• Figuring out what they feel : Exposure to eudaimonic narrative fiction is related to mentalizing ability 

      De Mulder, Hanna N.M.; Hakemulder, Frank; Klaassen, Fayette; Junge, Catroline M. M.; Hoijtink, Herbert; van Berkum, Jos J.A. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Being exposed to narrative fiction may provide us with practice in dealing with social interactions and thereby enhance our ability to engage in mentalizing (understanding other people’s mental states). The current study ...
    • The Hungarian hubris syndrome 

      Magyari, Lilla; Pleh, Csaba; Forgács, Bálint (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-08)
      Powerful figures, such as politicians, who show a behavioural pattern of exuberant self-confidence, recklessness, and contempt for others may be the subject of the acquired personality disorder, the hubris syndrome, which ...
    • Learning Handwriting: Factors Affecting Pen-Movement Fluency in Beginning Writers 

      Fitjar, Camilla Lausund; Rønneberg, Vibeke; Nottbusch, Guido; Torrance, Mark (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05)
      Skilled handwriting of single letters is associated not only with a neat final product but also with fluent pen-movement, characterized by a smooth pen-tip velocity profile. Our study explored fluency when writing single ...
    • Paths to Transformation Across Contemporary Reading Practices: The Role of Motivations and Genre Preferences 

      Loi, Cristina; Kuijpers, Moniek; Ensslin, Astrid Christina; Lauer, Gerhard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Transformative effects of reading, in terms of shifts in self-understanding and enhanced social cognition, have been the topic of a variety of theoretical and empirical studies recently (cf. Fialho, 2019; Kuiken & Sopčák, ...