Roos Vonk

Roosje (Roos) Vonk (Leiden, 4 November 1960) is a Dutch professor (Dutch title: "hoogleraar") of social psychology at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen columnist, and trainer/coach. From 2005 till 2008 Vonk was chairperson of Stichting Wakker Dier.

Life and work

Vonk studied at Leiden University. She received her PhD in 1990. In 1999 she became professor at the Radboud University Nijmegen. After that she popularized psychology and worked in the field; she gives lectures, management training and writes columns (in amongst others Psychologie Magazine and Intermediair) and also wrote books for the general public as well as study books.

Vonk published on flattering, vulnerable egos, first impressions, flirting, intimate relationships, power and leadership, self-image and self-knowledge. She did research on human frailties, such as overconfidence and "emotional incontinence", and ways for self-improvement.

In August 2011 Vonk, together with Marcel Zeelenberg and Diederik Stapel of Tilburg University, issued a press release about an investigation into the psychological meaning of meat. In this they concluded that meat eaters are less social and more selfish than non-meat eaters. A few weeks later, Vonk offered her apologies about the study, because professor Stapel had used falsified data. Professor Stapel was put on administrative leave on 7 September Subsequently, the Radboud University Nijmegen investigated the role of Vonk in this affair, because she might have violated her scientific integrity by releasing the results at an early stage.

Roos

Coordinates: 53°45′13″N 0°02′37″W / 53.753578°N 0.043694°W / 53.753578; -0.043694

Roos is a village and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated 12 miles (19 km) east from Kingston upon Hull city centre and 3.5 miles (6 km) north-west from Withernsea, and on the B1242 road.

Geography

The civil parish is formed by the villages of Roos, Hilston and Tunstall, together with the hamlet of Owstwick. According to the 2011 UK census, Roos parish had a population of 1,168, an increase on the 2001 UK census figure of 1,113. The parish covers an area of 2,333.222 hectares (5,765.52 acres).

The Prime Meridian crosses the coast to the east of Roos.

The parish church of All Saints is a Grade I listed building.

In popular culture

The meeting of Beren and Luthien in JRR Tolkien's The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings, was written after the author and his wife visited a wood near to Roos. The Hemlocks in the wood were said to have inspired his verse.

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Roos (disambiguation)

Roos may refer to:

Surname

See: Roos (surname)

Given name

Roos can be a Dutch female given name, meaning "Rose" or being short for "Rosemarijn" (Rosemary)

Places

Roos, a village in East Yorkshire, England

Other uses

See also

Roos (surname)

Roos is a surname with multiple origins. In Dutch, Low German and Swiss German “Roos” means “Rose” and the surname is often of toponymic origin (e.g. someone lived in a house named “the rose”) In 2007, 8600 people were named Roos and another 2880 “de Roos” in the Netherlands. In the UK, Roos may be of patronymic origin (“Andrews”) or indicating red hair (Old English “Rouse”). The name is also relatively common in Sweden (5,902 people in 2010) and Finland (1219 in 2012)

People with the name "Roos" or "de Roos" include: