John Hoeks
Biographic Data
| ID | 6256929 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Hoeks |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoeks |
| SIGNATURE | HOEKS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6874-1126 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Defensive reactions to a meat reduction intervention
Shifting from meat-centric to plant-based diets can mitigate climate change, improve public health, and reduce animal suffering, among other socially beneficial outcomes. However, efforts to encourage these changes sometimes provoke defensive reactions, and there is limited experimental evidence on how and why such reactions occur. We tested a brief meat reduction intervention in a preregistered experiment with a demographically representative sa…
Communicating Trends in Sustainability Transitions
An emerging line of research has been exploring how changes in social norms can lay the ground for shifts toward sustainability. This preregistered study investigated the influence of communicating static and dynamic norms (2 Static x 2 Dynamic, between-subjects design) on respondents' beliefs, intentions, information-seeking behavior, and policy support regarding plant-based food. Here, static norms referred to a minority of consumers who believ…
Embedding animals within a definition of sustainability
Current definitions of sustainability and sustainable development are problematic. They reinforce the dominant capitalist paradigm of economic growth as a goal—a system which has contributed in no uncertain terms to the current state of the planet—and they exclude animals as moral entities. We propose that sustainability is primarily an ethical issue which connects people, the planet on which we live, and the animals and other organisms which inh…
Improving Health Literacy Responsiveness
Presenting attractive and useful health education materials in waiting rooms can help improve an organization's health literacy responsiveness. However, it is unclear to what extent patients may be interested in health education materials, such as brochures. We conducted a three-week field study in waiting rooms of three primary care centers in Groningen. Three versions of a brochure on doctor-patient communication were randomly distributed, 2250…
Using Photo Stories to Support Doctor-Patient Communication
Older adults often have limited health literacy and experience difficulties in communicating about their health. In view of the need for efficacious interventions, we compared a narrative photo story booklet regarding doctor-patient communication with a non-narrative but otherwise highly similar brochure. The photo story booklet included seven short picture-based stories about themes related to doctor-patient communication. The non-narrative broc…
Uncovering Factors Influencing Interpersonal Health Communication
Talking to friends, family, or peers about health issues might, among other things, increase knowledge of social norms and feelings of self-efficacy in adopting a healthier lifestyle. We often see interpersonal health communication as an important mediating factor in the effects of health campaigns on health behavior. No research has been done so far, however, on factors that influence whether and how people talk about health issues without being…
Getting real about Semantic Illusions
Is the Dutch Delay of Principle B Effect dependent on verb type
Dutch children interpret reflexives correctly from age 4 on, but frequently misinterpret object pronouns as coreferring with the local subject until age 6. We investigated whether this so-called Delay of Principle B Effect (DPBE) differs by verb type. We tested 47 children between 4 and 6 years old with regular transitive verbs (e.g., to hit ) and grooming verbs (e.g., to wash ), verbs that often refer to self-directed actions. In general, childr…
Fill the Gap! Combining Pragmatic and Prosodic Information to Make Gapping Easy
Two studies investigated the effects of prosody and pragmatic context on off-line and on-line processing of sentences like John greeted Paul yesterday and Ben today. Such sentences are ambiguous between the so-called 'nongapping' reading, where John greeted Ben, and the highly unpreferred 'gapping' reading, where Ben greeted Paul. In the first experiment, participants listened to dialogues and gave a speeded response as to which reading of an amb…
The Development of Bilingual Memory
We investigated the relation between foreign-language proficiency and multilingual lexicosemantic organization, using two sets of 48 unbalanced Dutch-English-French trilingual adults as participants. Dutch was the participants' native language. Of their two foreign languages English was the strongest. We tested a developmental hypothesis that assumes a "word-association" lexical structure for the native language and a relatively weak foreign lang…
The Development of Bilingual Memory
We investigated the relation between foreign-language proficiency and multilingual lexicosemantic organization, using two sets of 48 unbalanced Dutch-English-French trilingual adults as participants. Dutch was the participants' native language. Of their two foreign languages English was the strongest. We tested a developmental hypothesis that assumes a "word-association" lexical structure for the native language and a relatively weak foreign lang…
Fill the Gap! Combining Pragmatic and Prosodic Information to Make Gapping Easy
Two studies investigated the effects of prosody and pragmatic context on off-line and on-line processing of sentences like John greeted Paul yesterday and Ben today. Such sentences are ambiguous between the so-called 'nongapping' reading, where John greeted Ben, and the highly unpreferred 'gapping' reading, where Ben greeted Paul. In the first experiment, participants listened to dialogues and gave a speeded response as to which reading of an amb…
The Development of Bilingual Memory
We investigated the relation between foreign-language proficiency and multilingual lexicosemantic organization, using two sets of 48 unbalanced Dutch-English-French trilingual adults as participants. Dutch was the participants' native language. Of their two foreign languages English was the strongest. We tested a developmental hypothesis that assumes a "word-association" lexical structure for the native language and a relatively weak foreign lang…
Fill the Gap! Combining Pragmatic and Prosodic Information to Make Gapping Easy
Two studies investigated the effects of prosody and pragmatic context on off-line and on-line processing of sentences like John greeted Paul yesterday and Ben today. Such sentences are ambiguous between the so-called 'nongapping' reading, where John greeted Ben, and the highly unpreferred 'gapping' reading, where Ben greeted Paul. In the first experiment, participants listened to dialogues and gave a speeded response as to which reading of an amb…
Getting real about Semantic Illusions
Is the Dutch Delay of Principle B Effect dependent on verb type
Dutch children interpret reflexives correctly from age 4 on, but frequently misinterpret object pronouns as coreferring with the local subject until age 6. We investigated whether this so-called Delay of Principle B Effect (DPBE) differs by verb type. We tested 47 children between 4 and 6 years old with regular transitive verbs (e.g., to hit ) and grooming verbs (e.g., to wash ), verbs that often refer to self-directed actions. In general, childr…
Uncovering Factors Influencing Interpersonal Health Communication
Talking to friends, family, or peers about health issues might, among other things, increase knowledge of social norms and feelings of self-efficacy in adopting a healthier lifestyle. We often see interpersonal health communication as an important mediating factor in the effects of health campaigns on health behavior. No research has been done so far, however, on factors that influence whether and how people talk about health issues without being…
Using Photo Stories to Support Doctor-Patient Communication
Older adults often have limited health literacy and experience difficulties in communicating about their health. In view of the need for efficacious interventions, we compared a narrative photo story booklet regarding doctor-patient communication with a non-narrative but otherwise highly similar brochure. The photo story booklet included seven short picture-based stories about themes related to doctor-patient communication. The non-narrative broc…
Improving Health Literacy Responsiveness
Presenting attractive and useful health education materials in waiting rooms can help improve an organization's health literacy responsiveness. However, it is unclear to what extent patients may be interested in health education materials, such as brochures. We conducted a three-week field study in waiting rooms of three primary care centers in Groningen. Three versions of a brochure on doctor-patient communication were randomly distributed, 2250…
Embedding animals within a definition of sustainability
Current definitions of sustainability and sustainable development are problematic. They reinforce the dominant capitalist paradigm of economic growth as a goal—a system which has contributed in no uncertain terms to the current state of the planet—and they exclude animals as moral entities. We propose that sustainability is primarily an ethical issue which connects people, the planet on which we live, and the animals and other organisms which inh…
Communicating Trends in Sustainability Transitions
An emerging line of research has been exploring how changes in social norms can lay the ground for shifts toward sustainability. This preregistered study investigated the influence of communicating static and dynamic norms (2 Static x 2 Dynamic, between-subjects design) on respondents' beliefs, intentions, information-seeking behavior, and policy support regarding plant-based food. Here, static norms referred to a minority of consumers who believ…
Defensive reactions to a meat reduction intervention
Shifting from meat-centric to plant-based diets can mitigate climate change, improve public health, and reduce animal suffering, among other socially beneficial outcomes. However, efforts to encourage these changes sometimes provoke defensive reactions, and there is limited experimental evidence on how and why such reactions occur. We tested a brief meat reduction intervention in a preregistered experiment with a demographically representative sa…
Psychology (8 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Communication (3 works) · Communication (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Health communication (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Media Influence and Health (3 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (3 works)