Events

Department Seminar – Betty Chang

Free

How can we prime people to eat healthily?   People often feel that they should eat healthily, but they don’t always follow through on this thought. In this talk I discuss a couple of ways that we can encourage people to eat healthily. This involves: a) exposing them to obese or thin models, and b) […]

At 12 h 30 min
Room DC8.322 (8th floor, Building D, Campus Solbosch - Avenue A. Depage, 50, 1050 Brussels)

Department Seminar – Pia Lamberty

Free

Fight the power? How conspiracy mentality affects people’s judgments   ABSTRACT: Not only nowadays, conspiracy theories are widespread in (Western) societies. People believe that the lunar landing was a hoax and was staged in a movie set. Or they think that AIDS was created by the CIA and deliberately spread by the WHO via polio inoculations […]

At 12 h 30 min
Room DC8.322 (8th floor, Building D, Campus Solbosch - Avenue A. Depage, 50, 1050 Brussels)

Department Seminar – Almudena Claassen

Free

Poverty & Obesity: How poverty and hunger influence food choices ABSTRACT: Although levels of overweight and obesity are increasing throughout the entire world, they tend to be higher among individuals from low socioeconomic status (SES) and those experiencing food insecurity. Previous research has shown that cues that indicate poverty make people eat more calories. The present research examines what […]

At 12 h 30 min
Room DC8.322 (8th floor, Building D, Campus Solbosch - Avenue A. Depage, 50, 1050 Brussels)

Department Seminar – Peter Hegarty

Free

“Do you need a vagina for medical reasons?”   How health professionals draw the line between ‘medically necessary’ and ‘cosmetic’ interventions in response to atypical sexed embodiment   Medical interventions on the bodies of people who have atypically sexed bodies – that have been called both ‘intersex’ and ‘disorders of sex development’ have been controversial […]

At 12 h 30 min
Room DC8.322 (8th floor, Building D, Campus Solbosch - Avenue A. Depage, 50, 1050 Brussels)

PSYFOOD Seminar – Olga Pollatos

Free

On the role of interoceptive processes for emotions and health-related behavior   Interoception is understood as the sensing and representation of signals concerning the internal state of the body. Within psychology, there has been a resurgence of interest in interoception, driven by increasing realization of the extent to which mental processes are embodied. Individual differences […]

At 10 h 30 min
Room SOC 43 - Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL; Place du Cardinal Mercier, 10, Louvain-la-Neuve)

Department Seminar – Laetitia Renier

Free

Me voyez-vous tel que je me vois ? L’impact du narcissisme sur la méta-perception   Notre société valorise les tendances narcissiques et celles-ci sont amplifiées par l’usage des médias sociaux. Les narcissiques développent de bonnes relations surtout à court terme, mais sont égocentriques et très préoccupés par l’image qu’ils donnent aux autres. Comprendre les difficultés relationnelles […]

At 12 h 30 min
Room DC8.322 (8th floor, Building D, Campus Solbosch - Avenue A. Depage, 50, 1050 Brussels)

Department Seminar – Pierre Petit

Free

Lumumba, icône planétaire:  La mise en image et en récit d’un héros africain contemporain   Figure centrale de l’indépendance du Congo, Patrice Lumumba mourut en 1961 dans des conditions tragiques qui le firent célébrer comme martyr de par le monde – et plus particulièrement en Afrique, dans les pays de l’Est et dans les milieux […]

At 12 h 30 min
Room DC8.322 (8th floor, Building D, Campus Solbosch - Avenue A. Depage, 50, 1050 Brussels)

PSYFOOD Seminar – Jessica Werthmann

Free

Attention bias for food, eating behaviour and body weight     Living in an “obesogenic” environment poses a serious challenge for weight maintenance. Yet, not everybody is equally susceptible to food temptations. The way in which someone perceives and reacts to this environment could contribute to individual differences in the susceptibility to food temptations. Recently, […]

At 11 h 15 min
LOCAL SOCR 23 - Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Place du Cardinal Mercier, 10, Louvain-la-Neuve

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