This week, while procrastinating to study by browsing Instagram and news websites, I came to feel like there has been an increase in articles, infographics…
Anne Sophie GiacobelloJune 26, 2022
About the Author Nita is a final-year psychology student at the UvA, specializing in Brain & Cognition with a minor in Biomedical Sciences: Neurobiology. Interested…
SIOS EditorsJune 22, 2022
An exciting interdisciplinary research project by the VU called ‘harmonic dissonance’ is investigating the experience of ‘feeling on the same wavelength’ by people who communicate…
Ella TeuscherJune 20, 2022
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
Harmony is being at peace with yourself, perhaps even having a certain amount of control over yourself and your environment; it reinforces safety and promotes…
Aniya KhokarJune 13, 2022
The Corridor is a column that usually introduces two students including their name and picture. However, the current column will be different as we will…
Laura SpringerJune 10, 2022
Social media platforms such as Snapchat employ techniques known as dark patterns to influence user behaviour. What are they and how do they pose a…
Imran KhalidJune 8, 2022
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
When discussions turn into “either/or”-debates, when arguments are oversimplified into dichotomies and when “being in favour” of something equals “being against” another thing – should…
Anika KorobkovJune 3, 2022
Turning Red is the newest animation released by Pixar. It features the story of Mei Lee, a Chinese-Canadian teenager who enters puberty and struggles to…
Magda MatetoviciJune 1, 2022
Illustration by Arianna Cavalli In psychology, various theories of emotion propose the workings of this relationship. Surprisingly, the James-Lange theory (1884) states that we experience…
Sara Fontecha MorganMay 30, 2022
Family is a central part of everyone’s life, they are the people we rely on and learn from in the first years of our lives…
Christine LastovkaMay 27, 2022
Brené Brown is an American academic researcher, known for her research on shame, leadership, and vulnerability. In addition, she is famously known for her TED…
Anushka SabhanamMay 25, 2022
“When we are in love with someone to the point that our worlds have been turned upside down and inside out, to the point that…
Vadim MartschenkoMay 23, 2022
The catharsis hypothesis claims that suppressed emotions, such as anger and frustrations, can be alleviated by expressing them through aggression. Traditionally, the concept of catharsis…
Anne Sophie GiacobelloMay 19, 2022
Group projects can be frustrating. But they are often used to assess students and are argued to be good preparation for professional work. In this…
Magda Matetovici and Emanuela ZhechevaMay 16, 2022
Music Psychology studies the mental processes involved in listening to or performing music, as well as the psychological effects of music (Deutsch, 2016). It is…
Rosa BreedMay 13, 2022
As humans, we tend to expect others to follow rules, written or unwritten. There is something harmonious about agreement, and we can all agree that…
Samarth KambliMay 11, 2022
Smiling is not the mark of happy wonders, not when for each smile I had to pay. So, with every suckled failure, I throw these…
Berenike SimonMay 9, 2022
Dear readers, As the war in Ukraine unfolds, we’re terrified, confused and wonder when it will be over and what happens next. Aside from the…
Milena Kaprálová and Esna Mualla GunayMay 6, 2022