Bias

Beyond the Binary: Sexual Overperception in LGBTQ+ Communities

Flirty or friendly? Decades of research says men often misread signals, but nearly all these studies were conducted with heterosexual participants. We dive into the overlooked LGBTQ+ side of sexual overperception

Iliana Samara • 29-09-2025

Progressive men, watch out for your own underlying biases!

Progressive men can play a crucial role in promoting gender equality and psychological safety. But to do so effectively, they must also face up to their own subtle biases.

Daan Scheepers • 07-03-2024

Who gets caught by the emotion?

Have you ever stepped in front of an audience and immediately spotted this person who didn’t seem happy with your talk? Or are you someone who is drawn to an encouraging face? What is it that makes people more likely to attend to different emotional expressions?

Julia Folz • 01-05-2023

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 + 2 others • 20-12-2021

About rioters, mayors, judges, politicians, and our human brain

The introduction of the corona curfew on January 23, 2021 resulted in riots and chaos in a number of Dutch cities: shops were looted; people threw stones at the police; streets looked like war zones.

Fieke Harinck • 05-03-2021

Why some people believe vaccinating their children is worse than doing nothing

People’s motivation for not vaccinating their children can be explained by the fact that people feel more responsible for the negative consequences of vaccination than for the consequences of doing nothing.

Gert-Jan Lelieveld • 25-04-2019

Who can get it across to the voters that life is good in the Netherlands?

Voters seem to be guided by their emotions rather than by the facts, and this can have consequences for democracy, Gert-Jan Lelieveld writes. For once, try focusing on the things that are going well.

Gert-Jan Lelieveld • 06-03-2017

Trust the polls, just don't trust their sample

Nobody expected what happened on November 8th. In the aftermath of the election there was a lot of criticism of pollsters, since almost all polls had shown Clinton as the big favorite. Almost no pollsters got the election results right. What went wrong?

Wouter Weeda • 19-12-2016

Why being wrong is better than being right (if you’re a model).

When estimating the relationship between two variables we want this estimate to be as close to the true relationship as possible, right? Wrong. Often an estimate that is wrong is better than one that is right.

Wouter Weeda • 28-01-2016

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