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Professor at Leiden University
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NWO VIDI awarded to Mariska
Next year April, a new research project starts, investigating emotion processing and trust formation deficits in patients with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and social anxiety disorder (SAD). The project will run for five years and will host two postdocs, a PhD student and a research assistant. It will partly take place in Germany, in collaboration with PD. Dr. (psychiatrist) Katja… Read more »
Trust me: look into my pupils
People often mimic each other’s facial expressions or postures without even knowing it, but in this new study, co-author Carsten de Dreu and I show that they also mimic the size of each other’s pupils, which can lead to increased trust. The findings reveal that participants who mimicked the dilated pupils of a partner were more likely to trust that… Read more »
Physiological synchrony: key to dating success?
Finding love in today’s society has become very different from what generations use to remember. The amount of people who meet their partner via online dating has grown rapidly. In 2014, in the Netherlands, 13% of the relationships developed online. In 2003 this was still less than 2% (CBS, 2014). In consequence, the development of romantic relationships is also changing.… Read more »
Wat als robots verliefd worden?
Bij robots denken we niet direct aan gevoelens. We zien naast de robots die werkzaam zijn in fabrieken steeds meer robots in de rest van onze maatschappij. Zo is er de robot-stofzuiger, de keuken-robot en rijdt wellicht de robot-auto binnenkort door onze straten. Een ander voorbeeld is de seks- en liefdes-robot, die eenzame mannen gezelschap houdt en aan hun trekken… Read more »
CoPAN Photo Competition
Theme: the social and emotional orangutan Prize: 200 euro For a new non-invasive experiment I am looking for pictures of orangutans from Apenheul (the Netherlands), Ouwehands Dierenpark (the Netherlands), Kölner Zoo (Germany) and Hamburg Zoo (Germany) taken in 2015 or 2016 showing: Stress, display, yawns, sexual intercourse, grooming, play, scratching or emotional expressions Close-ups of the eye-region showing a… Read more »
CoPAN welcomes new PhD student Evy van Berlo
Evy will work on the project ‘Unearthing the evolutionary roots of discrimination’, which is co-funded by Leidsch Universitair Fonds, Elise Mathilde Stichting and Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van Wetenschappen. Project description: Discrimination against social outgroups is a major issue in our society. The social sciences have provided different theories to understand its multifaceted nature, but it remains unclear how discrimination… Read more »
“Vanavond even niet, schat, hier neem mijn geminoid”
Wat zijn emoties en hoe verhouden deze zich tot empathie of moraliteit? De meeste mensen zullen een idee hebben van wat met deze termen wordt bedoeld en hoe ze tot stand komen. Biologen en psychologen proberen ze echt diep te doorgronden door ze te bestuderen in verschillende diersoorten waaronder de mens. Maar hoe weten ze wanneer ze een proces doorgrond… Read more »
Our research on the cover of PNAS!
(Klik hier voor de Nederlandse versie) Bonobos – just like humans – give more attention to pictures that show other members of their species displaying emotional behaviour than to neutral scenes. Unlike humans, however, bonobos prefer to look at positive behaviours: social grooming, sex and yawning. This was discovered by the Leiden researcher Dr. Mariska Kret while conducting research… Read more »
Truly a (Wo)man’s Best Friend – Emotion Recognition in Animals
It is no secret that pet owners are convinced that their pets recognize and act on their owners’ emotions. Often we’re right… but not always. Many of us relate to the feeling that our pets recognize our emotions. We think that they come to us when we are sad, to comfort us; and we are happy when our pets respond… Read more »
What do we want our robot companions to look like?
“Robots are the future” is what you often hear. Let me disabuse you, that “future” has already begun. Robots are becoming more and more integrated in our world, bringing about significant changes in the way we live. They appear in different designs and we humans do not like all of these designs to the same extent; some of them even… Read more »
Bonobos’ attention attracted by emotions
(Klik hier voor de Nederlandse versie) Bonobos – just like humans – give more attention to pictures that show other members of their species displaying emotional behaviour than to neutral scenes. Unlike humans, however, bonobos prefer to look at positive behaviours: social grooming, sex and yawning. This was discovered by the Leiden researcher Dr. Mariska Kret while conducting research… Read more »
From face to hand: attentional bias towards expressive hands in social anxiety (ook in het Nederlands)
Have you ever felt uncomfortable looking someone into the eyes? We all do sometimes, but socially anxious individuals do so to such an extent, that they often avoid eye contact completely. And this is interfering in their daily lives, because the eye-region conveys important emotional information that we normally spontaneously attend to and that is very useful during social interactions.… Read more »
Bonobo Project II van start
Het is winter en de Apenheul is gesloten. Goed nieuws, want dat betekent dat we van start kunnen met Bonobo Project II! De resultaten van Bonobo Project I zijn opgeschreven en ingediend bij een wetenschappelijk tijdschrift. Ik zal de bevindingen binnenkort op mijn website zetten. Maar hier eerst een update over waar we nu staan! Jasper Wijnen heeft deze week… Read more »
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