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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

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

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

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

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

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

Ask the Expert People 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

Ask the Expert Science 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

Ask the Expert Science 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

Ask the Expert Science Spiegeloog 411: Power

Ask the Expert: Breaking the cultural norms

Eftychia Stamkou Brenda Jansen Eftychia Stamkou (Social Psychology) question Dear Brenda, What does it take for children to start questioning a cultural norm that they…

Spiegeloog EditorsMay 10, 2021

Ask the Expert Science Spiegeloog 410: Rainbows

Ask the Expert: The comfort art offers in Covid-19 times

You study ‘the processes through which art transforms individuals and societies’. I wonder if you have any insights for us how art may help us…

Spiegeloog EditorsMarch 22, 2021

Ask the Expert Science Spiegeloog 409: Conflict

Ask the Expert: Staying happy and healthy at work

Hilde Geurts Machteld van den Heuvel Hilde Geurts' (Brain & Cognition) question Dear Machteld, Your research focuses on how employees stay happy and healthy at…

Spiegeloog EditorsFebruary 10, 2021

Ask the Expert Science Spiegeloog 405: Together

Ask the Expert: A Population Trend in Autism

Annemie Ploeger's (Developmental Psychology) question Dear Hilde, I remember a lecture (probably given by you) in which data were shown that were pretty remarkable. The…

Spiegeloog EditorsJune 17, 2020

Ask the Expert Science Spiegeloog 404: Experience

Ask the Expert: Children Sharing Food

Bastiaan Rutjens’ (Social Psychology) question: Dear Annemie, I recently noticed an interesting behavior that my 16-months old daughter displays on a regular basis. She appears…

Spiegeloog EditorsMay 18, 2020

Ask the Expert Science Spiegeloog 403: Global

Ask the Expert: The Recognition of Creative Ideas

Matthijs Baas' (Work and Organizational Psychology) question: Dear Bastiaan, Highly creative ideas are often rejected and ridiculed. Kodak rejected the digital camera when it was…

Spiegeloog EditorsApril 27, 2020

Ask the Expert Science Spiegeloog 402: Appearances

Ask the Expert: Creativity hindered by habits?

Sanne de Wit’s (Clinical Psychology) Question: Dear Matthijs, As discussed here, habits may persist even when one consciously intends to suppress or change the behavior.…

Spiegeloog EditorsMarch 11, 2020

Ask the Expert Science Spiegeloog 400: Psychology & Writing

Ask the Expert: Habitual behavior

Reinout Wiers’ (Developmental Psychology) question: Dear Sanne, In Ask the Expert, I have answered the question into which extent addiction is a disease of the…

Spiegeloog EditorsJanuary 27, 2020

Ask the Expert Science Spiegeloog 399: Attention

Ask the Expert: Addiction as a disease?

Frenk van Harreveld’s (Social Psychology) question Dear Reinout, My question is about addiction and whether the discussion about the origins of addiction may have impact…

Spiegeloog EditorsDecember 16, 2019

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Ask the Expert: Climate Change

Climate change is a complex and multifaceted problem related to population growth, energy, (geo)politics, economy, science, technology, agriculture, travelling and tourism? How could psychology contribute…

Spiegeloog EditorsOctober 9, 2019

Ask the Expert Science

Ask the Expert: Neuroscience and psychoanalysis

Arjen Noordhof’s (Clinical Psychology) question: Dear Max, In 1895 Freud wrote ‘Entwurf einer Psychology’; a failed attempt at neuropsychoanalysis avant la lettre. He gave up…

Spiegeloog EditorsJune 20, 2019

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Ask the Expert: Limitation of science

Alexandra Sarafoglou’s (Psychological Methods) question Dear Arjen, I often heard from friends who work as psychotherapists, that outside of university clinics there is an increasing…

Spiegeloog EditorsMay 23, 2019

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Ask the Expert: Replication crisis

Yaïr Pinto’s (Brain and Cognition) question Dear Alexandra, Psychology, and many other fields, have been plagued by the ‘replication’ crisis. In short, many prominent findings…

Spiegeloog EditorsApril 18, 2019