Manipulons le contexte, pas la classe sociale Dr. Nele Claes Lorsqu’on s’intéresse aux inégalités sociales, une question récurrente concerne l’utilisation de méthode expérimentale pour démontrer des effets de classe sociale. Dans ce séminaire, je tenterai d’argumenter qu’une option à considérer est de manipuler les contextes sociaux plutôt que la classe sociale. Dans un premier temps, […]
Social representations of colonialism, migrations and decolonial activisms Prof. Rosa Cabecinhas I will start with a brief review of the studies on Social representations of colonialism conducted in several Portuguese-speaking countries, including the former colonial ‘metropole’ and several former African colonies, discussing the impact of the lusotropicalism myth in present-day intergroup relations. Then, I will […]
BIAS MAP- moderated by Social Dominance Orientation and Need of Cognitive Closure Nino Butsashvili Fiske’s BIAS Map model considers prejudice to various out-groups based on the out-group stereotypes, such as competence and warmth. The combination of these two creates a firm image of out-group representatives and causes respective emotions, which, in turn, lead to the […]
Exclusion of ethno-religious minorities in European countries: The role of immigrant integration policies and welfare policies Dr. Michael Savelkoul (Assistant Professor, Radboud University Nijmegen) During the past decades many European countries have become more diverse in terms of ethnic and religious groups. In our research we set out to rigorously test previous theoretical propositions that […]
The psychology of social change and intergroup relations Dr. Hema Preya Selvanathan (Lecturer at the University of Queensland) Throughout history and in many regions around the world, people have engaged in collective action and participated in social movements to demand social change. My research aims to understand group processes around mobilisation for and against social […]
Voices from Georgia: How do Studies of Attitude Contribute to the New Knowledge? Prof. Nino Javakhishvili (Professor of social psychology, director of D. Uznadze Institute of Psychology, Ilia State University) Georgian and South Caucasian scholarly works are underrepresented on the international arena of social science research. One of the main reasons for this is the […]
Locals’ support for asylum seekers’ integration and rights: Exploring a normative model of support for Syrians in Turkey Dr. Yasin Duman (post-doctoral researcher at the Center for Social and Cultural Psychology at KU Leuven) and Dr. Canan Coşkan (she/they) who is an independent researcher with a scientific affiliation to the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on […]
Development and Validation of the Components of Emotion Understanding Test for a Multicultural Context Eva Sekwena (Ph.D. student at Ghent University and lecturer at the School of Industrial Psychology and Human Resources Management at Northwest University, Potchefstroom campus: South Africa) At the background of debates in emotional intelligence literature about the nature of the emotional […]
