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The stereotypical image of the streetscape in the 17th and 18th century is well-known: housemaids cleaning on the pavement, men parading with horse and carriage, and women confined to the house with the children.

The black hole at the centre of our Galaxy not only flares irregularly from day to day but also in the long term.

When we think of the athletes who appear in the next Olympic Games, we like to believe that talent and effort are the only factors that are going to determine their sports performance.

Having been shocked himself when witnessing the extreme brutality of vigilante violence, sociologist Muhammad Asif decided to study why people take the law into their own hands.

During the UvA Education Day, Karen Maex, Rector Magnificus of the UvA, talked about the value of the art of argumentation.

Are rechargeable batteries that are high in energy density a promising tool to tackle climate change? They can make our transport cleaner, for example.

At the request of the Executive Board, the IIS is developing the new minor programme 'Rethinking Sustainable Societies'.

Helping smokers to quit smoking is one of the effective ways to reduce smoking-related health, economic, and social burdens. Si Wen studied the potential of a new intervention, a cognitive training called Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM). CBM aims to directly change biases in cognitive processes, such as biased attention towards certain cues in the environment.

Why do people exhibit social behaviour and what explains the evolution of such behaviour? It is a subject that has occupied Matthijs van Veelen for many years now.

Banks, Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) and courts are part of the chain of actors that is countering terrorist financing in the name of security.

Thesis defence Becky Kazansky on 8 december In the supermarket, on social media and even on the street: our daily comings and goings are continuously monitored by corporations and governments.

Leonieke Boendermaker has been named professor by special appointment of Implementation Challenges in Youth Care at the University of Amsterdam's Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences.

In de meest recente financieringsronde van het PDI-SSH zijn de projecten van UvA-geesteswetenschappers Henkjan Honing en Sanneke Stigter gehonoreerd.

A first-of-its-kind scientific report detailing the natural emergency unfolding in the Amazon basin was presented today at the COP26 conference in Glasgow.