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Hello, Neighbors!

As part of the course Intergroup Relations, third-year psychology students write a popular science article about stereotypes and prejudices. Mindwise publishes a modified version of two of these articles. Today's article is written by Lena Paulsen, Louise Teschemacher, and Felix Grundmann.

Doesn’t everyone have “him”?

As part of the course Intergroup Relations, third-year psychology students write a popular science article about stereotypes and prejudices. Mindwise publishes a modified version of two of these articles. Today's article is written by Jana Schöppe, Eva Rüger, Jana Hammelehle, Atal Amini and Luise Pieper.

Integration measures as an Investment into a Sustainable Society – A Resilience Based Approach

Drawing on his experiences of working with refugees during the 2015 refugee crisis Joel Fischer argues that a practical intervention based on the resilience approach is essential for creating a sustainable society. This approach takes factors such as the individual level and the family level into account and allows for respective interventions.

Rescuers in critical need:
the hazardous stigma of mental problems

There is a problem with the treatment of first responders that badly needs our attention: how do we make sure that first responders receive help and, more generally, how can the burdensome stigma of mental healthcare be suppressed?

“How are you?” – “Oh, that’s a tough one!”

Lea Benarey is a German second year psychology student at the RUG. Her main interests lie in the fields of developmental psychology and neuropsychology. She is fascinated about the way people with mental and physical problems experience everyday life. Currently, her main passion lies in the domain of deaf communication.

Snowflake:
on the importance of gifted education

Education for gifted students is sorely lacking around the world. As a former gifted kid, I learned first-hand, the value that having an appropriate education can bring. This post takes a look at what it’s like to be gifted in a non-gifted classroom and outlines the importance of differentiated education for gifted students.

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

Hello, Neighbors!

Doesn’t everyone have “him”?

As part of the course Intergroup Relations, third-year psychology students write a popular science article about stereotypes and prejudices. Mindwise publishes a modified version of two of these articles. Today's article is written by Jana Schöppe, Eva Rüger, Jana Hammelehle, Atal Amini and Luise Pieper.

Integration measures as an Investment into a Sustainable Society – A Resilience Based Approach

Rescuers in critical need:
the hazardous stigma of mental problems

In Time

Hedderik van Rijn

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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

Yannick Hill

Carla Geveke

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

Student Articles

Hedderik van Rijn

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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