Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (RU) • Psychologie

Comprehensive week-by-week lecture notes covering core organisational psychology topics: approaches to organisation and management, leadership and power, groups and teams, motivation and job design, organisational structure, communication and culture, learning and change. Aligned with seminars and exam preparation for SOW-PSB3BE50E; includes summaries of key theories, models, and practical case material (BRP case study) useful for revision and assignments.

Covers cultural differences and Hofstede’s dimensions: individualism vs collectivism, power distance, masculinity vs femininity, and uncertainty avoidance, plus Dutch case examples and religious (Islam) differences with youth data. Concise lecture notes for week 2 of a multicultural intergroup relations module with slides-style figures and country comparisons, useful for exam revision and seminar preparation.

Comprehensive compiled lecture summaries and literature notes for a university module on neurophysiology, covering attention, thalamic gating (RTN), corollary discharge and visual stability, semantic processing and the N400, parietal–frontal decision/planning circuits, optic ataxia, schemas and memory consolidation, and related empirical studies. Designed as a compact study guide and exam revision resource that links core papers, experimental paradigms, key results and neurophysiological mecha...

Reading pack and lecture materials covering core social influence topics and empirical articles (reciprocity, commitment and consistency, social proof, liking and scarcity, authority, priming, organizational influence). Includes summaries, experiment methods, results and practical implications — designed for seminar preparation, literature review and exam revision.

Comprehensive summary and annotated bibliography of key social influence papers (reciprocity, commitment/consistency, social proof, liking, scarcity, authority, priming, organizational influence). Includes abstracts, experimental methods, results and practical implications across 12+ articles useful for seminar reading, literature reviews, or exam preparation.

Week 5 lecture notes covering aversive biases and how subtle and explicit prejudice operate in intergroup contexts, including measurement (IAT, amygdala, startle), behavioral consequences, aversive racism, and implicit-explicit dissociation. Includes empirical examples (bystander effects, hiring field experiments), patient experiences with clinician bias, and practical implications for prejudice reduction and contact interventions.

Week 6 lecture notes for "Intergroup Relations from a Multicultural Perspective" covering blatant prejudice: perceived threat (realistic vs symbolic), predictors of negative intergroup attitudes, media and symbolic threat, terror management theory, Islamophobia and the Stereotype Content Model, and dynamics of ethnic conflict. Structured for exam revision and applied research, with empirical findings and path/interaction models.

Week 7 lecture notes covering theories and evidence on intergroup inequality: social dominance theory, social dominance orientation (SDO), legitimacy of status differences, mechanisms that maintain group hierarchies, system justification theory, and motivating factors for system support. Includes empirical findings, scale items, examples of implicit system support, and implications for improving intergroup relations and prejudice reduction—useful for exam revision and research summaries.

Week 8 lecture notes covering theories and empirical findings on radicalization: profiles of extremists, ladder model, quest for personal significance, identity model (cultural, social, personal), and integration of radicalization models. Includes statistics on IS foreign fighters, structural models, and prevention-relevant social-psychological mechanisms useful for exam revision and research summaries.

These lecture notes cover Week 9 of "Intergroup Relations from a Multicultural Perspective," focusing on evidence-based ways to improve intergroup relations: the contact hypothesis, responsible processes, the Common Ingroup Identity Model, majority/minority differences, social identity threat, motivations for social change, illegitimizing inequalities, and the irony of harmony. Notes include experimental findings, mediating mechanisms, practical prerequisites for contact interventions, and...