Departement Seminar

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 […]

More careful ≠ less carless: The comparative nature of counterfactual thoughts alters judgments of their impact Karl-Andrew Woltin (Professeur, Université Catholique de Louvain) A more-less asymmetry has been demonstrated in responses to claims about differences: People evaluate more positively, consider more likely true, and agree more with claims making more-than rather than less-than comparisons, presumably […]

Croire ou ne pas croire en la méritocratie scolaire : du confort individuel au désengagement collectif Céline Darnon (Professeure de psychologie sociale, Université Clermont Auvergne) Ce séminaire aura lieu en présentiel à l’adresse suivante : ULB Solbosch, local UB2.139 (Bâtiment U, porte B, local 139 au réz-de-chausse, plan ici: https://www.ulb.be/fr/solbosch/plan-du-campus).

Can individuals who (de)humanize immigrants the most be able to support them? The power of imagined positive contact Pinar Celik (Associate Professor, Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management) To what extent might intergroup contact interventions have a positive effect on individuals who dehumanise immigrants? Dehumanization is the psychological process of denying humanness to outgroup […]

The individual-level and nation-level predictors of willingness to believe conspiracy theories Prof. Matthew Hornsey (University of Queensland) In this talk I first review the cognitive, clinical, and ideological factors that predispose individuals to believe conspiracy theories. Drawing on a series of multinational datasets, I then examine why some nations are more prone to conspiracist thinking […]

Moralisation and its cognitive consequences: three studies Dr. Antoine Marie (Aarhus University) The projects I will present explore the cognitive consequences of moralisation. A) In the first one (https://osf.io/twq3y/), conditionally accepted at PNAS Nexus, we find that moralising an issue (gun control, abortion) and having an extreme attitude on it, increase intentions to share both […]