Report 31: Seduce, Persuade and/or Inform? How can we deal with vaccine doubters?

Published on 23 June 2021 The vaccination campaign is now at cruising speed. More than 65% of the Belgian adult population have received their first vaccination. Many hundreds of thousands will follow suit in the coming weeks. In order to achieve group immunity, it is crucial that as many people as possible are vaccinated. In order to achieve this goal, there is a chance that we will need vaccine doubters ... Read More

Report 29: Does the prospect of easing up motivate people?

Published on 21 April 2021 On 14 April, the government announced the end of the Easter break and held out the prospect of a series of relaxations to the population. Some of these, such as the opening of schools and contact professions, were made unconditional, while other relaxations will depend on the evolution of the corona figures. What impact will the announcement of this ... Read More

Report 28: Vaccination: Preferences Crystallize!

Published on 6 April 2021 The month of March was extremely turbulent for Corona. The consultation committee of 5 March held out the prospect of more outdoor activities and the opening of the catering and cultural activities from the beginning of May. Due to the rapid increase in the number of infections and hospitalisations, the consultation committee withdrew the announced easing of the measures on 17 March.

Report 27: Saliva testing in schools: Impact on mental health, motivation and behaviour

Published on 1 April 2021 Keeping schools open is one of the priorities of the corona policy. This objective has recently come under pressure because the virus is circulating strongly in schools. Creative scenarios are therefore being sought to control the virus so that schools can remain open. For some time now, a pilot project has been running in some schools with saliva testing: the ... Read More

Report 26: Is there motivational support for entanglements?

Published on 24 March 2021 Now that the corona figures are rising again and the call for stricter measures is getting louder, the question arises whether there is sufficient motivational support for this. In the past, we have found that relaxations do not necessarily motivate and that strictures are not necessarily demotivating (see report #15 and #16, www.motivationbarometer.com). Everything depends on the framework ... Read More

Report 25: The corona figures: motivation matters !

Published on 2 March 2021 The Consultative Committee decided on Friday 26/2 to "not make a decision yet" and to take a time-out in order to properly assess the rising infection and hospitalisation rates. These rising figures are attributed to more infectious virus variants. This is of course a secondary reason: even more contagious variants depend primarily on our behaviour. And ... Read More

Civility is not created by an appeal and even less by an accusation.

In the corona crisis, we have control over the key factor: our behaviour. A few kinks in our motivation show that injudicious easing undermines it. Read the article here: You don't get civility by an appeal and even less by ... - De Standaard Authors: Omer Van den Bergh, Maarten Vansteenkiste, Sofie Morbée, Joachim Waterschoot, Olivier Luminet, Vincent Yzerbyt Academics associated ... Read More

Report 24: How can we reinforce motivation?

Published on 14 February 2021 In managing this crisis, there are many unpredictable factors, such as the mutations of the virus and the production and delivery of vaccines, which are difficult to control. Yet we - the government and citizens - have our fate in our own hands. After all, we have control over the key factor that makes the situation under ... Read More

Report 23: Boosting and restoring confidence

Published on 11 February 2021 A year ago, COVID-19 changed our lives drastically and the return to normal life is still a long way off. Three months ago, vaccines began to offer some perspective. Enthusiasm for them has continued to grow systematically among the population, but supply difficulties are shaking up vaccination planning. Added to this are the uncertainties about ... Read More