http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl "The extra-ordinary lies within the curve of normality" Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:30:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/the-dutch-paradox/ http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/the-dutch-paradox/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:00:55 +0000 Rense Nieuwenhuis http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/?p=1402 http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/the-dutch-paradox/feed/ 0 http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/finished-thesis-new-job/ http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/finished-thesis-new-job/#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:00:44 +0000 Rense Nieuwenhuis http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/?p=1085 http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/finished-thesis-new-job/feed/ 2 http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/newspaper-interview-rebecca-gomperts/ http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/newspaper-interview-rebecca-gomperts/#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:00:47 +0000 Rense Nieuwenhuis http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/?p=1067 http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/newspaper-interview-rebecca-gomperts/feed/ 0 http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/new-developments-on-abortion-in-the-liberal-netherlands/ http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/new-developments-on-abortion-in-the-liberal-netherlands/#comments Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:00:33 +0000 Rense Nieuwenhuis http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/?p=1079 http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/new-developments-on-abortion-in-the-liberal-netherlands/feed/ 0 http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/unintended-consequences-catholicism-and-abortion-attitudes/ http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/unintended-consequences-catholicism-and-abortion-attitudes/#comments Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:00:48 +0000 Rense Nieuwenhuis http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/?p=883 One of the elegances of sociology is found in the unintended consequences of our actions. In my studies of attitudes towards abortion, I found a nice example of such unintended consequences regarding the Catholic church. But, I doubt that the findings are warranted by the analyses.]]> http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/unintended-consequences-catholicism-and-abortion-attitudes/feed/ 0 http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/bad-science-overestimates-psychologicalconsequences-induced-abortion/ http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/bad-science-overestimates-psychologicalconsequences-induced-abortion/#comments Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:00:11 +0000 Rense Nieuwenhuis http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/?p=865 Can bad science lead us to draw wrong conclusions about the world we live in? "Of course it can", we are inclined to think. And if so, can this have real-life consequences? Investigating these meta-questions is not as easy as it might seem, for it would require an exact manner to distinguish the good from the bad science, and it would require a subject that has been thoroughly investigated in both the 'good' and the 'bad' ways to compare the outcomes. One such subject would be the vast amount of research done on the psychological consequences of undergoing an induced abortion. This heavily researched (and heavily debated!) subject focusses primarily on the questions whether or not a women has a higher chance of suffering from anxiety, feeling of guilt, depression, or (other) mental disorders caused by undergoing an induced abortion. The conclusions drawn in the vast literature on this basic question vary form an abortion having no consequences, to an abortion having a negative impact on the psychological well-being of a woman.]]> http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/bad-science-overestimates-psychologicalconsequences-induced-abortion/feed/ 0 http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/republican-schoolmaster-and-the-narcissism-of-the-minor-differences/ http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/republican-schoolmaster-and-the-narcissism-of-the-minor-differences/#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:00:48 +0000 Rense Nieuwenhuis http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/?p=815 Now that we all know who the new President of the United States will be, people are preparing for a new type of government, with a new and markedly different agenda than the previous one. Most people are very contend with this new agenda, but some will be disappointed. How does this influence the people's opinion, one might ask? Will conflict be the result, or can one expect that in general the new agenda will be accepted and that those who voted McCain will change their opinions to generally accept the new policy? In their classic article, Franklin and Kosaki studied something similar, although they focused on the impact of a Supreme Court ruling regarding induced abortion. Remember though, how Obama and MaCain differed on this issue, with Obama stating to protect the Roe v. Wade Court Ruling, and McCain trying to overthrow it. It is exactly the effect on public opinion of this Roe v. Wade Court Ruling that Franklin and Kosaki studied.]]> http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/republican-schoolmaster-and-the-narcissism-of-the-minor-differences/feed/ 6 http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/graph-abortion-attitudes-in-united-states/ http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/graph-abortion-attitudes-in-united-states/#comments Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:00:35 +0000 Rense Nieuwenhuis http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/?p=741 ]]> http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/graph-abortion-attitudes-in-united-states/feed/ 0 http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/women-on-waves-and-unintended-polarisation/ http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/women-on-waves-and-unintended-polarisation/#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:00:52 +0000 Rense Nieuwenhuis http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/?p=730 http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/women-on-waves-and-unintended-polarisation/feed/ 2 http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/dispatches-from-the-culture-wars/ http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/dispatches-from-the-culture-wars/#comments Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:02:01 +0000 Rense Nieuwenhuis http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/?p=632 about abortion, I recently discovered a blog named 'Dispatches from the Culture Wars'.]]> http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/dispatches-from-the-culture-wars/feed/ 0