Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study

About: Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study is a facility organization based out in Wassenaar, Netherlands. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Democratization & Politics. The organization has 89 authors who have published 166 publications receiving 4440 citations. The organization is also known as: Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences & NIAS-KNAW.

The acquisition of the syntax of negation in French and German: contrasting first and second language development:

Abstract: The acquisition of negation is perhaps the best-studied syntactic phenomenon in early interlanguage research,and many of these publications concluded that first (L1) and second language (L2) development had much more in common than had previously been assumed. In the present paper, the problem of whether the same underlying principles and mechanisms guide L1 and L2 acquisition will be re-examined from the perspective of more recent grammatical theory. The empirical basis consists of longitudinal case-studies of the acquisition of French and German as first and second languages. The L2 learners' first language is Spanish.In L1 data one finds a rapid, uniform and almost error-free course of development across languages exhibiting quite different morphosyntactic means of expressing negation. This is explained in terms of Parameter Theory, primarily referring to functional categories determining the placement of finite verbal elements. L2 acquisition, on the other hand, is characterized by considerable variab...

Remarriage, Unmarried Cohabitation, Living Apart Together: Partner Relationships Following Bereavement or Divorce

Abstract: Substantial proportions of people enter into new partner relationships after bereavement or divorce. Nowadays in Europe, unmarried cohabitation and living-apart-together relationships are frequently opted for at repartnering. Drawing on the Netherlands' Living Arrangements and Social Networks survey of men and women aged 55 to 89 years (N = 4,494), this article explicates the determinants that lead widowed or divorced people to enter into old and new types of partner relationships. Cox proportional hazard regression analyses revealed that age at most recent union dissolution, the number of partner dissolutions, working during and after the most recent union dissolution, and other demographic variables are important in weighing the pros and cons of different types of living arrangements. Key Words: cohabitation, coresidence, older adults, remarriage. For those still in first marriage, the increase in life expectancy results in a longer duration of the partner bond through aging together. A growing percentage of divorced adults (Wu & Penning, 1997) face the possibility of long periods of living alone. Some divorced and widowed people remarry, but unmarried cohabitation, and so-called living-apart-together relationships-where partners maintain separate households and finances and share living quarters on an intermittent or temporary basis-are becoming more common in Northern and Western Europe (Bumpass, Sweet, & Martin, 1990; Chevan, 1996; Davidson, 2002; de Jong Gierveld & Peelers, 2003; Karllson & Borell, 2002; Stevens, 2002; Waite, 1995; Wu & Balakrishnan, 1994). Elderly people's strategies to maintain an optimal level of social well-being are addressed in socioemotional selectivity theory (Carstensen, 1992). In this theory, the primacy of social goals is expected to be related to time constraints. When time is perceived to be limited, as is the case for many older adults, emotional goals assume primacy over the acquisition of knowledge. Empirical research has shown that older adults prefer familiar social relationships, and "older couples regulate emotion in a way that should help preserve what is a very important late-life relationship-marriage" (Carstensen, 1995, p. 155). The theory emphasizes preserving familiar close relationships (Carstensen, Isaacowitz, & Charles, 1999). Until now, however, the formation of new emotionally close relationships among older adults has not been widely examined within the theory (Lang, 2001). In this article, I investigate the incidence of repartnering and the determinants that lead adults to enter into a new partner relationship. In doing so, I differentiate between those who remarry, start a consensual union, or begin a living-apart-together relationship. BACKGROUND New Partner Relationships in Later Life: Goals, Opportunities, and Restrictions Living alone in later life after widowhood or divorce increases the risks of loneliness, but living with a partner might be helpful in increasing well-being (de Jong Gierveld, 1998; van Baarsen & Broese van Groenou, 2001). Men in particular appear to adapt less easily to the loss of their partners (Lee, Willets, & Seccombe, 1998), and benefit more than women from partner relationships (Antonucci, 1994; Bograd & Spilka, 1996; Cooney & Dunne, 2001). Finding a new partner may be an attractive option for older adults, especially men (Dykstra, 1990) who feel deprived of the taken-for-granted attentive activities that were carried out for them by their former wives (Mason, 1996). Others, particularly widows, might hesitate to give up the freedom and independence they enjoyed after coming to terms with bereavement (Lopata, 1996; Pyke, 1994). In opting for either living alone or sharing a household with a new partner, one has to weigh the pros and cons of both options. Sharing a household-that is to say, living as a couplemay provide people with personal care, reciprocal attention and support, companionship, and the division of household tasks. …

Imagery Rescripting as a Therapeutic Technique: Review of Clinical Trials, Basic Studies, and Research Agenda:

Abstract: Imagery Rescripting (ImRs) is a therapeutic technique addressing specific memories of earlier experiences associated with present problems. By imagining that the course of events is changed in a mo...

Dynamic pattern structure in music: recent theory and research.

Abstract: Recent theory and research addressed to dynamic pattern structure in music is reported. Dynamic pattern structure refers to the ways in which rhythm and melody combine; it is summarized here in terms of the constructof joint accent structure. Properties of joint accent structures involving accent couplings and time symmetries are used to address standard psychological issues of pattern similarity and pattern simplicity as they are realized in musical tasks. In particular, experimental work on melody recognition reveals the importance of formalizations concerning dynamic pattern similarities, and other research on reproductions of music-like patterns reveals the potential of a time-based approach to dynamic pattern simplicity.