Collaborations

The CoPAN labgroup is part of the Leiden University LIBC and the Cognitive Psychology Unit, and is affiliated with the Cognition Behavior and Evolution Network CBEN. We study expressions of emotion and their impact on social decision making across species. We are always looking for students who want to gain research experience.

International Collaborations

National Collaborations

Memberships

PRIZES

2022

ERC Public Engagement Prize – Involve. For involving the general public in science. Awarded €10.000

Ig-Nobel Prize for our article Prochazkova et al., 2022 Nature Hum Beh (see publication list below).

2016

New Scientist Competition. Third place in competition between Dutch / Flemish researchers from all Disciplines born after 1980. Watch.

FELLOWSHIPS

2022

ERC- Proof of Concept E-VIRT. For the development of a VR-emotion training tool. Awarded €150.000

2021

Esther Katz Rosen Precollege Psychology Grant Program. Awarded 10.000USD

2020

Leiden Community. Teaching innovation. Connecting university students with high school (Technasium) students through the Psychology Lab on wheels. Awarded €13.584

Leiden and The Hague Community. Psychology Lab on wheels. Awarded €50.000

2019

Citizen Science Lab, Cognitive Psychology Unit, Psychology Lab on wheels. Winner out of 50 proposals. Awarded €30.000

2018

ERC Starting. From Mimicry to Trust: A Tinbergian Approach. Awarded €1.500.000 

NWO ORA. Production and perception of emotional expressions in humans and great apes. Awarded €308.540

NWO VIDI. Trust and distrust through emotional mimicry. Implications for autism spectrum disorder and social anxiety disorder. Awarded €800.000

2017

Leiden University. Virtual Reality study on full body mimicry. With Dr. A. Laarhoven and R. Sellaro. Awarded €60.900

Leiden University. Virtual Reality study on mimicry in high and low socially anxious individuals. With Esther van den Bos. Awarded €43.635

Templeton World Charity Foundation. Social intelligence in humans, chimpanzees and bonobos. Awarded €234.000

2016

Stichting Elise Mathilde Fonds and Leidsch Universitair Fonds. The evolutionary roots of discrimination. Awarded €24.999

2015

NWO talent grant. The role of pupil synchronization in real life interactions: Implications for trust and deception. With PhD student Eliska Prochazkova. Score: 2.3 (very good). Awarded €229.170

2014

NWO VENI Role of Pupil-synchronization in Trust. Score: 1.7 (excellent). Awarded €250.000

2013

Amsterdam Brain Center Neural mechanisms underlying pupillary contagion and subsequent development of trust. Awarded €9.000

2012

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science BRIDGE-Program Program to maintain relationships with Japan and continue established collaborations. Awarded €10.000

Koninklijke Nederlandse Academie van de Wetenschappen. Dr. J. L. Dobberke Stichting voor vergelijkende Psychology. The perception of emotions in humans and chimpanzees. Awarded €5.000

2010

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral fellowship. Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University, Japan. Awarded €20.000

Links

Apenheul Primate Park, an idealistic organization, dedicated heart and soul to primates and their natural habitat. This is where the bonobo project runs.

Cognition Behavior Evolution Network, for scholars working in the fields of evolutionary psychology, behavioral ecology, human biology, primatology, and cultural evolution.

Gishwati Forest Rwanda, a beautiful site where we study chimpanzees in their natural habitat.

Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, an interfaculty center for interdisciplinary research on brain and cognition.

Nederlandse Vereniging voor Gedragsbiologie, Netherlands Society for Behavioral Biology.

Nederlandse Vereniging voor Psychonomie, Dutch psychonomic society promoting the science of cognition and brain.

Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan, a great institute where I spent nine months studying the chimpanzee.