Events

Jun
07

Department Seminar – Yoshimiko Owaki

Free

Determinants of Language Acquisition and Immigrant Integration   What affects immigrants to acquire capitals and how are they generated? In an attempt to address the question, I first develop a model of immigrant language acquisition to identify the determinants of destination language proficiency. Subsequently, I extend the modeling framework to devise a model of immigrant […]

At 12 h 30 min
50 Avenue Antoine Depage - 1050 Brussels (Room DC8.322 - 8th floor, Building D, Campus Solbosch of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences - Université Libre de Bruxelles)
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May
31

AGS-CeSCuP-CECoS Joint Seminar – Andrea Carnaghi

Free

Homophobic epithets in the intergroup frame: Heterosexuals’ cognitive, affective and behavioral reactions to gay-bashing labels   In a recent Italian survey, 80% of those interviewed reported hearing acquaintances using homophobic labels very often (47.4 %) or sometimes (32.6%; Istituto Nazionale di Statistica [ISTAT], 2011). Though this portrays the Italian context as strongly homophobic, sexual prejudice […]

At 18 h 00 min
44 Avenue Jeanne - 1050 Bruxelles (Room Doucy - 12th floor, Building S, Campus Solbosch of the Institut de Sociologie - Université Libre de Bruxelles)
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May
31

Department Seminar – Colette van Laar

Free

Social Inequality: The role of Stigma and Self-Regulation   Van Laar’s work concentrates on the social psychological processes that transfer low social status into lower outcomes: how is it that negative stereotypes, low expectations, prejudice and discrimination affect members of stigmatized groups such as ethnic minorities and women to result in lower outcomes for example […]

At 12 h 30 min
50 Avenue Antoine Depage - 1050 Brussels (Room DC8.322 - 8th floor, Building D, Campus Solbosch of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences - Université Libre de Bruxelles)
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May
25

Department Seminar – Glenn Adams

Free

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 […]

At 12 h 30 min
50 Avenue Antoine Depage - 1050 Brussels (Room DC8.322 - 8th floor, Building D, Campus Solbosch of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences - Université Libre de Bruxelles)
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May
17

Department Seminar – Geeske Scholz

Free

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 […]

At 12 h 30 min
50 Avenue Antoine Depage - 1050 Brussels (Room DC8.322 - 8th floor, Building D, Campus Solbosch of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences - Université Libre de Bruxelles)
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May
10

Department Seminar – Claudia Toma

Free

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 […]

At 12 h 30 min
50 Avenue Antoine Depage - 1050 Brussels (Room DC8.322 - 8th floor, Building D, Campus Solbosch of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences - Université Libre de Bruxelles)
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Apr
26

Department Seminar – Jolanda Van der Noll

Free

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 […]

At 12 h 30 min
50 Avenue Antoine Depage - 1050 Brussels (Room DC8.322 - 8th floor, Building D, Campus Solbosch of the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences - Université Libre de Bruxelles)
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Apr
05

Department Seminar – Betty Chang

Free

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) […]

At 12 h 30 min
Room DC8.322 (8th floor, Building D, Campus Solbosch - Avenue A. Depage, 50, 1050 Brussels)
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