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Adopting a person-within-context approach in predicting intergroup attitudes

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Adopting a person-within-context approach in predicting intergroup attitudes Berfin Acar (CeSCuP, ULB) In explaining or reducing prejudice, the literature so far has largely focused on either individual differences (such as social-ideological beliefs) or contextual factors (such as the amount of diversity in one’s environment or norms predominantly endorsed by one’s ingroup). With three different projects, […]

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Understanding Kurdish power: An anticolonial and critical race approach for (re)formulizing ‘power from below’

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Understanding Kurdish power: An anticolonial and critical race approach for (re)formulizing ‘power from below’ Canan Coşkan (Independent researcher with scientific affiliations to CeSCuP (Université Libre de Bruxelles) & IKG (Bielefeld University)) In this presentation, I will introduce an example for (re)formulating ‘power from below’ to study of asymmetrical intergroup relations by shifting our conceptual lens […]

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Anatomy of a Conspiracy Theory

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Anatomy of a Conspiracy Theory Dr. Stipe Odak (UCL) The presentation analyzes Kangura, a publication instrumental in fomenting the 1994 genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda. It focuses specifically on the journal’s conspiracy theories regarding Tutsis. The analysis demonstrates that Kangura’s representation of Tutsis as the enemy combines strategies of both dehumanization and aggrandizement. Furthermore, it illustrates how […]

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Do they dislike us as much as we think? Positive contact as a potential rectifier of meta-attitude inaccuracy in conflictual intergroup settings

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Do they dislike us as much as we think? Positive contact as a potential rectifier of meta-attitude inaccuracy in conflictual intergroup settings Dr. Cigdem Bagci (Sabanci University, Turkey) Meta-attitude inaccuracy – the extent to which our perceptions of what the outgroup thinks diverges from what they actually think – fuels intergroup hostility, yet its precursors […]

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La mise à l’épreuve des appartenances de genre dans la migration et les relations intimes transnationales

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La mise à l’épreuve des appartenances de genre dans la migration et les relations intimes transnationales Laure Sizaire (ULB/LAMC) Chaque société possède un système sexe/genre spécifique au sein duquel être un homme ou une femme implique d’avoir des comportements descriptibles pour être perçu·es comme tel·les. En migrant, les comportements attendus selon que l’on appartienne à l’une […]

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Faut-il se méfier de l’open science ?

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Faut-il se méfier de l’open science ? Dr Adrien Fillon L’open science est un ensemble de pratiques de recherches globalement valorisée parmi la communauté scientifique. Mais depuis 2020 au moins, les éditeurs scientifiques exercent de plus en plus de pression pour faire appliquer les principes de l’open science. Pour quelles raisons sont-ils si intéressés par […]

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I am agnostic, not atheist”: A personality and social psychological perspective

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I am agnostic, not atheist”: A personality and social psychological perspective Prof. Vassilis Saroglou In the Western countries, about half of the non-believers/non-religious self-identify as agnostic, not as atheist. Does this convictional status reflect only epistemic differences between these two types of non-believers (“I do not know” vs. “God does not exist”) or also deeper […]

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Jugements et prises de décisions morales : challenges et contributions apportées par un nouveau paradigme de mouse-tracking

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Jugements et prises de décisions morales : challenges et contributions apportées par un nouveau paradigme de mouse-tracking Prof. Annique Smeding La présentation se centrera sur une série d’études en cognition morale ayant mobilisé un nouveau paradigme de mouse-tracking adapté à des stimuli moraux. La présentation introduira le mouse-tracking comme technique de traçage des processus cognitifs, […]

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