Als gevolg van het exclusief gebruikmaken van gebouwen als verblijfplaats, is de gewone dwergvleermuis Pipistrellus pipistrellus sterk verbonden met de mens, met name in stedelijke gebieden. Het is bekend dat de gewone dwergvleermuis zich graag ophoudt in spouwmuren en dat groen en water rondom de verblijfplaatsen …

Nederland telt, op dit moment, ongeveer 27,3 miljoen gezelschapsdieren. Het meest gehouden huisdier is de kat, met 2,9 miljoen geschatte dieren. Het aantal zwerfkatten wordt hier niet in meegenomen. Zwerfkatten zijn gedomesticeerde huiskatten die o.a. door verwaarlozing of het weglopen op straat eindigen. …

Zoonoses, biting incidents, hereditary problems, and other issues can threaten the welfare of both humans and dogs. The Dutch government and animal welfare organizations seem to have little effect in their campaigns to influence the behavior of (potential) dog keepers, who can experience dissonance when …

The goal of the Bubble Games consortium is to narrow the gap between opposing groups and bring back nuance, tolerance and empathy in debates on social issues. We believe, and previous projects indicate, that using Virtual Reality (VR) can help create - or bring back - understanding between opposing groups. …

Human beings are, above all, narrative creatures, extremely sensitive to good stories. The (implicit) stories of futurologists have their own characteristic structure, when they outline what our future full of technology will look like. One element of their narrative structure is often that the speaker, …

In order to be able to do paid work, it is a condition that people also do reproductive work. Raising children, taking care of the house, running errands, taking care of the community (family, neighbours), etc. all this is also necessary work. No paid work without this so-called reproductive work. There …

Gepubliceerd peer reviewed artikel behorend bij het congres INTED

It is argued that both continuous improvement and growth in one direction, are (sometimes partly) based on the illusion of control. It is precisely through our actions, by exerting as much control as possible over both natural and artificial processes, that we make things worse, often despite our good …

Previous research shows that automatic tendency to approach alcohol plays a causal role in problematic alcohol use and can be retrained by Approach Bias Modification (ApBM). ApBM has been shown to be effective for patients diagnosed with alcohol use disorder (AUD) in inpatient treatment. This study aimed …