Projects
Towards a Mechanistic Account of Maintenance Goals KU Leuven
People need to invest tremendous effort and motivational resources to ensure that all the valuable things they have will be maintained, on both an individual level (e.g. family, households, health) and a societal level (e.g. public infrastructures, the natural environment). Nevertheless, little is known about people’s motivation to routinely maintain, nurture, and care for what they have. Psychological theory on motivation has focused on ...
Good jobs and effective HR practices in civil society organisations: the role of intrinsic work goals KU Leuven
Self-determination theory (SDT) differentiates between intrinsic and extrinsic goals, where the former are associated with psychological wellbeing, and the latter with ill-being and lower wellbeing, a process mediated by basic need satisfaction. However, within the work context (work) goals have not yet received much attention from an SDT perspective. The relations of work goals with job characteristics also remain unclear (direct relation, ...
A Belgian civil procedure approach to non-compensatory goals in tort law KU Leuven
Claimants increasingly rely on extra-contractual liability claims to pursue other goals than compensation (in kind or by way of pecuniary damages). Attention for the multifunctionality of extra-contractual liability law has grown over the past decades. This is clear, for example, in the draft bill regarding the introduction of the extra-contractual liability provisions in the new Civil Code, and is also apparent in Belgian doctrine and even ...
Towards a goal-oriented approach for medication review in older adults: optimization and evaluation of the RESPECT-tool as a means to elicit and integrate personal goals into medication decision-making KU Leuven
Two years ago, we developed the RESPECT-tool. The RESPECT-tool is an instrument that helps healthcare professionals and patients to explore what really matters to patients. It also supports patients in formulating personal life and health goals and helps healthcare professionals to take these personal goals into account when making decisions about the patient’s medication.
With this project, we want to figure out how the RESPECT-tool can ...
Reconciling environmental and social goals in the transition towards a low-carbon society (SUSPENS) University of Antwerp
With goals and motives towards a more comprehensive approach of test-taking motivation: A multilevel and multi-method research into the link between test-taking motivation and test performance. Ghent University
There is a need for a comprehensive approach to test-taking motivation that attends participants' motives and goals. This research aims to:
(1) Offer a methodological, conceptual alternative with a new instrument as unique predictor of testperformance.
(2) Investigate characteristics that influence test-taking motivation and test-performance on Central Assessments.
(3) Determine how schools influence test-taking motivation ...
How does corporate governance affect the ability to achieve ESG-related and financial goals in cooperatives? KU Leuven
While cooperatives are similar to commercial enterprises in several areas, there are also some differences. For example, the limited transferability of shares will have an impact on the long-term vision of the company. Where commercial enterprises can be more short-term and profit-oriented, the long-term perspective will play a more important role in cooperative enterprises. This will have an impact on the company's environmental and social ...
Tempted by food or dedicated to health: a cross-cultural investigation of eating goals and behavior. Ghent University
A cross-cultural survey investigates how many and which type of people pursue a health-goal,
and how this relates to their BMI. Next, we examine when a self-control conflict most likely
arises: we study to what extent consumers associate unhealthy food with taste and whether
one pursues a health goal because one should vs wants to do this.
Sabbatical Dirk Nuyens: Discovering future goals of lattice based cubature. KU Leuven
The aim of the sabbatical is to make large progress on a joint project and to start defining future goals based on early results from the scope of the project. The project is developing new theory and analyzes new algorithms for calculating expected values, and otheer miments of quantities of interest, obtained form complicated mathematical models.