With a wealth of empirical evidence communication researcher Katjana Gattermann shows that personalization of EU politics has limited consequences for European citizens’ awareness, trust and interest in EU politics.

An international team of biologists, including W. Daniel Kissling of the University of Amsterdam, has used artificial intelligence techniques to estimate the conservation status of nearly 1900 palm species across the ...

Social psychologists of the University of Amsterdam tested how people respond to 'political bullshit’ or when politicians tell us things that seem completely meaningless.

Democracies around the world are currently coming under pressure from both without and within. At the same time, western media landscapes are becoming ever more polarised. The rise of artificial intelligence is ...

What is the typical movement behaviour of visitors to large events, such as concerts, and what does this mean for the risk of spreading infectious diseases like COVID-19? A group of researchers from the Informatics ...

A new meta-analysis on existing well-being interventions suggests we should not look if individuals got ‘ happier’, but in how far well-being interventions generally helps individuals function better.

Scientists from the University of Amsterdam and Durham University have designed a tool to measure the psychological distance to science and predict science rejection in a number of very diverse domains.

An international team of biologists has shown for the first time that corals can pass on changes in their genetic material that they acquire during their lives to their offspring. Mark Vermeij of the University of ...