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The green heart lives on

Due to the Corona outbreak, we are all missing out on faculty life. Under these special circumstances, Mindwise shares some stories from students and faculty members. Today a personal blog about the spectacles in our faculty garden and how the Corona virus can bring us back to human nature.

Haiku for the history of psychology

Dr Burman decided to write several dozen haiku about the History of Psychology. For fun. As part of his Christmas vacation. Here, he also used the challenge of navigating the poetic constraints of its formalism to reflect on writing and creativity.

>>Best of Mindwise 2019<<

Mindwise is six years old this month! To celebrate, we've selected our favourite posts from 2019. Vote for the winner and enter to win a gift too!

Understanding interpersonal relationships: the key to social interactions

Interpersonal styles are the driving factor behind our social interactions, therefore studying them contributes greatly to our understanding of ourselves and others.

By trying to maximize our profit, we achieve better outcomes. Or is it the other way around?

After years of uncertainty, negotiations for Brexit are now moving to the next level. But will the negotiators involved manage to reach a mutually beneficial outcome? Kyriaki Fousiani explains why this is difficult, but not impossible.

Everyone knows what attention is

One hundred and thirty years after this famous quote by William James, psychologists are still struggling to measure attention reliably, particularly impairments of attention. Together with my neuropsychologist colleagues, I developed the Everyday Life Attention Scale (ELAS) to help in the assessment of attention. Here I share our discoveries about attention.

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

Understanding interpersonal relationships: the key to social interactions

Interpersonal styles are the driving factor behind our social interactions, therefore studying them contributes greatly to our understanding of ourselves and others.

A grandmaster's mind

In the literature research for my master thesis (which was about possible transfer effects of playing chess on brain functions) I discovered that the disciplines of psychology and the game of chess had formed an unusual alliance at the turn of the 20th century. I will make a brief excursion into the history of chess research and will uncover the astonishing linkage between chess and psychology.

Psychological research in the UMCG: what is out there?

Playing with fire? ADHD in a relationship

How to deal with relationships in which one partner is diagnosed with ADD/ADHD? In this article, Carlotta Stahl discussed the difficulties that are described in the literature, but also shares personal experiences about positive aspects of dating someone with this diagnosis.

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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