Projects
Speech intelligibility and foreign accent: New perspectives on the perception of non-native Dutch Ghent University
Oral proficiency targets in foreign language learning are typically expressed in terms of intelligibility. However, what makes non-native speech intelligible and accented is ill understood. The proposed project examines the link between intelligibility, foreign accentedness, and listeners' attitudes towards non-native Dutch. The results will contribute to our understanding of these concepts and underpin the teaching of Dutch as a foreign ...
Self perception or self deception? The use of self evaluation instruments in organisational settings. University of Antwerp
Encloistered and Profane Masculinities: Comparative Research into the Evolution and Perception of High Medieval Ideals of Manhood (Late Eleventh-Early Fourteenth Centuries) Ghent University
This project proposes a diachronic comparative research, based on a varied corpus of narratives and treatises, into the establishment, evolution and effectiveness of medieval ideals of masculinity in monastic and profane circles in the Low Countries. It takes into consideration the period between the second half of the 11th and the beginning of the 14th centuries.
"FOR THE PUBLIC, BY THE PUBLIC": Coping with dilemmas in the coproduction of public services. KU Leuven
Bureaucracy despite reforms: does a history of intensive structural reforms make public sector organizations more bureaucratic (again)? University of Antwerp
Vox Pops or Polls? Effects of Vox Pops and Opinion Polls on Perceived Public Opinion, Personal Opinion and News Item Evaluation. University of Antwerp
Strategic Research Programme: End-of-life in cancer and non-cancer patients: public health, health services and clinical research. Addressing present and future challenges in palliative care. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Ways to mitigate the public health problem caused by onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy. University of Antwerp
Approach and loss aversion: Effects of cognitive protective biases in public health campaigns Ghent University
We investigate how consumers react to approaching and receding stimuli in advertising appeals used in a public health context, by demonstrating that (1) individuals show more negative (positive) emotions and behavior to approaching (receding) stimuli, (2) approach and loss aversion underlie this
main effect, and (3) the valence of the stimuli has a moderating influence on this effect.