth
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Psychology student starts crowdfunding for cancer PhD research
'We believe that developing a protocol to help people fight cancer is extremely valuable, given that cancer is such a prevalent and devastating disease. If you believe so too, you can support us in realising this mission.' Master's student in Psychology Saskia Heijnen starts crowdfunding to make her…
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Paper in 'Frontiers in Psychology'
Milan van der Kuil, Anne Visser, Andrea Evers and Ineke van der Ham have published a paper in Frontiers in Psychology, entitled: A usability study of a serious game in cognitive rehabilitation: a compensatory navigation training in acquired brain injury patients.
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Social safety and confidential advisors
LIACS is committed to inclusive work and study experiences, respectful of all students and staff, and free of discrimination, harassment, bullying, or retaliation. An inclusive and respectful atmosphere is vital to free expression and the open exchange of ideas.
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Bernet ElzingaSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Meredith SprengelSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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The social ties that bind: the role of social relations and trust in EU intelligence cooperation
Intelligence scholars have been struggling to find the conditions under which international intelligence cooperation occurs. Most focus on transactional motives and guaranteed returns, the so called ‘Quid pro Quo’. At the same time, trust is often mentioned as one of the foremost conditions, yet it…
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Heteronormativity and gender norms: socialization across countries, at school, and within the family
To what extent are individuals socialised with heteronormativity and gender norms by the national context in which they live, by Dutch schoolbooks, and within Dutch families?
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Van der Heijden Chair Social Justice
On the occasion of prof Paul van der Heijden’s stepping down as Rector Magnificus and President of the Executive Board of Leiden University in 2013 the Chair bearing his name on Social Justice was established. It was a “farewell present” of the Leiden University to it’s Rector.
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Activity, Diet and Social Practice
Day-to-day activities are important in the development of social identities, the establishment of social standing, and the communal understanding of societal rules. This perspective is broadly referred to as practice theory and relates to the power of an overarching social structure and the individual…
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The Social World of Babylonian Priests
This thesis, conducted in the framework of ERC Starting grant project BABYLON (PI: Caroline Waerzeggers), presents an investigation into Babylonian society, focusing on the city of Borsippa during Neo-Babylonian and early Persian rule (c. 620-484 BCE).
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Material Culture, Consumption and Social Change
New Approaches to Understanding the Eastern Mediterranean during Byzantine and Ottoman Times
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Alumnus Sam van Raalte: From psychology to podcast
Alumnus Sam van Raalte followed his passion into freelance journalism.
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Social and emotional competence in children and adolescents who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing (DHH)
How does having limited access to the social world affect Deaf or Hard of Hearing (DHH) children’s emotional development? And in turn, how do impairments in emotional functioning affect social development and the development of psychopathology?
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Language socialization in deaf families in Africa
Across cultures, parents help their children master the social and linguistic codes needed in adult life. Recent research on language socialization found important cross-cultural differences, pointing out the need for more diversity for a full understanding of this process. Deaf communities form…
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cross-contextual media landscape: Children’s digital media use and their social development
For this project we delve into children's digital media use during the transition from kindergarten to group 3 and investigate its impact on their social development.
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Zafira ShabrinaSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Fieke HarinckSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Behind the silence of undisclosed trauma: A social network study on support and well-being in the context of childhood sexual abuse
Childhood sexual abuse is a common problem, with approximately one in five girls and one in 13 boys worldwide experiencing some form of sexual abuse before the age of 18. Despite its high prevalence, many individuals remain silent about these experiences, often delaying disclosure for years, with one…
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Shy parent, shy child?
Delineating psychophysiological endophenotypes of social anxiety disorder
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Tracing Policy-relevant Information in Social Media: The Case of Twitter before and during the COVID-19 Crisis
This paper written by Vydra and Kantorowicz answers the research question ‘What policy-relevant information does Twitter contain?’ as well as the research question ‘How does this information change between a period of normalcy and a period of crisis?’
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Cognitive control in context: Neural, functional, and social mechanisms of metacontrol.
To argue that people can control the relative contributions of goal-driven and stimulus-driven processes to decision-making and action selection.
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Akrati SaxenaFaculty of Science
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Why bother? Local bureaucrats’ motivations for providing social assistance for refugees
The author researched the motivations of bureaucrats to integrate refugees into welfare services even when they do not have any legal obligation to do so.
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RouJia FengSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Maartje WitloxSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Emma BrekelmansFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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The Roman slave peculium in social context
How did the slave peculium function in the socio-legal context of the Roman Empire?
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Understanding the value of social media metrics for research evaluation
The availability of indicators based on social media has opened the possibility to track the online interactions between social media users and scholarly entities.