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The Symbolism of It All: How Do Symbols Influence Our Decisions ? 

Last summer, while strolling down the main street of a secluded seaside town with friends, I stumbled upon a secondhand shop filled with witchcraft supplies.…
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Society

The Year is 2025: Do We Still Need Universities?

The year is 2025. You can sit at a café and take a machine learning course from Stanford, learn graphic design from YouTube, or even…
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Camera Obscura: Sinners

Widely praised and a box office wonder, does Ryan Coogler’s thriller Sinners avoid the pitfalls of past vampire films?
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Bacchus: Work in Progress
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Ask the Expert: Why Gender Equality Isn’t Always What It Seems
People
Knowledge at What Cost? Navigating the Morality of Scientific Inquiry around Indigenous Tribes
People
An Eye for an Eye or a Heart for a Hurt?
Science
The Mechanics of Humor: A High-level Coping Strategy Rooted in Balance
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Crescendo: Kendrick Lamar’s holding the mirror on Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers

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Bacchus: Toward More Desirable Consequences

Sometimes it feels to me that science is like a fortress to people who are not directly contributing to it, unknown and a little bit…
Society

Free Will: Causes or Consequences?

Why did you click on this article? Presumably, you did simply because you wanted to. Yet, as a psychologically interested person, you probably know that…
People

What is it like: Joselyn Arevalo Moran

Joselyn Arevalo Moran What is it like to be a Psychology student? Three questions for Joselyn Arevalo Moran (bachelor, second year). What is the most…
Science

A Child Changed Forever

The Physical and Psychological Consequences of Childhood Sexual Abuse & the Current Pandemic Lockdown Although studies agree with the countless gruesome consequences of childhood sexual…
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Office Hours: Frenk van Harreveld
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Choosing Consequences
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Ivory Tower: Roasted
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International Classroom: Eric-Jan Wagenmakers about Bayesian Thinking for Toddlers
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Intention and Consequence in Children’s Moral Judgements
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Tabula Rasa: The Psychology of Wellbeing
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Camera Obscura: Babies

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Science

The Mechanics of Humor: A High-level Coping Strategy Rooted in Balance

From the time of ancient Greece defined by Aristotle as the “ugliness that does not disgust”, to being considered one of the nine emotional essences…
Science

Can groundbreaking research be ethically grounded?

On a quiet Sunday morning in August 1971, a city police car swept through the streets of West New York, arresting twenty-four male college students…
Science

The Dopamine Imbalance: Why Focusing is Harder than Ever

Ping. You check your phone and see a notification from your friend, unlocking it to see what they have sent. Before you know it, 30…
Science

Crowds – Structures of Chaos

 Are crowds forces of disorder, unpredictable and dangerous? Or are they governed by hidden patterns and structured systems that we simply fail to recognize? At…

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University of Amsterdam at Night
Society

The Year is 2025: Do We Still Need Universities?

The year is 2025. You can sit at a café and take a machine learning course from Stanford, learn graphic design from YouTube, or even…
Society

The Unbearable Speed of Being: Acceleration of Modern Society & Mental Chaos

How often do you lie awake with the feeling that you could’ve done more, even though you already did so much? When was the last…
Society

Healing in a Broken World: Mental Health as a Social Issue

We treat mental health like an individual problem – something to be fixed with therapy, medication, or resilience. But what if that’s only half the…
Society

Navigation: What We Know From Evolution and Neuroscience

When you think of the word navigation, what comes to mind? Is it the GPS on your phone that directs you to a new restaurant?…

People of psychology

Tarot The Fool Symbol
People

The Symbolism of It All: How Do Symbols Influence Our Decisions ? 

Last summer, while strolling down the main street of a secluded seaside town with friends, I stumbled upon a secondhand shop filled with witchcraft supplies.…
People

Knowledge at What Cost? Navigating the Morality of Scientific Inquiry around Indigenous Tribes

What if some truths are better left unknown? Pursuing and attaining knowledge has always been societally understood as a win, but is it still valuable…
People

An Eye for an Eye or a Heart for a Hurt?

Some of life’s inevitable hardships come at the hands of others. Whether in the form of an insult, a betrayal, or something harder to name,…
People

The Hidden Truth About Happiness

In Mad Men, Don Draper famously says: “What is happiness? It’s a moment before you need more happiness” (Weiner, 2012). This line reflects the idea…

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Culture

No Ounce of Nuance: The new problem in digital media and online discourse

Cool title huh? I have to say however, this title is part of the very problem it is aiming to address. Lack of nuance has…
Art Affairs

Art Affairs: From Structure to Chaos

There is a moment, somewhere halfway through the Kandinsky exhibition at H’ART Museum, Amsterdam, where you wonder if you’re still seeing the paintings of a…
Culture

Music without Music? – Finding Beauty in Chaos

Music is an artform that everyone recognizes but would be hard-pressed to define. It is frequently described as a way of communication that is aesthetically…

Books

Books

Tabula Rasa: Changing Planes

When meeting people from different cultures, does the way they think, act, and see the world baffle you? Are you wishing that you could experience…
Books

Tabula Rasa: Atlas of the Heart

Brené Brown is an American academic researcher, known for her research on shame, leadership, and vulnerability. In addition, she is famously known for her TED…
Books

Tabula Rasa: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

Check, check, check and check. Does this sound familiar to my fellow to-do list community? Well, our attempt at being productive may well be a…
Books

Tabula Rasa: Time of the Magicians

According to the translator, art critic, and philosopher Walter Benjamin, to critique a work of art is to become its partial co-creator. By reflecting on…