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Josh Tybur has been awarded with the prestigious Early Career Award by the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES). The award recognizes distinguished theoretical and/or empirical contributions to the study of evolution and human behavior, and it is given once annually to a scholar who has received his or her Ph.D. in the past 10 years. He received this award at the 30th Annual Meeting...
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Episodic memory and prior knowledge: Neural correlates and developmental trends Yee Lee Shing Institute of Psychology Goethe University Frankfurt Investigating the beneficial effects of prior knowledge on memory is an important topic in cognitive neuroscience. The medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) has been shown to be involved in the encoding of new information that is congruent to a pre...
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On Tuesday, May 29 2018, Allen Grabo will defend his dissertation entitled “ The evolutionary origins and psychology of charismatic leaderschip” at 15:45 in the VU Aula (promotor: Prof. Mark van Vugt). Click here for more information on his dissertation. Hope to see you at the defense!
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Mariko Visserman won Best Paper Award of the Kurt Lewin Institute for her paper titled “It’s the Motive That Counts: Perceived Sacrifice Motives and Gratitude in Romantic Relationships” co-authored with Francesca Righetti, Emily Impett, Dacher Keltner, and Paul Van Lange. Congratulations Mariko!! Mariko received the award in Zeist at the KLI conference.
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On Monday, June 11 2018, Paul Boon will defend his dissertation entitled “Updating Spatial Working Memory in a Dynamic Visual Environment” at 15:45 in the VU Aula (co-promoter: Dr. Artem Belopolsky; promotor: Prof. Jan Theeuwes).
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On Thursday, May 24 2018, Mariko Visserman will defend her dissertation entitled “The Art of Sacrifice: Self-Other Dilemmas, Biased Perceptions, and the Emergence of Gratitude” at 13:45 in the VU Aula (co-promoter: Dr. Francesca Righetti; promotor: Prof. Paul A.M. van Lange). Hope to see you at the defense!
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Each year, the Social & Organizational Psychology section gives our awards for excellence in teaching and reserach. This year, the award for excellence in teaching goes to Dr. Jan-Willem van Prooijen. The award for excellence in research goes to Dr. Fabiola Gerpott. Congratulations!
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The institute for Brain and Behavior Amsterdam (iBBA) of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is organizing the symposium “Your brain on sports”, highlighting the latest findings in sport neuroscience. Speakers will cover the full range from scientist to practitioners to enlighten us whether neuroscience can help you perform better in sports. There will be presentations and a panel discussion, in w...
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Normal and abnormal oscillations in the cortico-basal ganglia network revealed by deep brain stimulation recordings Deep brain stimulation is an effective treatment for patients with advanced movement disorders. It also offers a unique opportunity to record local field potentials from basal ganglia structures in humans. I will give a brief overview of physiological and pathological neural oscil...
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Colloquium Talk by Emily Impett Date: Wednesday May 23, 16:00-17:00, room 14A-00 (main building) Speaker: Emily Impett University of Toronto, Mississauga. Title: A Prosocial Perspective on Sexuality in Relationships Satisfying sexual interactions are a crucial predictor of relationship and life satisfaction. Despite the importance of sex for relationships, couples face numerous challenges ...
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Date: 15 February 2018 Time: 16.00 - 17.00 Drinks: 17.00 - 18.00 Location: VU Main Building HG 05A00 Premembering Experience In this talk, Kia Nobre will discuss how the brain uses multiple time scales of experience to anticipate relevant events proactively and dynamically in order to facilitate the analysis and utilisation of information to guide adaptive behaviour. Oxford Cent...
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On Tuesday, January 16 2018, Angelo Romano will defend his dissertation entitled "The power of reciprocity to promote cooperation" at 9:45 in the VU Aula (co-promoter: Dr. Daniel Balliet; promotor: Prof. Paul van Lange). Hope to see you at the defense!
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Josh Tybur has been elected to receive the 2018 recipient of the Sage Young Scholar Award from the Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology. This award recognizes outstanding contributions to personality and/or social psychology by an early career scholar. Josh will be recognized at the 2018 SPSP meeting in Atlanta.
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Colloquium Talk by Geoffrey Leonardelli Date: November 30, 16:00-17:00, room 7A-33 (main building) Speaker: Geoffrey Leonardelli, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Title: Building a Better Understanding of “Us”: Three Kinds of Self-Categorization and Implications for Loyalty Social categorization has just about become an assumption in many theories in social psychology an...
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Junhui Wu was nominated - and actually received - the FBG Junior Career Award. This is an excellent achievement, especially in light of the fact that there are many excellent junior researchers in our faculty. Congratulations, Junhui! For more information, see: https://vunet.login.vu.nl/actual/pages/News/newsdetail.aspx?cid=tcm:165-863295-16&showTranslationError=1
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Colloquium Talk by Pranjal Metha Date: November 9, 16:00-17:00, room MF-G613 Speaker: Pranjal Mehta, University College London. Title: The influence of social status on stress depends on the stability of the hierarchy High-status leadership roles are theorised to reduce stress compared with subordinate roles, but higher rank is not always stress-free. In this talk, I present experimental e...
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Salience in the Control of Eye Movements in Natural Scenes Date: 24-10-2017 Time: 13.45 Location: Auditorium Titel: Salience in the Control of Eye Movements in Natural Scenes Promotor: Prof. J. L. Theeuwes Summary: Visual acuity is highest at the point of gaze, and declines rapidly into peripheral vision. As a result, eye movements bring different parts of the visual world into...
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Date: 12 October 2017 Time: 16.00-17.00 Drinks: 17.00-18.00 Location: VU University - TR K1B-74 Professor Amir Amedi​ is a leading neuroscientist ​ working ​on unraveling ​the ​complex balance between ​stability and flexibility ​in the organization of​ our sense ​for over 15 years. His main research interest involves our senses. He is an expert on Brain imaging of the senses, Restorati...
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On Thursday, October 12 2017, Fabiola Gerpott will defend her dissertation entitled "Learning and leadership in contemporary organizations: Qualitative, quantitative and temporal insights" at 11:45 in the VU Aula (co-promoter: Dr. Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock; promotoren: Prof. Mark van Vugt en Prof. Sven Voepel). Click here for more information on her dissertation defense (in Dutch). Hope t...
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On Friday, September 15 2017, Jill Knapen will defend her dissertation entitled "The tall and short of it: On human height in social perception, interpersonal interactions, and individual differences" at 13:45 in the VU Aula (co-promoter: Dr. Thomas Pollet; promotor: Prof. Mark van Vugt). Click here for more information on her dissertation defense (in Dutch). Hope to see you at the defen...
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The best Bachelor thesis in Social and Organizational Psychology in 2017 was written by Joeri Loggen. The Pieter Drenth award for the best Master thesis in Work and Organizational Psychology 2017 goes to Jeroen Tuinte . The two winners were announced during the M-thesis symposium on August 21. Congratulations!
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Colloquium Talk by Veronica Benet-Martinez Date: September 21, 16:00-17:00, room K1B-74 Speaker: Veronica Benet-Martinez, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Title: Multicultural identities & minds: Socio-cognitive, personality, and cultural perspectives Cultural contact due to factors such as migration, globalization, and the speed of travel and communication (among others), has made cultural di...
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Date: August 9, 2017 Time: 10.00 – 16.00 Drinks: 16.00-18.00 Location: VU University, 15th Floor Church Room
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