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The Association of Co-Rumination with Prolonged Grief and Relationship Satisfaction Among Bereaved Adults: A Gender-Moderated Analysis
(2025)This study examined the role of co-rumination and its components, co-brooding and co-reflection, in prolonged grief severity and relationship satisfaction among bereaved adults, with a focus on gender as a moderating ... -
Exploring Binge Eating Pathology and the Potential Contribution of Shape Concerns in Female Zimbawean Students
(2025)Background Eating disorders (EDs), including binge eating disorder (BED), are serious mental health conditions increasingly observed in non-Western contexts. Research on binge eating pathology in Southern Africa is sorely ... -
Hello Stranger: Developing Interpersonal Closeness Through Reciprocal Self-Disclosure and Nonverbal Synchrony
(2025)Developing interpersonal closeness is a vital part of human connection, yet the mechanisms that foster this process remain complex and not fully understood. This study examined how reciprocal self-disclosure and nonverbal ... -
Feeling Less Envious and Depressed After Logging Off: How Comparison Tendencies Shape Emotional Relief and Indirect Well-Being Gains
(2025)Social media use has been increasingly linked to reduced mental well-being, with upward social comparisons playing a key role in this relationship by triggering negative emotional responses such as envy and depressive ... -
Introducing MENCOD: Multi-modal ENsemble Citation Outlier Detector
(2025)This paper introduces MENCOD (Multi-modal ENsemble Citation Outlier Detector), a novel approach for identifying outliers in academic literature screening. In this context, an outlier refers to a relevant paper that was ... -
A Motif-Based Comparative Analysis of Shell Company Structures in National and Offshore Contexts
(2025)Shell companies are often used to hide ownership and facilitate illicit financial flows. The disclosure of the Offshore Leaks have shown highlighted how deeply embedded and widespread these opaque corporate setups can be. ... -
Connecting information between Technology and Culture: A case study on the information spread in the LinkedIn network of CultTech
(2025)This thesis presents the development of a freely accessible webcrawler designed to infer social connections between individuals using minimal initial information and publicly available web content. Its proposed algorithm ... -
The Role of State Empathy and Collective Agency in the Relationship Between Group Coordination and Prosocial Behaviour in Dutch Adults
(2025)This study investigates whether coordination during a group task can elicit state empathy and a sense of collective agency, and whether these processes sequentially mediate the relationship between coordination and prosocial ... -
Eco-friendly LLMs: Can memory-based large language models pave the way towards sustainable AI?
(2025)This research studies the viability of memory-based large language models (LLMs) as an eco-friendly alternative to transformer-based LLMs, addressing the increasing environmental concerns associated with the energetic ... -
Automatic Detection of Linguistic Errors in Dutch LLM-Generated Text
(2025)As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate Dutch book descriptions, ensuring the linguistic quality of their output remains a challenge. This thesis explores whether real human edits can be used to ... -
Exploring need crafting in enhancing well-being via need-based experiences: Emotional stability as a moderator
(2025)This study examined the role of need crafting (the proactive engagement in activities to satisfy the psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness) in enhancing wellbeing via need satisfaction and need ... -
Mapping professional networks at the intersection of culture and technology
(2025)This thesis explores how hidden professional relationships, referred to as latent ties, can be inferred from publicly available LinkedIn profiles when explicit social connections are missing. Focusing on members of the ... -
Mapping water security risks in South Africa: A multi-model assessment of hydrological projections and socio-spatial vulnerability
(2025)This thesis developed and tested a reproducible, basin-to-municipality workflow for mapping compound water-security risk in South Africa, a data-sparse country spanning 13 climate zones. Two complementary hydrological ... -
The link between self-efficacy and well-being among emerging adults: the role of need crafting and need satisfaction
(2025)Half of the emerging adults (aged 18-25) in the Netherlands report poor mental health, highlighting the need for further research into the causes and solutions of well-being. In the current study the relation between ... -
Automatic Annotation of Dutch Educational Assessment Questions using Large Language Models
(2025)This study is aimed at the automatic evaluation of curriculum alignment. Curriculum alignment refers to the extent to which learning objectives, instructional activities, and assessments are coherently aligned. Traditionally, ...