Erasmus University Rotterdam

Moving images, moved audiences? A focus group study into audience interpretations of distant suffering in The Impossible (2012)

While distant suffering has been thoroughly explored in factual media such as news and documentaries, this article examines Western audiences’ interpretations of distant suffering and non-Western ‘Others’ in the format of fiction films. Through five focus groups ( N = 22) in Flan...

PROXIMAL ESTIMATION AND INFERENCE

Abstract We develop a convex-analytic framework for constructing and analyzing a broad class of penalized estimators. Our method defines penalized estimators by applying proximal operators to benchmark estimators, rather than by penalizing the benchmark criterion itself. We estab...

Molecular mechanisms underlying the effectiveness of triiodothyroacetic acid (Triac) in patients with resistance to thyroid hormone β (RTHβ): a multicentre, international, retrospective cohort study

Background Disease features in resistance to thyroid hormone beta (RTHβ), caused by THRB mutations, arise from insensitivity to thyroid hormone in tissues expressing thyroid hormone receptor (TR)β and from lifelong thyrotoxic effects in TRα1-expressing tissues, posing substantial...

Association of sulfur microbial diet with lung cancer incidence and lung cancer-related mortality in 95,612 American adults: a prospective cohort study from the PLCO trial

The sulfur microbial diet (SMD) score is a microbiome-related dietary proxy derived from food groups associated with sulfur-metabolizing bacteria. Whether it is associated with lung cancer remains unclear. We analyzed 95,612 participants from the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and O...

With whom you elaborate matters: how learning orientation impacts cross-culture and same-culture information elaboration in culturally diverse teams

Abstract Work teams are increasingly characterized by diverse cultural backgrounds. Although research has established that cultural diversity holds the potential to enhance team performance through information elaboration—the exchange, discussion, and integration of task-relevant...

“So, yeah, that’s a blind spot”: Exploring gender awareness in cultural entrepreneurship education at art and design higher education institutions in the Netherlands

This study investigates how educators understand and address gender within cultural entrepreneurship education (CEE) in art and design higher education in the Netherlands. CEE has become central to preparing students for increasingly precarious cultural labour markets and, in Eur...

Does EQ-5D measure the most relevant aspects of health across cultures? Findings from a multi-country qualitative and card-sorting study

The EQ-5D is a widely used measure of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in health services and economic evaluations globally. However, its cross-cultural content validity remains underexplored. This study assesses the relevance and adequacy of EQ-5D across diverse cultural c...

When AI meets DEI: Employee AI-beliefs and their implications for workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion

As artificial intelligence (AI) reshapes the workplace, its impact on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has been examined primarily through the lens of what AI actually does (i.e., system design, outputs). This review shifts the focus to humans' subjective beliefs about AI,...

Mechanisms of circularity: How epistemic, financial and material flows construct new waste geographies

Circular Economy (CE) initiatives originate predominantly in the Global North, yet their material, epistemic, and financial effects increasingly manifest in Global South contexts. Using Dutch–Kenya waste relations as a critical case study, this article examines how CE interventio...

The Imperative of De‐Marginalisation

ABSTRACT On what basis, if any, can we legitimately justify spatial integrationist policies? Through a relational egalitarian lens, this article disentangles two phenomena that the wrong of residential segregation typically conflates: minimal segregation (mere clustering) and mar...

Psychometric Properties of the Parental Lying Scenarios Scale (PLSS): Test–Retest Reliability, Validity, and Factor Structure

ABSTRACT Most parents lie to their children. Parental lying has been linked to parent–child relationship quality and children's social and moral development, underscoring the importance of accurately measuring this behavior. Existing instruments primarily assess prevalence, focus...

The Role of Critical Reflection, Social Media Support, and Feedback on the Evaluation of True and False News Items

Learning to evaluate information in digital contexts relies not only on critical thinking but also on how children acquire and apply knowledge when evaluating news content. In an era in which children increasingly rely on social media as a primary source of information, understan...

Alcohol-Related Emergency Department Visits of Young Adults in a University City in the Netherlands

Objectives This study aimed to examine the incidence and characteristics of alcohol-related emergency department (ED) visits in young adults compared with older age groups. Methods A retrospective electronic health record study of patients aged ≥18 years with an alcohol-related E...

Sustainability Crafting: How Employees Translate Sustainability Intentions Into Green Behaviors

ABSTRACT Despite growing organizational emphasis on sustainability, employees often fail to translate their sustainability intentions into workplace behaviors, resulting in a persistent intention–behavior gap. Drawing on the theory of planned behavior and the job crafting literat...

Umbilical cord red blood cell transfusions in very premature neonates: A physiologically aligned transfusion strategy

The authors have disclosed no conflicts of interest. Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study.

Personalized regulatory guidance during online cloze tasks: Performance, emotions, and exploratory self-efficacy differences

This study examined whether personalized regulatory guidance supports students' performance, emotions, motivation, and strategy use during online cloze tasks, and whether problem-solving self-efficacy is associated with variability in students' responses to such guidance. Forty-e...

The fast and the studious? Ramadan observance and student performance

Abstract We examine how religious observance affects educational performance by studying the years in which Ramadan overlapped with the national end-of-secondary-school exams in the Netherlands. Using administrative microdata and a difference-in-differences design, we find that s...

Greening cities to ensure biosphere functional integrity: Insights from Rotterdam and Lagos

The Earth Commission has proposed that 20-25% of every square kilometre of managed lands, including in cities, be reserved for nature to ensure its local functioning and human wellbeing -biosphere functional integrity boundary (BFI). This research adopted a multi-method justice-o...

Performance-based assessments in higher education: How ethnic background impacts stakeholders’ fairness perceptions of structured versus unstructured assessment methods

Performance-based assessments (PBAs), like literature reviews, evaluate students’ professional skills (e.g., analytical thinking). However, unclear evaluation criteria in PBAs lead to grading inconsistencies and biased outcomes. This diminishes perceptions of fairness among stake...

The circular economy, explained by AI

Abstract Research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the circular economy (CE) has largely examined how AI can improve circular operations. Much less attention has been paid to AI tools widely used to understand and reason about the CE, particularly large language models (LLMs)...