Departement Seminar

Shades of Change: Changes to racial imagery in cultural products and traditions reflect and shape Europeans’ understanding of racial inequality Enzo Cáceres Quezada (Utrecht University) Abstract: White Europeans have propagated their subordinating views regarding the colonised peoples and their descendants through packaging of products (e.g., coffee) and blackface traditions. Public debate increasingly links colonialism to […]

Digitalization of Youth’s Development: Attention to Body Image and Sexuality Prof. Chelly Maes (Université libre de Bruxelles) Prof. Chelly Maes (ULB, Department of Information and Communication Sciences) is an interdisciplinary communication scientist whose work focuses on the digitalization of youth development. She recently received an ERC starting grant for her project GENSCOPE, where she will […]

Climate inaction: where is the “bug”? From cognitive limits to intergroup dynamics Dr. Camille Langlais (Université libre de Bruxelles) Psychologists have studied the reasons for climate inaction since the 1990s. One widely studied barrier is psychological distance: in Western countries, climate change was long assumed to be perceived as affecting distant others, in remote places […]

COVID memory in Belgium Dr. Magali Beylat (Université libre de Bruxelles) The COVID-19 pandemic had a profound impact on people’s life worldwide, but what do people remember of this period? Collective memory, which we define here as shared individual memory of events, is influenced by the way people experienced the events, but also by their […]

Reimagining Intergroup Apologies: A Bottom-Up Approach to Social Cohesion Prof. Yasin Koç (University of Groningen, Netherlands) Abstract: Research on intergroup apologies has typically focused on official apologies and asked whether they are perceived as sincere, reduce collective guilt, or promote forgiveness. In this talk, I will argue that this emphasis overlooks two central actors in […]

Reconciling Transparency and Theoretical Coherence: An Argumentation Framework to Design of Follow-Up Studies Dr. Kenzo Nera (FRS-FNRS, ULB, Belgium) Abstract: We contend that an overlooked cause of the tendency not to report null results – namely, the “file drawer” problem – lies in the difficulty of making coherent arguments out of mixed and non-significant results. […]

Improving Mediation Analysis in Psychology: Addressing Illusory Indirect Effects Driven by Causal Heterogeneity Prof Hilary Bergsieker (University of Waterloo, Canada) Statistical mediation analysis is both contested and widely used in psychology for testing theories about causal processes. First, I present a scoping review of mediation analyses from 3,889 eligible articles published between 2023 and 2024 in […]