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December 17, 2024March 12, 2025  by Eric Rietzschel

Writing sucks (except when you do it)

What are we doing when we write? Surely we are creating something – or… are we? Eric Rietzschel is not so sure anymore. Reflecting on recent developments in AI and our teaching, he argues that the process is at least as important as the product.

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December 16, 2020March 16, 2023  by Nicol A. Arellano Véliz

Language as an Embodied and Enactive Process: What Underlies Expressive Writing?

This post introduces the concept of Linguistic Bodies, the analysis of expressive writing from complexity science, and how it can be linked to Personality and Depression.

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April 2, 2020April 2, 2020  by Casper Albers

We’re all going to die

Prof dr Casper Albers reflects on the numbers, and the rhetoric, of the corona crisis. (How do you tell the truth in a way that’s helpful both to the public and to policy-makers?)

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March 11, 2020March 12, 2020  by Jeremy Trevelyan Burman

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.

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November 6, 2019September 23, 2020  by Don van Ravenzwaaij, Casper Albers, Maarten Derksen & Rink Hoekstra

Citing is Easy, Reading is Hard

Don van Ravenzwaaij, Casper Albers, Maarten Derksen and Rink Hoekstra discuss how statistical misreporting can be propagated by experts. (Part 2 of our series on citation practices in psychology.)

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October 16, 2019October 29, 2019  by Elliot Sharpe

Introducing the Mindwise Science Communication Workshops

“So, what do you actually do in your PhD?” Casual questions like this can be surprisingly hard to answer for PhD students. This is because we are trained to write for scientific journals and give conference talks, not to explain our ideas at family reunions or over drinks and loud music. But they are good […]

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October 2, 2019October 1, 2019  by Marije aan het Rot

From how to write to how to cite

I decided to write this blog about writing and citing after stumbling upon a phantom article – a cited article on how to write that does not actually exist, but nonetheless has been cited hundreds of times.

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May 24, 2019May 24, 2019  by Jeremy Trevelyan Burman

An invitation to master Writing Skills

Did you know that you could take the master-level Writing Skills course even if you aren’t enrolled in the Reflecting on Psychology master programme?

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July 19, 2018  by Mandy van der Gaag

Dealing with The Numbers Game

How to deal with the numbers game in academia? After defending her PhD in December 2017, Mandy reflects on why numbers (of publications, grants) are so important in academia, and gives concrete advise for (starting) academics who need to deal with this issue.

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