Djouaria GHILANI

2019

PhD in Psychological and Educational Sciences [Docteure en Sciences Psychologiques et de l’Education], Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

2014 – 2018

Research Fellow – Aspirant (Ph.D Student), Belgian National Fund For Scientific Research (F.R.S.-F.N.R.S.).

2015 (27 January – 10 February)

Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) at the Helmut-Schmidt University, Hamburg (Germany) funded by the COST Action IS1205.

2013 – 2014

Master in Psychological Sciences specialized in Social and Cross-cultural Psychology [Master en Sciences Psychologiques, à finalité Psychologie Sociale et Interculturelle], Highest distinction with “les félicitations du jury” [highest honors], Université Libre de Bruxelles.

2013 (February-June)

Research internship on the following project “A cross-cultural investigation of the gender gap in attitudes toward war”, collaboration with Nicolas Van der Linden & Annalisa Casini, Center for Social and Cross-Cultural Psychology, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

2009 – 2012

Bachelor in Psychological and Educational Sciences [Bachelier en Sciences Psychologiques et de l’Education], Highest Distinction, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

See details here: The influence of historical analogies on the perception of the future

Keywords: historical analogies & analogical reasoning, conflict-related judgments & decision-making

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

• Ghilani, D., Luminet, O., Erb, H-P., Flassbeck, C., Rosoux, V., Tames, I., & Klein, O. (2017). Looking forward to the past: An interdisciplinary discussion on the use of historical analogies and their effects. Memory Studies, 10(3), 274-285.
• Van der Linden, N., Ghilani, D., & Casini, A. (2017). Une société plus égalitaire est-elle plus pacifique ? Un regard psychosocial sur la « women and peace hypothesis » [Is a more egalitarian society more pacifist? A psychosocial look at the “women and peace hypothesis”], Sextant, 34, 19-34

Oral communications at conferences

• Ghilani, D., Luminet, O., Ernst-Vintila, A., Van der Linden, N., & Klein, O. (July, 2017). Which 9-11 Is It? Analogies between current and past attacks are linked to muslim-related attitudes. In Fulop, E. (Chair). Past & Prejudice: Representations of the past and their influence in fostering negative intergroup attitudes. Communication at the 18th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), Granada, Spain.
• Flade, F., Ghilani, D. & Lamberty, P. (July, 2017). Je suis… affected? How Islamophobia and emotional reactions to terrorist attacks shape sociopolitical attitudes. In Schumann, S. & Reicher, S. (Chair). Predictors of and Responses to Violent Radicalisation. Communication at the 18th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), Granada, Spain.
• Ghilani, D., Luminet, O. & Klein, O. (August, 2016). When the past predicts the future: The importance of causal similarity in historical-analogical reasoning. Communication at the ESCON Transfer of Knowledge Conference 2016 (ESCON), Lisbon, Portugal.
• Ghilani, D., Luminet, O. & Klein, O. (May, 2016). When the past predicts the future: The effect of historical analogies on conflict-related judgments. Communication at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences (BAPS), Antwerp, Belgium.
• Ghilani, D. & Flassbeck, C. (April, 2015). Outcome judgments of political conflicts as a function of perceived similarity to a past event. In Flassbeck, C. & Ghilani, D. (Chairs). The Past Never Dies:  The Use of Historical Analogies in Everyday Judgments on Conflicts. Symposium conducted at the COST Action IS1205 Annual Meeting, Pecs, Hungary.
• Van der Linden, N., Ghilani, D. & Casini, A. (July, 2014). Attitudes towards war through a gender lens. Communication at the 28th International Congress of Applied Psychology (ICAP), Paris, France.
• Van der Linden, N., Ghilani, D. & Casini, A. (July, 2013). Attitudes towards war through a gender lens. Communication at the 2013 Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), Herzliya, Israel.

Organization of conferences & symposia

• Flassbeck, C. & Ghilani, D. (Chairs). The Past Never Dies:  The Use of Historical Analogies in Everyday Judgments on Conflicts. Symposium conducted at the COST Action IS1205 Annual Meeting, Pecs, Hungary.

Science Popularization

• Ghilani, D. (2017, 30 October). Recette miracle pour une bonne présentation scientifique [Miracle recipe for a good scientific presentation]. [Blog Post]. In French
• Ghilani, D. (2016, 30 March). “Everybody dies in the end”: Does knowing the ending always spoils the fun? [Blog Post].
• Ghilani, D. (2015, 26 March). Tell me who you pet, I’ll tell you who you are: The Social Psychology of cat, dog (and turtle) persons [Blog Post].
• Ghilani, D. (2014, 9 November). L’Odeur de la Suspicion: Pourquoi éviter les plats de poisson lors des dîners d’affaire [The Smell of Suspicion: Why avoid fish-based meals during business dinners] [Blog Post]. In French

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Research Gate Page

Academia.edu Page

2018 (1-14 July)

EASP Summer School, Workshop on “Building and Testing Theory” (supervised by Dr. Barry Markovsky & Dr. Klaus Fiedler), Zurich, Switzerland.

2016 (16-19 August)

4th (Behavioral Science) Summer School on Decisions from Experience, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, United Kingdom.

2015 (7-12 September)

COST Action IS1205 Summer school on “Confronting collective historical memory and emotions”, Split, Croatia.

2014-2018

Coordinator of the Research Seminars Program at CeSCuP

2017 (September-December)

Teaching assistant, Seminars in Methodology in Social Psychology (MA1), Université Libre de Bruxelles

2016 (September-December)

Teaching assistant, Seminars in Methodology in Social Psychology (MA1), Université Libre de Bruxelles

Teaching assistant, Seminars in  Content Analysis Methodology (MA1 & 2), Université Libre de Bruxelles

2015 (September-December)

Teaching assistant, Seminars in Methodology in Social Psychology (MA1), Université Libre de Bruxelles

Teaching assistant, Seminars in  Content Analysis Methodology (MA1 & 2), Université Libre de Bruxelles

2014 (September-December)

Teaching assistant, Seminars in  Content Analysis Methodology (MA1 & 2), Université Libre de Bruxelles