I often find myself thinking or reading about life in India, where I’m from, while living in the Netherlands and feeling a strange sense of…
Nitya ShahMarch 15, 2024
Presenting to you yet another case of how something sad paradoxically lures us and appeals to us. Philosophers have long been riddled by why we…
Nitya ShahJune 15, 2022
The field of Psychology has long been taunted about the our grand replication crisis as the biggest scam of our lives; but there’s another fire…
Nitya ShahMarch 21, 2022
Recently, on our last evening together before my dear friend was moving away, she said to me ‘I was telling my dad how I don’t…
Nitya ShahDecember 15, 2021
Julius März What is it like to be a Psychology student? Three questions for Julius März (Research Master, second year). What is the most useful…
Nitya ShahNovember 26, 2021
Being awake all night can be very beautiful – if it wasn’t for your 9 am tutorial the next day. What if I told you…
Nitya ShahNovember 2, 2021
Back in February 2020, pre-corona times, we visited Johnny van Doorn and asked him about three personal items in his office. Johnny is part of…
Nitya Shah and Néstor Narbona ChulviNovember 1, 2021
Suhaavi Kochhar & Veronica Szpak What is it like to be a Research Master's student? Four questions for Suhaavi Kochhar and Veronica Szpak, 2021 Research…
Nitya ShahSeptember 24, 2021
Do you find yourself seeking angst-filled poetry or sad songs? Do you ever find yourself chomping down spicy food while your mouth is burning and…
Nitya Shah and Magda MatetoviciJune 7, 2021
‘Nostalgia sells better and better now.’, chimes in a chap at the beginning of La Belle Époque. Indeed, the lure of nostalgia is certainly something…
Nitya ShahApril 8, 2021
Time and again, if one pays attention to it, we see how prone we are to confirmation bias and how we try to rationalise the…
Nitya ShahApril 2, 2021
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…
Nitya ShahDecember 7, 2020
Reinout Wiers, a former Spiegeloog writer from his student years, is a professor of Developmental Psychopathology and heads the Addiction Development and Psychopathology (ADAPT) Lab.…
Nitya ShahJune 12, 2020
If you could go back in time, would you go and never return to the present? Have you ever thought about living in another era?…
Nitya ShahMay 20, 2020
When UvA announced their measures against Covid-19, we students spent our time deciding whether to go home, attempted to study with the new ‘online’ system…
Nitya ShahMay 3, 2020
Colonisers have come and gone, but their footsteps are visible to this day. It’s been over 70 years since India gained independence, but we still…
Nitya ShahApril 10, 2020
Franca Ding What is it like to be a Psychology student? Three questions for Franca Ding (bachelor, first year). What is the most useful thing…
Nitya ShahMarch 25, 2020