Publicaties
Multiple insecticide resistance: an impediment to insecticide-based malaria vector control program Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde
Identification and semi-quantification of metabolites of new plasticizers in urine collected from flemish adults and children Universiteit Antwerpen
First insights into the occurrence of pesticide residues in edible insects from sub-Saharan African countries Universiteit Antwerpen
When agreement-accepting free-riders are a necessary evil for the evolution of cooperation Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Agreements and commitments have provided a novel mechanism to promote cooperation in social dilemmas in both one-shot and repeated games. Individuals requesting others to commit to cooperate (proposers) incur a cost, while their co-players are not necessarily required to pay any, allowing them to free-ride on the proposal investment cost (acceptors). Although there is a clear complementarity in these behaviours, no dynamic evidence is ...
Abnormal emotion processing, but intact fairness and intentionality considerations during social decision-making in schizophrenia Vrije Universiteit Brussel Universiteit Antwerpen
Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder that is highly characterized by social cognitive impairments. Most studies investigating these impairments focus on one specific social domain such as emotion recognition. However, in daily life, processing complex social situations relies on the combination of several social cognitive and affective processes simultaneously rather than one process alone. A modified version of the economically based ...
Better to give than to take? Vrije Universiteit Brussel Universiteit Antwerpen
BACKGROUND: Although recent studies focusing on major depressive disorder (MDD) suggest altered social decision-making, studies using the Ultimatum Game (UG) in patients with severe, clinical MDD do not exist. Moreover, all aforementioned studies so far focused on responder behavior and thus fairness considerations; to this date, no one investigated social interactive behavior which involves proposer behavior possibly requiring second-order ...