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Three years after the Hoffman Report: What have we learned so far from one of the biggest and most recent scandals in psychology?

After efforts of courageous individuals and public pressure, the APA commissioned a report. It revealed that the APA was compliant with torture, lied and covered up their close relations with government entities, and weakened their ethical guidelines. The aftermaths of this scandal still holds hard lessons: how can ethical awareness be sharpened to not allow an environment creating harm?

Reflections of an open science convert 2: Some challenges to maintaining open research practices

Open Science practices should help solve the replication crisis, but they can be difficult to maintain. This post discusses some challenges to preregistering studies and committing to the PRO initiative that may be addressed by a change in the policies of academic journals.

Collective discontent, polarization and protest

We live in turbulent times. Concerns about polarization and popular discontent are commonplace. So for many reasons, this seems a better time than ever to ask the question: what do we really know about such mass movements and societal sea-changes? Tom Postmes provides four key insights from his research over the last 7 years, which he conducted in close collaboration with various Dutch Ministries.

Reflections of an open science convert 1: Why I changed my research practices

Engaging in what has been dubbed Questionable Research Practices has been the norm in psychological research for decades. In this post a researcher in Experimental Psychopathology, who was trained in the era before the replication crisis started, describes why and how she adopted new research practices.

Mindwise Chills: Exam Edition

For the first time in Mindwise history, we present to you: Mindwise Chills! When walking around Heymans, it becomes clear […]

My boyfriend named Research

You might think that whoever refers to their research as a relationship partner must have a twisted sense of romance or a strange method of conducting research. But let me explain...and let us start at the beginning: with my first date.

Sebastiaan Mathöt

Assistant Professor / Experimental Psychology

“This is why I feel that this is an exciting time to do cognitive science. Real progress is being made.”

Angela Ruepert

PhD Student / Environmental Psychology

“It appears that in the right context, people with relative weak environmental values will act as pro-environmentally as those with relative strong environmental values.”

Yannick Hill

PhD Student / Developmental and Educational Psychology

“Therefore, I would like to encourage researchers to look for the 007s of science and expand their horizon of inspiration, in order to advance the field of Psychology, or any other domain of science.”

Carla Geveke

PhD Student / DEvelopmental and Educational Psychology

"Out-of-school science activities are exciting, but should also evoke pupils’ conceptual understanding"

Laura Steenhuis

PhD Student / Clinical Psychology

“In the general population, auditory vocal hallucinations are reported quite often by adults, adolescents, and children.”

Martijn van Zomeren

Associate Professor / Social Psychology

“We seek the comfort, or prison, of embeddedness.”

Reint Geuze

Associate Professor / Neuropsychology

"As a boy I dreamt to become an explorer; now it turns out I have been one my whole life. Wonderful and… unexpected.”

Airi Yamada

Bachelor Student

"There is a marked difference between how the left and right hemispheres process information during visual perception."

Margaret Stroebe

Professor / Clinical Psychology

"homesickness is something students can relate to"

Maarten Derksen

Associate Professor / History and Theory of Psychology

"Management is the Cinderella of science: busily scrubbing the floors and keeping the house in order, while the ugly sisters squabble over who gets to be first author."

Marije aan het Rot

Associate Professor / Clinical Psychology

"Why do we allow ourselves to be videotaped 24/7 as if we are all criminals-in-waiting? [...] the third series, by Travis Hodges made me reflect on one of my research interests."

Andrea Soto-Padilla

PhD Student / Experimental Psychology

"Non-scientists think it is awesome because they are fascinated by the fact that flies have a brain and that flies can be used for something."

Tassos Sarampalis

Lecturer / Experimental Psychology

"Understanding speech is hard work and if it seems so easy and automatic most of the time, it’s because there are so many processes that carry this load."

Ralf Cox

Assistant Professor / Developmental Psychology

"Coordination occurs naturally and spontaneously, like synchronized clapping and mimicry, or functionally and intentionally, like joint action."

Koen Hogenelst

PhD Student / Clinical Psychology

"Social behaviour does not change easily as a result of decreasing serotonin."

Student Articles

Mindwise Chills: Exam Edition

For the first time in Mindwise history, we present to you: Mindwise Chills! When walking around Heymans, it becomes clear […]

My boyfriend named Research

An ant trail to climate change reduction

To reduce the impacts of climate change, we need global cooperation. By using an analogy to ants, Research Master student Vladimir Bojarskich argues that individuals can influence people at large - and that, therefore, individuals can drive the collective to mitigate climate change.

On the Peer Reviewers’ Openness Initiative: Why should I care?

Science is the driving force behind what we consider reliable knowledge, and it usually works like this: a scientist has […]

Journeys Through Academia and America

Florian Sense

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Johanna and Mindwise present to you the first ever Adventures podcast - a series of short interviews with psychology students about their experiences studying abroad.

Adventures!

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The Replicability Crisis

Maarten Derksen

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A Broader Definition of Beauty

Simon Dalley

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In Time

Hedderik van Rijn

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Psychology and the Environment

Linda Steg

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A History of Meaning

Jeremy Burman

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Pupillary (Open Science)

Sebastiaan Mathöt

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Behind the scenes of the examinations committee

Marieke Timmermann

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Neuroscientist on the fringe

Jacob Jolij

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"In a society where so much is expected from us, isn't it "normal" to have symptoms like ADHD?"

Anselm Fürmaier

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Is Science in transition?

Sicco de Knecht

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We talk with Marieke about her research on memory and how meditation practice affects our cognitive system, and the consequences this has for our behaviour.

Marieke van Vugt

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The Psychology department's University Council members talk about University politics

Casper Albers and Boris Kyuchoukov

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We speak to Miriam Lommen about her work on PTSD

Miriam Lommen

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We sit down with Judith Daniels to talk to her about her work on dissociation

Judith Daniels

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Groningen's new stats Prof has it all: insights into Bayesian statistics, cool cognitive response time models and a professional career as a Magic The Gathering player.

Don van Ravenzwaaij

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Nina Hansen chatted with us about her current research project in Sri Lanka, her passion for applied research, the importance of taking initiative (Bachelor students listen up!!) and much more.

Nina Hansen

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Pontus shares insightful experiences and we ponder over what mindset is most helpful to navigate academia.

Pontus Leander

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Trudy's vision for a new academia.

Trudy Dehue

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Angela Ruepert

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Laura Steenhuis

Martijn van Zomeren

Reint Geuze

Airi Yamada

Margaret Stroebe

Maarten Derksen

Marije aan het Rot

Andrea Soto-Padilla

Tassos Sarampalis

Ralf Cox

Koen Hogenelst

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Florian Sense

Adventures!

Maarten Derksen

Simon Dalley

Hedderik van Rijn

Linda Steg

Jeremy Burman

Sebastiaan Mathöt

Marieke Timmermann

Jacob Jolij

Anselm Fürmaier

Sicco de Knecht

Marieke van Vugt

Casper Albers and Boris Kyuchoukov

Miriam Lommen

Judith Daniels

Don van Ravenzwaaij

Nina Hansen

Pontus Leander

Trudy Dehue

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