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• UvA programmes rise in latest QS World University Rankings

  29 Apr 2015

  In the latest edition of the QS World University Rankings by Subject, Communication & Media Studies are ranked 8th globally. Last year these subject areas, which are bundled by QS, were ranked in 10th place. Several ...

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• Preschoolers explore environment better after observing theory-violating evidence

  1 Apr 2015

  Preschoolers tend to investigate their environment better when faced with a situation that conflicts with their expectations. They do so in a way that corresponds to a firm scientific approach. There is thus more ...

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• ERC Consolidator Grant awarded to five UvA and AMC-UvA researchers

  25 Mar 2015

  The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a prestigious Consolidator Grant to five researchers from the University of Amsterdam and the Academic Medical Center (AMC-UvA). The recipients are rheumatologist ...

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• Powerful people feel inspired chiefly by themselves

  9 Mar 2015

  People in positions of power feel more inspired by themselves than by other people, while people with less power also draw inspiration from others. That is a conclusion reached by a group of Dutch and American ...

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• Creative Mind Prize 2015

  3 Mar 2015

  The ABC Creative Mind Prize 2015 will be presented to a young academic with an original and exciting research proposal that centres around the aspects of creativity, cognition and/or the workings of the human brain.

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• Christian Keysers, professor of Social Neuroscience

  15 Jan 2015

  Prof. C.M. Keysers (1973) has been appointed professor of Social Neuroscience at the University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences.

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• Publication in the new open access journal Scientific Data by B.U. Forstmann et al.

  9 Dec 2014

  B.U. Forstmann et al. published a paper in the new open access journal Scientific Data.

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• UvA Social Sciences once again top QS Rankings

  18 Sept 2014

  Once again this year, social and behavioural sciences at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) achieved top positions in the QS Ranking by Subject.

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• Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) relocates to Roeterseiland Campus

  9 Sept 2014

  The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Science’s disciplines of Sociology, Anthropology, Human Geography and Urban and Regional Planning, Political Science, Educational Sciences and Child Development, and ...

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• New degree programme combines political science, psychology, law and economics

  8 Sept 2014

  The start of the 2014-2015 academic year at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) saw the first cohort of students start the Bachelor's programme in Politics, Psychology, Law and Economics (PPLE). About 100 talented ...

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• Questionnaire encourages discussion of psychosocial problems related to genetic counselling

  21 Aug 2014

  A new questionnaire for people requesting genetic counselling in relation to cancer improves the quality of such counselling (genetic diagnostics and advice). The questionnaire helps with the recognition and ...

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• Humans and chimps adjust pupils during interaction with same species

  21 Aug 2014

  Not only the pupils of humans, but also those of chimpanzees adjust during contact with one another. This pupil-mimicry or pupil-synchronisaton effect is most pronounced during an interaction with an individual from ...

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• UvA Social Sciences climbs in Shanghai Top 50 Ranking

  15 Aug 2014

  This year Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam has climbed in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) field ranking, also known as the Shanghai Ranking, from 50 to 39 globally.

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• New academic journal focuses on methodology and transparency

  21 July 2014

  The new social psychology journal ‘Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology (CRSP)', which launched on Friday, 11 July, has a publication policy unique in social psychology: articles will only be considered for ...

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• Oeuvre prize and article award for psychologist Carsten de Dreu

  21 July 2014

  Carsten de Dreu, social psychologist and professor of Work and Organisational Psychology at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), has been awarded two prizes this month: the Kurt Lewin Medal for his oeuvre to date, and ...

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• Martijn Wokke wins 2014 Creative Mind Prize

  19 June 2014

  Martijn Wokke, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Amsterdam, has been named winner of the 2014 Creative Mind Prize for his research proposal ‘Unleashing creativity by decreasing prefrontal control’. ...

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• AXA grant for Bastiaan Rutjens

  17 June 2014

  Subject: Why do people voluntarily take risks and seek uncertainty, while they are also deeply motivated to seek structure and be able to predict and control their environments? This project will look at risk taking ...

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• SPR Early Career Award for Heleen Slagter

  10 June 2014

  Dr Heleen A. Slagter is to be presented with the 2014 Early Career Award from the Society for Psychophysiological Research. Slagter is receiving this prestigious award for her outstanding work on the brain mechanisms ...

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• Who will win the Creatieve Geest Prize 2014?

  4 June 2014

  Three young researchers have been nominated for the Creatieve Geest Prize 2014. The prize will be awarded on 19 June by Freek de Jonge, founder of the prize.

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• VIDI for dr. Sanne de Wit

  26 May 2014

  Dr. Sanne de Wit has been awarded a VIDI for the project 'The brain on autopilot' We often fail to stick to our resolutions because it takes a lot of effort to unlearn old behaviour and gradually automate new ...

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