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Meet & Greet NWO

Altijd al nieuwsgierig geweest naar Werken bij NWO (Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek)? Je kunt je nu nog aanmelden voor de Meet & Greet in Utrecht op dinsdag 19 maart.

NWO vertelt je graag meer over hoe ze samen werken aan wetenschap. Uiteraard is ook er volop gelegenheid om vragen te stellen! Misschien ontmoet jij alvast een toekomstige collega?

Aanmelden kan hier: https://www.werkenbijnwo.nl/ontmoet-ons

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Compliments boost productivity

Recently, Robert Dur, Professor of Economics of Incentives at Erasmus School of Economics, was interviewed by RTL Nieuws about receiving compliments in the workplace. What turns out? Receiving compliments engenders higher productivity among employees.

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Chimpanzees are able to learn from their conspecifics what they cannot innovate themselves

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  • #environmentalscience

Insights into 'hot topic' in behavioral research

Chimpanzees that are unable to figure out a complex puzzle on their own, are capable of learning the solution from other chimps that were trained to solve it. Utrecht University researcher Edwin van Leeuwen and international colleagues conclude this based on experiments conducted with groups of chimpanzees in Zambia. The study demonstrates, for the first time, that chimpanzees, like humans, can acquire skills from one another that they cannot innovate themselves. In doing so, the study offers new insight into the evolution of culture.

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