Departmental Seminar – Matthias De Wilde
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, […]
Departmental Seminar – Charlie Stone
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 […]
Departmental Seminar – Gemma Saez
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 […]
Departmental Seminar – Christopher Cohrs
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 […]
Departmental Seminar – Julia Eberlen
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 […]
Department Seminar – Klaus Fiedler
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 […]
Department Seminar – Jean Louis Tavani
Parles moi de tes souvenirs, je te dirai qui tu es : Etudes expérimentales de la fonction identitaire de la mémoire collective Après avoir réalisé un bref rappel des liens entre mémoire et pensée sociale, nous nous attacherons à discuter des rapports existants entre ces concepts et l’identité sociale. Nous évoquerons ainsi des éléments […]
Department Seminar – Nicolas Kervyn
Drawing and reading the U.S. cognitive map: Interstate similarity in stereotypic ideology and prosperity predicts interstate liking What are the spontaneous stereotypes that U.S. citizens hold about the U.S.? We complement insights from previous theory-driven approaches to this question with insights from a novel data driven approach. Based on pile sorting (Study 1) / […]
