Events

Jan
12

Department Seminar – Klaus Fiedler

Free

Let’s improve our theorizing – Our major developmental task   Under this title, I want to make it clear that the quality of science will hardly improve if we only elaborate our test statistics. The major weakness in contemporary behavioral science is theorizing and logic of science. To illustrate, I will consider what  I have […]

At 14 h 00 min
81 Avenue Buyl - 1050 Brussels (Room K4.401 - 4th floor, Building K, Campus Solbosch - Université Libre de Bruxelles; see directions below)
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Dec
13

Department Seminar – Jean Louis Tavani

Free

Parles moi de tes souvenirs, je te dirai qui tu es : Etudes expérimentales de la fonction identitaire de la mémoire collective   Après avoir réalisé un bref rappel des liens entre mémoire et pensée sociale, nous nous attacherons à discuter des rapports existants entre ces concepts et l’identité sociale. Nous évoquerons ainsi des éléments […]

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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Nov
22

Department Seminar – Nicolas Kervyn

Free

Drawing and reading the U.S. cognitive map: Interstate similarity in stereotypic ideology and prosperity predicts interstate liking   What are the spontaneous stereotypes that U.S. citizens hold about the U.S.? We complement insights from previous theory-driven approaches to this question with insights from a novel data driven approach. Based on pile sorting (Study 1) / […]

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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Nov
16

Department Seminar – Brent Strickland

Free

Compensating for human nature: Controlling cognitive biases for the sake of better outcomes   Certain cognitive biases are extraordinarily powerful and widespread. It should thus come as no surprise that scientists and experts, like everyone else, are subject to their influence. In this talk I advance the hypothesis that two such cognitive biases are likely […]

At 12 h 15 min
50 Avenue Antoine Depage - 1050 Brussels (Room DB10.233 - 10th floor, Building D, Campus Solbosch of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences - Université Libre de Bruxelles)
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Nov
15

Department Seminar – Emanuele Politi

Free

The best way of becoming Swiss: The role of descriptive and prescriptive norms of acculturation on acceptance of naturalized citizens by Politi, E. & Staerklé, C. (University of Lausanne)   Naturalization is an increasingly common practice in Switzerland and throughout Europe, with substantial consequences in terms of intergroup power relations. Research has found that naturalized citizens […]

At 15 h 00 min
50 Avenue Antoine Depage - 1050 Brussels (Room DB9.249 - 9th floor, Building D, Campus Solbosch of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences - Université Libre de Bruxelles)
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Oct
25

Department Seminar – Iskra Herak

Free

Attribution of humanness in an advertisement context   Ascribing human characteristics to nonhuman entities and disavowing them from humans are two instantiations of the same process. The former is called anthropomorphism, and the latter is known as dehumanization. Although leading authors recognized that these phenomena are two ends of the same continuum, there has been […]

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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Oct
20

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)
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Oct
18

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)
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