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Youngsters reach out too late when they feel depressed. Hopelessness is a symptom of their depressions: they incorrectly have no hope that treatment could help.

The unity of a country benefits from the celebration of a national holiday for the entire population. The Netherlands barely have such a day.

Can video games help youngsters to gain more self control? With their research project Beat-it, Margot Peeters and her team try to find out.

Psychotherapy is an effective treatment for depression, but less so than has previously been suggested in the scientific literature.

Jaap Nieuwenhuis on the research project Resilence and vulnerability in young people, seed money project of the strategic theme Dynamics of Youth.

If you really have to choose, would you rather be deaf or blind? Neuropsychologist Kayleigh Kennedy devotes her intern research to this question.

Neuroscientists at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� have first observed the brain area responsible for the cyclopean eye.

Professor Dr Marcel van den Hout has been elected best promoter of the Netherlands.

According to psychologists, misconduct by bank traders could persist as a problem if fraud cases are treated as the actions of an individual ‘bad apple’.

According to social psychologist Naomi Ellemers, the group process of moral action is underexposed. She wrote a book about it.

A new technology: formulating words through measuring changes in the size of the eye’s pupil.

How do financial companies deal with mistakes? And do employees feel secure enough to report when things accidentally go wrong?

The fifty students on the Master's programme in Contemporary Social Problems have interviewed people in need in Amsterdam.

ZonMw TOP grant for Mirjam Kretzschmar and Vincent Buskens

What is behind the disgust or even violent behaviour that some people display when faced with same-sex love?

Sociologists and theoretical physicists have shown how different social network structures have different effects on overcoming conflicts of interest

Yvonne Stikkelbroek received a grant from ZonMw to research relapse prevention of anxiety and depression among youngsters.

At the ‘Catalysts for Change’ symposium, we will be inspiring you to help youth develop and exploit their talents.

Many social themes require multidisciplinary knowledge: exactly what students will be learning in a new interdisciplinary course on child development.

Marco Boks concluded in 2016 that the marks a difficult childhood leaves in DNA are harmful. ‘However, we now know that those traces can actually help us.’