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Radboud Center for Decision Science
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The Radboud Center for Decision Science is an interfaculty research center whose mission is to promote the interdisciplinary study of human decision-making and to apply emerging insights from decision science to help tackle society's greatest challenges.
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🎉 Bas Bloem has received the Robert A. Pritzker Prize for Leadership in Parkinson’s Research from the The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. 'We keep pushing the boundaries of science, care and creativity until Parkinson’s stops.' 👇

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Radboudumc-neurologist Bas Bloem receives international prize for Parkinson’s research - Michael J. Fox Foundation Pritzker Prize honors work integrating science, care and community for people with Pa...
17 November 2025
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November 18, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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🎯🤝🧠 We were happy to welcome an international press delegation to the Donders Brain Museum last week to share the story of how our 1,400+ researchers advance understanding of the human brain, cognition, and behaviour. Thanks for coming, Tack för ditt besök, Vielen Dank für Ihren Besuch!
November 25, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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A Review in Nature Reviews Psychology specifies factors that exacerbate self-harm social contagion and discusses how to bridge psychological and public health perspectives to mitigate self-harm risk in adolescents. go.nature.com/46syzrc 🔒
September 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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✨Super proud of dr. Floor Burghoorn @floorburghoorn.bsky.social , who obtained her PhD with the highest distinction! Congratulations on behalf of the whole @epanlab.bsky.social lab!🎉🎉@decisioncenter.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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We're excited to announce the Department of Economics and Business Economics has started their fall edition of the Research Seminars, Mondays@12.20h in EOS 01.150 (exception: Tuesday, 30.09@12.20 in EOS 01.770). Join us!
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Research Seminars | Radboud University
The Department of Economics and Business Economics organizes a weekly research seminar that relates to the main research areas covered in the department with distinguished external scholars from all o...
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September 22, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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#psychologists often stress the relevance of their work for #law & #policy, yet rarely engage legal experts to draw meaningful policy inferences & propose reform.

Thrilled to have collaborated w/ Pietro Ortolani, Catalina Goanta & Alan Sanfey ⬇️
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September 13, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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👏👏👏 Postdoc Appreciation Week (#PAW_NL): 15 - 19 September.

From sessions on well-being and career paths, workshops on research impact and science communication, to networking drinks. We look forward to celebrating postdocs together!

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September 3, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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👀 How do we stay curious – and how can curiosity improve learning?

Congrats to Lieke van Lieshout on her prestigious #Veni grant from NWO! She’ll study how curiosity lasts, how it boosts memory, and whether freedom of choice plays a role.

Curious to know more? 👇

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Veni grant for research into curiosity, an important motivator for learning | Radboud University
Lieke van Lieshout has received a prestigious NWO Veni grant for her research into curiosity. She will use this grant to gain a better understanding of how we remain curious and how this can improve l...
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September 2, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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❓ Ever stopped presenting after one bad experience, or avoided dogs after one bite? Radboud Recharge spoke with Bob Bramson about how #anxiety shapes learning from rewards & punishments.

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New research: how to get out of a vicious cycle when dealing with persistent anxiety?
Neuroscientist Bob Bramson is with a Veni grant launching a study on how the brain learns from rewards and punishments, and how anxiety affects this process.
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August 29, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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🔵 Tübingen Systems Neuroscience Symposium 2025 is here! 🔵

#SNS2025 brings together leading international researchers in system neuroscience 🧠

Join us for plenary lectures, poster sessions and social events on 6️⃣-7️⃣ October 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣

registration is open here 👉 meg.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/sns_2025/
July 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Generative AI (GenAI) can do more than just answer questions - it can tailor its responses based on users’ preferences, habits, and even emotional tone.

We call this capability hypercustomization - explored in our new paper in Behavioral Science & Policy. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The governance & behavioral challenges of generative artificial intelligence’s hypercustomization capabilities - Christoph M. Abels, Ezequiel Lopez-Lopez, Jason W. Burton, Dawn L. Holford, Levin Brink...
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is changing human–machine interactions and the broader information ecosystem. Much as social media algorithms persona...
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July 7, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Two Donders Institute projects just received €400K NWO grants. @stephforkel.bsky.social studies speech circuits in Parkinson’s for better treatments. Meyer & @robertoostenveld.bsky.social track 200 infants to see how early brain learning shapes language & social skills.

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NWO grants to explore brain circuits and baby’s learning | Radboud University
Two projects have been awarded Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) Open Competition M grants of €400,000 by NWO. Their work will shed new light on how our brains support speech and learning.
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July 8, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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🧠✨ Beauty of the Brain

This time in our Donders Beauty of the Brain series: a stunning image of a hippocampal brain slice, captured with a confocal microscope.

Discover more at www.dondersdiscovers.nl/en/
July 9, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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🚓🕶️⌚ VR vs stress & aggression

Nearly €7M from the NWA for #CONTEXT: reducing stress and aggression in police & at-risk youth. Smartwatches + VR teach early stress detection & emotion control.

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New research tackles stress and aggression with virtual reality | Radboud University
The CONTEXT project has been awarded nearly €7 million from the National Science Agenda (NWA) for an ambitious project to reduce stress and aggression among police officers and at-risk youth.
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July 2, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Coming from #law to #psychology to #neuroscience, I’ve often asked: where do I belong? This piece is a tribute to the value of crossing disciplinary lines and look at the inherent challenges which I continue to both embrace & tackle during my PhD @dondersinst.bsky.social @decisioncenter.bsky.social
July 4, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Thrilled to share an article in @natrevpsychol.nature.com! 🧠 I reflect on how a PNAS piece has helped me see that #interdisciplinarity is not merely beneficial, but vital, for tackling real-world problems @dondersinst.bsky.social @decisioncenter.bsky.social

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Interdisciplinarity opens new frontiers for decision science - Nature Reviews Psychology
Nature Reviews Psychology - Interdisciplinarity opens new frontiers for decision science
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July 4, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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🎉✨ Janna Vrijsen appointed Professor of #Transdiagnostic #Psychopathology: ‘I look forward to teaching researchers and psychologists to look beyond mental disorders. It is also my goal to establish exercise as a treatment for depression and other mental disorders.’

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Janna Vrijsen appointed as endowed Professor of Transdiagnostic Psychopathology
30 June 2025
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July 1, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Interdisciplinarity opens new frontiers for decision science

Journal Club by Sarah Vahed
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June 19, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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🎉I am super excited and extremely grateful for having received an ERC Advanced grant #ERCAdG 🎉🎉 🎉 Thanks so much to my team, at Radboud and the #donders institute, my collaborators and all who have helped me. I can’t wait to get started! 🥰

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🚨 €2.5M from the ERC for Karin Roelofs and the HEART2ADAPT project — diving deep into how body and brain team up when we make decisions under threat.
🧠❤️‍🔥 "We're in the ideal position to study this complex interaction," she says. 👇

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ERC Advanced Grant for Karin Roelofs | Radboud University
Roelofs will receive €2.5 million from the European Research Council for her project HEART2ADAPT, to investigate body-mind interactions during decisions under threat.
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June 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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🎥🌍 Over 1,000 neuroscience talks now free on YouTube and published at @apertureohbm.bsky.social. 🧠 “Now anyone, anywhere can binge-watch brain science like a box set,” says @stephforkel.bsky.social:

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Global access to brain science: OHBM launches channel with 1,000+ talks | Radboud University
What if you could journey back in time to hear world-leading neuroscientists present the ideas that shaped today's brain science? A new open-access initiative led by researchers from the Donders Insti...
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June 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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🧠 📱 What happens in our brain when we briefly remember a phone number?

According Eelke Spaak, the answer may lie in rapid changes in the connections between brain cells. With a new NWO ENW-M #grant, he will investigate that hypothesis: 👇

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How the brain briefly remembers | Radboud University
What happens in our brain when we briefly remember a phone number? According to neuroscientist Eelke Spaak, the answer may lie in rapid changes in the connections between brain cells. With a new NWO E...
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June 11, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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❓⚖️ Should we use AI to support cancer patients and their doctors? Surgery or no surgery? Chemo or not? AI expert Johan Kwisthout believes humans should make these decisions.

His PersOn project aims to make AI a helpful partner to assist. 👇

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Should we use AI to help cancer patients?
In the PersOn project, AI expert Johan Kwisthout is developing artificial intelligence that helps doctors and cancer patients make difficult treatment choices.
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June 6, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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✨We are organising (again) an online workshop on Theoretical Modeling for PhD candidates and Master students in cognitive science and psychology. Check out the website and the schedule: Registration is open! (closes July 1, spaces are limited) 🧵1/n computationalcognitivescience.github.io/workshop/
May 29, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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🔬 From basic research to therapy: DARE2APPROACH led by Karin Roelofs developed brain stimulation now tested in anxiety treatment. 🧠 “This is one of those projects that you can only do with a network like the Donders Institute”

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From basic research to therapy: years of research translated into treatment anxiety disorders | Radboud University
Why is it so difficult for people with anxiety disorders to do what they fear, even if they know it is safe? That question was at the heart of the DARE2APPROACH project led by Karin Roelofs running fr...
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May 22, 2025 at 9:50 AM