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16 Oktober 2025

Goal Lab lezing op 16 oktober 2025 van over vermoeidheid tijdens en na mentaal werk.

We zijn verheugd om Dr. Erik Bijleveld weer te mogen verwelkomen in het Goallab voor een lezing over een van de meest universele menselijke ervaringen: mentale vermoeidheid.

16.00 uur, Faculteitskamer, Langeveldgebouw, Universiteit Utrecht

30 augustus 2025

Jurriaan te Koppele, ons nieuwste lid van het Goallab en onlangs gepromoveerd aan Wageningen Universiteit, toonde in zijn proefschrift aan dat emoties vaak doelgericht gedrag motiveren, juist wanneer mensen zelf hun situaties kiezen. Emoties stimuleren dus niet altijd alleen maar hedonistische keuzes. Hij presenteerde zijn werk onlangs in het Nederlandse radioprogramma Dr. Kelder en Co.

2 april 2025

Miljoenensubsidie toegekend aan ELSA lab AI voor rechtvaardige zorg.

7 februari 2023

Subsidie SGW Open Competitie XS voor zes FSW-onderzoekers.

11 januari 2023

Alle expertise verzamelen! Laaggeletterdheid te lijf met Artificial Intelligence in het ELSA-lab.

November, 29

Recent scientific contribution of GOALLAB in a modest attempt to stop the Corona crisis. “Keep your distance for me: A field experiment on empathy prompts to promote distancing  during the COVID-19 pandemic” (in press)

October 28, 2021

The department of Psychology at Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� has an opening for a Post-doctoral (2-years + 1 year optional) position: Psychology and Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence. APPLICATION  DEADLINE Nov 9, 2021.

For more information, please visit the profile page of Henk Aarts.

March 2021

Josi Driessen and Henk Aarts received a grant from Programma Handhaving and Gedrag to study the following project:

The obedient brain/ Het gehoorzame brein

Regulations and law enforcement contribute to the prevention of undesirable behavior and thus play an important role in society. At the same time, restricting behavior through regulations undermines personal autonomy; after all, people are no longer, or to a lesser extent, allowed to decide for themselves what to do. Recent findings suggested that restrictions in personal autonomy have an impact on how we experience our own actions and their consequences. People who experience their own behavior as voluntary are more likely to recognize that they are responsible for their behavior. In this research project, we will investigate whether obedience to rules and enforcement can have unintended negative side-effects on how we experience our own actions and how this affects our behavior. In this research we will focus on questions such as: Will people experience their behavior as less voluntary if they obey the rules? What does this do to their feelings of responsibility? How do we find the right balance between enforcement, obedience and the experience of agency?

Februari 2021

Embodied AI: Virtual Humans and Social Robots #1

Maandag 22 Februari 14:30 - 16:00

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This event is the first of a series of events we plan to organize related with Embodied Artificial Agents, organized by Zerrin Yumak, Maartje de Graaf and Ruud Hortensius. It concerns the development, evaluation and societal impact of social robots and virtual humans that are capable of engaging in face-to-face social interactions with people using verbal and non-verbal behaviours. The theme of the first event is: “Understanding the Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� case, what are the different viewpoints, challenges and opportunities?”

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November 2020
 

Ruud Hortensius received a public engagement seed fund from Utrecht ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� for the following project:

Opa, oma, robot en ik / Grandpa, grandma, robot and I
While generations apart, children and their grandparents share a future with robots. In this project, they will start the conversation on the integration of robots in their social milieu. First, they will play an interactive quiz to explore the scope and limits of robots for social cognition. Next, they will develop sci-fi scenarios using a real robot to sketch future applications. Focussing on real interactions and the conversation with, not about, children and grandparents, this project will give this team the power to shape future research and their social lives with robots.

September 2020

• Vacature voor een 'postdoc' t.b.v. het project "Empowering Human Intentions through Artificial Intelligence" aan de Universiteit Utrecht.
  Reacties uiterlijk 15 oktober 2020.
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• Chao Zhang en Henk Aarts hebben een subsidie ontvangen van het UU-focusgebied Human-Centered AI! Interessant werk voor de boeg met Shihan Wang en Mehdi Dastani over menselijke autonomie en autonome kunstmatige intelligentie.

• Lancering website .