Projects
Psychosocial functioning in individuals with a chronic illness: A long-term developmental perspective from adolescence to young adulthood KU Leuven
Up to 20% of Western adolescents have a chronic illness. Chronic illness has been described as a defining and transformational life experience, and many youth struggle with reconciling the illness with who they are as a person. Research has demonstrated that youth with a chronic illness can experience decreased well-being as compared to their agemates, such as increased depressive symptoms and lowered quality of life. Importantly, not all ...
The application of automated feedback and gamification to improve Truck Drivers' functioning. Hasselt University
Leadership development with the aim of enhancing team functioning and improving learning progress KU Leuven
What is it that enables some teams to outperform others? What makes some teams fast learners and others perpetual runners up? Research suggests that leadership is one of the key factors that contributes to competitive advantage. However, implementing a leadership structure that delivers the desired competitive advantage is far from straightforward.
While traditional approaches to leadership development considered vertical ...
Membership of occupational pension schemes for employees. A comparative legal research and empirical study on the functioning of rules concerning the affiliation to an occupational pension scheme KU Leuven
For employees, an occupational pension is an increasingly important part of their income after retirement. The access to such an occupational pension plan is therefore the first and most crucial element or starting point in the accumulation of the additional income. Affiliation rules regulate which employees have access to an occupational pension scheme. These rules directly determine the participation rates. Both at national and European ...
Common Ideas: The Everyday Functioning of Political Thinking in the Courtroom (Low Countries, 1450-1500) KU Leuven
A follow-up study on cognitive, behavioural and emotional functioning of school-aged children at increased risk of autism spectrum disorder Ghent University
The current project addresses school-age outcomes of prospectively followed children at increased
risk of autism spectrum disorder. Besides stability and reliability of early diagnosis and IQ, multiinformant
measures of depression and anxiety, adaptive and challenging behaviour, self-perception,
peer relations, self-control and quality of life will be investigated. Furthermore, we’ll attempt to
detect early markers of ...
Mindwandering and social cognition in depression: The mind’s social default mode and its role in mental well-being Ghent University
Although modern life is considered busy, research shows that we spend a noticeable amount of time in fantasies, rather than being focused on what we are doing. For instance, it is a common experience that, while reading a book, we suddenly realize that we are unable to remember the last page, because we have been fantasizing about possible future events that could happen to us.
It seems indeed that, when our mind drifts away, we tend to ...
Social Justice, Identity Construction and National Identification: A Social History of War Nationalism in Belgium, 1914-1925 Ghent University
This study on national identification in Belgium during and immediately after the German
occupation will examine to what extent and in what ways diverse social groups used national
sentiment to negotiate a reality radically altered. World War I is a crucial focus for nationalism research in Belgium, representing both the summit of Belgian nationalism and a cut-off point where a competing Flemish nationalism gained momentum. However, ...
Toward improved translatability of animal research: Developing advanced social behavior tests in rats to assess microRNA depletion as a novel treatment target for the core social symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder. KU Leuven
Rodents emit distinct types of ultrasonic vocalizations. These ultrasonic vocalizations have been shown to serve important socio-affective communicative functions in regulating social interactions. For instance, 50-kHz calls help to maintain social contact and promote play behavior and are associated with activity in brain reward centers, as shown in playback experiments (The Journal of Neuroscience, 2014). Their production can be provoked by ...