Being ‘nice’ or being ‘normal’: girls resisting discourses of ‘coolness’

The importance of being NICE.

Being nice with the experimenter?

This paper investigates the determinants of reciprocity towards the experimenters in the lab under a flat-wage scheme. We find that personality attributes – such as agreeableness – help predict the behaviour of the subjects. We additionally propose and assess a general measure of reciprocity.

Being right or being happy: pilot study

The Importance of Being Normal

Analysts have used a variety of statistical distributions to model losses due to operational risks [Embrechts, Cruz] or insurance claims [Hogg and Klugman]. In contrast, the normal distribution is the undisputed queen of capital market models. This paper examines an alternative family of distributions, the conic moment family, for application to capital market models. We answer the following qu...

Being Admired or Being Liked: Classroom Social Status and Depressive Problems in Early Adolescent Girls and Boys

This study investigates associations between depressive problems and classroom social status in a large population cohort of Dutch early adolescents (N = 1046, age 13.52 +/- 0.51, 52.4% girls). Depressive problems were assessed by parent and self-reports and classroom status by peer nominations. We assessed peer status with respect to both achievement-related (being a good learner, being good a...