Publications by authors named "Bart Neyrinck"

Objective: Experimental studies have found that clinician-expressed empathy improves patients' information recall in (advanced) cancer consultations. It remains unclear, however, whether these results are generalizable to clinical care and, if so, what the underlying mechanism is. We aimed to i) determine the relationship between clinician-expressed empathy and patients' information recall in clinical advanced breast cancer consultations; and ii) test whether the relationship between clinician-expressed empathy and recall is mediated by a decrease in patients' anxiety.

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Given that prior research has provided evidence for the role of late adults' attitudes towards death in their mental health, we sought to understand its underlying sources. Guided by Self-Determination Theory and Erikson's theory of psychosocial development, two cross-sectional studies examined whether older individuals' psychological need-based experiences, as accumulated during life, relate to their death attitudes and whether their experienced ego integrity and despair play an intervening role in these associations. Whereas Study 1 (N = 394 late adults; Mage = 75.

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  • The study investigates whether technical surgical skills are primarily determined by innate "aptitude" or can be developed through practice in minimally invasive procedures among medical students.
  • It involved 68 fifth-year medical students who underwent initial assessments of psychomotor and visual-spatial aptitude, followed by a hands-on training and optional practice period.
  • Results revealed that both aptitude and voluntary practice significantly impacted performance, but students with higher aptitude were more likely to pursue surgical careers, despite no initial correlation between aptitude and interest in surgery.
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