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 – 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 […]
