Stress, anxiety and adapting to uncertainty in everyday life

Our world may seem unpredictable and uncertain, especially when others are involved. When interacting with others, we cannot know for sure what they may be thinking or planning to do, but we do a good job guessing. This may not be so easy for everyone…

Selin Topel • March 21, 2022

Learning a new skill while staying at home

With a global pandemic forcing us to spend most of our free time at home these days, many of us may have started learning a new skill or have been working on fine- tuning an existing one.

Marit Ruitenberg and Ayesha Hamilton • May 27, 2020

How difficult is language learning? And to explain it?

Language is a vertiginously complex symbolic system, and yet humans all learn it, effortlessly, within a remarkably short period of time. How do they do this?

Fenna Poletiek • October 11, 2018

Is intelligence testing in school the smart thing to do?

In educational settings, intelligence tests are used more and more frequently. The results of these tests are used for a multitude of purposes. Usage of these tests, however, also has negative sides. So how smart is using intelligence testing in school?

Bart Vogelaar • September 24, 2018

Could you recognize our future Einstein?

Did you know Einstein didn’t talk till he was four or read till he was seven? Or that Edison’s parents and teachers thought him retarded? Today we consider Einstein and Edison geniuses. How come their giftedness was not recognized when they were children?

Kiki Zanolie • April 18, 2016

Leave your laptop at home!

In this digital age of iPad schools, Facebook communities and trending topics, students more and more use their laptops to take notes during lectures. Recent research has shown that this has a bad influence on their knowledge acquisition.

Fieke Harinck • April 16, 2014

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