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Pharma · Human Potential

Bodybuilders are not the smartest thinkers, or maybe ...?

Bodybuilders are not especially well-known for their wisdom or intelligence, but can there be side effects of nutritional supplements that even benefit the brain, making athletes more intelligent?

Maja Loos • 31-01-2017

Pharma · Human Potential · Junior · Social · Stress and Emotion · Language

Recruiting and testing participants: not a lousy job

Consider this blog a letter to anyone (students, supervisors) who is captured by the idea that data collection is a disrespectful job that can be done by anyone. Let me remind you why recruitment and testing of participants is anything but ignoble.

Laura Steenbergen • 17-01-2017

Social · Stress and Emotion

Attention and Conformity - like a boss

Everybody wants power. Those who are in power want to keep it and those who don’t, want to gain it. How about leaders who acquired their position illegitimately? Which strategies do illegitimate leaders use to protect their position?

Zala Reppmann • 03-01-2017

Human Potential

In praise of uncertainty

Research suggests we should embrace uncertainty and seek challenges wherever possible in order to improve mental capabilities and prevent cognitive decline. That does not fit with the zeitgeist: uncertainty makes nervous and anxious. Here's the plan.

Bernhard Hommel • 20-12-2016

Pharma · Human Potential

What really gives us wings (and who is more likely to fly high)

Energy drinks become more and more popular amongst consumers and are advertised to improve mental and physical performance. Is that true – for anyone of us? Aren’t there any better alternatives to improve ourselves?

Gina Wolters • 06-12-2016

Pharma · Human Potential · Social · Stress and Emotion

Brains? Consider the gut!

Hippocrates once said “All disease begins in the gut”. Recent studies suggest even disorders seen as psychological or neurological may actually be related to your gut. Here’s why we should pay more attention to the link between the gut and the brain.

Laura Steenbergen • 15-11-2016

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