Anne Sophie Giacobello, Author at Spiegeloog

Athena Spiegeloog 421: Reflections

Athena: We Make Our Choices Based on Free Will, Right?

Imagine you come out of a store in which you just bought yourself a book. If I would ask you who chose the book you…

Anne Sophie GiacobelloOctober 19, 2022

Camera Obscura Society Spiegeloog 420: Taboo

Camera Obscura: Pleasure

Movies from the perspective of a woman are rare enough. But movies made by women about porn, especially fiction, that’s about as rare as it…

Anne Sophie GiacobelloSeptember 12, 2022

Bacchus News & opinion Spiegeloog 419: Harmony

Bacchus: Harmony is overrated

This week, while procrastinating to study by browsing Instagram and news websites, I came to feel like there has been an increase in articles, infographics…

Anne Sophie GiacobelloJune 26, 2022

Athena Spiegeloog 419: Harmony

Athena: Can We Reach Harmony Through Aggression?

The catharsis hypothesis claims that suppressed emotions, such as anger and frustrations, can be alleviated by expressing them through aggression. Traditionally, the concept of catharsis…

Anne Sophie GiacobelloMay 19, 2022

Camera Obscura Spiegeloog 418: Time

Camera Obscura: Silence of the Tides

Although it is the world’s largest uninterrupted intertidal sea area and extends along the coasts of Germany, the Netherlands (the two countries I know best)…

Anne Sophie GiacobelloApril 11, 2022

Athena Spiegeloog 418: Time

Athena: Does Time Fly When You Are Having Fun?

Sometimes it is strange how much the feeling of time changes depending on our circumstances. Most people feel like their weekends go by a lot…

Anne Sophie GiacobelloApril 8, 2022

Spiegeloog 418: Time Words to Start

Words to Start: Warning by Jenny Joseph

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me And I shall spend…

Anne Sophie GiacobelloMarch 30, 2022

Spiegeloog 416: Language Words to Start

Words to Start: A Language by Susan Stewart

I had heard the story before about the two prisoners, alone in the same cell, and one gives the other lessons in a language. Day…

Anne Sophie GiacobelloJanuary 10, 2022

Athena Spiegeloog 415: Home

Athena: Do We Choose Partners Who Are Similar to Our Parents?

'We choose romantic partners who are similar to our parents.' According to psychologist John Gottman, the attraction to and selection of a partner could…

Anne Sophie GiacobelloNovember 29, 2021

Society Spiegeloog 415: Home

An Unspeakable Reality

Being pregnant and using drugs - that does not sound like a problem-free combination, right? And the stigmatization of people who use (illegal) drugs is…

Anne Sophie GiacobelloNovember 17, 2021

Spiegeloog 415: Home Words to Start

Words to Start: from Wilfred Owen

Letter of War Poet and Officer Wilfred Owen to His Mother Dearest Mother, I will call the place from which I’m now writing “The…

Anne Sophie GiacobelloNovember 15, 2021

Camera Obscura Spiegeloog 414: Rise

Camera Obscura: Druk

When watching the trailer of the movie Druk (English title: Another Round) from Thomas Vinterberg you might at first get the feeling that the movie is somehow a…

Anne Sophie GiacobelloNovember 4, 2021

Athena Society Spiegeloog 414: Rise

Athena: Do Opposites Attract?

'Opposites attract.' People who differ from us are often perceived as interesting, which might be caused by the ‘mystery’ that comes with just not…

Anne Sophie GiacobelloOctober 20, 2021

Culture Spiegeloog 414: Rise Words to Start

Words to Start: Still I Rise by Maya Angelou

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll…

Anne Sophie GiacobelloOctober 11, 2021

PSYCHsources Science Spiegeloog 413: Nature

PSYCHsources: Environmental Psychology

PSYCHsources introduces a different topic from psychology every month. It offers a list of resources that are useful to anyone who wants to learn more…

Anne Sophie GiacobelloSeptember 27, 2021

Books Spiegeloog 413: Nature Tabula Rasa

Tabula Rasa: A Thousand Brains

Jeff Hawkins is the founder of Numenta, a neuroscience research company, and is mainly devoted to neuroscience and its connection to artificial intelligence. Seventeen years…

Anne Sophie GiacobelloSeptember 13, 2021

Culture Spiegeloog 413: Nature Words to Start

Words to Start: Friends by Abbie Farwell Brown

How good to lie a little while And look up through the tree! The Sky is like a kind big smile Bent sweetly over me.…

Anne Sophie GiacobelloSeptember 6, 2021

Culture Society Spiegeloog 412: Happiness

The (Metal) Kids Are Alright

Dark shirts with dangerous-looking, bloody faces on it, black dyed hair and a slightly annoyed facial expression. Is that how you imagine a ‘metalhead’, a…

Anne Sophie GiacobelloJune 18, 2021

Camera Obscura Spiegeloog 412: Happiness

Camera Obscura: Headspace Guide to Meditation

Orange dots are floating around the screen. ‘Our lives are filled with distraction, filled with stimulation’, you hear the Headspace co-founder Andy Puddicombe saying. ‘Imagine…

Anne Sophie GiacobelloMay 19, 2021

Culture Spiegeloog 412: Happiness Words to Start

Words to Start: Love After Love by Derek Walcott

The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at…

Anne Sophie GiacobelloMay 17, 2021

News & opinion Pandēmus Society Spiegeloog 411: Power

Pandēmus: UvA, we need to talk

Photo by Sandra SchönAlmost a year ago, I was forced to take a lunch break as my unstable internet connection made it impossible to watch…

Anne Sophie GiacobelloApril 19, 2021

People Spiegeloog 410: Rainbows What is it like?

What is it like? – Tobias Hanses

Tobias Hanses What is it like to be a Psychology student? Three questions for Tobias Hanses (bachelor, second year). What is the most useful thing…

Anne Sophie GiacobelloMarch 19, 2021

Society Spiegeloog 410: Rainbows

The Rise of the Rainbow

One can hardly think of the LGBTQ community without thinking of the rainbow flag. Walking through the Amsterdam city center, no symbol expresses diversity more…

Anne Sophie GiacobelloMarch 3, 2021