- A new study demonstrates unequivocally that the greater the insecurity and anxiety of a situation, the more likely people are to become overly optimistic -- even to the point where it can prevent us from taking essential action. https://www.uva.nl/en/content/news/press-releases/2024/03/making-the-future-too-bright-how-wishful-thinking-can-point-us-in-the-wrong-direction.html?cb= 92 comments science
- Newborn babies can perceive the beat in music but not simply due to the statistical learning ability of newborns, instead that beat perception is actually a separate cognitive mechanism that is already active at birth https://www.uva.nl/shared-content/uva/en/news/press-releases/2023/11/newborn-babies-have-natural-affinity-for-the-beat.html 6 comments cogsci
- Newborn babies can perceive the beat in music but not simply due to the statistical learning ability of newborns, instead that beat perception is actually a separate cognitive mechanism that is already active at birth https://www.uva.nl/shared-content/uva/en/news/press-releases/2023/11/newborn-babies-have-natural-affinity-for-the-beat.html 97 comments science
- The houting, a fish species that lived in North Sea estuaries and is officially extinct, turns out to be alive and well https://www.uva.nl/en/shared-content/faculteiten/en/faculteit-der-natuurwetenschappen-wiskunde-en-informatica/news/2023/10/extinct-fish-is-alive-and-well.html 23 comments science
- Figuring out a lie. Forget body language, just listen to how detailed it is. People who tell the truth can give a rich description because they actually experienced the event, whereas although liars can come up with details, this increases their risk of being caught. https://www.uva.nl/en/content/news/press-releases/2023/03/lielab-the-devil-is-in-the-details.html?cb= 757 comments science
- Researchers developed a new approach to lie detection: forget body language or how convincing the message is, just listen to how detailed and rich the story is https://www.uva.nl/en/content/news/press-releases/2023/03/lielab-the-devil-is-in-the-details.html 49 comments science
- Scientists carry greater credibility than spiritual gurus. Regardless of one's worldview, science is seen worldwide as a powerful indicator of the reliability of information. In these times when there is a lot of talk about scepticism with regard to, for example, climate change and vaccinations https://www.uva.nl/en/content/news/press-releases/2022/02/scientists-carry-greater-credibility-than-spiritual-gurus.html 36 comments science
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- Help on choosing Neuroscience master https://www.uva.nl/en/programmes/research-masters/brain-and-cognitive-sciences/brain-and-cognitive-sciences.html 5 comments cogsci
- A Turkish student's internship application is rejected by a professor at Amsterdam University because of Turkey's operation in Northern Syria https://www.uva.nl/en/content/news/news/2019/10/uva-response-to-email-sent-to-turkish-student.html?1 2 comments worldnews
- New research reveals that parents who are able to manage the physical and emotional states of their baby, during the first year of life, contribute greatly to the development of infants’ emotion regulation capacity. http://www.uva.nl/en/content/news/press-releases/2018/06/infants-of-mind-minded-parents-better-at-regulating-emotions.html 601 comments science
- Children develop higher self-esteem when their parents treat them warmly. But they develop lower self-esteem when their parents lavish them with inflated praise, finds new research on the origins of the self-concept in children published in Child Development. http://www.uva.nl/en/content/news/press-releases/2017/09/how-do-children-construct-views-of-themselves.html 12 comments science
- Converting waste toilet paper into electricity in a two-step process results in an overall electric efficiency of 57%, similar to a natural gas combined cycle plant. The levelized cost of electricity is 20.3¢/kWh, comparable at present to residential photovoltaic installations. http://www.uva.nl/en/shared-content/subsites/van-t-hoff-institute-for-molecular-sciences/en/news/2017/09/converting-waste-toilet-paper-into-electricity.html 28 comments science
- Amazon River no younger than 9 million years, new study shows. The new data contradict younger estimates (c. 2.6 million years) that have been proposed in recent literature and postdates estimates from an earlier study by about 1 to 1.5 million years. http://www.uva.nl/en/news-events/news/uva-news/content/press-releases/2017/03/amazon-river-no-younger-than-9-million-years-new-study-shows.html 13 comments science
- "One major finding of Van Kindt’s research lab is that when participants were given propranolol, a beta blocker, while retrieving a specific fear memory, the acquired fear response was shown to be totally erased a day or month later." http://www.uva.nl/en/news-events/news/uva-news/item/memory-appears-susceptible-to-eradication-of-fear-responses.html 69 comments science