It’s Saturday night. After a long day of doing the bare minimum (watching YouTube videos of people building Sims houses, binging another Netflix show and…
Quinty MarsMay 16, 2020
For this month’s office hours, Spiegeloog talked to De Advieswinkel, a non-profit organisation that offers free and open-ended conversations for everyone wishing to talk or…
Julius DullaertMay 11, 2020
For the longest time, I thought I would never find people who understood what it’s like knowing, living in and embodying more than one culture.…
Lydia TianMay 1, 2020
We zijn allemaal zulke bijzondere en unieke individuen. Sommige ervaringen lijken zelfs zo bijzonder en uniek te zijn dat ik even veronderstel dat ik misschien…
Jihane ChaaraApril 29, 2020
Matthijs Baas' (Work and Organizational Psychology) question: Dear Bastiaan, Highly creative ideas are often rejected and ridiculed. Kodak rejected the digital camera when it was…
Evita EgertApril 27, 2020
While enjoying the view of a snow-covered mountain and adjusting to the strange letters on my Norwegian-installed keyboard, I cannot help but think about how…
Elise van GravenApril 24, 2020
Sophie Hall What is it like to be a Psychology student? Three questions for Sophie Hall (bachelor, first year). What is the most useful thing…
Elizabeth Helen RouhaApril 13, 2020
A few months ago I was sitting with my mom on the terrace of Bagels & Beans just across the street from the Roeterseilandcampus. My…
Lisanne van der VeldenMarch 27, 2020
Franca Ding What is it like to be a Psychology student? Three questions for Franca Ding (bachelor, first year). What is the most useful thing…
Nitya ShahMarch 25, 2020
In his allegory of the cave, the philosopher Plato imagines a group of people seated in a cave, looking at a wall in front of…
Denny BorsboomMarch 23, 2020
Authenticiteit! Eerlijkheid! Blijf bij jezelf! Wandel langs de psychologieafdeling van een boekhandel en je ontkomt niet aan de zelfhulpboeken met grote tips om een…
Jihane ChaaraMarch 18, 2020
For this month’s office hours, we visited Marc Heerdink and asked him about three personal items in his office. Marc is an assistant-professor in the…
Julius DullaertMarch 16, 2020
Sanne de Wit’s (Clinical Psychology) Question: Dear Matthijs, As discussed here, habits may persist even when one consciously intends to suppress or change the behavior.…
Evita EgertMarch 11, 2020
Jarenlang schreef ik ieder jaar op 31 december een uitvoerig verhaal in mijn dagboek over het jaar dat verstreken was. Ik bespeurde de thema’s die…
Jihane ChaaraFebruary 28, 2020
Everyone knows that feeling of being exhausted after a long day, with the deepest wish to forget about everything for a while and drift away…
Julius DullaertFebruary 24, 2020
Cherry Lin What is it like to be a Psychology student? Three questions for Cherry Lin (bachelor, second year). What is the most useful thing…
Lydia TianFebruary 17, 2020
In the past centuries, science has made amazing progress. The quintessential philosophical questions ‘What is stuff made of?’, ‘How did the universe come into being?’…
Denny BorsboomFebruary 13, 2020
‘Woorden maken werelden.’ Deze quote, waarvan de oorspronkelijke bron onduidelijk is, spookt wekelijks door mijn hoofd. Ik bouw mijn wereld met woorden. Ik denk, overweeg,…
Jihane ChaaraJanuary 29, 2020
Reinout Wiers’ (Developmental Psychology) question: Dear Sanne, In Ask the Expert, I have answered the question into which extent addiction is a disease of the…
Evita EgertJanuary 27, 2020
I often hang out with scientists from different disciplines. Over the years, I have found that there exist profound differences in how people evaluate their…
Denny BorsboomJanuary 22, 2020
Whenever there was a fresh face present at one of Spiegeloog’s editorial board meetings, I became somewhat self-conscious. A self-consciousness that had everything to do with what I…
Wolter de BoerJanuary 15, 2020
Sharon Klinkenberg is a senior lecturer at the UvA, in the Psychological Methods department. He is one of the lecturers for the course on scientific and…
Lydia TianJanuary 13, 2020
Laat het verleden achter je en kijk vooruit. Volgens menig Facebook- en Instagram-post is dat wat wij het liefste zouden doen. Maar eens in de…
Quinty MarsJanuary 8, 2020
Anouk Fieten What is it like to be a Psychology student? Three questions for Anouk Fieten (bachelor, clinical psychology). What is the most useful thing…
Quinty MarsJanuary 6, 2020