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Trust at first sight
(2025)Interpersonal trust plays a crucial role in social relationships. While previous research has examined the separate effects of non-verbal synchrony (NVS) and reciprocal self-disclosure on interpersonal trust, few studies ... -
Diverse Advertising: The Way to Go? The Influence of Diverse Ads on Consumer Affect and Brand Perception
(2025)Faced with the problem of inequality, brands increasingly try to contribute to an inclusive society through diverse marketing. This thesis is concerned with uncovering whether diverse advertisements affect consumer brand ... -
Forecast Error in Housing Corporations: Analyzing the Impact of Organizational and CFO Characteristics on Budget Predictions
(2025)This thesis examines impact of the accuracy of real estate forecasts within Dutch housing corporations. It focusses on the role of Chief Financial Officer (CFO) characteristics and organizational characteristics in explaining ... -
Jamal_8551413-Transatlantic turmoil: How ideological values and strategic calculations helped shape and break the transatlantic alliance
(2025)The transatlantic alliance is at a crossroads. For the first time we have a President of the United States, Donald Trump, who openly questioned whether the U.S., should help its allies in Europe. Trump has argued against ... -
Perspectives on Entrepreneurial Learning in a Pre-Incubation Program
(2025)This era is characterized by an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous world as well as changing societies, resulting in a higher frequency of ill-defined wicked societal, economic, and environmental ... -
Assessing the Charter for Non-Formal Early Childhood Education and Care Services in the Dutch Context
(2025)This study assessed the Charter for quality for European non-formal Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) within the Dutch context. Despite an increased recognition of quality in ECEC, there is a need for a quality ... -
The role of pornography consumption and body satisfaction on eating disorder symptoms in queer and heterosexual men
(2025)Queer men experience higher rates of eating disorder symptoms and body dissatisfaction than their heterosexual counterparts and are more influenced by media, such as pornography. The link between pornography’s influence ... -
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Depression and Suicidal Intrusions in Relation to Suicidal Ideation
(2025)Introduction: The growing body of literature has established the relationship between obsessive-compulsive disorder and suicidal ideation. What is not well understood is the underlying mechanisms that cause this positive ... -
From Play to Reason: A Cross-Cultural Study of the Development of Reason-Giving in Childhood by Gender
(2025)Reason-giving plays an important role in children’s lives, as it promotes their cognitive and social development. The aim of this study was to explore how culture, gender and age influenced the number of reasons children ... -
The Influence of Power Dynamics on Children’s Joint Decision Making Across Cultures
(2025)Societies rely on reason giving to resolve disagreements and reach collective decisions. Yet, non-Western contexts have rarely been studied, and little is known about how cultural context and power dynamics shape children’s ... -
Bidirectional Relationship Between Parental Emotional Warmth, Negative Communication, and Child Emotional Symptoms Over Time
(2025)Children’s emotional well‑being is fundamental to their social development and academic success, yet rates of internalizing symptoms are rising. While parenting can impact child emotional symptoms, child emotional well-being ... -
Knowing What Is Important: Enhancing Self-Concept Clarity and Authenticity
(2025)Emerging adulthood is charachterised by changes in identity development that can affect mental health. As part of project You are You: A Roadmap into adulthood, a cognitive sorting task was developed in the form of a digital ... -
Decomposing Manner Modifiers
(2025)This thesis is concerned with the categorical identity and internal structure of manner modifiers (i.e., manner adverbials, MAs). Starting from the observation that MAs do not correspond to a uniform syntactic object, it ... -
The role of psychosocial factors in the intergenerational transmission of mental health problems in refugee families
(2025)The psychological impact of forced displacement often persists across generations, affecting both refugees and their offspring. This systematic review identified psychosocial factors that increase the risk of the ... -
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Predicting Household Welfare Outcomes Using Observable Socio-Economic Characteristics
(2025)This thesis explores the predictive capacity of machine learning models to esti mate household welfare outcomes using socio-economic characteristics within the context of Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI). IBLI aims ... -
Exploration vs Exploitation choices: The Role of Intolerance of Uncertainty and Sex Differences
(2025)Anxiety disorders are the most prevalent mental health disorders, resulting in high individual and societal costs. Understanding the underlying mechanisms of anxiety disorders is critical for therapy, as they reveal how ... -
Investigating the Transmission of Correlates and Severity of Prolonged Grief Symptoms from Parent to Child
(2025)Background: Prolonged grief disorder (PGD) describes among others the intense yearning, emotional pain, identity disruption, and reduced capacity for experiencing happiness, following a major loss. Bereaved children ... -
Correlates of Prolonged Grief Severity in Children
(2025)Background: The loss of a loved one can profoundly affect a child's emotional and psychological health, with prolonged grief disorder (PGD) as a potential outcome. While it is suggested that children do not grieve alone ... -
Graph-Based Exploration of Packet Capture Data
(2025)Gaining insights into workload behavior across hybrid cloud environments is difficult when visibility into internal systems is restricted. This study investigates whether communi- cation patterns and deployment structure ...