COVID-19 and student mental health: A secondary crisis of the pandemic? Even under normal circumstances students experience higher levels of mental health issues, but this became worse during the pandemic. International students may be especially at risk, due to travel constraints and inability to form a social life during lockdowns. Liia Kivelä • February 17, 2022
Competent or in control – how to be successful? How do children grow up to become socially adaptive and skilled adults? What factors contribute to their well-being? Read on for a sneak peek at findings of the L-CID study! Mara van der Meulen • February 07, 2022
Can I ‘read’ your emotions in my body? Have you ever felt a shiver or the pricking of tears when you see someone grieving about a dead loved one? “Feeling” others’ emotions does not only happen in our heads: it affects our entire bodies. But are those changes actually informative? Julia Folz • January 20, 2022
Wim Hofstee (1936-2021) and the Theory of Psychological Relativity Wim Hofstee was one of the designers of post WWII psychological science in the Netherlands. His contribution can roughly be summarized in two concepts: Prediction and Relativity. And decades of assiduous work, using the method of Thinking. Fenna Poletiek • December 23, 2021
Do you see what I see? Discrepancy between images and official police reports On 17 June 2020, police officers observed a car driving onto a motorway, swerving unpredictably. The officers saw the driver was using their phone and pulled the car over. Several kilos of drugs were then discovered in the car, and the driver was arrested on suspicion of violating the Opium Act. Lotte van Dillen, Gabry Vanderveen and Willem-Jan Verhoeven • December 20, 2021
Proper care starts with the basics: Structural attention for suicide prevention How should I ask a client about suicidal thoughts? What do I do if a client tells me they are thinking about suicide? As a clinical psychology teacher, I am regularly faced with these kinds of questions from students in the master's programme. Joanne Mouthaan • December 09, 2021
Language: the Hardest Problem of Science - Easy Peasy for any Child One of the most difficult problems of science is where language comes from. Language ontogeny – how children can learn it? – and phylogeny – how did it emerge in evolution? – are still largely unsolved mysteries today. In a recent study, we attacked the issue in the lab, with surprising results. Fenna Poletiek • November 15, 2021
Bringing science to your home! Using online tools for research on the development of babies Using an online platform to help researchers assess how babies are developing is becoming increasingly popular and promises to revolutionize research efforts and research practices around the world. How does this work? Szilvia Biro • October 25, 2021
Collaborative international open science in times of COVID: the start of my Rubicon project A year ago, I received great news: I’d been awarded a Rubicon grant! This grant enabled me to work with Prof. Daniel Pine, based at the National Institute of Mental Health (US). But how could I perform an innovative, international scientific project in a pandemic? Janna Marie Bas-Hoogendam • October 11, 2021