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Words to Start: (Me)-&-You)

Liberation can come in many shapes and forms. The one I contemplated was the liberation from my family’s expectations. Like everybody at the end of…

Spiegeloog EditorsApril 26, 2023

Ask the Expert Spiegeloog 425: Vision

Ask the Expert: Couple’s Conflicts

Bianca Boyer’s (Developmental Psychology) question: Dear Henk Jan, An interesting part of your work is the effectiveness of couples therapy and the working mechanisms thereof.…

Spiegeloog EditorsMarch 29, 2023

Ask the Expert Spiegeloog 424: Irrational

Ask the Expert: Investing in Youth Mental Health

Marija Maric’s (Developmental Psychopathology) question: Dear Bianca, We share the same passion for the conduct of youth intervention research. Can you tell us what the…

Spiegeloog EditorsFebruary 16, 2023

Ask the Expert Spiegeloog 423: Pride

Ask the Expert: Why are Single-Case Experimental Designs Helpful in Investigating Treatment Effects?

Jaap Lancee’ (Clinical Psychology) question: Dear Marija, A couple of years ago we published a case series together on the effects of sleep treatment on…

Spiegeloog EditorsFebruary 1, 2023

Spiegeloog 423: Pride Words to Start

Words to Start: Straight People by Maya

This issue of the Spiegeloog is dedicated to Pride which automatically makes me think of the queer community. While looking for poems about pride, I…

Spiegeloog EditorsJanuary 11, 2023

Ask the Expert Spiegeloog 422: Solace

Ask the Expert: How do we Tackle Insomnia?

Astrid Homan (Work & Organizational Psychology) Jaap Lancee (Clinical Psychology) Astrid Homan's (Work & Organizational Psychology) Question: Dear Jaap, We have recently heard a lot…

Spiegeloog EditorsDecember 12, 2022

Spiegeloog 422: Solace Words to Start

Words to Start: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Persepolis is an autobiographical series by Marjane Satrapi, depicting her childhood and adolescence in Iran and Austria, during and after the Islamic Revolution. The following…

Spiegeloog EditorsNovember 15, 2022

Ask the Expert Spiegeloog 421: Reflections

Ask the Expert: What are the Benefits of Diversity?

David Amodio (Social Psychology) Astrid Homan (Work & Organisational Psychology) David Amodio's (Social Psychology) question: Dear Astrid, In recent years, the lack of diversity in…

Spiegeloog EditorsNovember 7, 2022

Spiegeloog 421: Reflections Words to Start

Words to Start: Mirror by Sylvia Plath

I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see I swallow immediately Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I…

Spiegeloog EditorsOctober 12, 2022

Spiegeloog 420: Taboo

Christiaan Hamaker Prize – Winning Thesis: Humor and Academic Learning

The Christiaan Hamaker prize is awarded to the best propaedeutic thesis in the psychology bachelor at the University of Amsterdam every year. Last academic year,…

Spiegeloog EditorsOctober 3, 2022

Ask the Expert Spiegeloog 420: Taboo

Ask the Expert: How do racial and gender biases in AI come to be?

Claire Stevenson (Psychological Methods) David Amodio (Social Psychology) Claire Stevenson's (Psychological Methods) question: Dear David, You are a social neuroscientist who investigates the psychological and…

Spiegeloog EditorsSeptember 30, 2022

Spiegeloog 420: Taboo Words to Start

Words to Start: Salome by Carol Ann Duffy

I’d done it before (and doubtless I’ll do it again, sooner or later) woke up with a head on the pillow beside me – whose?…

Spiegeloog EditorsSeptember 7, 2022

Ask the Expert Spiegeloog 419: Harmony

Ask the Expert: Can AI Learn From One Shot?

Han van der Maas Claire Stevenson Han van der Maas' (Psychological Methods) question Dear Claire, You are a great expert of intelligent systems. With regard…

Spiegeloog EditorsJune 6, 2022

Ask the Expert Spiegeloog 418: Time

Ask the Expert: Is Chess a Good Model for Human Intelligence?

Steven Scholte Han van der Maas Steven Scholte's (Brain and Cognition) question Dear Han, You are a great expert of intelligent systems. Also, you are…

Spiegeloog EditorsApril 25, 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…

Spiegeloog EditorsMarch 30, 2022

Ask the Expert Spiegeloog 416: Language

Ask the Expert: How can the current developments in AI deepen our understanding of human intelligence?

Ingmar Visser Steven Scholte Ingmar Visser's (Developmental Psychology) question Dear Steven, Artificial intelligence is once again on the rise after what is called the AI…

Spiegeloog EditorsFebruary 9, 2022

Spiegeloog 416: Language

A Dialogue on Consciousness

Illustration by Jon Williams, Real Change Me: Hello! AI bot: I don’t talk to you. Me: Oh, why not. AI bot: You don’t care why.…

Spiegeloog EditorsJanuary 25, 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…

Spiegeloog EditorsJanuary 10, 2022

Ask the Expert Spiegeloog 415: Home

Ask the Expert: Are we going towards a degree inflation?

Roeland Voskens Ingmar Visser Roeland Voskens' (Social Psychology) question Dear Ingmar, In a recent article in the NRC, it is claimed that due to the…

Spiegeloog EditorsDecember 10, 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…

Spiegeloog EditorsNovember 15, 2021

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…

Spiegeloog EditorsOctober 11, 2021

Ask the Expert Spiegeloog 413: Nature

Ask the Expert: Education needs feedback

Hillie Aaldering Roeland Voskens Hillie Aaldering's (Work and Organizational Psychology) question Dear Roeland, As you know, I am very interested in maintaining and increasing the…

Spiegeloog EditorsOctober 1, 2021

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.…

Spiegeloog EditorsSeptember 6, 2021

Ask the Expert Spiegeloog 412: Happiness

Ask the Expert: Making group work fair

Brenda Jansen Hillie Aaldering Brenda Jansen's (Clinical Developmental Psychology) question Dear Hillie, Because collaboration is often an important part of the job, in many settings,…

Spiegeloog EditorsJuly 13, 2021

Spiegeloog 412: Happiness

SSRIs & oestrogen – Happiness hormones for the menstruating

In a research article from 1961, 386 convicted women were interviewed, and it was shown that 49% of them committed their crime during menstruation or…

Spiegeloog EditorsJune 4, 2021