About

Spiegeloog is the online magazine for the Psychology Department of the University of Amsterdam, founded in 1973. New articles and columns are published online every week.

Contact

For any questions or inquiries, please e-mail to spiegeloog-fmg@uva.nl or go to room G1.12 on Mondays.

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Spiegeloog is made by students, alumni and employees of the University of Amsterdam.

Editors in Chief

Editorial Board of 26/27

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Alex Kiều

Alex Kiều (2006) is a third-year psychology student specializing in Clinical and Psychological Methods. They enjoy reading in their spare time and are always dreaming about traveling and discovering new places.
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Alex Qin

Alex Qin is a second-year psychology student interested in neuroscience and developmental psychology. She enjoys working with words, and she is a devout cat person.
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Aliki Papageorgiou

Aliki Papageorgiou (2007) is a second-year psychology student planning to specialize in Brain & Cognition and Social Psychology. She is a keen reader, loves painting, and struggles to play the violin.
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Ana Cruz

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Anjali Chocalingum

Anjali Chocalingum (2005) is a 3rd year student specialising in clinical psychology. She is from Mauritius. Outside of psychology, she enjoys dancing, working out and cooking.
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Antonina Paluba

Antonina is a first-year psychology student interested in all aspects of psychology. In her free time, she loves playing sports, creating things, and debating the most random topics over a sweet treat.
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Berkan Akin

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Chiel de Jong

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Claudia Moral Ortega

Claudia Moral Ortega (2007) is a second-year psychology student with an interest in Clinical Psychology. When she’s not on campus, she can be found reading, trying new recipes, and spending a little too much time playing the New York Times games.
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Elena di Matteo

Illustrator

Fenne Dolmans

Fenne Dolmans (2005) is a first-year psychology student interested in human behavior. In her free time she enjoys movies, reading, running and animals. If you ask her about her hobbies, she’ll confidently tell you she plays the guitar, conveniently leaving out the fact that it has been collecting dust for two years and she only knows three songs.
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Jaira Gangadin

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Jake Zammit

Jake (1997) is a first-year psychology student, who is particularly interested in the intersection of systemic/social factors with individual subjective experiences. Having a medical background, this is especially true with regards to mental health. In his free time you can find him adding books to a never-ending to-read list, less commonly actually reading one, watching video essays, and occasionally taking a mental break via the gym.
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Jasmine Veriga

Jasmine Veriga (2008) is a first-year psychology student interested in Clinical Neuroscience and Biological Research. She loves being creative, meeting new people, and eating a copious amount of popcorn when watching movies.
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Jule Ackermann

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Laura Padua

Laura (2006) is a third-year psychology student specializing in clinical psychology. Born in Caracas and raised in Madrid, she is passionate about the study of trauma and resilience, as well as film analysis.
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Manu Dekker

Manu Dekker (2004) is a first-year psychology student specializing in social psychology. Manu is interested in the individual experience of societal issues. With an academic background in political science, law, history, philosophy, and psychology he has an interdisciplinary approach to his writing.
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Marie Meincke

Marie (2005) is a third-year psychology student that's specializing in clinical psychology. She's also interested in anything social, be it political, environmental or cultural! She loves reading and creating things, as well as going to the cinema (:
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Mauro Baumann

Mauro Baumann (2005) has a background in business administration, and is now studying psychology. He is interested in becoming a teacher/researcher in the future. In his free time, he pursues several kinds of sports and creative hobbies.
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Mavi Gönenli

Mavi Gönenli (2007) is a second-year psychology student planning to specialise in Psychological Methods. In her free time, she enjoys reading, restoring paintings she rescued from vintage stores, and convincing herself she knows how to use her camera.
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Merkury Kuchta

Merkury Kuchta (2006) is a third-year psychology student specialising in social psychology. Their interests lie primarily in personal identity and queerness, but they are also intrigued by experiences surrounding substance use and addiction. They hope to use psychological knowledge to encourage systemic and social change that leads to a happier existence.
Alum Editor

Nicole Haver

Nicole is a psychology bachelor alumna who has been working at Spiegeloog since her first year at UvA (2022). She specialised in Clinical psychology and is and is currently doing her clinical psychology master's. She finds psychopathology very interesting and is passionate about the gaps in the current mental health care system around the world.
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Nora Keloglanian

Nora (2006) is a third-year psychology student specialising in Brain and Cognition. Although she comes from Paris, she swears she’s not that kind of Parisian…
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Paula Böhmer

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Pip Valent

Pip Valent (2006) is a third-year student specializing in clinical neuropsychology, with a particular interest in the link between brain activity and behavior. When she is not trying to understand what is going on inside people's heads, she enjoys reading, having long conversations, all accompanied by a good cup of coffee.
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Tosia Jóźwiak

Tosia is a first-year psychology student with a special interest in clinical psychology and neuroscience. She enjoys exploring how psychology manifests itself in literature, art and everyday life.
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Varsha Raman

Varsha Raman (2006) is a third-year Psychology student specialising in Clinical Psychology. She comes from Bangalore, India and enjoys reading, working out and spending nearly every second with the people she loves.
Alum Editor

Zhen Cong

Zhen Cong (2000) is a recent Research Master's graduate. He is interested in Human-AI interaction research, and the effects during and after interaction. He always insists on bringing everything "just in case", yet somehow cannot find some spare tissues when he needs them.

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