In de middeleeuwen was geweld op de zeeën rondom Europa endemisch. Piraterij was de norm. Scheepvaart en geweld gingen hand in hand. In de Lage Landen was het niet anders. Vanaf de vorming van de kustgraafschappen tot aan de Nederlandse Opstand waren handel, zeeroof en maritieme oorlogvoering onlosmakelijk …

How do (temporary) societies actually arise, bottom-up (co-creation), or top-down (organized by an elite)? In this article, both the book The Dawn of Everything (Graeber and Wengrow, 2021) and the Netflix documentary Trainwreck: Woodstock '99 are presented to answer this queston: both forms of emerging/organizing …

Purpose (1) To investigate the differences in the course of participation up to one year after stroke between distinct movement behavior patterns identified directly after discharge to the home setting, and (2) to investigate the longitudinal association between the development of movement behavior patterns …

The 8 billionth citizen of the world will probably be born within a few months. Never before have we been on the planet with so many people at once. Of the 110 billion people who have lived since the dawn of humanity, 8/110 = 7.3% are present at the same time. Yet we are short of hands to do all the …

Ausma Advocaten krijgt vaak te maken met cliënten aan wie medeplegen ten laste wordt gelegd. Het begrip medeplegen is wel opgenomen in de wet, namelijk in artikel 47 van het Wetboek van Strafrecht, maar is hierin niet nader toegelicht. De wetgever heeft de uitleg van het begrip medeplegen overgelaten …

Seksueel grensoverschrijdend gedrag ligt de laatste tijd onder een vergrootglas. In 2017 heeft maar liefst 44 procent van de meisjes en zeventien procent van de jongens seksuele handelingen tegen de wil ervaren (de Graaf et al., 2017). Scholen kunnen een belangrijke aanvulling zijn op de opvoeding van …

In this series on psychological foundations from an applied psychological perspective, we focus this time on shame, guilt and sin. Shame, guilt and sin share that all three are strong motivators for behavioural change. However, we can respond to them in very different ways. In this article it is argued …

Original sin is only a poor stimulator of behaviour change. It's easy to understand that it seems rather unfair to blame a new-born for the major problems that humanity faces after several centuries of technological progress. That also applies to all those natural peoples, who lived in harmony with their …

Historian Yuval Harari writes in his 21 Lessons for the 21st Century that due to increasing automation and robotization, large groups of people will probably become completely redundant in the labour market in the near future. He proposes a basic income as a solution. In this article it is argued that …

It is much easier to run our projects right (project management) than to do the right things, or ask the right questions (leadership). also for me and my research group. We proudly report that cobots are gaining ground and that this is understandable given the major staff shortages and the need for companies …