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 – 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 […]
Department Seminar – Almudena Claassen
Poverty & Obesity: How poverty and hunger influence food choices ABSTRACT: Although levels of overweight and obesity are increasing throughout the entire world, they tend to be higher among individuals from low socioeconomic status (SES) and those experiencing food insecurity. Previous research has shown that cues that indicate poverty make people eat more calories. The present research examines what […]
Department Seminar – Peter Hegarty
“Do you need a vagina for medical reasons?” How health professionals draw the line between ‘medically necessary’ and ‘cosmetic’ interventions in response to atypical sexed embodiment Medical interventions on the bodies of people who have atypically sexed bodies – that have been called both ‘intersex’ and ‘disorders of sex development’ have been controversial […]
Department Seminar – Laetitia Renier
Me voyez-vous tel que je me vois ? L’impact du narcissisme sur la méta-perception Notre société valorise les tendances narcissiques et celles-ci sont amplifiées par l’usage des médias sociaux. Les narcissiques développent de bonnes relations surtout à court terme, mais sont égocentriques et très préoccupés par l’image qu’ils donnent aux autres. Comprendre les difficultés relationnelles […]
Department Seminar – Pierre Petit
Lumumba, icône planétaire: La mise en image et en récit d’un héros africain contemporain Figure centrale de l’indépendance du Congo, Patrice Lumumba mourut en 1961 dans des conditions tragiques qui le firent célébrer comme martyr de par le monde – et plus particulièrement en Afrique, dans les pays de l’Est et dans les milieux […]
Department Seminar – Antoine Roblain
Quelles perspectives d’intégration pour les réfugiés? Analyse des intentions d’acculturation des demandeurs d’asile syriens et irakiens Depuis le début du conflit syrien, ce sont environ 12 millions de Syriens qui ont pris la voie de l’exil. Alors que 2 millions d’entre eux sont actuellement en Turquie, 506.597 migrants auraient passé les frontières de l’Europe (ReliefWeb, […]
Department Seminar – Ana Figueiredo
Representations of colonialism and present day intergroup relations: The cases of Congolese immigrants in Belgium and of Portuguese colonial war veterans Recent research has shown that, even if colonialism is now part of the past for many countries, the way people perceive and represent such a past influences (and is influenced) by present […]
