Events

PSYFOOD Seminar – Irena Domachowska

Free

Deliciously healthy: Healthy food cues elicit approach motivation and reduce breadth of attention   I will present results of my research on the influence of appetitive food cues on attentional breadth. In Experiment 1, we replicated findings of an influential study conducted by Gable and Harmon-Jones (2008), in which the authors demonstrated that appetitive stimuli […]

At 11 h 30 min
Place Cardinal Mercier, 1348 Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (UCL - Room Socrate 23)

Department Seminar – Ana Figueiredo

Free

Historical and present-day intergroup relations between Mapuche and non-indigenous in Chile   At present, the Mapuche people are the largest indigenous group living in Chile (INE, 2013) and, up until the present day, they are considered a disadvantaged group in Chilean society in terms of poverty, education and discrimination indicators (Agostini, Brown, & Roman, 2010; […]

At 12 h 30 min
50 Avenue Antoine Depage - 1050 Brussels (Room DC8.322 - 8th floor, Building D, Campus Solbosch of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences - Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Department Seminar – Judit Kende

Free

Who defines equality for whom? The interplay of equality and intergroup contact   My research is on intergroup contact i.e. interpersonal meeting between people from different social groups and (in)equality. I focus on the interplay between contact and equality in real-life intergroup contexts. Bridging intergroup contact research with cultural psychology, I examine (1) how cultural […]

At 12 h 30 min
50 Avenue Antoine Depage - 1050 Brussels (Room DC8.322 - 8th floor, Building D, Campus Solbosch of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences - Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Department seminar – Daniël Lakens

Free

Daniël Lakens @ CeSCuP   Daniël Lakens is an assistant Professor at the Human-Technology Interaction group at Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. He is the author of numerous articles in prestigious journals such as Perspectives on psychological sciences, the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology and the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Via his blog, […]

At 12 h 00 min
50 Avenue Antoine Depage - 1050 Brussels

PSYFOOD Seminar – David Marchiori

Free

Promoting healthy food choices among (aware) customers      Nudges are subtle physical rearrangements of a choice context that gently suggest “better” choices without forbidding any option or making any option more costly in terms of time, money, trouble, or social sanctions. For example, placing healthy food at eye level counts as a nudge, banning […]

At 11 h 30 min
50 Avenue Antoine Depage - 1050 Brussels (Room DC8.322 - 8th floor, Building D, Campus Solbosch of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences - Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Department Seminar – Yoshimiko Owaki

Free

Determinants of Language Acquisition and Immigrant Integration   What affects immigrants to acquire capitals and how are they generated? In an attempt to address the question, I first develop a model of immigrant language acquisition to identify the determinants of destination language proficiency. Subsequently, I extend the modeling framework to devise a model of immigrant […]

At 12 h 30 min
50 Avenue Antoine Depage - 1050 Brussels (Room DC8.322 - 8th floor, Building D, Campus Solbosch of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences - Université Libre de Bruxelles)

AGS-CeSCuP-CECoS Joint Seminar – Andrea Carnaghi

Free

Homophobic epithets in the intergroup frame: Heterosexuals’ cognitive, affective and behavioral reactions to gay-bashing labels   In a recent Italian survey, 80% of those interviewed reported hearing acquaintances using homophobic labels very often (47.4 %) or sometimes (32.6%; Istituto Nazionale di Statistica [ISTAT], 2011). Though this portrays the Italian context as strongly homophobic, sexual prejudice […]

At 18 h 00 min
44 Avenue Jeanne - 1050 Bruxelles (Room Doucy - 12th floor, Building S, Campus Solbosch of the Institut de Sociologie - Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Department Seminar – Colette van Laar

Free

Social Inequality: The role of Stigma and Self-Regulation   Van Laar’s work concentrates on the social psychological processes that transfer low social status into lower outcomes: how is it that negative stereotypes, low expectations, prejudice and discrimination affect members of stigmatized groups such as ethnic minorities and women to result in lower outcomes for example […]

At 12 h 30 min
50 Avenue Antoine Depage - 1050 Brussels (Room DC8.322 - 8th floor, Building D, Campus Solbosch of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences - Université Libre de Bruxelles)

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