Crystal conducts research on motivating healthy behaviours in adolescents taking influences of their social environment into account. She believes that young people should be given the autonomy to decide for themselves how they want to live healthy.
Children consume a lot of sugars through sweet drinks, while there is a much easier, cheaper and healthier alternative: water from the tap! The Share H2O programme helps children to drink water more often by using the power of their social network. Do you also want children to drink water more often? Or are you curious about the programme? Click and read on!
During our minor 'Positive behavioural change in the digital age', students from Erasmus University Rotterdam get to work on social issues of organisations. Perhaps a collaboration with our minor students can also be interesting for your organisation.
With her social network intervention Crystal Smit investigated how to intrinsically motivate peer influencers to promote desired behaviour.
Would you like to work on a societal problem for an organisation during your studies? read more about our minor 'positive behavioural change in the digital age'.
Wat doet een onderzoeker precies? En hoe lang moet je daarvoor studeren? Deze en andere vragen beantwoorden wij tijdens ons 'onderzoeker in de Klas' programma. Lees er hier meer over!
It is important to encourage young people to adopt healthy lifestyles because they are prone to unhealthy habits and behaviours. Researchers at the Movez Lab have therefore developed a new method to effectively reach young people through their social network for health campaigns.