Research Findings: The parental role in supporting young children’s oral language development at home is crucial for children’s language and literacy development. However, there is limited expertise in how teachers can support lower-educated parents effectively to enhance their interactions with their …

Empathy competence is considered a key aspect of excellent performance in communication professions. But we lack an overview of the specific knowledge, attitudes, and skills required to develop such competence in professional communication. Through interviews with 35 seasoned communication professionals, …

Publicatie in het internationale peer reviewed tijdschrift American Politics Research (SSCI Ranking Political Science, 2019, 84/181, Journal Impact Factor 1.442). Citizen exposure to political incivility is increasing. Studies have found heterogeneous responses to incivility, but we know little about …

Most FLP research focuses on intrafamily communication (1FLP) and how this is impacted by larger contexts. But what happens when different multilingual families interact intensively on a daily basis? This article analyses language use during a holiday in India in and between four deaf-hearing befriended …

This goal of this paper was to find out: How could an avatar using inverse kinematics in first person perspective in Virtual Reality influence core gameplay? The definition of immersion and possible inverse kinematics solutions have been researched to test ways to improve gesture-based and other types …

This study analyses how the social construction of integrity takes place within the context of football in the Netherlands. Combining a contex tual approach to sports integrity with the analytic lens of sensemaking, this qualitative multi-method case study analyses – in one extreme case in Dutch youth …

We welcome the comment by Heymann & Fuzessy to our recent paper onpalm fruit colours and primate colour vision. Heymann & Fuzessy question whether palms (Arecaceae) are a good model system to understand thediversification of (trichromatic) primates. We used a macroecological and macro-evolutionary comparative …

Question: What are the views of patients, close relatives and healthcare professionals on physical activity behaviour in hospital care? Methods: A meta-ethnographic synthesis of qualitative studies was conducted with a lines-of-argument analysis. The methodological quality of included studies was evaluated …

Een belangrijk deel van onze interesse in de wereld om ons heen is gericht op dieren. Niet alleen voor de voedselproductie of het transport, maar ook vanwege onze empathie voor hen en onze fascinatie voor wat ze voor ons in veel andere rollen(kunnen) betekenen. Paarden, honden, katten en andere gezelschapsdieren …