Departement Seminar

The psychology of social change and intergroup relations Dr. Hema Preya Selvanathan (Lecturer at the University of Queensland) Throughout history and in many regions around the world, people have engaged in collective action and participated in social movements to demand social change. My research aims to understand group processes around mobilisation for and against social […]

Voices from Georgia: How do Studies of Attitude Contribute to the New Knowledge? Prof. Nino Javakhishvili (Professor of social psychology, director of D. Uznadze Institute of Psychology, Ilia State University) Georgian and South Caucasian scholarly works are underrepresented on the international arena of social science research. One of the main reasons for this is the […]

Locals’ support for asylum seekers’ integration and rights: Exploring a normative model of support for Syrians in Turkey Dr. Yasin Duman (post-doctoral researcher at the Center for Social and Cultural Psychology at KU Leuven) and Dr. Canan Coşkan (she/they) who is an independent researcher with a scientific affiliation to the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on […]

Development and Validation of the Components of Emotion Understanding Test for a Multicultural Context Eva Sekwena (Ph.D. student at Ghent University and lecturer at the School of Industrial Psychology and Human Resources Management at Northwest University, Potchefstroom campus: South Africa) At the background of debates in emotional intelligence literature about the nature of the emotional […]

Embracing structural change: Identifying drivers of public support for transformative climate policies Dr Christoph Klebl (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Australia) Climate change cannot be successfully mitigated solely through individual-level actions. Structural change is urgently needed. It is therefore important to identify factors that influence the degree to which people are […]

The Dynamics of Collective Action Participation: Insights from two longitudinal panel studies in Chile Prof. Roberto González (Professor of Social Psychology, School of Psychology, P. Universidad Católica de Chile) This talk analyzes participation in collective action as a dynamic phenomenon that emerges and unfolds due to several socio-psychosocial factors. It brings together three studies that […]

Perceived Threats and Defensive Identities: A Psycho-Political investigation into Britishness in 2020 Dr Tabitha Baker (Bournemouth University, Lecturer in Politics, UK) In 2020, three political, social, and cultural significant events occurred within months of each other: Britain’s official exit from the European Union, the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the uprising of the Black […]

Rethinking the problem of misinformation Dr. Sacha Altay (Postdoctoral researcher, University of Zurich) People across the world are concerned about misinformation and conspiracy theories, scientists are developing interventions to fight it, and policy makers are pouring money into the field. Most of the misinformation hype is based on the idea that people are gullible, consume […]