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Your brain on nature
“Your brain on nature: A scoping review of the neuroscience of nature exposure” The relationship between natural environments and human cognition has gathered increasing attention across disciplines, including neuroscience, environmental psychology, and public health. An expanding body of empirical evidence supports the notion that exposure to nature consistently promotes psychological and physiological well-being. However, our…
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Licht op het donker
Recent zijn een aantal boeken en publicaties verschenen en onder de aandacht gekomen, die licht gaven op het donkere dat gebeurd was. Enkele zijn samengevat in een eigen pagina:
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Geweld herkennen
“Geweld herkennen in complexe scheiding. Inkijken bij het geïnstrumentaliseerde kind“ Manipulatie en controle bij echtscheidingen: “Dit zadelt kinderen op met levenslang trauma” Valerie Swennen, GVA – 19 januari 2026 “Geweld in scheidingen blijft vaak verborgen, maar de gevolgen zijn diep en blijvend.”Dit boek nodigt uit om met andere ogen te kijken naar conflict, communicatie en…
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Morele revolutie
“Morele revolutie, Rutger Bregman“ De westerse wereld verkeert in een morele crisis. Niet de meest bekwame, maar de meest schaamteloze leiders komen aan de macht. In zijn BBC Reith Lectures — hier in ongecensureerde vorm — brengt Rutger Bregman zijn hele oeuvre samen in een pleidooi voor een morele revolutie. Bregman is geen vrije denker,…
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D: The Dark Factor of Personality
“The Dark Factor of Personality” A unified theory of aversive personality Ethically, morally, and socially questionable behavior is part of everyday life and instances of ruthless, selfish, unscrupulous, or even downright evil behavior can easily be found across history and cultures. Psychologists sometimes use the umbrella term “dark traits” to subsume personality traits that are…
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The Science of Revenge
“The Science of Revenge, James Kimmel Jr.” In this definitive book on revenge, James Kimmel, Jr., JD, exposes the unseen neurobiological cause of violence—the compulsive desire for retribution—and offers a profound new understanding of human behavior and breakthrough framework for making our lives and communities safer. Yale violence researcher and psychiatry lecturer James Kimmel, Jr.,…
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Poisonous People
“Leanne ten Brinke: Poisonous People” In Poisonous People, award-winning psychologist Dr. Leanneten Brinke offers a brilliant new perspective on darkpersonalities. Weaving together personal stories andpathbreaking research, she depicts a surprising reality: a small portion of the population causes most of the world’s suffering. People with psychopathic and related personalitytraits commit a disproportionate amount of crime,…
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Narcissism: Blunted Error-Related Brain Activity
“Narcissism Is Associated With Blunted Error-Related Brain Activity” Narcissism is associated with self-enhancement and social antagonism, yet its neural underpinnings, particularly in error processing, remain underexplored. Competing theoretical models, such as the mask model and the metacognitive model, offer conflicting hypotheses regarding how narcissism influences early neural responses to errors. We examine whether grandiose agentic…
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Vertalen – Transmigratie
DE KUNST VAN HET VERTALEN In de wondere wereld van de verbale transmigratie kunnen we drie kwaden onderscheiden. De eerste en minste van de drie bestaat uit aperte fouten, te wijten aan onwetendheid of foute kennis. Dit is slechts menselijke zwakte en derhalve pardonnabel. De volgende stap naar de Hel wordt gezet door de vertaler…
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Active information sampling in health and disease
“Active information sampling in health and disease” Active information gathering is a fundamental cognitive process that enables organisms to navigate uncertainty and make adaptive decisions. This review has synthesised current knowledge on the behavioural, neural, and computational mechanisms underlying information sampling across health and disease. Several key themes have emerged from this analysis. Firstly, information…
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Boredom and curiosity – information
“Boredom and curiosity: the hunger and the appetite for information“ Boredom and curiosity are common everyday states that drive individuals to seek information. Due to their functional relatedness, it is not trivial to distinguish whether an action, for instance in the context of a behavioral experiment, is driven by boredom or curiosity. Are the two…
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Physical activity types, variety, and mortality
“Physical activity types, variety, and mortality: results from two prospective cohort studies” ” –> Walking is a great activity, especially when combined 😉 “ During 2 431 318 person years of follow-up, 38 847 deaths were recorded, with 9901 from cardiovascular disease, 10 719 from cancer, and 3159 from respiratory disease. Total physical activity and most individual physical activities,…
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Was I fooled or wasn’t I?
“What Is the Name of This Book?-The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles, by Raymond M. Smullyan” My introduction to logic was at the age of six. It happened this way: On April 1, 1925, I was sick in bed with grippe, or f lu, or something. In the morning my brother Emile (ten…
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Delusion as embodied emotion
“Delusion as embodied emotion: a qualitatively driven, multimethod study of first-episode psychosis in the UK” Delusions in psychosis involve complex and dynamic experiential, affective, cognitive, behavioural, and interpersonal alterations. Their pattern of emergence during the early stages of illness remains poorly understood and the origin of their thematic content unclear. Phenomenological accounts have emphasised alterations…
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Intuitive insight: Fast associative processes drive sound creative thinking
“Intuitive insight: Fast associative processes drive sound creative thinking” Convergent thinking, the ability to find a single optimal solution to a well-defined problem, is considered a core component of creativity, and is often assumed to rely on controlled, deliberative processes. We tested this assumption using the Compound Remote Associates (CRA) test, where participants have to…
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Switching, fast and slow
“Switching, fast and slow: Deciphering the dynamics of memory search, its brain connectivity patterns, and its role in creativity “ Creative ideas emerge from the process of searching and combining concepts in memory, involving both associative and controlled mechanisms. How these processes unfold during memory search and relate to creativity remains unclear. We explored the neurocognitive…
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The interoceptive origin of reinforcement learning
“The interoceptive origin of reinforcement learning” Rewards play a crucial role in sculpting all motivated behavior. Traditionally, research on reinforcement learning has centered on how rewards guide learning and decision-making. Here, we examine the origins of rewards themselves. Specifically, we discuss that the critical signal sustaining reinforcement for food is generated internally and subliminally during…
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Paradox of Predictability
“The paradox of predictability provides a bridge between micro- and macroevolution” The relationship between the evolutionary dynamics observed in contemporary populations (microevolution) and evolution on timescales of millions of years (macroevolution) has been a topic of considerable debate. Historically, this debate centers on inconsistencies between microevolutionary processes and macroevolutionary patterns. Here, we characterize a striking…
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Explore 2025 with Leif Penguinson
“Explore 2025 with Leif Penguinson” Around the world in 48 penguin puzzles! Can you spot the penguin in every game this year? For five years now, Briefing readers have eagerly awaited Fridays for a chance to put their penguin-hunting skills to the test. Each week, Leif Penguinson, a Rockhopper penguin, travels to scientifically interesting (and…
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