News Social and Behavioral Sciences
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A long and healthy life for all is social responsibility
03rd July 2023A long and healthy life in the Netherlands is strongly related to individual’s social position. Preventing health problems will only be successful when all factors of influence and the entire living environment is taken into account, says professor Ien van de Goor in her inaugural lecture on July 7.
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Two Vidi grants for Johan Wolswinkel and Tineke Snijders
29th June 2023The NWO has awarded two Vidi grants to Tilburg Scientists. Professor of Administrative Law, Market and Data Johan Wolswinkel of Tilburg Law School receives a grant for his research: Decision-making in times of open government: from "rule transparency" to "case transparency". And Dr. Tineke Snijders of the Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences receives a Vidi for her research: Listening with your eyes in the developing brain.
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Guide for supervisors improves support for employees with mental health issues
27th June 2023A new, science-based approach can help supervisors support their employees with mental health issues. It involves identifying and discussing mental problems with employees and adjusting the work environment in a timely fashion to prevent absenteeism. This is shown by Suzanne van Hees in her PhD research. She will defend her PhD thesis at Tilburg University on Friday, June 30, 2023.
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Call: ENGAGE EU Science Communication workshop for prae docs and PhD students
21st June 2023ENGAGE EU, the European university engaged in societal change, organizes a three-day science communication conference from September 25-27 at Vienna University in Austria. Learn all about communicating Science for Impact, register before July 15!
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Oration Taco Gosens: Quality of life in orthopaedics: Moving Care
20th June 2023Orthopaedics and psychology seem to be two opposing worlds. The separation between mental health and psychological aspects and physical health and functional aspects is very persistent in medicine, obviously also in orthopaedics. Yet this separation is not as sharp as is often thought.
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Tilburg University researchers conduct experiment during Lowlands Science 2023
15th June 2023Several researchers from the Human Resource Studies department have joined forces to conduct a unique experiment during Lowlands Science. Festival visitors are invited to hit the dance floor and participate in the experiment, which is all about collaboration.
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Prestigious NIH grant for research on antipsychotic drug use during pregnancy
08th June 2023Marion van den Heuvel received a prestigious grant from the US National Institutes of Health for research into the effect of prenatal exposure to antipsychotics on child development.
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New open data resource for studying video game play and its effects on well-being
31st May 2023In the first study of its kind, researchers at the University of Oxford and Tilburg University have collaborated with game developer FuturLab to create a unique open online data resource to study the effects of playing video games on the well-being of players.
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The relationship between microdosing psychedelics and feeling authentically
31st May 2023During their research exploring the effect of microdosing psychedelics on feeling authentic the authors found that microdosing was related to higher ratings of state authenticity. This suggests that microdosing may help individuals align their behavior with their personal values and goals. Read the article.
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Four NWO grants for cutting-edge research
17th May 2023From a study that focuses on people who choose to remain childless to renewing microfinance in developing countries. Four Tilburg University researchers will have the opportunity to realize their innovative research ideas after winning a grant from the Dutch Research Council’s SGW Open Competition M. We extend our warmest congratulations to Katrijn van Deun, Katya Ivanova, Tessa van Leeuwen and Burak Uras for their successful applications.
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Inaugural lecture: Shared decision-making as the basis for good mental health care
16th May 2023Shared decision-making in mental health care is an essential ingredient of often longer-term therapeutic treatment relationships with patients and their loved ones. Particularly in the care of people with severe mental illness, this is an extra big task, but there are many gains to be made here, says professor Koen Grootens in his inaugural lecture on May 26.
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Call for Papers: The Value Creation, Capture & Sharing in Organizational Networks Conference
04th May 2023The Academic Collaborative Centre for Network Impact at Tilburg University is proud to organize its inaugural Research Conference on value creation, capture, and sharing in organizational networks in Tilburg on October 19-20, 2023.
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Four Tilburg researchers receive NWO Open Competition SGW XS grant
19th April 2023The awards of round 3 of the Open Competition SGW-XS pilot programme are a fact. Four researchers from Tilburg University successfully applied for a grant. With this they can further work out a promising or innovative initiative within their research project. We congratulate Inge van de Ven, Bruno Nicenboim, Florian Sniekers en Konrad Turek with this award.
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Broad support for generous but conditional basic income
19th April 2023There is reasonably broad support among Dutch voters for a basic income, according to new research by sociologists at Tilburg University. However, this must be subject to conditions.
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Jörg Raab and Tine Buyl appointed as professors in the Department of Organization Studies
31st March 2023The Executive Board of Tilburg University has appointed two new professors in the Department of Organization Studies at the Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Jörg Raab will hold the chair of Inter-Organizational Networks and Tine Buyl will become Professor of Strategy, Strategic Leadership and Organizational Resilience. Raab will also become the new chair of the department.