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Mazza, Maria Chiara (author)
Anxiety is one of the most widespread and dangerous mental health disorders in developed and underdeveoped countries, affecting a wide number of college students all over the world. If not correctly treated in time, it might procure irreparable damages in people’s life, leading to drastic consequenses such as depression and suicidal intentions....
master thesis 2020
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Rocha, Jennifer (author)
With the growing mounds of mixed waste in India and and insufficient solid waste management system, the government and NGO's have turned to people to segregate their waste at home. But, even after a lot of efforts to encourage people to segregate, people have not changed their behaviour and still dispose all their waste into one bin. This...
master thesis 2020
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Kroesen, M. (author), Chorus, C.G. (author)
Psychological factors are generally thought to play an important role in the prediction of individual variations in travel behavior and travel related choices. To assess their effects in statistical models, three assumptions are typically made, namely: (1) the psychological factors influence behavior/choices and not vice versa, (2)...
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Desmet, P.M.A. (author), Fokkinga, S.F. (author)
This paper introduces a design-focused typology of psychological human needs that includes 13 fundamental needs and 52 sub-needs (four for each fundamental need). The typology was developed to provide a practical understanding of psychological needs as a resource for user-centered design practice and research with a focus on user experience and...
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Hopster, J. (author), Klenk, M.B.O.T. (author)
What is the significance of empirical moral psychology for metaethics? In this article we take up Michael Ruse's evolutionary debunking argument against moral realism and reassess it in the context of the empirical state of the art. Ruse's argument depends on the phenomenological presumption that people generally experience morality as...
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Klenk, M.B.O.T. (author)
Empirical moral psychology is sometimes dismissed as normatively insignificant because it plays no decisive role in settling ethical disputes. But that conclusion, even if it is valid for normative ethics, does not extend to bioethics. First, in contrast to normative ethics, bioethics can legitimately proceed from a presupposed moral...
review 2020
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Hung, H.S. (author), Murray, Gabriel (author), Varni, Giovanna (author), Lehmann-Willenbrock, Nale (author), Gerpott, Fabiola H. (author), Oertel, Catharine (author)
There has been gathering momentum over the last 10 years in the study of group behavior in multimodal multiparty interactions. While many works in the computer science community focus on the analysis of individual or dyadic interactions, we believe that the study of groups adds an additional layer of complexity with respect to how humans...
conference paper 2020
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Gaspardo, Alessio (author)
The discussion involving BRT and LRT is well alive among policymakers, who often rely on personal preferences or, as it is called in literature, on “blind commitment” towards one system or the other for their decision-making. The reason for choosing a system according to personal taste is also caused by the unknown preferences that public...
master thesis 2019
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Louwers, Gijs (author)
This thesis provides the reader with the necessary theoretical frameworks to understand the research aimed towards answering the question: which associations do people have with atmospheres influenced by dynamic light textures? This question is then used to provide a framework of guidelines for the designer. A review of lighting design history...
master thesis 2019
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Manolios, S. (author), Hanjalic, A. (author), Liem, C.C.S. (author)
The feld of recommender systems has a lot to gain from the feld of psychology. Indeed, many psychology researchers have investigated relations between models that describe humans and consumption preferences. One example of this is personality, which has been shown to be a valid construct to describe people. As a consequence, personality-based...
conference paper 2019
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Tegelberg, Tess (author)
There are more diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder and the world is more and more demanding of our directed attention. This can lead to Directed Attention Fatigue which leads to heightened arousal. Per the Yerkes-Dodson Law, heightened arousal lowers performance in simple and especially in complex tasks. People who are diagnosed with autism...
student report 2019
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The International Symposium on Aviation Psychology is convened for the purposes of: presenting the latest research on human performance problems and opportunities within aviation systems; envisioning design solutions that best utilize human capabilities for creating safe and efficient aviation systems; and bringing together scientists, research...
conference 2019
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Kurpershoek, Thijs (author)
Visitors who return from a festival experience an empty feeling combined with fatigue. In this thesis, this experience is called the void. An established psychological phenomenon called the Peak-End rule describes how events are judged by both their peaks, be they positive or negative, and their ends. The end of festivals is now often perceived...
master thesis 2019
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van Ardenne, Maurits (author)
We have entered a new époque, transforming our societies from the mechanical to the digital. This unlocks a lot of new opportunities and abilities, but also results into big societal and behavioural changes, which need to be addressed in our built environment. Architecture seems to have disappeared on the background, while technological...
master thesis 2019
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Jansen, S.J.T. (author)
In the Netherlands, the extraction of natural gas from the ground has led to soil subsidence and the occurrence of earthquakes. These earthquakes cause physical damage to buildings and give rise to psychological distress. Research on the impact of natural hazards, such as earthquakes, has shown that there is a complicated relationship between...
journal article 2019
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de Vries, G. (author), Rietkerk, M. (author), Kooger, R. (author)
In order to reach climate goals, policymakers stimulate homeowners to invest in sustainable measures in and around their house. Unfortunately, however, the number of green home measures lacks behind. This article introduces perceived hassle as an important reason for this shortfall. It is claimed that homeowners perceive hassle during different...
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Booth, Adam T. (author), Buizer, Annemieke I. (author), Harlaar, J. (author), Steenbrink, Frans (author), van der Krogt, Marjolein M. (author)
Objective: To investigate the immediate response to avatar-based biofeedback on 3 clinically important gait parameters: step length, knee extension, and ankle power in children with cerebral palsy (CP). Design: Repeated measures design. Setting: Rehabilitation clinic. Participants: Children with spastic paresis (N=22; 10.5±3.1y), able to walk...
journal article 2019
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Kwon, M. (author), Remøy, H.T. (author)
Purpose: Employees’ satisfaction and productivity is one of the main interests of employers. Psychological comfort can cause dissatisfaction with their work. Thus, it is important to understand what factors contribute to employees’ satisfaction in workplaces. The purpose of this paper is to identify the weight of contribution of each design...
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Alaka, Shaad (author), Cunha, Max Lopes (author), Vermeer, Jop (author), Ziliotto Salamon, N. (author), Balint, J.T. (author), Bidarra, Rafael (author)
Working in teams is a common approach to solving problems. However, new teams often suffer from a form of cold start, by which individual members are not yet comfortable expressing their ideas. Previous work has shown that ideation can be stimulated by promoting a sense of psychological safety among team members and instilling an ambiance of...
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Ortiz Nicolas, Juan Carlos (author), Schoormans, J.P.L. (author)
A study to understand the experience of autonomy with durable products was undertaken based on qualitative research. The study involved thirteen participants, who selected a durable product that enhanced autonomy. Using in-depth interviews, the map of experience and interaction properties the experience was studied. Our findings indicate that...
journal article 2019
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