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Why do politicians argue so much?
NOS Youth News podcast In a recent episode of the NOS Youth News podcast, hosts Annabelle Zandbergen and Pien Leerink spoke with sociologist Tom Nijs about ...
Bridging Research and Reality: Identity Denial Explained on NPO’s Hoedan
In the NPO series Hoedan, Rui (24), adopted from China, talks about the feeling that her Chinese appearance doesn’t match who she feels she is on the ...
Paper on the Role of Outgroup Friendships on Attitudes Towards Secondary Outgroups
This study, co-written by Tobias Stark and published by the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, examined whether adolescents’ friendships ...
Paper on VINA: A new interface to collect social network data
Discover our paper published by Social Networks on VINA: A new engaging and ethical interface to collect social network data: Tom Nijs, Tobias H. Stark, ...
Research visit of Lexin Chen
Lexin is visiting Nynke Niersink at Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America. Together, they work on a paper comparing the predictive power of ...
Paper published on the role of dual identifiers in friendship formation.
Lexin Chen’s 1st paper of her dissertation was published in the Journal of Research on Adolescence. She shows that dual identifiers typically do not ...
Working paper introducing VINA
A working paper introducing our new software VINA has been made available at SSRN and can be cited as: Nijs, T.; Stark, T.H.; and Boda, Z. (February 10, ...
Research visit of Angelos Dimosiaris
Angelos is visiting Verónica Benet-Martínez at University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. Together, they work on a paper assessing the effects of actual and ...
Research visit of Anniek Schlette
Anniek Schlette visited Zsofia Boda at the University of Essex, United Kingdom, from October to December 2025. Together, they worked on a new research ...
Research presented at Manchester University
Tobias Stark presented the latest insights from the DUALNETS project, our software VINA, and novel multilayer ERGMs to model cognitive social structures at ...
