Research projects
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Stepwise Risk- Guiding in Prevention of Prostate Cancer (P-GUIDE)
P-GUIDE is a multidisciplinairy collaboration and aims to improve secondary prevention of PCa and individual decision making in all steps of the diagnostic pathway.
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Autonomy, persuasion, and manipulation in the digital sphere
Emerging information technologies like large language models and opaque recommendation systems pose challenges to public values. In this theme, researchers from various fields study the current online information ecosystem.
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RAPIDE: Regular and Unplanned Care Adaptive Dashboard for Cross-Border Emergencies
In this project, researchers will develop and test scenarios and care models to organise regular care more flexibly and resiliently during a health crisis.
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Word meaning without the sense of smell
This project will directly assess the critical role of olfaction in word meaning by exploring smell- and taste-related language in individuals without a sense of smell (i.e., anosmics) and comparing them to controls with an intact sense of smell.
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Understanding aphantasia
Although research into aphantasia is growing, a lot remains unknown about this condition. This project explores language in minds without imagery.
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Effects of emoji in webcare
This project investigates the use of different kinds of emoji together with different aspects of 'Conversational Human Voice' (CHV) in webcare, and explores language style accommodation with emoji in webcare in terms of usage and effects.
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Reading the Mind
This project investigates the involvement of social-cognitive processes, such as empathy and theory of mind, during story reading.
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SENTENCES
In this project, we examine how news media content and social media discussions influence public perceptions of the benefits and harms of cancer screening.
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Beyond a fear of death
This project examines if humans use tragic entertainment to temporarily escape their fear of death or to accept and rise above it.