Self-esteem: is there more to it than meets the eye?

Have you ever wondered where your self-esteem comes from? Maybe it’s that you consider yourself to be intelligent and successful in your work, or that your friends tell you that you have such a warm and bubbly personality...

Laura van der Aar • May 23, 2016

New World Stereotyping

Recent events in America highlight the continued plague of racism on society. Here, I describe the nature of stereotypes in other parts of the New World with a legacy of slavery and suggest that such stereotypes have an impact on racism.

Lasana Harris • December 17, 2015

Winter blues?

Depressed people report seeing the world as “dim, and lacking in color”. Is this a nice figure of speech, or a real perceptual shift? We investigated this question, particularly relevant now that the days are getting shorter and shorter…

Roy de Kleijn • September 30, 2013

Digital surveillance programs - safeguards or spies?

Do we perceive states that read our emails, web chats, and other (digital) communications as safeguards or as spies? Research indicates that these attitudes are largely influenced by how news reports about these controversial issues are framed.

Gerdien de Vries • June 18, 2013

Perceptions of pseudovoice

Since last week citizens in the Netherlands can start a referendum on any issue that matters to them. However, the outcome can easily be ignored by the government. This is an example of ‘pseudovoice’, and therefore mostly ineffective.

Gerdien de Vries • March 04, 2013

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Self-esteem: is there more to it than meets the eye?

New World Stereotyping

Winter blues?

Digital surveillance programs - safeguards or spies?

Perceptions of pseudovoice