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Here, Radboud University presents theses written by students affiliated with various bachelor’s and master’s programmes at the university, as well as papers from students of the Radboud Honours Academy and publications in the Radboud journal Ex Tempore.

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    Ecocritical and metamodern associations in the Argentinian novel Tender is the Flesh, by Augustina Bazterrica (2017).
    (2025-03-25) Mulder, S.W.
    Deze scriptie onderzoekt de connectie tussen klimaatfictie en literair metamodernisme door middel van een gecombineerde benadering van close reading en discoursanalyse van een hedendaags Argentijns dystopisch fictiewerk, Cadáver Exquisito (vertaald naar het Engels als Tender is the Flesh) van Augustina Bazterrica (2017). De theoretische kaders die in deze scriptie worden toegepast zijn ecocriticism en metamodernisme. Dit onderzoek wordt geleid door de volgende vraag: hoe toont de roman Tender is the Flesh de relatie tussen klimaatfictie en metamodernisme in hun gedeelde betrokkenheid bij het heden? Deze scriptie betoogt dat Tender is the Flesh, hoewel kritisch over de manier waarop de mensheid met het milieu omgaat, vooral kan worden gelezen als een klassieke dystopische shock novel.
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    “What Was Once Science Fiction is Now Social Media”: The narrative power of social media in dystopian science fiction novels and the intervention these science fiction narratives place on our everyday life and social media use.
    (2024-03-01) Gijzen, V.
    In this thesis, I am analysing six science fiction novels whose plot is centered around growing social media and social media usage on their narrative power, specifically related to the social media, and how through this narrative power the utopian and dystopian effects of the science fiction novels are represented in the novels. In close reading the novels, I have found that the narrative power is able to represent not only through the power given to the users on the platform, but also in the power held over the users by the tech CEOs. In putting this next to the ideas of dystopias and utopias, the narrative power through social media is comparable to the power characters are given or taken away in utopias and dystopias. Through this analysis, clear parallels can be drawn between the utopias and dystopias within the novels and the everchanging world around us in which social media has taken on a central role in society.
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    Stimuleren van Naar het Werk Fietsen Onder Werknemers
    (2021-06-30) Sieben, Fabiënne
    Ondanks dat fietsen naar het werk veel voordelen kent, kiezen veel werknemers er toch nog voor om met een ander vervoermiddel naar hun werk te reizen. In dit onderzoek werd onderzocht hoe men werknemers kan stimuleren om naar hun werk te fietsen. Er werd een interventie getest waarin zelfovertuiging werd gebruikt om de attitude dat fietsen naar het werk leuk is, te beïnvloeden. In de interventieconditie moest men twee argumenten opgeven voor waarom fietsen naar het werk leuk is. Het genereren van argumenten werd gefaciliteerd door een afbeelding die positieve associaties opwekte met naar het werk fietsen. In de controleconditie vond directe overtuiging plaats, waarbij twee argumenten werden gegeven. De interventie werd getest met een repeated-measures MANOVA met intentie en intrinsieke motivatie als afhankelijke variabelen, conditie als tussen-proefpersonenfactor en tijd als binnen-proefpersonenfactor. Er hebben 176 werknemers meegedaan, waarvan 101 voldeden aan de maximale woon-werkafstand van vijftien kilometer. Er werd verwacht dat de intentie en intrinsieke motivatie om naar het werk te fietsen sterker zouden toenemen tussen de voor- en nameting bij de interventiegroep (50 deelnemers) dan bij de controlegroep (51 deelnemers). Er is echter geen significant interactie-effect gevonden van tijd en conditie op intentie en intrinsieke motivatie. De interventie heeft dus niet geleid tot een toename van de intentie en/of intrinsieke motivatie om naar het werk te fietsen. Uit een regressieanalyse bleek wel dat intrinsieke motivatie een significante, sterke predictor was van intentie op de voormeting. Deze bevinding geeft aanleiding tot vervolgonderzoek naar effectieve manieren om intrinsieke motivatie te faciliteren. Sleutelwoorden: fietsstimulering, forenzen, intrinsieke motivatie, zelfovertuiging
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    Boosting Health: Using Personal and Social Determinants to Increase Adolescents’ Fruit and Vegetable Consumption
    (2021-07-31) Benesch, Rabea
    Poor nutrition during adolescence is an important public health issue in Germany. This behavioural change project aimed to increase German adolescents’ fruit and vegetable consumption through a boosting intervention designed to increase nutrition-related competencies. In the first study, a theoretical model including health beliefs, social support, descriptive norms and intention as predictors of fruit and vegetable consumption was tested. One-hundred-and-nine pupils were included in the final sample. The model was mostly confirmed and a revised version was used as the basis for the intervention. In the second study, an online-conference-based intervention incorporating educating elements about health beliefs and behavioural change techniques was used to boost adolescents’ nutrition-related competencies. Participants who used the provided intervention-techniques more frequently over two weeks were found to have a higher intention and actual fruit and vegetable intake compared to those who didn’t. However overall, participants in the intervention group (N = 25) did not show significantly increased fruit and vegetable consumption and intention after the intervention. Differences in comparison to the control group (N = 23) were also non-significant. While these findings do not yet translate into nutrition-related change, this project does provide concrete starting points to further investigate the merit of boosting interventions to encourage sufficient fruit and vegetable consumption among adolescents. Key words: behaviour change, fruit and vegetables, health beliefs, social factors, boosting
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    Encouraging cookie defensive behavior by raising privacy concerns and increasing competencies to decline cookies
    (2021-07-02) Scheicht, Terell
    Protecting private information on the internet can be quite a challenge. One example is cookie consent forms in which people often accept all cookies without having the intention to do so. Therefore, determinants of cookie defensive behavior (i.e., behavior to protect privacy via cookie settings; Study 1) and how people can be best encouraged to display cookie defensive behavior (Study 2) were examined. In Study 1 a questionnaire was administered among 65 participants. This questionnaire contained several variables that were expected to predict whether people display cookie defensive behavior. As expected, results show that privacy concerns predict cookie defensive behavior. Unexpectedly, the interaction between knowledge about cookies and privacy concerns on cookie defensive behavior was non-significant. Furthermore, and against expectations, privacy concerns did not correlate significantly with knowledge about cookie. The results contributed to the approach of Study 2 by highlighting that privacy concerns is a predictor for cookie defensive behavior. In Study 2 an experiment was conducted to see if cookie defensive behavior can be boosted by encouraging privacy concerns about cookies, giving competencies to decline cookies or both. For this, 28 internet users participated in Study 2. Participants were randomly assigned to one of four groups in which they either received both privacy concerns about cookies and competencies to decline cookies, one of them, or none. They rated three different websites on their appearance whilst accepting or declining cookies before and after the manipulations. Results show no significant main effects of the between-subject factors. Further, a significant main effect of the within-subject factor (cookie consent form placement) was found. This suggests that internet users may not be that reflective when they are confronted with a cookie consent form. From the results of Study 2 no suggestions about the causal relationship of privacy concerns and cookie defensive behavior could be made. Taken both studies together privacy concerns seem to relate to cookie defensive behavior (Study 1) but how is not clear yet (Study 2). Keywords: Cookies, privacy concerns, internet
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