Because it globalises (or rather, colonises), smart technology unifies. While cultural diversity is under pressure, we are approaching the world worldwide through the same streaming services and social media apps. Virtually all human cultures have been colonised by both the global language English and …

What Big Tech companies are praised, psychologists/psychiatrists would end up in jail for. If they don 't want to end up behind bars, politicians must also have a very good story if they carry out an operation in which thousands of people lose their jobs, with all the social and psychological consequences …

Het betreft een op wetenschappelijke basis gefundeerde opinie op de samenwerking tussen huisarts en verpleegkundig specialist buiten kantooruren.

Usually the whole is the sum of its parts (added linearly): someone is happy and travelling, so happy travelling. Someone walks across a motionless and stable bridge and thus moves forward. But when hundreds of people walk together, the bridge may start to wobble quite suddenly. Both systems - the pedestrian …

Part 2 of 4 columns on Dynamic Systems Theory. Like biological systems, psychological systems also arise from the coupling of many cyclic (oscillating) processes. For instance, over our lifespan, our bodies change and go through several attractor states. Healthy lifestyle is important, but should not …

The article argues that a dynamic systems theory approach can be helpful in understanding intrapersonal psychological behaviour changes. In terms of control and coordination, different movement systems - walk, trot, canter - are incomparable. This is also the case with psychological phase transitions. …

Many technological innovations – the internet, social media, challenges via TikTok, etc. – influence development at least as radically as 'invented ' interventions, such as behavioural therapy or EMDR. In contrast to therapeutic interventions, however, this is often not or hardly thought about and …

The final of a four-part series that explores Dynamic Systems Theory (DST). DST has taught us that phase transitions are based on self-organization and that they are not predictable a priori. They can be described, but not explained. This is well established in physics, but not at all in the social sciences …

Waarom is wonen, vooral voor starters, zo duur geworden? Met deze simpele en belangrijke vraag neemt econoom en journalist Hans de Geus de lezers mee via een negental vlot geschreven hoofdstukken in dit populair geschreven boek waarin analyse en opinie verweven wordt.

As a result of “disruptive” technology, labour changes and we easily lose sight of the deep interweaving of work, career and self-development. Little or no consideration is given to the psychological consequences of job loss, attribution style reversal and its consequences for an individual or his family. …