News Tilburg University
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European Values Study Team Tilburg successful in grant acquisitions
15th January 2024The European Values Study Team Tilburg (Department of Sociology, TSB) has recently secured multiple grants to collect and make comparative social science survey data widely available for the scientific community as well as for policymakers, education, and the general public.
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Hans Haans new chairman of the University Council
12th January 2024The University Council has chosen a new chairman: on March 1, 2024, Hans Haans will take over from Rien Wijnhoven.
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Development of facial expressions in virtual human agents can help healthcare and education
10th January 2024Technology, such as computer graphics and machine learning, has helped to develop virtual agents that closely resemble humans in appearance and show increasingly human-like communicative behaviors. In her dissertation, Julija Vaitonyte did research on people’s perceptions of the appearance and behavior of virtual agents.
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New issue of Grotiana with contributions from Prof. De ruysscher and Dr. Den Hollander
03rd January 2024The latest issue of Grotiana, Volume 44 (2023): Issue 2 (Dec 2023) is a special issue dedicated to commercial and maritime law edited by Prof. Dave De ruysscher, who served as this special issue's guest-editor.
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Tilburg researchers receive NWO Open Science Fund 2023
02nd January 2024With the NWO Open Science Fund, NWO wants to reward researchers for their efforts in the field of open science. They can receive a maximum of 50,000 euros for their project. Two Tilburg research projects have been selected and will receive this fund.
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Our deepest sympathies for everyone affected by the tragic shooting at Charles University
22nd December 2023We are deeply shocked by the shooting incident that happened at our partner university in Prague. The shock following this terrible event is felt throughout our entire academic community. We express our heartfelt condolences and sympathy to everyone who is affected by this heartbreaking event.
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The best-viewed research news of 2023
19th December 2023Over the past year, we frequently shared interesting and groundbreaking research. News about appointments, farewells and scholarships was also read with great interest. Read the best-viewed research news of 2023 in this overview.
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Down the drain: what to do when setbacks occur in major government projects
18th December 2023Large government projects involving many parties often suffer setbacks such as delays, cost overruns or failure to meet contractual deliverables. How these setbacks subsequently affect the project is not arbitrary, say researchers Feng Fang, Wendy van der Valk and Henk Akkermans and Bart Vos.
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Grant for research on further development of 'Stronger than the kick'
18th December 2023The AWVB recently received a new grant from ZonMw to continue research on the further development of the intervention Stronger than Kick.
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Esther van Berkel appointed as Managing Director of the Tilburg School of Catholic Theology
15th December 2023On March 1, 2024, Esther van Berkel will become the new Managing Director of the Tilburg School of Catholic Theology. She succeeds Ada van der Velden-Westervelt, who will start her well-deserved retirement on April 1, 2024.
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Slow motion in videos increases number of likes
11th December 2023Slow motion is a popular style tactic for short videos on social media. Marketing researcher Anika Stuppy of Tilburg University shows that slow motion increases the number of likes and views of videos and stimulates brands' preference, choice and willingness to pay. There are conditions to its use, however. The research helps marketers use slow motion more effectively.
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Turn it for the better: How can VR help solve the global problem of unhealthy diets?
11th December 2023How can Virtual Reality technology help solve the global problem of unhealthy diets? Rachelle de Vries and her team are developing and evaluating an immersive multisensory VR food environment with 'Smell-e Technology' to research food choice behavior. Watch her presentation at TEDxBreda on this technology and the power of smell.
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Freedom of expression issues on social media platforms may benefit from interdisciplinary research
08th December 2023Freedom of expression issues on social media platforms could be tackled by combining the lenses of freedom of expression researchers and competition researchers. That’s what Maria Luisa Stasi argues in the PhD dissertation she defends on December 19th, 2023 at Tilburg University.
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How memories function when a person is threatened by group stereotypes
07th December 2023Whether ethnicity, nationality, gender or class, the social categories with which people identify are an important source of a person's self-esteem. This can be undermined in context with other groups. So how can an individual reduce the psychological impact of identity threat?
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New edition of Recognition & Rewards magazine
30th November 2023In December 2022 a first joint e-magazine on the Recognition & Rewards program was published. This week, we published a new edition. The title of this new e-magazine is Embrace the impact. It is evident that Recognition & Rewards is increasingly being put into practice, including in terms of detailed new career paths, different assessment criteria, reflective leadership and much more.