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The ‘other’ side of compassion
Meerholz, Ernst Willem
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Acknowledgements
179 Having reached the end of this PhD project, there are a number of people I want to thank for contributing to the project directly or for creating the atmosphere in which I got to work on it over the past few years.
To start, I would like to thank the members of the Assessment Committee and the PhD Examining Committee for reading my work with a critical eye, their helpful feedback, and their participation in the PhD defence. It is highly appreciated.
Secondly, I want to thank my supervisors, Russell and Kai. Diving into relatively unexplored territory meant it took us a while to gain a proper understanding of our findings, and I will particularly remember the meetings in which we tried to make sense of the data and those in which we brainstormed about new ideas fondly. Thank you for your supportive attitude throughout the entire process. I have learned a lot from you and feel lucky to have been supervised by you.
Thirdly, I want to thank all my (past and present) colleagues at the Department of Social Psychology including the colleagues at the secretariat, as well as at the Teaching Unit. There are a number of people who work or have worked at the faculty that I want to mention specifically: Martijn, Ernst, Danny and Thijs (for the always enjoyable pickup basketball games and NBA playoff nights), Felicity and Maja (for starting out together, after two memorable years as ReMa colleagues), Johnny (for the gym sessions, interesting discussions about world events, and mutual appreciation of - and even very brief foray into - soul music), Bibiana (for your always kind and – dare I say – compassionate (in a good way!) attitude), as well as Reinder, Selena, Sarah, Berfu, Nadja, Vincenzo, Anne Marthe, Stacey, Catia, Toon, Bart, Hedy, Jolien, Julia, Gert, Koen, Tassos and Maraike. During my PhD trajectory I also had the honour of teaching and supervising many wonderful students. I want to thank the master- and bachelor-thesis students I supervised in particular for the interesting projects we collaborated on. I also want to thank the student mentors and assistants I had the pleasure of working with these past years.
Then, my two paranymphs. Thijs, thanks for the enjoyable (albeit generally one-sided...) basketball matchups, parental advice and your always positive and helpful
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attitude. Danny, you are without a doubt the only person I know who I can discuss Bruce Springsteen, The Stones, Michael Jackson, and completely forgotten 90s NBA rejects with all at once. Thanks for the many 2k evenings and memorable shared concert experiences. Thank you both for your help in the run-up to the defence.
In closing, I want to thank my friends and family, including my parents-in-law and brothers-in-law, my brother and sister, and of course my parents. Lastly, to my wife Burcu and son Ernst Deniz, thank you for your love and unwavering support. Thank you for everything.
