Research I've conducted with my colleagues Jennifer Jordan, of the University of Groningen, and Adam Galinsky, of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, suggests general principles about how to respond to major catastrophes.

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And squabbles over inheritance are more frequent in common-law countries, where wills are more casually drawn up, says Leon Verstappen of the University of Groningen.

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Christa Mateman, at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology, in Heteren, and Jan Komdeur, at the University of Groningen, and their colleagues, have discovered that young female Seychelles warblers sometimes help at their parents' nest for a year or two after they hatch.

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The research, by a team at the University Medical Center Groningen, in the Netherlands, looked at more than 300 people who had either a healthy bodyweight. or who were overweight.

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But many of the theories that have been put forward as to why people do it don't stand up, says Tom Postnes, professor of social psychology at Groningen University in the Netherlands.

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Groningen is a pleasant place, with an old university, but its claims to fame do not extend to much beyond the industrial processing of sugar-beet and a glorious 15th-century tower.

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She's also been active as an educator teaching at the State University of New York and participating in a rotating residency at North Netherlands Conservatory in Groningen, Netherlands.

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