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CEO Compensation Benchmarking in a European Context
(2024)Fairness and equality are important matters to people. However, inequality has long been rising both in Europe, and particularly the US. This led to increasing levels of scrutiny on the high salaries of top-level CEOs. Within ... -
The Financial Impact of Greenwashing: Insights from Fashion Companies
(2024)This study focuses on the effects of greenwashing on financial performance in the fashion sector, which is one of the most polluting industries in the world, in an effort to further the continuing research on the environmental ... -
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What Homework Study Strategies Do Children Use and Can Vlogging Help to Make Homework More Effective and Motivating?
(2024)Prior research has shown that the effectiveness of homework in primary education is mixed possibly because students use ineffective study strategies. However, it is unclear what students do when they are in control. So, ... -
High-ability Kindergarteners' Perceptions of Reading: Insights into Learning to Read Before First Grade
(2024)Literacy is seen as one of the most important skills children learn at school. In the Netherlands, most children formally learn to read during the first six months of first Grade. However, there is a group of children ... -
You Need to Calm Down: Investigating the effect of Goals on the Perceived Effectiveness of Interpersonal Suppression and Reappraisal
(2024)People often rely on others to regulate their emotions through different strategies. The aim of this study was to investigate whether goals change the perceived effectiveness of interpersonal cognitive reappraisal and ... -
A One Health perspective on bacterial zoonotic risks due to environmental contamination at public outdoor events
(2024)Background: Bacterial zoonotic diseases are important illnesses that can be transmitted through various routes. In addition to foodborne transmission, environmental factors play a substantial role in disease spread at ... -
Do Junior Workers Perceive Leaders Demonstrating Queen Bee/Alpha Male Behaviour as Role Models, and Does This Affect Their Desire to Work at the Organisation?
(2024)Women in leadership positions often face discrimination and negative gender stereotypes, particularly in male-dominated organisations. One way they cope with this is by displaying Queen Bee (QB) behaviour. Research has ... -
Writing Assignment
(2024)This was a short review to find the ideal HER2 diagnostic test to select women with breast cancer for trastuzumab therapy. Two medical databases were searched for relevant articles and studies. After screening 6 relevant ... -
Autonomy Supportive Parenting in Refugee Parents: Examining the context of PTSD and Post-migration Stress at Resettlement
(2024)Frequently people who were forced to flee their homes and resettle in a new country continue to experience traumatic symptoms. Traumatic symptoms can amplify the stress related to common migration-related challenges such ... -
Adaptation to Misinformation: A Drift Diffusion Model Analysis of Prior Likelihood
(2024)Perceptual decision-making involves rapidly classifying sensory information to select appropriate responses. These decisions can be influenced by choice biases, which are systematic preferences for certain options and may ... -
Beyond Survival: The Role of Volunteer Support in Helping Undocumented Migrants Navigate Uncertainty and Pursue Well-being
(2024)This ethnographic study explores the emotional and social dimensions of volunteer support for undocumented migrants in Utrecht, focusing on the services provided by Villa Vrede. Also, with the Capabilities Approach by ... -
Mirrored Moves: The Interplay between Non-verbal Synchrony, I-sharing, Positive Affect and Task Performance
(2024)Currently, the positive effects of non-verbal synchrony and I-sharing between two or more people are widely known. Non-verbal synchrony and I-sharing are both related to more prosocial behaviour, liking and social bonding ... -
Enhancing pig welfare: exploring the effects of early socialisation in commercial pig farming (Sus scrofa domesticus)
(2024)In commercial pig farming, the process of weaning typically occurs between three and five weeks of age. Weaning under conventional circumstances is an abrupt process that involves a sudden separation of piglets from their ... -
‘TikTok taught me’: A study on women’s psychological and social motivations to self-diagnose with ADHD through social media
(2024)In public discourse, there has been a growing recognition of adolescents using social media outlets like TikTok as a source of information to diagnose themselves with various mental health conditions, such as ADHD. A ... -
Through the Eyes of the Youth: Exploring Youth’s Imaginaries of Sustainability in Curaçao
(2024)The research seeks to explore the different narratives of sustainability that young people in Curaçao have, how different the education system and the media support these narratives, and which sustainable behaviors are ...