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Flemish Doctoral Grants 2020

Navigating in an uncertain environment requires attention to focus on the relevant locations and features. Despite being intuitively easy to grasp in terms of its effects, the concept of attention has been theoretically elusive. Recently, the Bayesian fra

In recent years, U+2018volunteeringU+2019 has become an object of intensified public interest and promotion, including intensive efforts to manage it in U+2018effectivelyU+2019 and U+2018professionallyU+2019. Scholars of volunteering often tend to support these efforts though instrume

The idea that automatic (e.g., unintentional) behavior such as the automatic evaluation of a stimulus (e.g., a snake), is the outcome of processes that operate on the basis of mental associations whereas reasoning or belief-based processes drive more cont

How do dead people shape politics? In the Middle East and beyond, the dead recurrently stand at the heart of political contestations over sovereign power, whether they are celebrated or condemned, exalted or disowned, worshipped or mutilated. This researc

U+201CEmpire of PrintU+201D studies the work of four late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century authors in the colonial and postcolonial press. Unlike the little magazine, the newspapers of the British Empire have not yet been fully examined in relation to moderni

Today 'social mix' is the dominant concept in urban planning (policy) to tackle issues of diversity, also in Flanders. The key assumption is that the propinquity of well-off and poor residents will lead to an upward social mobility of the poor and an incr

Since 2015 more than one million Syrians have fled to Europe. Government officials increasingly seem to consider sending them U+2018backU+2019 as soon as the Syrian conflict calms down. Yet where do Syrians themselves think they belong? The home they left behind is