Departement Seminar

BIAS MAP- moderated by Social Dominance Orientation and Need of Cognitive Closure Nino Butsashvili Fiske’s BIAS Map model considers prejudice to various out-groups based on the out-group stereotypes, such as competence and warmth. The combination of these two creates a firm image of out-group representatives and causes respective emotions, which, in turn, lead to the […]

Exclusion of ethno-religious minorities in European countries: The role of immigrant integration policies and welfare policies Dr. Michael Savelkoul (Assistant Professor, Radboud University Nijmegen) During the past decades many European countries have become more diverse in terms of ethnic and religious groups. In our research we set out to rigorously test previous theoretical propositions that […]

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 […]