Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

Highlights

Language in wine reviews: consistent prose or intentional gibberish?

Odour researcher Ilja Croijmans analysed 76,410 wine reviews to find out whether the words used by wine connoisseurs are informative.

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Does being an older parent mean you may have better behaved kids?

A Dutch study investigated the reasons why delayed parenthood could lead to better behaviour in children.

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Self-Regulation Lab

Can people regulate their own behaviour?

News

6 November 2019

Sjoerd Beugelsdijk and Pepijn van Houwelingen on Dutch Identity

Sjoerd Beugelsdijk and Pepijn van Houwelingen will discuss Dutch identity during the Interdisciplinary Symposium Identity and Inequality on November 15th.

4 November 2019

Standard bearer Sander Thomaes to connect youth research to social questions

Professor of Developmental Psychology Sander Thomaes has been appointed as the standard bearer of the NWA (Dutch Research Agenda) Youth Route.

24 October 2019

Can privacy-sensitive data be shared?

YOUth researchers have their own treasure chest, filled with data intended exclusively for their own research. This need to change

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Events

21

Nov

21 November 2019 10:00 - 13:00

Stream Institutions and Behavior Public Lecture

Nudge theory often fundamentally neglects the social dimension of the problem it is trying to address.

21

Nov

21 November 2019 10:00 - 13:00

Better Together: On the Power of Social Nudges - with Sander van der Linden, Cambridge University

Public Lecture by the IOS Stream Institutions and Behavior and the Prompted Rationality network.

26

Nov

26 November 2019 20:00 - 21:30

SG lecture: Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities

What makes people live and die for nations? Literary scholar Prof Joep Leerssen explains the power of the imagined community.

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