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• Natural brain opioids help us “see the bigger picture” after rewards News - 2 October 2025

  Feeling good doesn’t just lift our mood—it also helps us stay flexible and resilient. A new study by an international team of neuroscientists shows that natural brain opioids released after rewards play a key role in broadening attention, offering fresh insights into stress, cognition, and well-bein…

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  Peter Putman Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Hanna Swaab Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

• Internship and research coordinators Psychology (research) (MSc)

  Some study programmes have a coordinator who is specialised in assisting students with internship and research matters.

• PTSD treatment can help patients with childhood trauma News - 10 January 2022

  Adults who were abused or mistreated as a child and consequently suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can benefit greatly from cognitive behavioural therapy. This is the conclusion of a study of 149 patients. Researcher and PhD candidate Chris Hoeboer is hopeful about the results and the…

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  Iza Korsmit Postdoc

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Alessandro van den Berg Educaton and Research Staff Member

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Liwen Meng PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Gezinus Wolters Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Manon Mulckhuyse Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Anoek Lorskens Education and research assistant

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Wenyu Wan Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Daphny Ulje-Kouer Management assistant

  ASSC

• Multilingualism of Frisian children: Evelyn Bosma wins Keetje Hodshon Prize News - 4 June 2021

  Postdoc and linguist Evelyn Bosma receives the Keetje Hodshon Prize for her dissertation. For her research on the multilingualism of Frisian children, Bosma previously won the Klokhuis Science Prize and the Campus Fryslân Science Prize.

• Fusing electrical stimulation, wearable robots & humans to restore and enhance mobility News - 7 July 2023

  Eduard Fosch-Villaronga, Associate Professor at eLaw, contributed to 'Cyber–Physical–Human Systems', a book exploring the latest developments in interactions between cyber–physical systems and humans.

• Types of research

  Reacting rapidly to a task, filling in a questionnaire, becoming immersed in a virtual world, having your heart rate measured, or having images made of your brain: our research is very diverse.

• Anchoring Objects: Material culture and the dynamics of innovation in the ancient world Event - 4 June 2026

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  Markus Davidsen Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Bernet Elzinga Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

• Programme Language and Communication (MA)

  When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.

• Minors Psychology (BSc)

  A minor allows you to develop your knowledge beyond the boundaries of your study programme, or to specialise further in your own field of study. You can follow a minor in Leiden and also in Delft or Rotterdam.

• Internships and research in the Netherlands Psychology (research) (MSc)

  How can you find an internship or research project and what arrangements do you need to make?

• Can birds imitate Star Wars robot? Yes – and some are surprisingly good at it News - 10 November 2025

  Scientists have discovered that starlings and parrots can imitate the complex sounds of Star Wars droid R2-D2 remarkably well. Their study reveals how the structure of a bird’s vocal organ determines its vocal abilities – and how citizen science helps uncover it.

• Psychology Elevator Pitch: How a better sleep pattern makes students mentally healthier News - 12 June 2023

  Do you often find yourself exhausted in the lecture hall or at your workplace? Not great for your mental well-being, as Laura Pape knows. She is investigating how an online self-help program can assist in addressing sleep issues and preventing mental health problems. Join her on this elevator pitch…

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  Diana Kim

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Sebo Uithol Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Khrystyna Semkiv PhD

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Zachry Klop Management assistant

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Somayeh Sahebalzamani Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Eline Dekeyster Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Jop Groeneweg Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Pascal Haazebroek Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Isabelle Hoxha Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Katharina Riebel Associate professor

  Faculty of Science

• Student Plaza FSW

  Welcome to the Student Plaza website of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences!

• The importance of an interdisciplinary approach to open information provision in palliative care News - 28 January 2022

  What if seriously ill patients do not want to hear their diagnosis? Does a clinician always need to provide a patient with all available information? Communication researcher Liesbeth van Vliet, medical anthropologist Annemarie Samuels and research intern Fiona Brosig will put these questions on open…

• What do children see in art? Psychologists are studying this at the Rijksmuseum News - 12 December 2022

  From games to scavenger hunts: museums already do all sorts of things for children. But how do children really look at art? Do paintings affect them more if they receive information that is specially tailored to young visitors? Join psychologist Francesco Walker at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and see…

• Students discover chimpanzees make rhythmic sounds (despite limited sense of rhythm) News - 17 January 2025

  How can chimpanzees, so closely related to humans, have almost no sense of rhythm? ‘The best students ever’ and behavioural biologist Michelle Spierings demonstrated that chimps can actually drum and move rhythmically—each following their own unique beat.

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  Farzad Aslani Postdoc

  Faculty of Science

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  Cornelis van Tilburg Researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Xinya Pan PhD candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Science

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  Ned McGowan PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Zsuzsika Sjoerds Associate professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Karlijn van Heijst PhD candidate

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

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  Junjie Huang PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Aminata Bicego Postdoc / Marie Curie fellow

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Kia Radovanovic PhD candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Diego Barbosa Arize Santos Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Fabiola Diana Guest

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Francesco Walker Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences