Department Seminar – Colette van Laar
Social Inequality: The role of Stigma and Self-Regulation Van Laar’s work concentrates on the social psychological processes that transfer low social status into lower outcomes: how is it that negative stereotypes, low expectations, prejudice and discrimination affect members of stigmatized groups such as ethnic minorities and women to result in lower outcomes for example […]
Department Seminar – Glenn Adams
A cultural psychology approach to collective memory Cultural psychology approaches highlight the idea of mind in context: how person-based structures of mind that are the focus of most psychological research exist in a dynamic relationship of mutual constitution with affordances for mind in the structure of everyday cultural ecologies. An important implication concerns the […]
Department Seminar – Geeske Scholz
An introduction to agent-based modeling of human interactions using the example of social learning in group discussions Agent-based models offer the possibility to formalize theories on human decision making and behavior, and to test the consequences of formalized hypotheses in simulations. In such simulations, the consequences of different assumptions can be tested with high […]
Department Seminar – Claudia Toma
My accent is leaking out: Illusion of transparency in intergroup relations Everyday interaction requires that people anticipate how others see them. Those appraisals tend to be egocentrically biased, because people are focused on their own internal states and overestimate how salient they are to others. This phenomenon, called illusion of transparency, can drastically impair the […]
Department Seminar – Jolanda Van der Noll
Differentiated perspectives on attitudes towards Muslims and Islam In this presentation I will focus on two streams of research, in which we try to obtain a differentiated perspective on attitudes towards Muslims and Islam. The first line of studies deals with the liberal opposition towards Muslims and Islam. Focusing on attitudes towards the Muslim […]
Department Seminar – Betty Chang
How can we prime people to eat healthily? People often feel that they should eat healthily, but they don’t always follow through on this thought. In this talk I discuss a couple of ways that we can encourage people to eat healthily. This involves: a) exposing them to obese or thin models, and b) […]
Department Seminar – Valérie Haas & Brice Douffet // CANCELLED
** Update: This seminar has been cancelled ** Mémoires de guerre(s) Mémoires et oublis collectifs à travers la transmission par l’image ABSTRACT: L’objectif de notre intervention à deux voix sera de réfléchir à la manière dont la psychologie sociale traite -grâce à différents outils méthodologiques- la question de la mémoire sociale et collective. Plus […]
Department Seminar – Pia Lamberty
Fight the power? How conspiracy mentality affects people’s judgments ABSTRACT: Not only nowadays, conspiracy theories are widespread in (Western) societies. People believe that the lunar landing was a hoax and was staged in a movie set. Or they think that AIDS was created by the CIA and deliberately spread by the WHO via polio inoculations […]
