16 april 2026

High Sensitivity: Brain, Mental Health and Society | Radboud Reflects Lecture with Corina Greven and Judith Homberg

What is High Sensitivity? An estimated 1 in 5 people identify as highly sensitive. Is there an increase? What happens in the brain of a highly sensitive person? How does high sensitivity affect mental health? And if there’s an increase, what does that say about our society? Learn from psychologist Corina Greven and neuroscientist Judith Homberg, and learn more about high sensitivity, the brain and society. High Sensitivity: Brain, Mental Health and Society | Lecture and conversation with psychologist Corina Greven and neuroscientist Judith Homberg | Thursday, 16 April 2026 | 20.00 - 21.30 hrs | Lecture Hall Complex, Radboud University | Radboud Reflects and Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour Have a look at the recap: ++www.ru.nl/en/services/sport-cu…ntist-judith-homberg++

1 april 2026

Mind Measuring Mind

Mind Measuring Mind explores the foundations of psychological methodology, ethical research practice, and the pivotal role of measurement in understanding behaviour and mental processes. Blending teaching material, scholarly context, and personal perspective, it opens a dialogue about the challenges and responsibilities of doing science when the subject and the scientist share the same mind. Why is psychological science different from other sciences? Psychology is the study of behaviour and mental processes. Unlike most other fields, psychologists use their own mental processes to examine those of others. This self-referential nature, “mind measuring mind,” brings unique challenges for psychological measurement and the interpretation of research results. This book critically examines psychology as a science, exploring the empirical cycle and the teaching of methodology and statistics. In most academic psychology programmes, students are expected to participate as subjects in psychological studies. To support this, a series of PBL tutorials was developed to familiarise students with the empirical cycle and encourage discussion of validity, research methods, ethical standards, scientific communication, and potential threats to responsible, high-quality research. The materials in this book are based on those tutorials. This open textbook is designed for first- and second-year BSc Psychology students at Maastricht University, particularly those navigating the renewed curriculum’s emphasis on ‘Scientific Inquiry and Critical Thinking’ (SICT). It serves as a flexible guide for students following individual learning paths, including participation in faculty-led research experiments, reflection on the empirical cycle, and connecting practical experiences to theoretical concepts such as methodology, statistics, validity, ethics, and scientific communication. Ideal for self-study, group PBL sessions, and research practicums, the book helps bridge hands-on research involvement with classroom discussions, supporting competency development in psychological research.

26 februari 2026

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17 februari 2026

The Power of Proximity | In a Nutshell

Why should kids not choose where they sit in a classroom? How does where we sit affect our relationships and chances of success, both socially and academically? In the third episode of In a Nutshell, host Jara explores seating plans, distance, and proximity. Together with her guest, Yvonne van den Berg, she investigates why it matters where we sit and how we use distance to communicate our feelings. Yvonne is an assistant professor of developmental psychology. In her research, she investigates how proximity influences our social relationships, with a particular focus on the role that physical proximity plays in classroom social dynamics. Would you like to learn more about the importance of physical proximity? Make sure to follow Yvonne’s recommendations and read Relationships 5.0 by Elyakim Kislev, or check out the experiment mentioned by Yvonne on YouTube. Edit: Jara Majerus Cover: Antonia Leise

27 januari 2026

Crash Course: Open Textbooks

This slide deck can be used as a introductory crash course on the topic of Open Textbooks. Through interactive assignments, the slide deck defines what an Open Textbook is, gives an example, and provides guidelines where and how to search for open textbooks. The workshop is designed to take about 90 minutes.

1 mei 2025

Scientific integrity and Open science in level 1 courses at UCU

At University College Utrecht, we teach about scientific integrity and open science as early as the first methodology course the students take. In this powerpoint, there's a small collection of materials that can be used in an English-taught program to provide a starting point to educate students on these topics.

21 januari 2025

The Psychology of Sex with Maerten Prins | In a Nutshell

Sex should be about having fun and pornography usually gets it wrong – at least according to Maerten Prins, long-time lecturer of the popular course Psychology of Sexuality. In today’s episode of In a Nutshell, Antonia and Maerten talk about why the Netherlands might have the best sex education in the world but still falls short for many students. But what makes for good sex – and good sex education – in the first place? How has the way we talk about sex changed over the last decades? And why should we all masturbate more? Maerten Prins is a cultural psychologist and lecturer in the Psychology department. His course Psychology of Sexuality is attended by more than 700 students every year and covers everything from coitus to consent, including Maerten’s favourite topic: pornography, which encompasses a whole range of things that need to be talked about when talking about sex. To learn more about sex, follow Maerten’s tips and have a look at Justin Lehmiller’s book The Psychology of Human Sexuality, Lehmiller’s website and his Sex and Psychology Podcast. For Dutch readers, Maerten recommends the books De waarheid over seks: plezier en gendergelijkheid op planeet Aarde by Laan and van Lunsen and Seks!: een leven lang leren by van Lunsen en Laan. And for English readers, Emily Nagoski’s book Come As You Are. Edit: Jara Majerus Cover: Antonia Leise

8 oktober 2024

Why do we need better treatment for depression? with Ellen Driessen | In a Nutshell

Why are the current treatments for depression not effective enough? How can a what-fits-who approach help solve this problem? And can the already overwhelmed mental health sector actually provide more customized treatments? Welcome back to In a Nutshell – a podcast of Vox in which we explore everything you never knew you needed to know more about. We kick off the second season by taking a critical look at the current depression treatments. Together with Ellen Driessen, we discuss the role the match between a patient and a therapist plays, how to make the mental health sector more sustainable, and we get some tips on what to do when experiencing depression. Ellen is an assistant professor at Radboud University’s Department of Clinical Psychology and a licensed mental health care psychologist at Pro Persona’s Depression Expertise Centre. Currently, Ellen also leads an international research team that aims to create a tool to help select the optimal treatments for people with depression based on their personal characteristics. Edit: Jara Majerus Cover: Antonia Leise

1 oktober 2024

Maastricht University TutorKit

The UM TutorKit is a tool kit for tutors to use in collaborative learning settings and activities such as tutorials, group work or small seminars. It consists of several playful items for group dynamics development, feedback provision and evaluation purposes. For dissemination at Edusources, the digital version of the kit consists of 1) an icebreaker card deck with images and questions, 2) feedback dice with a focus on appreciation and conflict conversations, 3) evaluation sheets and 4) support cards with more tips and tricks regarding collaborative learning and group dynamics and information about educational design and delivery in a problem-based learning environment. Feel free to reach out to edlab-info@maastrichtuniversity.nl for more information or share your experience in using the TutorKit.

28 februari 2024

EBSCO Medical

Training gericht op het vergroten van informatievaardigheden in EBSCO Medical, dit betreft het gelijktijdig zoeken in de 4 databanken: Cinahl, Medline, Nursing & allied health collection en Psychology and Behavioral Sciences. De training bestaat uit verschillende onderdelen. Ieder onderdeel bevat uitleg en soms korte kennisclips.