The art of presenting Oral presentations inform our peers of our scientific progress. More importantly, they show others who we are - as potential collaborators, as grant applicants, or as potential future colleagues. We need to take our presentations seriously. Esther van Leeuwen and Fieke Harinck • May 04, 2022
About rioters, mayors, judges, politicians, and our human brain The introduction of the corona curfew on January 23, 2021 resulted in riots and chaos in a number of Dutch cities: shops were looted; people threw stones at the police; streets looked like war zones. Fieke Harinck • March 05, 2021
Ducky Genovese (or how to make a duck a bystander) Last night I experienced that ducks can be bystanders that help interpret a potential emergency. Fieke Harinck • July 06, 2017
Need help? Keep your compliments to yourself! The idea is simple: the more compliments you give, the more you receive in return. My research shows that it might not be that simple. We showed that people who give compliments receive more liking, but less help. Fieke Harinck • November 17, 2014
Leave your laptop at home! In this digital age of iPad schools, Facebook communities and trending topics, students more and more use their laptops to take notes during lectures. Recent research has shown that this has a bad influence on their knowledge acquisition. Fieke Harinck • April 16, 2014
Compassion and when to feel it People can feel compassion when they see somebody in physical or psychological pain. Not every observed suffering, however, leads to feelings of compassion. What exactly is compassion, and can we predict under which circumstances we experience it? Fieke Harinck • November 04, 2013
About polite Moroccans and rude Dutch You may think that honor and aggression are closely linked. In this contribution I will paint a more nuanced picture, and show that honor is also linked to politeness and constructive conflict management. Fieke Harinck • April 08, 2013
