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Video lecture Tina Kretschmer on DNA and social situations (as part of the Universiteit van Nederland)

08 March 2021

Were you the popular kid in school? Or the shy one standing at the side line? Instinctively we might think that how we handle social situations is ‘in the person’. In a video lecture for the Universiteit van Nederland, Tina Kretschmer explains that DNA might play a larger role than we think.

Universiteit van Nederland

Through the Universiteit van Nederland, inspiring academics share interesting and new insights from their fields of research by means of short lectures. They bring science to life for a young and wide-ranging public by answering provocative questions in various formats. From dark matter to animals’ experiences of love: just about everything is covered.

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