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Research Projects

Main projects

A functional approach to counterfactual thoughts

Conversational Flow: The Emergence and Regulation of Solidarity through Social Interaction

Cultural change driven by modernization

Decision making processes in purchasing a dog

Draagvlak en onvrede migratiestromen

Education-based groups

Effects of Everyday Communication on Cultural Dynamics

Efficient demand and supply matching by incentivizing end-users in buildings - MatchIT

Inaction versus action in response to collective disadvantage

Negative side-effects of information on treatment success regarding heart diseases and cancer on people’s health behaviors.

Psychology of Collective Action against Collective Disadvantage

Reconciling individuality with social solidarity: Forming social identity from the bottom up

Relational Essence and Cultural Embeddedness

Social psychological antecedents of homesickness

Social Work in Cross-Cultural Contexts: Does Help seeking and Accepting Depend on World Views?

Sources of justice & cultural worldviews

Temporal categorization and the perception of future time periods

The psycho-social consequences of the Groningen earthquakes

The Social Search for Self

Understanding environmental behaviour

Sub projects

Acceptability and perceived risks and benefits of nuclear energy

Acceptability of a sustianable energy transition

Acceptability of gas in future energy systems

A multi-disciplinary study of pricing policies in transport - MD-PIT

Assess implementations in the frame of the Cities-of-Tomorrow Programme

Barriers for energy changes among end consumers and households - BARENERGY

BeijIng Groningen Smart energy cities (BIGS)

Counterfactuals and their role for the well-being of HIV+ individuals

Creating Innovative Sustainability Pathways - CRISP

Developing socially responsible innovations: The role of values and moral emotions

Electric vehicles: early stage adoption processes

Evaluation of energy-efficient street lighting

Governance, Infrastructure, Lifestyle Dynamics and Energy Demand: European post-carbon communities - GILDED

Incentives and algorithms for efficient, reliable and socially acceptable energy system integration (ERSAS)

Individual and contextual factors influencing recycling

Innovative Pricing for Sustainable Mobility - i-PriSM

Low carbon at work

MApping the contextual Conditions of REsilient Decentralized Energy Systems - MACREDES

Pay as you drive

PENNY Psychological, social and financial barriers to energy efficiency

Psychological aspects of future electricity supplly

Public support for gas production in the province of Groningen, The Netherlands

Reducing household energy use via tailoring

Signalling and social identity

Smart grid - profitable for all

Social impact evaluations of interventions in low income countries

Sustainable packages

Symbolic and affective motives for car use

The development of empowerment through access to microfinance services

The downside of compassion

The feasibility and impact of the transition to electric mobility in the Randstad

The path of most resistance: How groups cope with implicit social identity threat (Jolien van Breen)

The strategic use of emotions in intergroup contexts

Urban Smart Measures and Incentives for quality of Life Enhancement (U-SMILE)

URSES+ Electric vehicle as gateway to smart and sustainable energy use

URSES - Realizing the smart grid: aligning consumer behaviour with technological opportunities

User behaviour and mobility patterns in the context of major societal trends

USmile Urban Smart Measures and Incentives for quality of Life Enhancement 3.

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