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The studies below have been developed by the scientific staff of the Fryske Akademy, or have come about under their supervision. The results are used in research projects carried out in cooperation with national and international knowledge institutes.
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400 Frisian speakers sought for online experiment on subconscious biases
Does the brain associate positive things with the Frisian language, or rather with the Dutch language? And what about negative things? Dr Hielke Vriesendorp of the Fryske Akademy and Utrecht University asks the help of 400 Frisian speakers, inside and outside the province of Friesland, and 400 non-Frisian speakers to investigate this.
Vriesendorp developed an online experiment, which measures subconscious attitudes towards Frisian and Dutch using a sorting task. The participant is shown pictures and words that are positive or negative, and words that are Frisian or Dutch. The pairing between the pictures and words can show whether the brain subconsciously associates Frisian or Dutch more with positive (or negative) things, thus showing subconscious biases.
The experiment takes about 10-15 minutes and at the end of the study, each participant is shown their own results. These can be used to estimate their own subconscious preference. Vriesendorp hopes for as many participants as possible, in order to gain a fuller insight into the prejudices about Frisian and Dutch, both among Frisians and Frisian speakers themselves and non-Frisians and non-Frisian speakers.
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For questions about this research, please email Dr Hielke Vriesendorp.