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  • Eeeuuuw!! A spider!

    When you receive psychological treatment, for instance for an anxiety disorder or depression, what actually happens in your brain?

    Arachnophobia research
  • A gift voucher for employees who quit smoking

    UM is the first organisation in the Netherlands to investigate whether a financial reward will motivate smokers to quit. The researchers wanted to investigate the positive effects of rewarding employees with a gift voucher if they successfully quit smoking.

    quit smoking
  • Go for action research

    Shyama V. Ramani, Professor of Development Economics at UNU-MERIT, has been working on the issue of sanitation since the tsunami of December 2004.

    Shyama V. Ramani