Departement Seminar

The smells of Christmas past and bouncing back from threat   Our ability to recall autobiographical memories is a building block of how we see ourselves, how we communicate with others, and how we solve problems. Personal memories are an important toolbox for a variety of psychological functions, and have been increasingly investigated for more […]

Does changing how people think influence their eating behaviour?   Many people aspire to eat more healthily, although there are various psychological obstacles that prevent them from doing so. We examined whether changing how people think might influence them to eat differently. In one set of studies we manipulated whether people thought about the present […]

 Auto-objectification sexuelle de la femme: Nouvelles perspectives      L’objectification sexuelle se définit généralement comme le fait de traiter un être humain comme un objet (pour une discussion voir Papadaki, 2010). En psychologie sociale, la théorie de l’objectification de Fredrickson et Robert (1997) propose que les femmes internalisent la perspective objectifiante que leur renvoie les médias, […]

Social aspects of memory (and decision-making) In this seminar I will discuss my five main areas of research. First, I will talk about my research examining socially shared retrieval-induced forgetting (SS-RIF). SS-RIF is the phenomenon by which the selective retrieval on the part of a speaker, in the course of a conversation, can induce both […]

Sexual Objectification among abusive and non-abusive romantic relationship context   Sexual objectification is one of the most common manifestations of female discrimination in western society. However, few studies have examined sexual objectification in the context of general romantic relationships and specifically among those romantic relationships where intimate partner violence (IPV) exists. This presentation will focus […]

Political Ideology: A Reconceptualization The concept of political ideology has reappeared as a powerful construct in social psychology. Most psychological research on ideology is based on simple unidimensional (bipolar) or two dimensional models that contrast “conservatives” and “liberals” and/or distinguish between a socio-cultural and an economic sphere. Based on insights from political theory, we approach […]

Social network structure and stereotype learning in a simulated population   Human beings are constantly in relation with each other, be it in direct contact or via telephone, internet or old-school postal services. These relations can be formally represented as networks on one level, and as the source for social learning on another. Considering that […]

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 […]