Carnival Carnival: three days for everybody to go crazy in large groups and silly costumes and indulge, before Lent starts. What are the effects of dressing up and gathering in large groups? This is where social psychology comes in. Marijke van Putten • February 11, 2013
How to be successful? How can we become more successful? How can we achieve more in our jobs? And how do we become more efficient in our daily lives? These are central questions, especially in professional life. But what is success? Marijke van Putten • February 02, 2013
Happiness and hormones: spring breaks, autumn falls Our mood can be affected by the changing of the seasons. What do we understand about seasonal affective disorder (a.k.a. winter depression)? Marc Molendijk • February 01, 2013
Publishing open access: good or bad idea? On Wednesday 6 February 2013 the KNAW and the Young Academy organized a debate with the theme: ‘Publish Open access or perish’. The central question in this debate concerned the future of open access publishing. Is it a great new development or not? Eveline Crone • February 01, 2013
Leveling as a difference maker in clinical psychology Income inequality has pernicious effects on well-being. Still, it does not seem to have had a tremendous backlash in the field of clinical psychology. Should it? Marc Molendijk • January 31, 2013
Early dementia and functional brain networks This image shows the devastating changes in the brain of a dementia patient. Finding an early marker of dementia is currently the Holy Grail of dementia research. Serge Rombouts • January 28, 2013
Statistical errors in neuroscience: how a mouse turned into an elephant Analyzing a large corpus of the neuroscience literature we found that the same statistical error – comparing effect sizes by comparing their significance levels – is appearing throughout even the most prestigious journals in neuroscience. Sander Nieuwenhuis • January 27, 2013
