Projects
EYES ON THE TEACHER AS A BYSTANDER IN SCHOOL BULLYING: Insight into helpful and harmful teacher responses to bullying KU Leuven
OZR Backup mandate: The use of information provision as green nudging techniques: do they work to promote pro-environmental behavior in the online purchasing process? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Spinning out of control: A personalized prediction model for binging behavior in eating and alcohol disorders. KU Leuven
Vape the smoke away: A case for e-cigarette based Tobacco Harm Reduction KU Leuven
Smoking rates have been decreasing slowly and minimally over recent years. Hereby, smokers keep exposing themselves to one of the leading causes of years of potential life lost. Current smoking cessation aids and strategies appear to be insufficient to further reduce smoking rates substantially and rapidly. Contributing factors to these disappointing figures are: 1) the fact that current aids do not take into account the behavioral aspects of ...
The efficacy of interventions that target automatic inferences Ghent University
Understanding harmful or maladaptive behaviour such as addictive, prejudiced, or environmental unfriendly behaviour is a key challenge for psychological science. A highly influential idea is that harmful behaviour is the outcome of implicit, associative processes rather than explicit, belief-based processes that drive more controlled or thoughtful behaviour. For instance, much prejudice, addiction, and behaviour modification research has ...
Public harassment in nightlife: the role of nudge theory in encouraging bystander intervention. Ghent University
Public harassment (PH) in nightlife (i.e., intrusive and unwanted (sexual) behaviors) is a harmful experience that relates to more severe iterations of (sexual) violence. Moreover, it’s a pervasive societal problem that reinforces power relations and inequality. Current strategies to address PH fall short however because of its complicated nature and the creation of unwanted side effects. Two important knowledge gaps were identified regarding ...
The role of motor preparation in avoiding pain during goal-directed action Ghent University
Pain is an evolutionarily adaptive mechanism that motivates the initiation of defensive actions to protect the body. The central nervous system is organized to anticipate potential pain and to adjust behavior before the risk of bodily harm becomes critical. For example, when a movement repeatedly generates pain, the ability to anticipate this, and establish protective strategies during motor preparation, should help avoiding pain and bodily ...
The Actio Pauliana : a sleeping beauty in the corporate wood KU Leuven
A debtor may elude his creditor by making himself insolvent, e.g. by transferring assets to a friend for free. Under certain conditions, however, a court can allow the creditor to set aside the transaction by which his debtor caused of exacerbated his own insolvency. In Continental legal traditions, this legal remedy is known as the (actio) pauliana. It is a remedy (i) of a creditor (ii) against the beneficiary (iii) of an act committed by ...