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Internalized Bias or Structural Blame? How Gender Identification Shapes Women’s Responses to Queen Bee Behaviors
(2025)Despite efforts to reduce gender inequality in the workplace, women remain underrepresented in leadership positions. While many reasons have been given to explain why this happens, one factor that may contribute to this ... -
The Influence of Menstrual Cycle Phases on Women’s Status-Seeking via Prestige and Dominance: The Moderating Role of Organisational Culture
(2025)Menstruation is a common experience that affects nearly half of the workforce in Western countries, yet its effects on workplace behavior are often overlooked in organizational research. One area where this may be especially ... -
Screens as Masks: Counter-Visual Strategies in Surveillance Performance An Analysis of Dries Verhoeven's Alles Moet Weg (2024)
(2025)This thesis examines how contemporary surveillance art exposes the visual logic of control systems through counter-visual strategies. Focusing on Dries Verhoeven's Alles Moet Weg (2024), a performative installation set in ... -
Intervening in Workplace Bullying: The Role of Perpetrator Gender and Gender Norm Conformity in Shaping Intervention Recommendations
(2025)Gender norms may influence how interventions to workplace bullying are assessed. This study examines whether the gender of a workplace bullying perpetrator and the alignment of their behaviour with traditional gender norms, ... -
Food for Thought: Linking Organizational Factors and Well-Being Through Eating Behavior
(2025)Understanding how organizational factors influence employee well-being through healthy and unhealthy eating habits is essential for promoting and sustaining healthier organizational environments. Guided by the Job ... -
Investigating Low Literacy with Speech-to-Text Technology: Exploring Effects of Word Frequency and Age of Acquisition on Visual Word Recognition
(2025)Low literacy remains a pressing issue, with over 3,1 million Dutch adults facing challenges in reading, writing, and math. These difficulties often go unrecognized due to stigma and limited identification tools. The present ... -
Strengthening volunteer motivation and identification with Dutch cultural history through a game-based intervention
(2025)Volunteerism has been an important part in reaching the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) for creating sustainable cities and communities and preserving cultural heritage, like Dutch mills. Identifying with an organization, ... -
Phones Down, Heads Up! Investigating the Impact of a Social Media Detox on Social Anxiety and Phubbing
(2025)The rise of smartphones and social media has changed the way people interact with each other, leading to new behaviors like phubbing, referring to the ignoring of someone by looking on your phone in social settings. This ... -
Understanding the drivers of clothing purchase behaviour among young working adults
(2025)This study focuses on the psychological drivers behind the purchasing behaviour of second-hand clothing among young adults (aged 18–35) in full-time employment. It examines the role of professional identity, hygiene ... -
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 ...