Addiction is often associated with substances like alcohol and drugs, which hijack the brain’s reward system and lead to repeated use despite harmful consequences (Goldstein…
Humans have long experimented with methods to toy with the boundaries of perception, and using sensory deprivation has emerged as a surprisingly potent candidate. From…
Visual hallucinations, bizarre delusions, violent behaviour, and disorganised speech often dominate media portrayals of Schizophrenia (Owen, 2012), raising intrigue about a disorder that seemingly pulls…
If you’ve ever had the displeasure of being a teenager, then you probably are familiar with the diagnoses of eating disorders. The “anorexic freak” or…
Memory – one of the most complex and elusive mysteries of science. The quest to understand its limits and potentials has captivated academics for decades,…
Around the turn of the millennium, concerns about the replicability of medical and social scientific findings began to grow. Amusingly unlikely results, including claims about…
Obtaining a doctoral degree typically requires the publication of an average of four first-author papers. This requirement has been established with the intention of fostering…
About the Author Mohammad is a recent graduate from the Research Master Psychology at the UvA. He is interested in social cognitive neuroscience, and specifically…
Can you imagine a sentient AI that has the same capabilities as us humans? Something that fills our imagination, the centerpiece of nearly all depictions…
INTRO It’s a busy night in the theater of soon-to-be-forgotten psychology essays: researchers are preregistering their guesses regarding the performance; the puppeteer is frenetically replacing…
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,…
About the Author Kati is a first-year Psychology Research Masters student at the University of Amsterdam and is enthusiastic about clinical and social psychological research.…
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Inattentive, hyperactive, impulsive. What if I told you that all the problems of the disorder are actually extraordinary potential for…
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