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
The mental load of motherhood Doing laundry, cooking healthy family meals, ensuring everyone has clean and fitting clothes, enrolling children in swimming lessons, and buying a farewell present for the teacher.. a mother’s job is never done! Good thing dad’s around to do his share. Or does he? Mara van der Meulen • May 27, 2021
Meet the meat you eat! We love animals and don’t want to hurt them. At the same time, most of us still eat meat.. What explains this meat paradox? It’s all in the way we present meat and talk about it! Lineke Ouwerkerk • May 26, 2021
There is No Scientific News. The failure to determine what we already know due to our poor literature searching practice Faced with an anarchistic database of four million psychological articles, psychological researchers’ searching techniques seem woefully inadequate to find the state of the art. It is our academical duty to do far better. Literature searching is a difficult and essential skill of ‘slow science’. Jos Brosschot • May 03, 2021
