While the neurodiversity movement seeks to overcome stigma by celebrating neurological differences between people, the internet prefers to speculate about diagnoses for society’s most successful.…
Paul CookOctober 16, 2019
While the study of money is typically left to economists, it is actually a quintessential psychological phenomenon. If anyone should be able to explain how…
Denny BorsboomSeptember 11, 2019
Stel je voor: je hebt het winnende lot op zak. Feitelijk niets meer dan een stukje papier, maar nu onvoorstelbaar waardevol door de miljoenenprijs die…
Elise van GravenSeptember 4, 2019
Mensenlevens worden sterk gestructureerd door tijd en ruimte. Je bent vaak bezig met waar je bent, en hoe laat het is. Met waar je was…
Julia ZegelingJuly 1, 2019
Door de digitalisering is werken en de plek waar we dit verrichten in ontwikkeling. Met de komst van het concept ‘Het Nieuwe Werken’ nam flexwerken…
Hannah FranssenJune 27, 2019
Psychedelica lijken weer helemaal terug van weggeweest. De eerste wetenschappelijke onderzoeken naar psychedelica in de jaren 50 en 60 waren veelbelovend, maar met de aftrap…
Wolter de BoerJune 26, 2019
Ook voor de opvoeding geldt: een goed begin is het halve werk. Maar welke opvoedingsstijl werkt het beste? Florine bekijkt de theorieën en onderzoeken die…
Florine BothJune 25, 2019
Dit interview is afkomstig uit Spiegeloog 391: ‘Youth’, verschenen in september 2018. In haar net verschenen boek ‘Seks op z’n Duits’ schrijft Linda Duits: ‘Niet geheel…
Spiegeloog EditorsJune 24, 2019
Is there something we can learn from primates when it comes to humankind’s social order and individual life expectancy? Mees Diederik Egeler explores some of…
Spiegeloog EditorsJune 23, 2019
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
One of the most amazing things that living creatures can do is find their way. If you think about it, this is far from trivial.…
Denny BorsboomJune 19, 2019
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
Communicatie is een essentieel onderdeel voor het bouwen van vriendschappen, het overbrengen van kennis en voor het functioneren van de samenleving. Moderne technologie biedt de…
Julius DullaertMay 21, 2019
There are two types of questions: Easy Questions and Hard Questions. Easy Questions arise when you encounter a problem that you don’t know how to…
Denny BorsboomMay 14, 2019
In recent years, there has been an increasing number of exonerations in the United States (USA). It is puzzling that, despite intense interrogations and the…
Lydia TianMay 3, 2019
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
Recently, the head of the Palistinian health services claimed that the high prevalence rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that have been reported in Palestine…
Denny BorsboomApril 8, 2019
When it comes to treating anxiety, few would argue with the need to reduce stress. However, when it comes to treatment, are the consequences of…
Paul CookMarch 11, 2019
In his book The Essential Tension, historian of science Thomas Kuhn recalls how he arrived at his famous idea that science progresses by abrupt revolutions…
Denny BorsboomJanuary 18, 2019
Given how much we love to drive, why is it that car companies seem so obsessed with making our cars drive themselves? In human hands,…
Paul CookJanuary 18, 2019
In moments of crisis, one often perceives that time slows down. Everything appears to unfold in slow-motion and it feels as if minutes have gone…
Lydia TianJanuary 18, 2019