Can people be motivated to experience an emotion solely due to the belief that this emotion reinforces their ideology? This study investigated whether people would be motivated to experience...Show moreCan people be motivated to experience an emotion solely due to the belief that this emotion reinforces their ideology? This study investigated whether people would be motivated to experience ideology-congruent and -incongruent emotions, if they believed these would reinforce their (left or right) ideology. A repeated-measures design showed that across ideologies, people were more motivated to experience fear when they believed it was ideology-reinforcing than when they had no such belief. Contrary to the hypothesis, for hope, the data suggested motivation to be high regardless of people’s beliefs about its usefulness for their ideology. This study also investigated potential differences between leftists and rightists in their motivation to experience ideology congruent and incongruent emotions. Whilst the data suggested rightists to be generally more motivated to experience both hope and fear, these results had to be disregarded, due to a great gender and age difference between the samples of the leftist and rightist supporters, which influenced the results. The significance and implications of the current findings are discussed.Show less
A microhistorical approach to the history of New Netherland, which dives into the lives of several families and individuals that lived in the colony of New Netherland to, one, determine what their...Show moreA microhistorical approach to the history of New Netherland, which dives into the lives of several families and individuals that lived in the colony of New Netherland to, one, determine what their influence was on the development of the colony, and two, to show that a microhistory of New Netherland can shed new light on the existing historiography.Show less
Child marriage is connected to several socio-economical and sociocultural factors. Many people make the misunderstanding to link the practice to religion or a specific country/area or claim that ...Show moreChild marriage is connected to several socio-economical and sociocultural factors. Many people make the misunderstanding to link the practice to religion or a specific country/area or claim that "only poor people marry their daughters off at an early age". To what extent are girls protected by their countries laws, and are the underlying causes the same in the three countries or are there significant differences?Show less
Even though it is well-known that certain antipsychotic medication such as olanzapine and clozapine can cause weight gain, metabolic disturbances, and other physical and mental complications in...Show moreEven though it is well-known that certain antipsychotic medication such as olanzapine and clozapine can cause weight gain, metabolic disturbances, and other physical and mental complications in people with a psychotic disorder, the relationship between antipsychotic medication and exercise remains not clear. The main goal of this study is to investigate whether there is an association between using a certain type of antipsychotic medication and the amount of exercising in people with a psychotic disorder. First, this study examines whether people with a psychotic disorder that use atypical antipsychotic medication exercise less compared to those that use typical antipsychotic medication. Second, whether people with a psychotic disorder that use clozapine and olanzapine exercise less compared to those that use another type of antipsychotic medication. The data used originates from a longitudinal cohort study named GROUP, a total of 523 people with a psychotic disorder who participated are used in this study. From these 523 participants, a number of 69 used typical antipsychotic medication and 454 participants used atypical antipsychotic medication. In addition, a total of 241 participants from these 523 participants used clozapine or olanzapine, and 282 participants used other antipsychotics. Further, t-tests are used in the analysis to answer the research questions. The results show there is no significant difference in both groups with regards to the two hypotheses. This implies there is no association between using a certain type of antipsychotic medication and the amount of exercising in people with a psychotic disorder.Show less
