Monday, May 26th
11.00 - 12.30 Registration desk opens
Registrations will take place in the lobby of the S building. Entrance is located at Avenue Jeanne 44, 1050 Ixelles.
12.30 - 12.40 Opening ceremony
The award ceremony will take place in Salle Dupréel (building S, level 1).
12.40 - 14.00 Keynote 1 - Masi Noor
Building S, level 1 - Salle Dupréel
THE BATTLE OF GRIEVANCES: CONSOLIDATING THE IMPACT OF INTERGROUP COMPETITIVE VICTIMHOOD AND CHARTING NEW DIRECTIONS
Speaker - Prof. Dr. Masi Noor (Keele University, UK)
In this talk, I will review and update my work on intergroup competitive victimhood (CV). This concept refers to efforts by members of conflicting groups to assert that their group has suffered more than their adversaries. While my work on this concept began in 2008, CV was formally introduced in 2012 (Noor et al., PSPR), where we established its theoretical foundation, distinguished it from related constructs, explored its psychological drivers, and examined its consequential implications for intergroup relations. The first part of my talk will provide an overview of the growing body of literature inspired by CV, including findings from our latest meta-analysis encompassing over 37,000 participants across 51 studies. In the second part, I will chart new directions by arguing that CV is far more multifaceted than previously assumed. I will present new evidence demonstrating that CV manifests not only in direct competition but also in subtler, yet equally potent, forms: denying outgroup suffering, blaming the outgroup for their plight, demanding recognition of ingroup suffering, and moralising the ingroup’s victimhood. These insights contribute to a deeper understanding of CV’s complexity and its consequences for intergroup relations. In the final section, I will share my vision for social psychology as an evolving field, addressing questions of relevance and diversity.
THE BATTLE OF GRIEVANCES: CONSOLIDATING THE IMPACT OF INTERGROUP COMPETITIVE VICTIMHOOD AND CHARTING NEW DIRECTIONS
Speaker - Prof. Dr. Masi Noor (Keele University, UK)
In this talk, I will review and update my work on intergroup competitive victimhood (CV). This concept refers to efforts by members of conflicting groups to assert that their group has suffered more than their adversaries. While my work on this concept began in 2008, CV was formally introduced in 2012 (Noor et al., PSPR), where we established its theoretical foundation, distinguished it from related constructs, explored its psychological drivers, and examined its consequential implications for intergroup relations. The first part of my talk will provide an overview of the growing body of literature inspired by CV, including findings from our latest meta-analysis encompassing over 37,000 participants across 51 studies. In the second part, I will chart new directions by arguing that CV is far more multifaceted than previously assumed. I will present new evidence demonstrating that CV manifests not only in direct competition but also in subtler, yet equally potent, forms: denying outgroup suffering, blaming the outgroup for their plight, demanding recognition of ingroup suffering, and moralising the ingroup’s victimhood. These insights contribute to a deeper understanding of CV’s complexity and its consequences for intergroup relations. In the final section, I will share my vision for social psychology as an evolving field, addressing questions of relevance and diversity.
14.00 - 15.00 Coffee break // poster session 1
The coffee break and poster session 1 will take place in the lobby of the S building.
Please find your poster number below, you will need it to find your panel to hang up your poster before the start of your poster session:
1. Charlotte Paulis, Etienne Quertemont
Predictors and outcomes of a one-month alcohol abstinence campaign in Belgium
2. Fabienne Glowacz, Nell Oger
Childhood exposure to intimate partner violence: exploring professionnals’ practice and perceptions
3. Sofia Diaz Villamil, Emilie Caspar, Alison Mary
Minds in Conflict: Exploring Cognitive Impacts and Trauma Transmission in the Colombian Internal Armed Conflict
4. Marine Petit, Axelle Calcus, BeLAS Consortium, Ellen Demurie, Mikhail Kissine, Lotte Van Esch, Marielle Weyland, Arnaud Destrebecqz
Longitudinal Study: Exploring the Neurophysiological Development of Visual Statistical Learning and its Link to Language Development in Autistic Children
5. Mélissa Florian, Jennifer Denis, Justine Gaugue
The Challenges of High-Conflict Coparenting: Clarifying to Better Support?
6. Charlotte Auger, Maïté Camara Lopez
Validation of a Virtual Reality Tool for the Assessment of Prospective Memory
7. Léa Lacourt, Dimitri Cauchie, Marielle Bruyninckx
Psychological Assessment and Consultations with Children from different cultural backgrounds
8. Sylvain Gerin, Michael Andres
The Spatial Coding of Touch revealed by Spontaneous Gaze Behavior
9. Evelyne Fraats, Michael Nitsche, Emilie Caspar
Computational Models and Preliminary Findings on the Causal Influence of Empathy for Pain on Prosocial Disobedience Investigated with Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
10. Nathalie Castaigne, Alexandre Heeren
How do future projections influence pro-environmental attitudes, behaviours and related eco-emotions? A systematic review of experimental evidence.
11. Marianthi Terpini, Arnaud D'Argembeau
The Role of Future-Oriented Thinking in Self-Representation: Determinants of Accessibility Across Temporal Orientations and Levels of Abstraction
12. Sarah Dupont, Laurence Rousselle, Romina Rinaldi
Study of the functional impacts of specific learning disabilities on the school participation of children enrolled in mainstream primary education.
13. Lisa Santoro, Dimitri Cauchie, Marielle Bruyninckx
How is intercultural mediation used by healthcare professionals when working with elderly patients in the French-speaking part of Belgium?
14. Tessa Haesevoets, Bram Verschuere, Kim Dierckx, Alain Van Hiel, Arne Roets
Who do People Prefer to be in Charge? An In-Depth Analysis of Citizens’ Preferences for Politicians, Citizens, Experts, and/or Artificial Intelligence in Policymaking
15. Min Qiu, Kris Baetens, Frank Van Overwalle
Cerebellar anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) improves implicit mentalizing sequence learning: A double-blind sham-controlled study
16. Honglei Ou
Examining the Link Between Suppression-Induced Forgetting (SIF) and Rumination: Investigating the Potential Rebound Effect Over Short Intervals
17. Aurore Roland, Zosia Goossens
Nightmare frequency and the Big Five personality traits: A three-level meta-analysis
18. Ségolène Cardon
The influence of personal narratives on emotions and attitudes regarding a collective past: A Belgian case.
19. Oriane Meeus de Kemmeter, Clara Raucy Torres, Annalisa Soncini, Stijn Van Petegem
What do teachers think about parental involvement in schools? An interview-based study among Belgian teachers
20. Alessandro Valsecchi, Anouck Cochez, Yeasle Lee, Batja Mesquita
Learning through Exposure: The Emotional Acculturation of Belgian Students with Minority Peers in Class and in School
21. Laura Bourgaux, Genevieve Quek, Adélaïde de Heering
Are faces too salient to benefit from attentional facilitation in infancy?
22. Eva Mertens, Tim Vantilborgh, Sara De Gieter
Inertia as a stress resilience parameter
23. Mengjiao Ge, Gethin Hughes, Eva Van den Bussche
Cognitive Control in Media Users
24. Lotte Van Campenhout, Davide Cortinovis, Giulia Orlandi, Stefania Bracci
The Role of Visual Dimensions in the Emergence of Food Selectivity in the Ventral Pathway
25. Marte Vandeweyer, Elise Palmans, Lies Welkenhuyzen, Karla Michiels, Nele Potloot, Eva Van den Bussche, Céline Gillebert
Post-stroke cognitive control: A multiple case study
26. Aurélie Dewaele, Wendelien Vantieghem
DIversity SCreening in educatiOn (DISCO): a quantitative analysis of teachers’ competences in diversity sensitive education.
27. Aleksandr Fadeev, Stuyck Hans, Eva Van den Bussche
Bridging psychology and semiotics in the assessment of links between inner speech and insight (MSCA project)
28. Merel Van Loon, Emma De Schuyteneer, Elske Vrieze
The Stress-Eating Paradox: exploring individual variation in stress-related eating behaviours
29. Charlotte Boveroux, Anne-Françoise Rousseau, Charlotte Martial
Variability in near-death experience prototypical features across different precipitating factors: a large-scale retrospective analysis
30. Léa Henriette, Sonia Sistiaga, Audrey Uyttersprot, Federico Cassioli, Mandy Rossignol, Nellia Bellaert
French Validation of the Dimensional Anhedonia Rating Scale (DARS): Psychometric Properties Across Digital and Paper Formats
31. Lotte Albert, Eva Van den Bussche, Sarah De Pue
Trial-by-Trial Adaptations of Cognitive Control in Ageing
Please find your poster number below, you will need it to find your panel to hang up your poster before the start of your poster session:
1. Charlotte Paulis, Etienne Quertemont
Predictors and outcomes of a one-month alcohol abstinence campaign in Belgium
2. Fabienne Glowacz, Nell Oger
Childhood exposure to intimate partner violence: exploring professionnals’ practice and perceptions
3. Sofia Diaz Villamil, Emilie Caspar, Alison Mary
Minds in Conflict: Exploring Cognitive Impacts and Trauma Transmission in the Colombian Internal Armed Conflict
4. Marine Petit, Axelle Calcus, BeLAS Consortium, Ellen Demurie, Mikhail Kissine, Lotte Van Esch, Marielle Weyland, Arnaud Destrebecqz
Longitudinal Study: Exploring the Neurophysiological Development of Visual Statistical Learning and its Link to Language Development in Autistic Children
5. Mélissa Florian, Jennifer Denis, Justine Gaugue
The Challenges of High-Conflict Coparenting: Clarifying to Better Support?
6. Charlotte Auger, Maïté Camara Lopez
Validation of a Virtual Reality Tool for the Assessment of Prospective Memory
7. Léa Lacourt, Dimitri Cauchie, Marielle Bruyninckx
Psychological Assessment and Consultations with Children from different cultural backgrounds
8. Sylvain Gerin, Michael Andres
The Spatial Coding of Touch revealed by Spontaneous Gaze Behavior
9. Evelyne Fraats, Michael Nitsche, Emilie Caspar
Computational Models and Preliminary Findings on the Causal Influence of Empathy for Pain on Prosocial Disobedience Investigated with Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
10. Nathalie Castaigne, Alexandre Heeren
How do future projections influence pro-environmental attitudes, behaviours and related eco-emotions? A systematic review of experimental evidence.
11. Marianthi Terpini, Arnaud D'Argembeau
The Role of Future-Oriented Thinking in Self-Representation: Determinants of Accessibility Across Temporal Orientations and Levels of Abstraction
12. Sarah Dupont, Laurence Rousselle, Romina Rinaldi
Study of the functional impacts of specific learning disabilities on the school participation of children enrolled in mainstream primary education.
13. Lisa Santoro, Dimitri Cauchie, Marielle Bruyninckx
How is intercultural mediation used by healthcare professionals when working with elderly patients in the French-speaking part of Belgium?
14. Tessa Haesevoets, Bram Verschuere, Kim Dierckx, Alain Van Hiel, Arne Roets
Who do People Prefer to be in Charge? An In-Depth Analysis of Citizens’ Preferences for Politicians, Citizens, Experts, and/or Artificial Intelligence in Policymaking
15. Min Qiu, Kris Baetens, Frank Van Overwalle
Cerebellar anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) improves implicit mentalizing sequence learning: A double-blind sham-controlled study
16. Honglei Ou
Examining the Link Between Suppression-Induced Forgetting (SIF) and Rumination: Investigating the Potential Rebound Effect Over Short Intervals
17. Aurore Roland, Zosia Goossens
Nightmare frequency and the Big Five personality traits: A three-level meta-analysis
18. Ségolène Cardon
The influence of personal narratives on emotions and attitudes regarding a collective past: A Belgian case.
19. Oriane Meeus de Kemmeter, Clara Raucy Torres, Annalisa Soncini, Stijn Van Petegem
What do teachers think about parental involvement in schools? An interview-based study among Belgian teachers
20. Alessandro Valsecchi, Anouck Cochez, Yeasle Lee, Batja Mesquita
Learning through Exposure: The Emotional Acculturation of Belgian Students with Minority Peers in Class and in School
21. Laura Bourgaux, Genevieve Quek, Adélaïde de Heering
Are faces too salient to benefit from attentional facilitation in infancy?
22. Eva Mertens, Tim Vantilborgh, Sara De Gieter
Inertia as a stress resilience parameter
23. Mengjiao Ge, Gethin Hughes, Eva Van den Bussche
Cognitive Control in Media Users
24. Lotte Van Campenhout, Davide Cortinovis, Giulia Orlandi, Stefania Bracci
The Role of Visual Dimensions in the Emergence of Food Selectivity in the Ventral Pathway
25. Marte Vandeweyer, Elise Palmans, Lies Welkenhuyzen, Karla Michiels, Nele Potloot, Eva Van den Bussche, Céline Gillebert
Post-stroke cognitive control: A multiple case study
26. Aurélie Dewaele, Wendelien Vantieghem
DIversity SCreening in educatiOn (DISCO): a quantitative analysis of teachers’ competences in diversity sensitive education.
27. Aleksandr Fadeev, Stuyck Hans, Eva Van den Bussche
Bridging psychology and semiotics in the assessment of links between inner speech and insight (MSCA project)
28. Merel Van Loon, Emma De Schuyteneer, Elske Vrieze
The Stress-Eating Paradox: exploring individual variation in stress-related eating behaviours
29. Charlotte Boveroux, Anne-Françoise Rousseau, Charlotte Martial
Variability in near-death experience prototypical features across different precipitating factors: a large-scale retrospective analysis
30. Léa Henriette, Sonia Sistiaga, Audrey Uyttersprot, Federico Cassioli, Mandy Rossignol, Nellia Bellaert
French Validation of the Dimensional Anhedonia Rating Scale (DARS): Psychometric Properties Across Digital and Paper Formats
31. Lotte Albert, Eva Van den Bussche, Sarah De Pue
Trial-by-Trial Adaptations of Cognitive Control in Ageing
15.00 - 16.20 Parallel session 1
Building S, level 1 - Salle Dupréel
INVITED SYMPOSIUM 1
A SOCIAL AND NEUROSCIENCE APPROACH TO INTERGROUP BIASES IN PEACE AND POST-CONFLICT SOCIETIES
Chair - Emilie Caspar (UGent)
Presenters - Emilie Caspar (UGent), David M. Amodio (University of Amsterdam, NL), Jonathan Levy (Aalto University, FI)
Intergroup biases shape social dynamics, influencing reconciliation, prejudice formation, and hidden attitudes in both post-conflict and stable societies. This symposium brings together research from neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral sciences to explore how these biases emerge, persist, and evolve. Emilie Caspar examines the intergenerational transmission of intergroup biases in Rwanda, showing how past genocide influences both survivors and their descendants. David M. Amodio investigates how mere exposure to discriminatory rhetoric can unconsciously shape implicit prejudice through memory and learning systems. Jonathan Levy highlights the critical role of neuroimaging in uncovering intergroup bias, revealing how implicit biases can remain hidden in self-reports yet emerge in neural activity. Together, these talks provide a multidisciplinary perspective on the mechanisms underlying intergroup biases and their implications for social cohesion and conflict resolution.
INVITED SYMPOSIUM 1
A SOCIAL AND NEUROSCIENCE APPROACH TO INTERGROUP BIASES IN PEACE AND POST-CONFLICT SOCIETIES
Chair - Emilie Caspar (UGent)
Presenters - Emilie Caspar (UGent), David M. Amodio (University of Amsterdam, NL), Jonathan Levy (Aalto University, FI)
Intergroup biases shape social dynamics, influencing reconciliation, prejudice formation, and hidden attitudes in both post-conflict and stable societies. This symposium brings together research from neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral sciences to explore how these biases emerge, persist, and evolve. Emilie Caspar examines the intergenerational transmission of intergroup biases in Rwanda, showing how past genocide influences both survivors and their descendants. David M. Amodio investigates how mere exposure to discriminatory rhetoric can unconsciously shape implicit prejudice through memory and learning systems. Jonathan Levy highlights the critical role of neuroimaging in uncovering intergroup bias, revealing how implicit biases can remain hidden in self-reports yet emerge in neural activity. Together, these talks provide a multidisciplinary perspective on the mechanisms underlying intergroup biases and their implications for social cohesion and conflict resolution.
Building S, level 1 - Salle Somville
INVITED SYMPOSIUM 2
RAISING CHILDREN IN A CHANGING SOCIAL WORLD: HOW THE SOCIOCULTURAL CONTEXT SHAPES PARENTING
Chair - Stijn Van Petegem (ULB)
Presenters - Stijn Van Petegem (ULB), Elli-Anastasia Lamprianidou (ULB), Nele Flamant (UGent)
Throughout development, parents play an important role in the lives of children, adolescents and young adults. Through their parenting style and the emotional climate created within the family, they may support or hinder optimal development. As past research has shown, when parents are overprotective, controlling or abusive, they may set their children at risk for psychosocial difficulties and psychopathology, whereas a responsive and autonomy-supportive parenting style would foster development and psychosocial adjustment (e.g., Soenens et al., 2019). Considering these findings, researchers aimed to seek and identify the determinants of parents’ rearing style and practices. However, much of the empirical work in the psychological field remains limited to the identification of parent-related factors (e.g., personality, psychopathology, family history) and/or child-related factors (e.g., temperamental characteristics) as determinants of parenting. Although insightful, such research tends to disregard the larger sociocultural context in which these parent-child interactions are embedded. This is unfortunate from a scientific point of view, as well-known models of child development (e.g., Bronfenbrenner & Morris, 2006) stress the importance of considering the broader societal, economic, cultural and historical context. The problematic nature of this omission is further intensified by the fact that such approaches implicitly reinforce current trends towards “parent-blaming” (Bristow, 2014), whereby parents are criticized and held personally responsible for relying upon parenting strategies that are in fact attempts to adapt to a changing socio-economic reality. Indeed, the current sociocultural context is marked by many important shifts, including declines in social capital, increasing economic insecurity, climate change and geopolitical tensions, and other evolutions that may elicit worries about the future for the next generations (e.g., Doepke & Zilibotti, 2019; Stevens 2024). For this reason, the present symposium sought to identify the ways in which the broader sociocultural context shapes parenting.
INVITED SYMPOSIUM 2
RAISING CHILDREN IN A CHANGING SOCIAL WORLD: HOW THE SOCIOCULTURAL CONTEXT SHAPES PARENTING
Chair - Stijn Van Petegem (ULB)
Presenters - Stijn Van Petegem (ULB), Elli-Anastasia Lamprianidou (ULB), Nele Flamant (UGent)
Throughout development, parents play an important role in the lives of children, adolescents and young adults. Through their parenting style and the emotional climate created within the family, they may support or hinder optimal development. As past research has shown, when parents are overprotective, controlling or abusive, they may set their children at risk for psychosocial difficulties and psychopathology, whereas a responsive and autonomy-supportive parenting style would foster development and psychosocial adjustment (e.g., Soenens et al., 2019). Considering these findings, researchers aimed to seek and identify the determinants of parents’ rearing style and practices. However, much of the empirical work in the psychological field remains limited to the identification of parent-related factors (e.g., personality, psychopathology, family history) and/or child-related factors (e.g., temperamental characteristics) as determinants of parenting. Although insightful, such research tends to disregard the larger sociocultural context in which these parent-child interactions are embedded. This is unfortunate from a scientific point of view, as well-known models of child development (e.g., Bronfenbrenner & Morris, 2006) stress the importance of considering the broader societal, economic, cultural and historical context. The problematic nature of this omission is further intensified by the fact that such approaches implicitly reinforce current trends towards “parent-blaming” (Bristow, 2014), whereby parents are criticized and held personally responsible for relying upon parenting strategies that are in fact attempts to adapt to a changing socio-economic reality. Indeed, the current sociocultural context is marked by many important shifts, including declines in social capital, increasing economic insecurity, climate change and geopolitical tensions, and other evolutions that may elicit worries about the future for the next generations (e.g., Doepke & Zilibotti, 2019; Stevens 2024). For this reason, the present symposium sought to identify the ways in which the broader sociocultural context shapes parenting.
Building S, level 0 - Salle Baugniet
REGULAR SYMPOSIUM 1
ADVANCING NON-INVASIVE BRAIN STIMULATION: MECHANISMS, CHALLENGES, AND CLINICAL APPLICATIONS
Chair - Stefanie De Smet (UGent; Maastricht University, NL)
Presenters - Qinyuan Chen (UGent), Jens Allaert (UGent), Paula Horczak (UGent), Matias Pulopulos (UGent)
Non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) techniques, such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), have gained increasing attention as potential interventions for psychiatric disorders. Their non-invasive nature and accessibility make them appealing alternatives to pharmacological treatments. However, their effects remain inconsistent, influenced by factors such as stimulation parameters, individual variability, and placebo mechanisms. This symposium explores key challenges in the clinical and mechanistic understanding of NIBS, with a focus on cognitive-affective control and symptom modulation in depression and schizophrenia.
REGULAR SYMPOSIUM 1
ADVANCING NON-INVASIVE BRAIN STIMULATION: MECHANISMS, CHALLENGES, AND CLINICAL APPLICATIONS
Chair - Stefanie De Smet (UGent; Maastricht University, NL)
Presenters - Qinyuan Chen (UGent), Jens Allaert (UGent), Paula Horczak (UGent), Matias Pulopulos (UGent)
Non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) techniques, such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), have gained increasing attention as potential interventions for psychiatric disorders. Their non-invasive nature and accessibility make them appealing alternatives to pharmacological treatments. However, their effects remain inconsistent, influenced by factors such as stimulation parameters, individual variability, and placebo mechanisms. This symposium explores key challenges in the clinical and mechanistic understanding of NIBS, with a focus on cognitive-affective control and symptom modulation in depression and schizophrenia.
Building R, level 5 - 5.103
ORAL PRESENTATIONS 1
UNCERTAINTY AND ERROR AWARENESS
Presenters - Rrita Bajraktari (ULB), Mengqiao Chai (UGent), Catherine Culot (UGent)
The evolution of uncertainty in research throughout the replicability crisis.
Rrita Bajraktari (chair), Paul Bertin, Olivier Klein
Dynamic conjunctive and compositional task representations in the right frontal-parietal network support flexible task preparation
Mengqiao Chai, Iris Ikink, Stefania Mattioni, Ricardo Alejandro Benavides, Nanne Kukkonen, Mehdi Senoussi, Marcel Brass, Clay Holroyd, Senne Braem
From heartbeats to errors: investigating the link between interoceptive abilities and conscious error detection
Catherine Culot, Joran Engelschenschilt, Wim Gevers, Wim Notebaert
ORAL PRESENTATIONS 1
UNCERTAINTY AND ERROR AWARENESS
Presenters - Rrita Bajraktari (ULB), Mengqiao Chai (UGent), Catherine Culot (UGent)
The evolution of uncertainty in research throughout the replicability crisis.
Rrita Bajraktari (chair), Paul Bertin, Olivier Klein
Dynamic conjunctive and compositional task representations in the right frontal-parietal network support flexible task preparation
Mengqiao Chai, Iris Ikink, Stefania Mattioni, Ricardo Alejandro Benavides, Nanne Kukkonen, Mehdi Senoussi, Marcel Brass, Clay Holroyd, Senne Braem
From heartbeats to errors: investigating the link between interoceptive abilities and conscious error detection
Catherine Culot, Joran Engelschenschilt, Wim Gevers, Wim Notebaert
Building R, level 5 - 5.107
ORAL PRESENTATIONS 2
AUTISM AND NEURODIVERSITY
Presenters - Madyson Messiaen (UMons), Maura Nevejans (UGent), Clara Rapp (ULB), Joske Rijmen (UGent)
The Associations Between Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors in Children with Autism and Parenting stress: A Systematic Review
Madyson Messiaen (chair), Michel Sfeir, Justine Gaugue, Sarah Galdiolo
Relating oneself to others in time and space: A Relational Frame Theory account of perspective-taking and Theory of Mind in autism
Maura Nevejans, Jamie Cummins, Jan De Houwer, Emiel Cracco, Jan R. Wiersema
Evaluating sleep quality and circadian rhythms in pre-school autistic children using actigraphy: A feasibility study
Clara Rapp, Mikhaïl Kissine, Lotte Van Esch, Ellen Demurie, Ilse Noens, Herbert Roeyers, BeLAS Consortium, Gaétane Deliens
The Effect of Pink Noise on Neural Noise and ADHD Traits: A Critical Appraisal of the Moderate Brain Arousal Model
Joske Rijmen, Mehdi Senoussi, Jan R. Wiersema
ORAL PRESENTATIONS 2
AUTISM AND NEURODIVERSITY
Presenters - Madyson Messiaen (UMons), Maura Nevejans (UGent), Clara Rapp (ULB), Joske Rijmen (UGent)
The Associations Between Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors in Children with Autism and Parenting stress: A Systematic Review
Madyson Messiaen (chair), Michel Sfeir, Justine Gaugue, Sarah Galdiolo
Relating oneself to others in time and space: A Relational Frame Theory account of perspective-taking and Theory of Mind in autism
Maura Nevejans, Jamie Cummins, Jan De Houwer, Emiel Cracco, Jan R. Wiersema
Evaluating sleep quality and circadian rhythms in pre-school autistic children using actigraphy: A feasibility study
Clara Rapp, Mikhaïl Kissine, Lotte Van Esch, Ellen Demurie, Ilse Noens, Herbert Roeyers, BeLAS Consortium, Gaétane Deliens
The Effect of Pink Noise on Neural Noise and ADHD Traits: A Critical Appraisal of the Moderate Brain Arousal Model
Joske Rijmen, Mehdi Senoussi, Jan R. Wiersema
Building R, level 4 - 4.110
BAPS JUNIOR BOARD - WORKSHOP 1
MAKING RESEARCH ACCESSIBLE, HOSTED BY THE PODCAST MILGRAM DE SAVOIRS
Presenters - Julia Eberlen (ULB), Lauréline Fourdin (ULB), Sarah Leveaux (Engrainage Media), Inès Mentec (ULB)
BAPS JUNIOR BOARD - WORKSHOP 1
MAKING RESEARCH ACCESSIBLE, HOSTED BY THE PODCAST MILGRAM DE SAVOIRS
Presenters - Julia Eberlen (ULB), Lauréline Fourdin (ULB), Sarah Leveaux (Engrainage Media), Inès Mentec (ULB)
16.30 - 17.50 parallel session 2
Building S, level 1 - Salle Dupréel
INVITED SYMPOSIUM 3
THE POLITICS OF COLLECTIVE MEMORY: HISTORICAL NARRATIVES AND CONTEMPORARY ATTITUDES
Chairs - Anouk Smeekes (Utrecht University, NL) & Laurent Licata (ULB)
Presenters - Anouk Smeekes (Utrecht University, NL), Maria Babinska (ULB), Michał Bilewicz (University of Warsaw, PL), Jean Kalombo Mulimbi (Université de Lubumbashi, RDC; ULB), Laurent Licata (ULB)
This symposium explores the impact of collective memory on contemporary social and political attitudes, spanning diverse historical contexts and geographical regions. The four presentations examine how historical narratives shape group identity, political preferences, intergroup relations, and beliefs about social justice. The first presentation investigates the role of societal pessimism and national nostalgia in shaping support for populist radical-right parties in the Netherlands, highlighting how affective connections to a glorified past fuel contemporary political movements. The second presentation examines historical victim consciousness in Central and Eastern Europe, showing how exclusive narratives of victimhood distort Holocaust memory and shape national self-perceptions. Expanding on the theme of historical trauma, the third presentation explores the link between World War II-related collective memory and conspiratorial beliefs, showing how a sense of historical collective victimhood continues to influence these beliefs across multiple societies. Finally, the fourth presentation shifts focus to colonial history and restitution debates, analyzing how members of the Tabwa community in the Democratic Republic of the Congo perceive their colonial past and the return of stolen cultural artifacts and ancestral remains. Together, these studies underscore the lasting psychological and political consequences of collective memory. By investigating the interplay between historical narratives and contemporary attitudes, this symposium offers insights into how societies navigate the past to shape their present and future.
INVITED SYMPOSIUM 3
THE POLITICS OF COLLECTIVE MEMORY: HISTORICAL NARRATIVES AND CONTEMPORARY ATTITUDES
Chairs - Anouk Smeekes (Utrecht University, NL) & Laurent Licata (ULB)
Presenters - Anouk Smeekes (Utrecht University, NL), Maria Babinska (ULB), Michał Bilewicz (University of Warsaw, PL), Jean Kalombo Mulimbi (Université de Lubumbashi, RDC; ULB), Laurent Licata (ULB)
This symposium explores the impact of collective memory on contemporary social and political attitudes, spanning diverse historical contexts and geographical regions. The four presentations examine how historical narratives shape group identity, political preferences, intergroup relations, and beliefs about social justice. The first presentation investigates the role of societal pessimism and national nostalgia in shaping support for populist radical-right parties in the Netherlands, highlighting how affective connections to a glorified past fuel contemporary political movements. The second presentation examines historical victim consciousness in Central and Eastern Europe, showing how exclusive narratives of victimhood distort Holocaust memory and shape national self-perceptions. Expanding on the theme of historical trauma, the third presentation explores the link between World War II-related collective memory and conspiratorial beliefs, showing how a sense of historical collective victimhood continues to influence these beliefs across multiple societies. Finally, the fourth presentation shifts focus to colonial history and restitution debates, analyzing how members of the Tabwa community in the Democratic Republic of the Congo perceive their colonial past and the return of stolen cultural artifacts and ancestral remains. Together, these studies underscore the lasting psychological and political consequences of collective memory. By investigating the interplay between historical narratives and contemporary attitudes, this symposium offers insights into how societies navigate the past to shape their present and future.
Building S, level 1 - Salle Somville
INVITED SYMPOSIUM 4
CLOSING THE GAP: PATHWAYS TO DIVERSITY AND EQUITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Chairs - Orhan Agirdag & Jozefien De Leersnyder (KU Leuven)
Presenters - Lianne Mulder (Health Equity Research, NL), Jozefien De Leersnyder (KU Leuven), Khadija El Youssfi (VUB), Orhan Agirdag (KU Leuven)
Ensuring diversity and equity within higher education is pivotal for creating an inclusive academic environment and addressing persistent inequalities in educational outcomes. Despite decades of democratization efforts, higher education institutions across Belgium and Europe still struggle with significant ethnic, socioeconomic, and cultural disparities. This invited symposium highlights critical insights into mechanisms underlying these gaps and offers evidence-based strategies for improvement. The symposium addresses systemic inequalities in admission procedures, emphasizing how selection practices for psychology students inadvertently perpetuate ethnic and socioeconomic imbalances. It further explores how diversity climates, shaped significantly by lecturers' attitudes and pedagogical practices, influence ethnic minority students’ sense of belonging and academic achievement. Building on these themes, the role of professionalization in enhancing teachers’ cultural competencies is examined, identifying institutional approaches essential for fostering inclusive educational spaces. Finally, the symposium critically assesses the emerging role of generative AI tools in education, debating whether AI exacerbates existing achievement gaps or provides opportunities to bridge disparities. Together, these contributions underscore the necessity of deliberate, informed interventions aimed at achieving genuine inclusivity and equity within higher education institutions.
INVITED SYMPOSIUM 4
CLOSING THE GAP: PATHWAYS TO DIVERSITY AND EQUITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Chairs - Orhan Agirdag & Jozefien De Leersnyder (KU Leuven)
Presenters - Lianne Mulder (Health Equity Research, NL), Jozefien De Leersnyder (KU Leuven), Khadija El Youssfi (VUB), Orhan Agirdag (KU Leuven)
Ensuring diversity and equity within higher education is pivotal for creating an inclusive academic environment and addressing persistent inequalities in educational outcomes. Despite decades of democratization efforts, higher education institutions across Belgium and Europe still struggle with significant ethnic, socioeconomic, and cultural disparities. This invited symposium highlights critical insights into mechanisms underlying these gaps and offers evidence-based strategies for improvement. The symposium addresses systemic inequalities in admission procedures, emphasizing how selection practices for psychology students inadvertently perpetuate ethnic and socioeconomic imbalances. It further explores how diversity climates, shaped significantly by lecturers' attitudes and pedagogical practices, influence ethnic minority students’ sense of belonging and academic achievement. Building on these themes, the role of professionalization in enhancing teachers’ cultural competencies is examined, identifying institutional approaches essential for fostering inclusive educational spaces. Finally, the symposium critically assesses the emerging role of generative AI tools in education, debating whether AI exacerbates existing achievement gaps or provides opportunities to bridge disparities. Together, these contributions underscore the necessity of deliberate, informed interventions aimed at achieving genuine inclusivity and equity within higher education institutions.
Building S, level 0 - Salle Baugniet
REGULAR SYMPOSIUM 2
INTERGROUP BIASES ACROSS CULTURES
Chair - Yuchao Wang (KU Leuven)
Presenters - Sofía Ardaya Velarde (ULB), Guillaume Pech (ULB), Yuchao Wang (KU Leuven)
The first paper of Ardaya Velarde and colleagues, entitled Perception of Sexism in Political Discourses, discusses how sexism in political discourse can take different forms, including hostile, benevolent, and modern sexism. While research on the perception of sexism in political speeches remains limited, it is crucial to understand how these forms shape candidate evaluation and policy support. In this study, we developed and validated a new scale to assess sexism in political discourses. Using a 2x4 experimental design (politician’s gender: male vs. female; type of sexism: control, benevolent, hostile, modern), we tested how these factors influence the perception of sexism across two cultural contexts: Belgium (N = 72) and Chile (N = 359). Additionally, we examined the relationships between perceived sexism, candidate likeability, support for gender equality policies, and electoral support. The results show that perceiving a speech as sexist is negatively correlated with candidate likeability, policy support, and electoral support. However, the patterns vary depending on the type of sexism perceived, suggesting that not all forms of sexism are equally detrimental to a politician’s image. These findings highlight the importance of how sexism is conveyed in political discourse and its potential consequences for both candidate evaluations and policy endorsement. Future research will further validate these findings in an English-speaking context to assess cross-cultural generalizability.
In the second paper, Pech & Caspar investigated the influence of conformity and obedience on intentions to help a child whose relative had caused harm to the participant’s family during historical events of violence. Participants from Belgium, Cambodia, and Rwanda faced different social scenarios with two types of social influence and had to choose whether to respond helpfully. A multi-method and cross-cultural approach combining self-reports, behaviors, reaction times (RTs), and EEG data was used. Participants explicitly reported being more influenced by authority (obedience) than by a group (conformity), a finding supported by faster RTs when following authority recommendations compared to either a group or an individual alone (compliance). However, behavioral and neural data showed no distinction between obedience and conformity. Behaviorally, authority and group influences exceeded individual influence but did not differ significantly. EEG results revealed higher mid-frontal theta (FMθ) activity for both the authority and the group indicating stronger inhibition of alternative choices compared to individual compliance. These results suggest that the type of measurement impacts the observed influence of authority and conformity, thus posing interesting questions regarding what may influence real behaviors. Variations were observed between countries, highlighting the importance of accounting for cross-cultural differences and avoiding generalization from a single population sample.
The third paper examines gender bias at the individual level, entitled How Gender Egalitarian Attitudes Relate to Androcentric Bias: Evidence from WEIRD and Non-WEIRD Samples. Androcentrism refers to the tendency to center society around men and men's experiences, needs and values while marginalizing women and other genders. Theories of androcentrism argue that men are viewed as default or gender-neutral, whereas women are viewed as gendered. Thinking that men are more representative of broader categories such as “person” exemplifies androcentric bias. Building on previous research demonstrating that androcentrism decreases with increasing societal gender equality, we examine how individual gender egalitarianism is associated with androcentric bias using explicit and implicit measures. Across two studies in Belgian (WEIRD, N = 596) and Chinese (non-WEIRD, N = 316) samples, explicit androcentrism was measured through face selection and trait ratings for a “typical human”, along with self-reported androcentric ideology. Implicit androcentrism was measured using an adapted implicit association test (IAT) to capture cognitive associations between person/gender categories and men/women. Explicit gender egalitarianism was assessed using three scales for gender role attitudes and beliefs, while implicit egalitarianism was measured with the gender-career IAT. Results showed that individuals with more traditional gender role attitudes, less malleable gender role beliefs, and stronger gender essentialism showed more androcentric bias and ideology, particularly men participants. These relationships were consistent across both Belgian and Chinese contexts. However, there was limited evidence for such a relationship in implicit form. These findings suggest that egalitarian beliefs may motivate individuals, especially men, to be less androcentric across both WEIRD and non-WEIRD contexts. This highlights the potential of promoting gender egalitarian beliefs to counter androcentric bias at the individual level.
REGULAR SYMPOSIUM 2
INTERGROUP BIASES ACROSS CULTURES
Chair - Yuchao Wang (KU Leuven)
Presenters - Sofía Ardaya Velarde (ULB), Guillaume Pech (ULB), Yuchao Wang (KU Leuven)
The first paper of Ardaya Velarde and colleagues, entitled Perception of Sexism in Political Discourses, discusses how sexism in political discourse can take different forms, including hostile, benevolent, and modern sexism. While research on the perception of sexism in political speeches remains limited, it is crucial to understand how these forms shape candidate evaluation and policy support. In this study, we developed and validated a new scale to assess sexism in political discourses. Using a 2x4 experimental design (politician’s gender: male vs. female; type of sexism: control, benevolent, hostile, modern), we tested how these factors influence the perception of sexism across two cultural contexts: Belgium (N = 72) and Chile (N = 359). Additionally, we examined the relationships between perceived sexism, candidate likeability, support for gender equality policies, and electoral support. The results show that perceiving a speech as sexist is negatively correlated with candidate likeability, policy support, and electoral support. However, the patterns vary depending on the type of sexism perceived, suggesting that not all forms of sexism are equally detrimental to a politician’s image. These findings highlight the importance of how sexism is conveyed in political discourse and its potential consequences for both candidate evaluations and policy endorsement. Future research will further validate these findings in an English-speaking context to assess cross-cultural generalizability.
In the second paper, Pech & Caspar investigated the influence of conformity and obedience on intentions to help a child whose relative had caused harm to the participant’s family during historical events of violence. Participants from Belgium, Cambodia, and Rwanda faced different social scenarios with two types of social influence and had to choose whether to respond helpfully. A multi-method and cross-cultural approach combining self-reports, behaviors, reaction times (RTs), and EEG data was used. Participants explicitly reported being more influenced by authority (obedience) than by a group (conformity), a finding supported by faster RTs when following authority recommendations compared to either a group or an individual alone (compliance). However, behavioral and neural data showed no distinction between obedience and conformity. Behaviorally, authority and group influences exceeded individual influence but did not differ significantly. EEG results revealed higher mid-frontal theta (FMθ) activity for both the authority and the group indicating stronger inhibition of alternative choices compared to individual compliance. These results suggest that the type of measurement impacts the observed influence of authority and conformity, thus posing interesting questions regarding what may influence real behaviors. Variations were observed between countries, highlighting the importance of accounting for cross-cultural differences and avoiding generalization from a single population sample.
The third paper examines gender bias at the individual level, entitled How Gender Egalitarian Attitudes Relate to Androcentric Bias: Evidence from WEIRD and Non-WEIRD Samples. Androcentrism refers to the tendency to center society around men and men's experiences, needs and values while marginalizing women and other genders. Theories of androcentrism argue that men are viewed as default or gender-neutral, whereas women are viewed as gendered. Thinking that men are more representative of broader categories such as “person” exemplifies androcentric bias. Building on previous research demonstrating that androcentrism decreases with increasing societal gender equality, we examine how individual gender egalitarianism is associated with androcentric bias using explicit and implicit measures. Across two studies in Belgian (WEIRD, N = 596) and Chinese (non-WEIRD, N = 316) samples, explicit androcentrism was measured through face selection and trait ratings for a “typical human”, along with self-reported androcentric ideology. Implicit androcentrism was measured using an adapted implicit association test (IAT) to capture cognitive associations between person/gender categories and men/women. Explicit gender egalitarianism was assessed using three scales for gender role attitudes and beliefs, while implicit egalitarianism was measured with the gender-career IAT. Results showed that individuals with more traditional gender role attitudes, less malleable gender role beliefs, and stronger gender essentialism showed more androcentric bias and ideology, particularly men participants. These relationships were consistent across both Belgian and Chinese contexts. However, there was limited evidence for such a relationship in implicit form. These findings suggest that egalitarian beliefs may motivate individuals, especially men, to be less androcentric across both WEIRD and non-WEIRD contexts. This highlights the potential of promoting gender egalitarian beliefs to counter androcentric bias at the individual level.
Building R, level 5 - 5.103
ORAL PRESENTATIONS 3
PARENTING AND SOCIAL INTERACTIONS
Presenters - Katrijn Brenning (UGent), Kim Dierckx (UGent), Anthony Mauroy (UMons), Martin Rouard (UCLouvain)
The Pressured Parent Phenomenon: On The Potential Role of Self-Compassion in Early Parental Well-Being
Katrijn Brenning (chair), Lumein Hillewaert
Can Intergroup Contact “Backfire”? Direct and Indirect Secondary Transfer Effects of Majority Group Member Friendships Among Belgian Muslim Adolescents
Kim Dierckx, Alain Van Hiel, Charlotte Maene, Peter Stevens, Jasper Van Assche
Empathic Accuracy Across Childhood, Adolescence, and Within Parent-Child Interactions: A Systematic Review
Anthony Mauroy, Sarah Galdiolo, Sandie Meillerais, Lesley Verhofstadt, Justine Gaugue
Comparing Reality to What Could Have Been: Effects of self-generated Counterfactual thoughts on the Willingness to Reconcile in interpersonal Conflicts.
Martin Rouard, Karl-Andrew Woltin, Stéphanie Demoulin
ORAL PRESENTATIONS 3
PARENTING AND SOCIAL INTERACTIONS
Presenters - Katrijn Brenning (UGent), Kim Dierckx (UGent), Anthony Mauroy (UMons), Martin Rouard (UCLouvain)
The Pressured Parent Phenomenon: On The Potential Role of Self-Compassion in Early Parental Well-Being
Katrijn Brenning (chair), Lumein Hillewaert
Can Intergroup Contact “Backfire”? Direct and Indirect Secondary Transfer Effects of Majority Group Member Friendships Among Belgian Muslim Adolescents
Kim Dierckx, Alain Van Hiel, Charlotte Maene, Peter Stevens, Jasper Van Assche
Empathic Accuracy Across Childhood, Adolescence, and Within Parent-Child Interactions: A Systematic Review
Anthony Mauroy, Sarah Galdiolo, Sandie Meillerais, Lesley Verhofstadt, Justine Gaugue
Comparing Reality to What Could Have Been: Effects of self-generated Counterfactual thoughts on the Willingness to Reconcile in interpersonal Conflicts.
Martin Rouard, Karl-Andrew Woltin, Stéphanie Demoulin
Building R, level 5 - 5.107
ORAL PRESENTATIONS 4
CONFIDENCE AND DECISION-MAKING
Presenters - Andrea Burda (ULB), Hélène Van Marcke (KU Leuven), Luchuan Xiao (VUB)
Is cognitive effort a paradox? Investigating our Need for Cognition
Andrea Burda (chair), Gaia Corlazzoli, Wim Gevers
Experimentally Induced Prior Beliefs Dissociate the Role of Confidence in Information Seeking
Hélène Van Marcke, Kobe Desender
Visual perception and metacognition in highly sensitive individuals: Insights from an orientation discrimination task
Luchuan Xiao, Kris Baetens, Natacha Deroost
ORAL PRESENTATIONS 4
CONFIDENCE AND DECISION-MAKING
Presenters - Andrea Burda (ULB), Hélène Van Marcke (KU Leuven), Luchuan Xiao (VUB)
Is cognitive effort a paradox? Investigating our Need for Cognition
Andrea Burda (chair), Gaia Corlazzoli, Wim Gevers
Experimentally Induced Prior Beliefs Dissociate the Role of Confidence in Information Seeking
Hélène Van Marcke, Kobe Desender
Visual perception and metacognition in highly sensitive individuals: Insights from an orientation discrimination task
Luchuan Xiao, Kris Baetens, Natacha Deroost
Building R, level 4 - 4.110
BAPS JUNIOR BOARD - WORKSHOP 2 (Panel discussion)
UNCERTAINTY IN THE ACADEMIC CAREER PATH
Presenters - Emiel Cracco (UGent), Inès Mentec (ULB), Annabel Nijhof (UGent) & Emma Sarter (UCLouvain)
BAPS JUNIOR BOARD - WORKSHOP 2 (Panel discussion)
UNCERTAINTY IN THE ACADEMIC CAREER PATH
Presenters - Emiel Cracco (UGent), Inès Mentec (ULB), Annabel Nijhof (UGent) & Emma Sarter (UCLouvain)
17.50 - 20.00 Reception
The reception will take place in the lobby of the S building.
Tuesday, May 27th
09.00 - 10.20 parallel session 3
Building S, level 1 - Salle Dupréel
INVITED SYMPOSIUM 5
CAN DIGITAL TOOLS HELP BRIDGE THE INEQUALITY GAP IN HEALTH? INSIGHTS FROM HEALTH LITERACY, REACH, ACCEPTABILITY AND EFFICACY
Chair - Ann DeSmet (ULB; UA)
Presenters - Ann DeSmet (ULB; UA), Nynke Van der Laan (Tilburg University, NL), Stephan Van den Broucke (UCLouvain), Olivier Klein (ULB)
Mobile health (mHealth) interventions are interventions that use mobile, often Internet-supported, tools such as smartphone applications, tablets, wearables (e.g., smart watches and pedometers), and personal digital assistants (PDAs) to promote health, illness self-management, or remotely support treatment. They potentially have a high reach, low threshold and are available to people at the exact time they need it. As such, mHealth interventions carry the added potential of a higher retention rate at population scale compared to non-mHealth interventions. Despite the potential of digital technologies, questions remain about the actual public health impact of mHealth interventions in their ability to reduce health inequalities. Certain groups of the population are known to have a lower adoption of health behaviors and to experience lower access to health care and/or higher morbidity, including people from ethnic minorities, from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, from sexual minorities, people with lower health literacy levels, with a lower educational status, or women in certain patriarchy cultures. Moreover, these groups of the population may also experience more barriers to using mobile health apps. This thus raises the question whether and how digital tools can help bridge the health inequality gap. This will be addressed in three research talks and summarized in a general discussion at the end of the symposium. The first talk by Ann DeSmet (ULB; UA) addresses the question whether there is evidence of a digital health divide that can increase health inequalities, by presenting findings from two systematic reviews. A second and third talk next address how to reduce potential digital health inequalities. The second talk by Nynke Van der Laan (Tilburg University) presents findings from a project to prevent digitalization from exacerbating existing health disparities and will focus on insights from the advisory panel and an experimental survey. A third talk by Stephan Van den Broucke (UC Louvain) will present research findings and best practices on how to increase digital health literacy. Olivier Klein (ULB) will act as discussant to tie together conclusions and suggestions for further research across the three talks.
INVITED SYMPOSIUM 5
CAN DIGITAL TOOLS HELP BRIDGE THE INEQUALITY GAP IN HEALTH? INSIGHTS FROM HEALTH LITERACY, REACH, ACCEPTABILITY AND EFFICACY
Chair - Ann DeSmet (ULB; UA)
Presenters - Ann DeSmet (ULB; UA), Nynke Van der Laan (Tilburg University, NL), Stephan Van den Broucke (UCLouvain), Olivier Klein (ULB)
Mobile health (mHealth) interventions are interventions that use mobile, often Internet-supported, tools such as smartphone applications, tablets, wearables (e.g., smart watches and pedometers), and personal digital assistants (PDAs) to promote health, illness self-management, or remotely support treatment. They potentially have a high reach, low threshold and are available to people at the exact time they need it. As such, mHealth interventions carry the added potential of a higher retention rate at population scale compared to non-mHealth interventions. Despite the potential of digital technologies, questions remain about the actual public health impact of mHealth interventions in their ability to reduce health inequalities. Certain groups of the population are known to have a lower adoption of health behaviors and to experience lower access to health care and/or higher morbidity, including people from ethnic minorities, from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, from sexual minorities, people with lower health literacy levels, with a lower educational status, or women in certain patriarchy cultures. Moreover, these groups of the population may also experience more barriers to using mobile health apps. This thus raises the question whether and how digital tools can help bridge the health inequality gap. This will be addressed in three research talks and summarized in a general discussion at the end of the symposium. The first talk by Ann DeSmet (ULB; UA) addresses the question whether there is evidence of a digital health divide that can increase health inequalities, by presenting findings from two systematic reviews. A second and third talk next address how to reduce potential digital health inequalities. The second talk by Nynke Van der Laan (Tilburg University) presents findings from a project to prevent digitalization from exacerbating existing health disparities and will focus on insights from the advisory panel and an experimental survey. A third talk by Stephan Van den Broucke (UC Louvain) will present research findings and best practices on how to increase digital health literacy. Olivier Klein (ULB) will act as discussant to tie together conclusions and suggestions for further research across the three talks.
Building S, level 1 - Salle Somville
INVITED SYMPOSIUM 6
COGNITIVE UNDERPINNINGS OF MONITORING AND CONTROL
Chair - Kobe Desender (KU Leuven)
Presenters - Janne Reynders (UGent), Charlotte Anckaert (ULB), Alex Lietard (KU Leuven), Constance Destais (PjSE)
The symposium explores the cognitive mechanisms underlying value-based decision making with a special interest in the role of confidence. It brings together researchers from different universities who examine how humans adapt their decision strategies based on environmental demands, how confidence is updated and modulated by decision revisions, and how metacognitive factors like confidence influence learning processes such as reinforcement learning and the confirmation bias. A central theme is the interaction between confidence and decision-making strategies, highlighting the cognitive and computational models that explain these processes. The symposium consists of a series of presentations by researchers from different institutions, each focusing on a distinct yet related aspect of decision-making and confidence.
INVITED SYMPOSIUM 6
COGNITIVE UNDERPINNINGS OF MONITORING AND CONTROL
Chair - Kobe Desender (KU Leuven)
Presenters - Janne Reynders (UGent), Charlotte Anckaert (ULB), Alex Lietard (KU Leuven), Constance Destais (PjSE)
The symposium explores the cognitive mechanisms underlying value-based decision making with a special interest in the role of confidence. It brings together researchers from different universities who examine how humans adapt their decision strategies based on environmental demands, how confidence is updated and modulated by decision revisions, and how metacognitive factors like confidence influence learning processes such as reinforcement learning and the confirmation bias. A central theme is the interaction between confidence and decision-making strategies, highlighting the cognitive and computational models that explain these processes. The symposium consists of a series of presentations by researchers from different institutions, each focusing on a distinct yet related aspect of decision-making and confidence.
Building S, level 0 - Salle Baugniet
REGULAR SYMPOSIUM 3
UNDER THE COVERS: SLEEP AS A SILENT FORCE IN HEALTH, BONDING, AND PERFORMANCE
Chair - Olivier Mairesse (VUB)
Presenters - Aurore Roland (VUB), Zosia Goossens (VUB), Louise Staring (VUB), Lucas Van Ruysevelt (VUB)
Sleep is a silent yet powerful force that interacts with psychological, physiological, and social factors across various contexts. Professor Olivier Mairesse will introduce the session with essential background on sleep science, followed by four speakers addressing key aspects of sleep regulation and disruption. The first talk will discuss why many insomnia patients do not seek cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) despite its proven efficacy, identifying new barriers beyond awareness and financial constraints. The second talk will examine sleep disturbances in women with endometriosis, highlighting the complex, bidirectional relationship between pain and sleep. The third talk will explore how affective touch may be linked with sleep by supporting emotional regulation and attachment security. Finally, we will shift the focus to esports athletes, investigating how sleep disturbances and mental health challenges impact performance and well-being. Together, these talks provide a broad overview of sleep and its implications for therapy, health interventions, and performance optimization. Every presentation will be followed by a Q&A session.
REGULAR SYMPOSIUM 3
UNDER THE COVERS: SLEEP AS A SILENT FORCE IN HEALTH, BONDING, AND PERFORMANCE
Chair - Olivier Mairesse (VUB)
Presenters - Aurore Roland (VUB), Zosia Goossens (VUB), Louise Staring (VUB), Lucas Van Ruysevelt (VUB)
Sleep is a silent yet powerful force that interacts with psychological, physiological, and social factors across various contexts. Professor Olivier Mairesse will introduce the session with essential background on sleep science, followed by four speakers addressing key aspects of sleep regulation and disruption. The first talk will discuss why many insomnia patients do not seek cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) despite its proven efficacy, identifying new barriers beyond awareness and financial constraints. The second talk will examine sleep disturbances in women with endometriosis, highlighting the complex, bidirectional relationship between pain and sleep. The third talk will explore how affective touch may be linked with sleep by supporting emotional regulation and attachment security. Finally, we will shift the focus to esports athletes, investigating how sleep disturbances and mental health challenges impact performance and well-being. Together, these talks provide a broad overview of sleep and its implications for therapy, health interventions, and performance optimization. Every presentation will be followed by a Q&A session.
Building R, level 5 - 5.103
ORAL PRESENTATIONS 5
OBEDIENCE AND MORALITY
Presenters - Dries Bostyn (UGent), Louise De Meulenaer (UGent), Kai Shaman (UGent)
Beyond the Trolley Problem: Moral Choices and Motivations in a Real-life Sacrificial Dilemma
Dries Bostyn (chair)
Priming (dis)obedience
Louise De Meulenaer, Emilie Caspar
Too Tired to Resist or Too Tired to Obey: The Effect of Fatigue on Obedience to Immoral Orders
Kai Shaman, Emilie Caspar
ORAL PRESENTATIONS 5
OBEDIENCE AND MORALITY
Presenters - Dries Bostyn (UGent), Louise De Meulenaer (UGent), Kai Shaman (UGent)
Beyond the Trolley Problem: Moral Choices and Motivations in a Real-life Sacrificial Dilemma
Dries Bostyn (chair)
Priming (dis)obedience
Louise De Meulenaer, Emilie Caspar
Too Tired to Resist or Too Tired to Obey: The Effect of Fatigue on Obedience to Immoral Orders
Kai Shaman, Emilie Caspar
Building R, level 5 - 5.107
ORAL PRESENTATIONS 6
POLITICAL BEHAVIOR
Presenters - Nils Demurie (UGent), Alessandro Mazza (KU Leuven), Jasper Neerdaels (KU Leuven), Myrto Pantazi (University of Amsterdam; NL)
The influence of moral disengagement on pro-environmental behavior
Nils Demurie (chair), Kim Dierckx, Arne Roets, Alain Van Hiel
Investigating the Impact of Moral Conviction on Cognitive Control: A Pilot Study
Alessandro Mazza, Eva Van den Bussche
Politics of Envy? Deservingness Beliefs, Not Envy, Drive Support for Redistribution
Jasper Neerdaels, Lisa Blatz, Jan Crusius
Out of reach: The role of Psychological Distance to Politics in Predicting Anti-Democratic Political Attitudes
Myrto Pantazi, Kostas Papaioannou
ORAL PRESENTATIONS 6
POLITICAL BEHAVIOR
Presenters - Nils Demurie (UGent), Alessandro Mazza (KU Leuven), Jasper Neerdaels (KU Leuven), Myrto Pantazi (University of Amsterdam; NL)
The influence of moral disengagement on pro-environmental behavior
Nils Demurie (chair), Kim Dierckx, Arne Roets, Alain Van Hiel
Investigating the Impact of Moral Conviction on Cognitive Control: A Pilot Study
Alessandro Mazza, Eva Van den Bussche
Politics of Envy? Deservingness Beliefs, Not Envy, Drive Support for Redistribution
Jasper Neerdaels, Lisa Blatz, Jan Crusius
Out of reach: The role of Psychological Distance to Politics in Predicting Anti-Democratic Political Attitudes
Myrto Pantazi, Kostas Papaioannou
Building R, level 5 - 5.110
ORAL PRESENTATIONS 7
CHILD AND INFANT COGNITION
Presenters - Yulia Chernyshkova (ULB), Lauréline Fourdin (ULB), Irene Oeo Morín (KU Leuven), Dimitri Voisin (ULB)
The Role of Emotional Valence and Trait-Anxiety in Associative Memory: A Developmental Perspective
Yulia Chernyshkova (chair), Marine Thieux, Lucie Rose, Klara Kovarski, Charline Urbain
Do Visual Statistical Learning depend more on Brain Maturation or Experience?
Lauréline Fourdin, Morgane Colin, Dominique Grossman, Florence Christiaens, Arnaud Destrebecqz, Alec Aeby, Julie Bertels
Individual Differences in Preschool Children's Numerosity Perception
Irene Oeo Morín, Fien Depaepe, Bert Reynvoet
Does sleep convert implicit into explicit knowledge in children ?
Dimitri Voisin, Philippe Peigneux, Charline Urbain
ORAL PRESENTATIONS 7
CHILD AND INFANT COGNITION
Presenters - Yulia Chernyshkova (ULB), Lauréline Fourdin (ULB), Irene Oeo Morín (KU Leuven), Dimitri Voisin (ULB)
The Role of Emotional Valence and Trait-Anxiety in Associative Memory: A Developmental Perspective
Yulia Chernyshkova (chair), Marine Thieux, Lucie Rose, Klara Kovarski, Charline Urbain
Do Visual Statistical Learning depend more on Brain Maturation or Experience?
Lauréline Fourdin, Morgane Colin, Dominique Grossman, Florence Christiaens, Arnaud Destrebecqz, Alec Aeby, Julie Bertels
Individual Differences in Preschool Children's Numerosity Perception
Irene Oeo Morín, Fien Depaepe, Bert Reynvoet
Does sleep convert implicit into explicit knowledge in children ?
Dimitri Voisin, Philippe Peigneux, Charline Urbain
Building R, level 4 - 4.110
BAPS JUNIOR BOARD - WORKSHOP 3
TACKLING THE REPLICABILITY CRISIS
Presenter - Irem Öz (UCLouvain)
BAPS JUNIOR BOARD - WORKSHOP 3
TACKLING THE REPLICABILITY CRISIS
Presenter - Irem Öz (UCLouvain)
10.20 - 11.20 Coffee break // poster session 2
The coffee break and poster session 2 will take place in the lobby of the S building.
Please find your poster number below, you will need it to find your panel to hang up your poster before the start of your poster session:
32. Abdel Bensallam El Yahyaoui, Nathan Pudles, Sabine Pohl, Catherine Hellemans
Professional relationships in hybrid work: the role of group and organizational factors
33. Lyse Gathoye, Christophe Lejeune, Valentine Vanootighem
When belief shapes narrative: Exploring discursive differences between believed and nonbelieved memories.
34. Marie Meunier, Ezio Tirelli, Nancy Durieux, François Léonard
Mozart effect: A meta-research study on statistical power, effect size, and false discovery rate
35. Cloé Rose Cetko, Lesley Verhofstadt, Sarah Galdiolo
Rethinking the Role of Motivation in Empathic Accuracy within Romantic Relationships: A Systematic Review
36. Jonathan Adams, Muhammet Ikbal Sahan
Are dynamic transitions within serial-order verbal working memory reflected in ERP components of spatial attention?
37. Farah Som Nath, Rowena Van den Broeck, Lisa Gistelinck, Bieke Bollen, Gunnar Naulaers, Els Ortibus, Bart Boets
Breaking emotional barriers: exploring facial and vocal emotion processing in mother-child dyads and associations with symptoms of depression and anxiety.
38. Hanne Daenen, Yvonne Visser, Kobe Desender
Metacognitive insight into cautiousness: an investigation in the boundary parameter of the drift diffusion model
39. Francois Foerster, Salvatore Lo Bue, Nicolas Bourguignon
Learning behaviors through verbal versus nonverbal instructions – The power of language in overcoming conflict.
40. Alice Gilmet, Suvarnalata Xanthate Duggirala, Sonja A. Kotz
The Effect of Hallucination Proneness on Auditory Processing of Self- and Externally Generated Stimuli: an EEG study
41. Jingya Huang, Robin Gerrits, Wim Fias
Identifying Hemispheric Lateralization of Verbal and Spatial Working Memory Using Functional Transcranial Doppler Sonography
42. Boyang Sun, Eva Van den Bussche
The effect of different environmental temperatures on cognitive control
43. Paulina Gluth, Magali Beylat, Olivier Klein
From Words to Actions: The Interaction of Government Trust and Communication Styles in Health Crises on Compliance in Behavioral Attitudes
44. Feng Zhu, Tim Vantilborgh, Weilong Xiao, Jie Gu
The Associations Between Perceived Organizational Support and Teacher Work Engagement: A Cross-Lagged Panel Network Analysis
45. Nathan Pudles, Marine Willeput, Catherine Hellemans, Abdel Bensallam El Yahyaoui, Magali Verdonck, Jean-Michel Decroly, Mathieu Strale, Martin Rodriguez Conde, Sabine Pohl
Socio-demographic characteristics of teleworkers in the post-Covid era: A latent class analysis
46. Louis Guesny, Florence Vanhoof, Batoul Bachir, Magda Mustile, Thierry Lejeune, Martin Gareth Edwards
Validation of the french version of the Oxford Cognitive Screen (OCS): normative data
47. Jessica Vandezande, Bas van Alphen, Eva Dierckx, Gina Rossi
Examining CoMBI as a Personalized Intervention for Persons with Dementia
48. Luna Leonardy, Axel Cleeremans, Emilie Caspar
Investigating the restructuration processes in “Aha! moments”
49. Martin David, David Stawarczyk
Development of a novel method to assess spontaneous thought dynamics
50. Raphaël Legrand, Sami El Kaddouri, Fabienne Collette
Validation of a cognitive state fatigue induction and measurement protocol using the N-back task
51. Melissa Hasanbelli, David Baudet, Christine Bastin, Olivier Luminet, Aline Cordonnier
Intergenerational memory transmission
52. Eloïse Esquiber, Lisa De Noose
The Children Apperception Test (CAT) as an Assessment Tool for Attachment Types in Children with Early Neglect
53. Lenne Stessens, Lisa Gistelinck, Rowena Van den Broeck, Georgios Rousis, Maarten De Vos, Bieke Bollen, Els Ortibus, Gunnar Naulaers, Sam Wass, Bart Boets
Connected from the start: Unraveling mother child dyadic physiological synchrony in prematurely born preschoolers.
54. Aida Azatian, Fábio J Sousa, Fabrice de Chaumont, Elodie Ey, Markus Wöhr
Ultrasonic vocalization playback as a behavioral modulator in a semi-natural environment
55. Anouk Dekeuleneer, Carole Fantini-Hauwel
The mental health of adolescents placed in out-of-home care: their point of view and identification of barriers and resources to their mental health
56. Kaat Vrints, Edward Debbaut, Rowena Van den Broeck, Stephanie Van der Donck, Matthijs Moerkerke, Bart Boets, Kaat Alaerts
Pinpointing implicit neural facial expression discrimination in neurofibromatosis type 1 using FPVS-EEG
57. Florence Merken, Philippine Geelhand
A linguistic analysis of autistic and non-autistic adult women’s productions: written narratives of emotional autobiographical memories
58. Amber Gabriëls, Laura Tibermont, Ruth Op de Beeck, Kaat Alaerts, Bart Boets, Stephanie Van der Donck
A dual eye tracking study on gaze behavior in children with autism
59. Jade Miceli, Damien Lesenfants, Olivia Gosseries, Charlène Aubinet, Steve Majerus
A computerized Brief Evaluation of Receptive Aphasia tool using an eye-tracking device to assess language skills: a study on control participants before application in patients with severe brain injury
60. Yvonne Visser, Peter Murphy, Kobe Desender
Metacognitive insight into decision bias
61. Febe Demeyer, Céline Gillebert, Hans Stuyck, Eva Van den Bussche
Cognitive Overload: Age-Dependent Shifts in Insight Problem-Solving
62. Gargi Goyal, Nicky Sleeckx, Yesim Ozuer, Ketan Jaltare, Rilana Cima, Ilse Van Diest
Does a single session of mindful slow-breathing foster habituation to orofacial sounds in persons with mild to moderate symptoms of misophonia?
63. Robin Remouchamps, Steve Majerus, Benjamin Kowialiewski
A Failure to Replicate the Ranschburg Effect
Please find your poster number below, you will need it to find your panel to hang up your poster before the start of your poster session:
32. Abdel Bensallam El Yahyaoui, Nathan Pudles, Sabine Pohl, Catherine Hellemans
Professional relationships in hybrid work: the role of group and organizational factors
33. Lyse Gathoye, Christophe Lejeune, Valentine Vanootighem
When belief shapes narrative: Exploring discursive differences between believed and nonbelieved memories.
34. Marie Meunier, Ezio Tirelli, Nancy Durieux, François Léonard
Mozart effect: A meta-research study on statistical power, effect size, and false discovery rate
35. Cloé Rose Cetko, Lesley Verhofstadt, Sarah Galdiolo
Rethinking the Role of Motivation in Empathic Accuracy within Romantic Relationships: A Systematic Review
36. Jonathan Adams, Muhammet Ikbal Sahan
Are dynamic transitions within serial-order verbal working memory reflected in ERP components of spatial attention?
37. Farah Som Nath, Rowena Van den Broeck, Lisa Gistelinck, Bieke Bollen, Gunnar Naulaers, Els Ortibus, Bart Boets
Breaking emotional barriers: exploring facial and vocal emotion processing in mother-child dyads and associations with symptoms of depression and anxiety.
38. Hanne Daenen, Yvonne Visser, Kobe Desender
Metacognitive insight into cautiousness: an investigation in the boundary parameter of the drift diffusion model
39. Francois Foerster, Salvatore Lo Bue, Nicolas Bourguignon
Learning behaviors through verbal versus nonverbal instructions – The power of language in overcoming conflict.
40. Alice Gilmet, Suvarnalata Xanthate Duggirala, Sonja A. Kotz
The Effect of Hallucination Proneness on Auditory Processing of Self- and Externally Generated Stimuli: an EEG study
41. Jingya Huang, Robin Gerrits, Wim Fias
Identifying Hemispheric Lateralization of Verbal and Spatial Working Memory Using Functional Transcranial Doppler Sonography
42. Boyang Sun, Eva Van den Bussche
The effect of different environmental temperatures on cognitive control
43. Paulina Gluth, Magali Beylat, Olivier Klein
From Words to Actions: The Interaction of Government Trust and Communication Styles in Health Crises on Compliance in Behavioral Attitudes
44. Feng Zhu, Tim Vantilborgh, Weilong Xiao, Jie Gu
The Associations Between Perceived Organizational Support and Teacher Work Engagement: A Cross-Lagged Panel Network Analysis
45. Nathan Pudles, Marine Willeput, Catherine Hellemans, Abdel Bensallam El Yahyaoui, Magali Verdonck, Jean-Michel Decroly, Mathieu Strale, Martin Rodriguez Conde, Sabine Pohl
Socio-demographic characteristics of teleworkers in the post-Covid era: A latent class analysis
46. Louis Guesny, Florence Vanhoof, Batoul Bachir, Magda Mustile, Thierry Lejeune, Martin Gareth Edwards
Validation of the french version of the Oxford Cognitive Screen (OCS): normative data
47. Jessica Vandezande, Bas van Alphen, Eva Dierckx, Gina Rossi
Examining CoMBI as a Personalized Intervention for Persons with Dementia
48. Luna Leonardy, Axel Cleeremans, Emilie Caspar
Investigating the restructuration processes in “Aha! moments”
49. Martin David, David Stawarczyk
Development of a novel method to assess spontaneous thought dynamics
50. Raphaël Legrand, Sami El Kaddouri, Fabienne Collette
Validation of a cognitive state fatigue induction and measurement protocol using the N-back task
51. Melissa Hasanbelli, David Baudet, Christine Bastin, Olivier Luminet, Aline Cordonnier
Intergenerational memory transmission
52. Eloïse Esquiber, Lisa De Noose
The Children Apperception Test (CAT) as an Assessment Tool for Attachment Types in Children with Early Neglect
53. Lenne Stessens, Lisa Gistelinck, Rowena Van den Broeck, Georgios Rousis, Maarten De Vos, Bieke Bollen, Els Ortibus, Gunnar Naulaers, Sam Wass, Bart Boets
Connected from the start: Unraveling mother child dyadic physiological synchrony in prematurely born preschoolers.
54. Aida Azatian, Fábio J Sousa, Fabrice de Chaumont, Elodie Ey, Markus Wöhr
Ultrasonic vocalization playback as a behavioral modulator in a semi-natural environment
55. Anouk Dekeuleneer, Carole Fantini-Hauwel
The mental health of adolescents placed in out-of-home care: their point of view and identification of barriers and resources to their mental health
56. Kaat Vrints, Edward Debbaut, Rowena Van den Broeck, Stephanie Van der Donck, Matthijs Moerkerke, Bart Boets, Kaat Alaerts
Pinpointing implicit neural facial expression discrimination in neurofibromatosis type 1 using FPVS-EEG
57. Florence Merken, Philippine Geelhand
A linguistic analysis of autistic and non-autistic adult women’s productions: written narratives of emotional autobiographical memories
58. Amber Gabriëls, Laura Tibermont, Ruth Op de Beeck, Kaat Alaerts, Bart Boets, Stephanie Van der Donck
A dual eye tracking study on gaze behavior in children with autism
59. Jade Miceli, Damien Lesenfants, Olivia Gosseries, Charlène Aubinet, Steve Majerus
A computerized Brief Evaluation of Receptive Aphasia tool using an eye-tracking device to assess language skills: a study on control participants before application in patients with severe brain injury
60. Yvonne Visser, Peter Murphy, Kobe Desender
Metacognitive insight into decision bias
61. Febe Demeyer, Céline Gillebert, Hans Stuyck, Eva Van den Bussche
Cognitive Overload: Age-Dependent Shifts in Insight Problem-Solving
62. Gargi Goyal, Nicky Sleeckx, Yesim Ozuer, Ketan Jaltare, Rilana Cima, Ilse Van Diest
Does a single session of mindful slow-breathing foster habituation to orofacial sounds in persons with mild to moderate symptoms of misophonia?
63. Robin Remouchamps, Steve Majerus, Benjamin Kowialiewski
A Failure to Replicate the Ranschburg Effect
11.20 - 12.40 Parallel session 4
Building S, level 1 - Salle Dupréel
INVITED SYMPOSIUM 7
HOW UNCERTAINTY IN VARIANT DESIGNS CAN INFORM NEURO-COGNITIVE FUNCTION
Chairs - Athena Demertzi (ULiège) & Axel Cleeremans (ULB)
Presenters - Christel Devue (ULiège), Arnaud D’Argembeau (ULiège), Medha Shekhar (ULB), Athena Demertzi (ULiège)
In experimental designs, we typically wish to acquire data that reflect participants’ confidence to the best of our possibility. However, uncertainty surrounding perceptive inputs, mental experiences or behaviors can also be a valuable source of insight into cognitive and neural function. Here, we bring together experimenters from different psychological fields of research working on uncertainty, in order to delineate how this seemingly source of noise can help us better understand human behavior. Specifically, we will address how uncertainty might shape cost-efficient facial representations (Christel Devue, ULiège), future thinking (Arnaud D’Argembeau, ULiège), perceptual decision-making (Medha Shekhar, ULB), and the experience of our thoughts (Athena Demertzi, ULiège). We will discuss whether and how placing uncertainty at the center stage can provide new knowledge into how the brain and the mind operate to retain our behavior within optimal bounds.
INVITED SYMPOSIUM 7
HOW UNCERTAINTY IN VARIANT DESIGNS CAN INFORM NEURO-COGNITIVE FUNCTION
Chairs - Athena Demertzi (ULiège) & Axel Cleeremans (ULB)
Presenters - Christel Devue (ULiège), Arnaud D’Argembeau (ULiège), Medha Shekhar (ULB), Athena Demertzi (ULiège)
In experimental designs, we typically wish to acquire data that reflect participants’ confidence to the best of our possibility. However, uncertainty surrounding perceptive inputs, mental experiences or behaviors can also be a valuable source of insight into cognitive and neural function. Here, we bring together experimenters from different psychological fields of research working on uncertainty, in order to delineate how this seemingly source of noise can help us better understand human behavior. Specifically, we will address how uncertainty might shape cost-efficient facial representations (Christel Devue, ULiège), future thinking (Arnaud D’Argembeau, ULiège), perceptual decision-making (Medha Shekhar, ULB), and the experience of our thoughts (Athena Demertzi, ULiège). We will discuss whether and how placing uncertainty at the center stage can provide new knowledge into how the brain and the mind operate to retain our behavior within optimal bounds.
Building S, level 1 - Salle Somville
REGULAR SYMPOSIUM 4
CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES OF PARENTING: STUDYING VARIOUS FAMILY FORMS AT DIFFERENT KEY MOMENTS
Chair - Cindy Eira Nunes (ULB)
Presenters - Cindy Eira Nunes (ULB), Alessio Gubello (ULB), Louise Mathijs (ULB), Nele Flamant (UGent)
Parenting today is shaped by evolving family structures, societal expectations, and external stressors. Parents may thus face many challenges in their upbringing role. Understanding how parents foster resilience, adapt to developmental transitions, and maintain well-being is crucial. This symposium proposes to discuss challenges parents encounter in different family forms at different moments of their life as a family. This discussion will be based on 3 paper presentations and the intervention of one discussant, Dr Nele Flamant.
REGULAR SYMPOSIUM 4
CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES OF PARENTING: STUDYING VARIOUS FAMILY FORMS AT DIFFERENT KEY MOMENTS
Chair - Cindy Eira Nunes (ULB)
Presenters - Cindy Eira Nunes (ULB), Alessio Gubello (ULB), Louise Mathijs (ULB), Nele Flamant (UGent)
Parenting today is shaped by evolving family structures, societal expectations, and external stressors. Parents may thus face many challenges in their upbringing role. Understanding how parents foster resilience, adapt to developmental transitions, and maintain well-being is crucial. This symposium proposes to discuss challenges parents encounter in different family forms at different moments of their life as a family. This discussion will be based on 3 paper presentations and the intervention of one discussant, Dr Nele Flamant.
Building S, level 0 - Salle Baugniet
REGULAR SYMPOSIUM 5
HOW OUR PAST AFFECTS OUR PRESENT: ATTRACTIVE AND REPULSIVE HISTORY EFFECTS ON OUR PERCEPTION AND COGNITION ACROSS MODALITIES, RESEARCH FIELDS, INDIVIDUALS, AND TASKS
Chair - Eline Van Geert (KU Leuven)
Presenters - Michele Fornaciai (UCLouvain), Robin Vloeberghs (KU Leuven), Mert Can (Université Paris Cité, FR), Eline Van Geert (KU Leuven)
The last decade has brought plenty of new research on attractive and repulsive history effects on our perception and cognition: What we perceive or decide now, partially depends on what we previously have perceived, responded, or decided. However, research results vary across different modalities, methods, and tasks, and researchers have diverse opinions on the processes underlying these history effects. This symposium will gather experts with different research backgrounds (i.e., perception, decision making) to synthesize what we have learned from a decade of intensive research on the topic, as well as to look to the future of this research field. After a brief introduction (5 min.) discussing what these history effects entail, the symposium will center around three key questions and discuss them from different scientific perspectives:
(1) How general are these history effects (across modalities, tasks, individuals)?
(2) How can we explain these history effects?
(3) What do we need next?
REGULAR SYMPOSIUM 5
HOW OUR PAST AFFECTS OUR PRESENT: ATTRACTIVE AND REPULSIVE HISTORY EFFECTS ON OUR PERCEPTION AND COGNITION ACROSS MODALITIES, RESEARCH FIELDS, INDIVIDUALS, AND TASKS
Chair - Eline Van Geert (KU Leuven)
Presenters - Michele Fornaciai (UCLouvain), Robin Vloeberghs (KU Leuven), Mert Can (Université Paris Cité, FR), Eline Van Geert (KU Leuven)
The last decade has brought plenty of new research on attractive and repulsive history effects on our perception and cognition: What we perceive or decide now, partially depends on what we previously have perceived, responded, or decided. However, research results vary across different modalities, methods, and tasks, and researchers have diverse opinions on the processes underlying these history effects. This symposium will gather experts with different research backgrounds (i.e., perception, decision making) to synthesize what we have learned from a decade of intensive research on the topic, as well as to look to the future of this research field. After a brief introduction (5 min.) discussing what these history effects entail, the symposium will center around three key questions and discuss them from different scientific perspectives:
(1) How general are these history effects (across modalities, tasks, individuals)?
(2) How can we explain these history effects?
(3) What do we need next?
Building R, level 5 - 5.103
ORAL PRESENTATIONS 8
PSYCHOLOGY IN INSITUTIONAL CONTEXTS
Presenters - Roy Konings (KU Leuven), Elodie Kox (UGent), Victoria Rambaud (UGent), Ilke Veeckman (UGent)
Inclusive Schools, Happy Students? How Pluralism, Color-Blindness, and Assimilation Shape Self-Esteem and Happiness
Roy Konings (chair), Jozefien De Leersnyder
Behind bars: How prison shapes inmates' sense of agency and outcome processing
Elodie Kox, Emilie Caspar
The Impact of Four Months of Incarceration on Reward and Punishment Processing: Evidence from EEG
Victoria Rambaud, Ilke Veeckman, Louis Favril, Tom Vander Beken, Emilie Caspar
The Impact of the Prison Environment on Self-Control: A Longitudinal Approach
Ilke Veeckman, Victoria Rambaud, Louis Favril, Emilie Caspar, Tom Vander Beken
ORAL PRESENTATIONS 8
PSYCHOLOGY IN INSITUTIONAL CONTEXTS
Presenters - Roy Konings (KU Leuven), Elodie Kox (UGent), Victoria Rambaud (UGent), Ilke Veeckman (UGent)
Inclusive Schools, Happy Students? How Pluralism, Color-Blindness, and Assimilation Shape Self-Esteem and Happiness
Roy Konings (chair), Jozefien De Leersnyder
Behind bars: How prison shapes inmates' sense of agency and outcome processing
Elodie Kox, Emilie Caspar
The Impact of Four Months of Incarceration on Reward and Punishment Processing: Evidence from EEG
Victoria Rambaud, Ilke Veeckman, Louis Favril, Tom Vander Beken, Emilie Caspar
The Impact of the Prison Environment on Self-Control: A Longitudinal Approach
Ilke Veeckman, Victoria Rambaud, Louis Favril, Emilie Caspar, Tom Vander Beken
Building R, level 5 - 5.107
ORAL PRESENTATIONS 9
MOTIVATION AND REWARD
Presenters - Lena Lange (ULB), Karl-Andrew Woltin (UCLouvain), Yang Yang (UGent)
Motivation & Reward Processing Require Perceptual Awareness
Lena Lange (chair), Pietro Amerio, Guillaume Pech, Axel Cleeremans
Associations Between Personal Values and Regulatory Focus: A Partial Replication for Basic Values and an Extension to Refined Values
Karl-Andrew Woltin, Joanne Sneddon
Temporal Dynamics of Effort Discounting: The Role of Cognitive Load and Depression-Related Differences
Yang Yang, Clay Holroyd
ORAL PRESENTATIONS 9
MOTIVATION AND REWARD
Presenters - Lena Lange (ULB), Karl-Andrew Woltin (UCLouvain), Yang Yang (UGent)
Motivation & Reward Processing Require Perceptual Awareness
Lena Lange (chair), Pietro Amerio, Guillaume Pech, Axel Cleeremans
Associations Between Personal Values and Regulatory Focus: A Partial Replication for Basic Values and an Extension to Refined Values
Karl-Andrew Woltin, Joanne Sneddon
Temporal Dynamics of Effort Discounting: The Role of Cognitive Load and Depression-Related Differences
Yang Yang, Clay Holroyd
Building R, level 5 - 5.110
ORAL PRESENTATIONS 10
MEMORY AND SLEEP
Presenters - Benjamin Kowialiewski (ULiège), Simone Maucci (UGent), Zhor Raimi (University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, FR), Maarten Spruyt (KU Leuven; ULiège)
Similarity-based confusions in visuospatial working memory
Benjamin Kowialiewski (chair), Robin Remouchamp, Steve Majerus, Klaus Oberauer
Serial order in verbal Working memory: an fMRI study
Simone Maucci, Nina Dolfen, Steve Majerus, Wim Fias
Neurocognitive and metacognitive functioning in text comprehension in adults: a narrative review
Zhor Raimi, Chrystel Besche-Richard
Linking Quantitative REM Sleep Metrics to Locus Coeruleus Activity During Wakefulness
Maarten Spruyt, Nasrin Mortazavi, Puneet Talwar, Elise Beckers, Aurora Gasparello, Gilles Vandewalle
ORAL PRESENTATIONS 10
MEMORY AND SLEEP
Presenters - Benjamin Kowialiewski (ULiège), Simone Maucci (UGent), Zhor Raimi (University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, FR), Maarten Spruyt (KU Leuven; ULiège)
Similarity-based confusions in visuospatial working memory
Benjamin Kowialiewski (chair), Robin Remouchamp, Steve Majerus, Klaus Oberauer
Serial order in verbal Working memory: an fMRI study
Simone Maucci, Nina Dolfen, Steve Majerus, Wim Fias
Neurocognitive and metacognitive functioning in text comprehension in adults: a narrative review
Zhor Raimi, Chrystel Besche-Richard
Linking Quantitative REM Sleep Metrics to Locus Coeruleus Activity During Wakefulness
Maarten Spruyt, Nasrin Mortazavi, Puneet Talwar, Elise Beckers, Aurora Gasparello, Gilles Vandewalle
12.40 - 13.40 Lunch // Poster session 3
The lunch break and poster session 3 will take place in the lobby of the S building.
Please find your poster number below, you will need it to find your panel to hang up your poster before the start of your poster session:
63. Abdel Bensallam El Yahyaoui, Sabine Pohl
Perception of sustainable mobility: understanding the adoption of shared micromobility in Brussels
64. Marion Balla, Marine Le Petit, Harry Antony, Frédéric Ooms, Fabienne Collette
Does entrepreneurial experience enhance cognitive flexibility?
65. Léa Noirfalise, Sinem Yüksel, Cindy Eira Nunes, Stijn Van Petegem
Design of an Observational Study on the Contextual Determinants of Parental Overprotection
66. Marine Lagasse
REMIND-Contrast: a hybridization of psychology methods to characterise the personal experience of users, following a phenomenological approach
67. Karen De Raeymaecker, Margot Bastin, Imke Baetens, Patricia Bijttebier, Martijn Van Heel
Offline and Online Interpersonal Emotion Regulation in Adolescence: Bidirectional Associations or Not?
68. Jintao Xing, Kobe Desender
Interactions Between Cognitive and Metacognitive Conflict: Behavioral Dynamics and Adaptive Control
69. Romane Boulanger, Louise Goupil, Adélaïde de Heering
Can theta rhythm be considered as a direct neural marker of learning or does it primarily reflect attentional processes in infants?
70. Marie Brisbois, Olivier Klein, Philippe Bernard
Does your body belong to you? Development and Validation of the Body Ownership Scale
71. Sara Goffinet, Florence Lefranc, Hichem Slama, Patrick Fery, Vincent Wens, Antonin Rovai, Nicola Trotta, Gil Leurquin-Sterk, Niloufar Sadeghi-Meibodi, Xavier De Tiège, Julie Bertels
Cognitive impairments associated with meningiomas
72. Julia Perik, Willem Jacob Louter, Muhammet Ikbal Sahan
Do Eye Movements Reveal the Architecture of a Virtual Reality-Based Museum Visit?
73. Sara Blommaert, Ward Deferm, Binu Singh, Maarten De Vos, Bea van den Bergh, Koen Ponnet, Bart Boets
The Role of Touch in Parent-Infant Co-Regulation of Autonomic Nervous System Activity
74. Nina Le Compte, Colette van Laar, Katy Greenland, Keon West, Alice Saraiva Angra de Oliveira, Irem Nur Keskin, Sandrijn Van Den Noortgate
Where do we draw the line between discrimination and not discrimination? The influence of who the perpetrator is on Definitional Boundaries of Discrimination, applied to the Russo-Ukrainian war.
75. Helena Lecluyse, Stef Herregods, Kobe Desender
Challenging the Maximum Confidence Heuristic: Humans Sum Confidence Levels during Collaboration
76. Alexandra Russarollo, Baptiste Barbot, Xavier De Tiège, Hichem Slama
Creative thinking in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
77. Indigo Vanderwaeren, Magdalena Korczyc, Joyce Bosmans, Hanne Huygelier, Céline Gillebert
Egocentric Reference Frame Rotations and Spatial Attention in Virtual Reality
78. Fatma Uslu, Audrey Vicenzutto, Aurore Colomar
Association between nutritional intake, aggressive/impulsive behavior and inhibition: studies among Belgian adolescents aged 12 to 18 years
79. Berru Benan Orhan, Xena Serifova, Stephanie Van der Donck, Chris Bervoets, Laura Luyten, Bart Boets
Neural hypervigilance in OCD: an oddball frequency-tagging EEG approach
80. Anne-Lise Florkin, Zeinab Khazem, Elena Cavallini
Future thinking beliefs and abilities across adulthood in individualistic and collectivistic cultures.
81. Sofiane Janeczek, Mélanie De Leener, Mandy Rossignol, Sarah Galdiolo, Michel Sfeir
Unraveling differences in attachment to mother and father in middle childhood: evaluation of depression and anxiety.
82. Kalina Vecovska, Anouk Teugels, Ilse Van Diest
The Stress-Reducing Effects of Slow Breathing and Mindful Movement: Investigating the Role of Mindfulness
83. Lauren Vanbiervliet, Gio Esposito, Lisa Gistelinck, Rowena Van den Broeck, Bieke Bollen, Els Ortibus, Gunnar Naulaers, Sam Wass, Bart Boets
From Arousal to Regulation: The impact of vocalization on emotional recovery in preterm and full-term children
84. Marine Saint-Mard, Michel Hansenne
Does love for a romantic partner enhances well-being? A pilot study
85. Camille Dieu, Giovanni Briganti
Investigation of the relationship between childhood trauma and chronic pain in adulthood
86. Orchidée Doudy-Michez, Sabine Pohl
Colorisme, femmes et stéréotypes ethniques: le poids des nuances colorées des traits
87. Daniel Borek, Daniele Marinazzo
The spectral exponent influences the synchrony measured via ITPC in gamma ASSRs
88. Noé De Rijck, Wim Gevers
Reactivity to confidence ratings in belief updating
89. Dany Lallement, Sabrina Julien-Sweerts, Mandy Rossignol, Chrystel Besche-Richard
French Version of the Negative Self-Portrayal Scale: Validation in the General Population
90. Sofía Ardaya Velarde, Alice Dain, Berfin Acar, Christophe Leys, Jasper Van Assche
Perceptions of Sexism in Political Discourse: Experimental Insights and Measurement Approaches
91. Gwenaëlle Tamenne, Luca Fehér, Judit Kende, Olivier Klein
What bothers you more: a politician’s immorality or their disrespect of your personal value?
92. Martin David, Maëlle Charonitis, Pierre Maquet, Fabienne Collette
Effect of Cognitive Load on Fatigue Induction in Stroke Survivors
93. Roos Malpart, Laura Soen, Hans Op de Beeck
Functional Organisation of Neural Substrates in Visual Object Recognition
94. Felix Hermans, Ghazaleh Shahbazimorad, Walter Schaeken, Susanne Bruckmüller, Vera Hoorens
Implicit stereotyping through language: How generic vs quantified statements shape the perceived prevalence of traits in different (social) groups
95. Christopher Cash, Salvatore D'Amore, Alan Carr
How does minority stress affect Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) couples and which available couple functioning instrument is most sensitive to it?
96. Eric Lehance, Maria-Elena Brianda
Parental Risks and Resources in Times of Family Transformation: A Preliminary Mixed-Method Study of Separated Parents
97. Romain di Stasi, Quentin Delhaye, Adélaïde de Heering
Curiosity in the face of the uncertain: a developmental and comparative approach between infants and non-human primates
98. Haniyeh Nematollahi, Alison Mary
Transcutaneous vagal nerve stimulation to promote neuroplasticity and memory in aging: a multimodal approach
Please find your poster number below, you will need it to find your panel to hang up your poster before the start of your poster session:
63. Abdel Bensallam El Yahyaoui, Sabine Pohl
Perception of sustainable mobility: understanding the adoption of shared micromobility in Brussels
64. Marion Balla, Marine Le Petit, Harry Antony, Frédéric Ooms, Fabienne Collette
Does entrepreneurial experience enhance cognitive flexibility?
65. Léa Noirfalise, Sinem Yüksel, Cindy Eira Nunes, Stijn Van Petegem
Design of an Observational Study on the Contextual Determinants of Parental Overprotection
66. Marine Lagasse
REMIND-Contrast: a hybridization of psychology methods to characterise the personal experience of users, following a phenomenological approach
67. Karen De Raeymaecker, Margot Bastin, Imke Baetens, Patricia Bijttebier, Martijn Van Heel
Offline and Online Interpersonal Emotion Regulation in Adolescence: Bidirectional Associations or Not?
68. Jintao Xing, Kobe Desender
Interactions Between Cognitive and Metacognitive Conflict: Behavioral Dynamics and Adaptive Control
69. Romane Boulanger, Louise Goupil, Adélaïde de Heering
Can theta rhythm be considered as a direct neural marker of learning or does it primarily reflect attentional processes in infants?
70. Marie Brisbois, Olivier Klein, Philippe Bernard
Does your body belong to you? Development and Validation of the Body Ownership Scale
71. Sara Goffinet, Florence Lefranc, Hichem Slama, Patrick Fery, Vincent Wens, Antonin Rovai, Nicola Trotta, Gil Leurquin-Sterk, Niloufar Sadeghi-Meibodi, Xavier De Tiège, Julie Bertels
Cognitive impairments associated with meningiomas
72. Julia Perik, Willem Jacob Louter, Muhammet Ikbal Sahan
Do Eye Movements Reveal the Architecture of a Virtual Reality-Based Museum Visit?
73. Sara Blommaert, Ward Deferm, Binu Singh, Maarten De Vos, Bea van den Bergh, Koen Ponnet, Bart Boets
The Role of Touch in Parent-Infant Co-Regulation of Autonomic Nervous System Activity
74. Nina Le Compte, Colette van Laar, Katy Greenland, Keon West, Alice Saraiva Angra de Oliveira, Irem Nur Keskin, Sandrijn Van Den Noortgate
Where do we draw the line between discrimination and not discrimination? The influence of who the perpetrator is on Definitional Boundaries of Discrimination, applied to the Russo-Ukrainian war.
75. Helena Lecluyse, Stef Herregods, Kobe Desender
Challenging the Maximum Confidence Heuristic: Humans Sum Confidence Levels during Collaboration
76. Alexandra Russarollo, Baptiste Barbot, Xavier De Tiège, Hichem Slama
Creative thinking in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
77. Indigo Vanderwaeren, Magdalena Korczyc, Joyce Bosmans, Hanne Huygelier, Céline Gillebert
Egocentric Reference Frame Rotations and Spatial Attention in Virtual Reality
78. Fatma Uslu, Audrey Vicenzutto, Aurore Colomar
Association between nutritional intake, aggressive/impulsive behavior and inhibition: studies among Belgian adolescents aged 12 to 18 years
79. Berru Benan Orhan, Xena Serifova, Stephanie Van der Donck, Chris Bervoets, Laura Luyten, Bart Boets
Neural hypervigilance in OCD: an oddball frequency-tagging EEG approach
80. Anne-Lise Florkin, Zeinab Khazem, Elena Cavallini
Future thinking beliefs and abilities across adulthood in individualistic and collectivistic cultures.
81. Sofiane Janeczek, Mélanie De Leener, Mandy Rossignol, Sarah Galdiolo, Michel Sfeir
Unraveling differences in attachment to mother and father in middle childhood: evaluation of depression and anxiety.
82. Kalina Vecovska, Anouk Teugels, Ilse Van Diest
The Stress-Reducing Effects of Slow Breathing and Mindful Movement: Investigating the Role of Mindfulness
83. Lauren Vanbiervliet, Gio Esposito, Lisa Gistelinck, Rowena Van den Broeck, Bieke Bollen, Els Ortibus, Gunnar Naulaers, Sam Wass, Bart Boets
From Arousal to Regulation: The impact of vocalization on emotional recovery in preterm and full-term children
84. Marine Saint-Mard, Michel Hansenne
Does love for a romantic partner enhances well-being? A pilot study
85. Camille Dieu, Giovanni Briganti
Investigation of the relationship between childhood trauma and chronic pain in adulthood
86. Orchidée Doudy-Michez, Sabine Pohl
Colorisme, femmes et stéréotypes ethniques: le poids des nuances colorées des traits
87. Daniel Borek, Daniele Marinazzo
The spectral exponent influences the synchrony measured via ITPC in gamma ASSRs
88. Noé De Rijck, Wim Gevers
Reactivity to confidence ratings in belief updating
89. Dany Lallement, Sabrina Julien-Sweerts, Mandy Rossignol, Chrystel Besche-Richard
French Version of the Negative Self-Portrayal Scale: Validation in the General Population
90. Sofía Ardaya Velarde, Alice Dain, Berfin Acar, Christophe Leys, Jasper Van Assche
Perceptions of Sexism in Political Discourse: Experimental Insights and Measurement Approaches
91. Gwenaëlle Tamenne, Luca Fehér, Judit Kende, Olivier Klein
What bothers you more: a politician’s immorality or their disrespect of your personal value?
92. Martin David, Maëlle Charonitis, Pierre Maquet, Fabienne Collette
Effect of Cognitive Load on Fatigue Induction in Stroke Survivors
93. Roos Malpart, Laura Soen, Hans Op de Beeck
Functional Organisation of Neural Substrates in Visual Object Recognition
94. Felix Hermans, Ghazaleh Shahbazimorad, Walter Schaeken, Susanne Bruckmüller, Vera Hoorens
Implicit stereotyping through language: How generic vs quantified statements shape the perceived prevalence of traits in different (social) groups
95. Christopher Cash, Salvatore D'Amore, Alan Carr
How does minority stress affect Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ+) couples and which available couple functioning instrument is most sensitive to it?
96. Eric Lehance, Maria-Elena Brianda
Parental Risks and Resources in Times of Family Transformation: A Preliminary Mixed-Method Study of Separated Parents
97. Romain di Stasi, Quentin Delhaye, Adélaïde de Heering
Curiosity in the face of the uncertain: a developmental and comparative approach between infants and non-human primates
98. Haniyeh Nematollahi, Alison Mary
Transcutaneous vagal nerve stimulation to promote neuroplasticity and memory in aging: a multimodal approach
13.40 - 15.00 Keynote 2 - Valeria Gazzola
Building S, level 1 - Salle Dupréel
A CROSS-SPECIES APPROACH TO THE MECHANISMS OF VICARIOUS (EMOTIONAL) STATES
Speaker - Prof. Dr. Valeria Gazzola (University of Amsterdam, NL)
How does our brain make us feel what others feel, and how does this feeling influence our (pro-social) decisions? Are humans the only species able to feel others’ emotions? During my talk, I will walk you through rodent and human work that shows a common neuronal substrate in response to our own as well as other people's emotional state. In humans, the somatosensory, insular, and cingulate cortices are activated both when experiencing pain and while witnessing others doing so. The cingulate cortex shows similar responses in rodents as well, with individual neurons responding both to the self-experience of pain and the pain of a conspecific. I will then bring evidence showing that such vicarious activations have causal influences on sharing the emotions of others and on deciding to help others. The homologies between humans and rodents suggest that emotion sharing is an evolutionarily conserved mechanism that allows animals and humans to better prepare for yet unseen dangers by tuning into the state of those that have already detected them. At the end of the talk, I will also present work on psychopathic criminals and healthy volunteers that highlights both voluntary and involuntary modulation of vicarious activity, suggesting we have control on how much we recruit such brain circuits and processes. Empathy does not just happen to us: we can choose (or not) to empathize.
A CROSS-SPECIES APPROACH TO THE MECHANISMS OF VICARIOUS (EMOTIONAL) STATES
Speaker - Prof. Dr. Valeria Gazzola (University of Amsterdam, NL)
How does our brain make us feel what others feel, and how does this feeling influence our (pro-social) decisions? Are humans the only species able to feel others’ emotions? During my talk, I will walk you through rodent and human work that shows a common neuronal substrate in response to our own as well as other people's emotional state. In humans, the somatosensory, insular, and cingulate cortices are activated both when experiencing pain and while witnessing others doing so. The cingulate cortex shows similar responses in rodents as well, with individual neurons responding both to the self-experience of pain and the pain of a conspecific. I will then bring evidence showing that such vicarious activations have causal influences on sharing the emotions of others and on deciding to help others. The homologies between humans and rodents suggest that emotion sharing is an evolutionarily conserved mechanism that allows animals and humans to better prepare for yet unseen dangers by tuning into the state of those that have already detected them. At the end of the talk, I will also present work on psychopathic criminals and healthy volunteers that highlights both voluntary and involuntary modulation of vicarious activity, suggesting we have control on how much we recruit such brain circuits and processes. Empathy does not just happen to us: we can choose (or not) to empathize.
15.10 - 16.40 Parallel session 5
Building S, level 1 - Salle Dupréel
INVITED SYMPOSIUM 8
QUEERING PSYCHOLOGY: ADVANCING LGBTQI(A)+ RESEARCH IN BELGIUM
Chair - Annalisa Casini (UCLouvain) & Olivier Klein (ULB)
Presenters - Emma Sarter (UCLouvain), Joz Motmans (Ghent Academic Hospital), Fiona Eyraud (ULB), Alexis Dewaele (UGent)
It has been a long road since the psychological sciences began to take an interest in sexual and gender minorities beyond psychiatric categories (Hegarty, 2020). Nevertheless, since the 1970s, researchers began to question this pathologizing outlook and started to do research “for” and “with” LGBTQIA+ people rather than “on” them. Belgian researchers are currently very active in this vast and heterogeneous field of research. Hence, this symposium, aims to provide a partial but significant overview of ongoing research conducted in Belgian universities. The selected presentations will focus on cognitive (stereotypes and representations) and attitudinal (prejudices) processes, as well as on health predictors (stress) at play in Lesbian, Gay, Trans*, Queer, and Intersex issues.
INVITED SYMPOSIUM 8
QUEERING PSYCHOLOGY: ADVANCING LGBTQI(A)+ RESEARCH IN BELGIUM
Chair - Annalisa Casini (UCLouvain) & Olivier Klein (ULB)
Presenters - Emma Sarter (UCLouvain), Joz Motmans (Ghent Academic Hospital), Fiona Eyraud (ULB), Alexis Dewaele (UGent)
It has been a long road since the psychological sciences began to take an interest in sexual and gender minorities beyond psychiatric categories (Hegarty, 2020). Nevertheless, since the 1970s, researchers began to question this pathologizing outlook and started to do research “for” and “with” LGBTQIA+ people rather than “on” them. Belgian researchers are currently very active in this vast and heterogeneous field of research. Hence, this symposium, aims to provide a partial but significant overview of ongoing research conducted in Belgian universities. The selected presentations will focus on cognitive (stereotypes and representations) and attitudinal (prejudices) processes, as well as on health predictors (stress) at play in Lesbian, Gay, Trans*, Queer, and Intersex issues.
Building S, level 1 - Salle Somville
INVITED SYMPOSIUM 9
FEAR AND DISCRIMINATION AMONG FORENSIC PATIENTS
Chair - Thierry Pham (UMons)
Presenters - Margaux Mancini (UMons), Luca Adolfo Tiberi (UMons), Denis Delannoy (UMons)
Offenders constitute a very heterogenous population in terms of committed offences, clinical diagnoses and emotional processes. Consequently, discrimination criteria are fundamental for valid diagnosis procedure, risk assessment but also efficient treatment. Our symposium proposes three papers of interest for the discriminant validity among offender population in terms of risk assessment and emotion processing. Firstly, among forensic patients, positive symptoms of psychosis are related to increase of risk of violent behaviors (Fazel et al., 2009; Walsh et al., 2002; Whiting et al. 2022). This risk increases with comorbid substance abuse disorders (Fazel et al., 2009). The first paper will review the specific effect of cannabis usage (Kivimes et al., 2012) on risk of violence among psychotic forensic patients. Secondly, evidence suggests that emotion recognition is central to human interactions. Particularly, fear has attracted the most attention in the literature given its key role as potential inhibitor of violent behavior. However, little research has focused on emotion recognition among sexual offenders. The second paper will outline our recent data on facial, prosody and bodily gestures among adult forensic sex offenders. Thirdly, research has highlighted that training sessions, using simulation with chatbots and virtual avatars, constitute an effective educational approach in medical and mental health sciences (Raiche et al., 2023). The third paper will describe a specific methodology that examines if score risk of violence at the Level Service Inventory-revised (Andrews & Bonta, 1995) varies according to physical traits relating to different cultural backgrounds. We focus on the development of autonomic virtual agents (AVA) in Belgium. Potential research applications are discussed with reference to the international literature. Overall, the symposium discusses potential discrimination criteria for the diagnoses of psychosis and sexual offender emotion processing. Risk assessment methodology is enhanced by the AVA support. The implications of the overall results will be discussed in the light of the dominant domain of Risk Need Receptivity (Andrews & Bonta, 2010) in forensic psychology.
INVITED SYMPOSIUM 9
FEAR AND DISCRIMINATION AMONG FORENSIC PATIENTS
Chair - Thierry Pham (UMons)
Presenters - Margaux Mancini (UMons), Luca Adolfo Tiberi (UMons), Denis Delannoy (UMons)
Offenders constitute a very heterogenous population in terms of committed offences, clinical diagnoses and emotional processes. Consequently, discrimination criteria are fundamental for valid diagnosis procedure, risk assessment but also efficient treatment. Our symposium proposes three papers of interest for the discriminant validity among offender population in terms of risk assessment and emotion processing. Firstly, among forensic patients, positive symptoms of psychosis are related to increase of risk of violent behaviors (Fazel et al., 2009; Walsh et al., 2002; Whiting et al. 2022). This risk increases with comorbid substance abuse disorders (Fazel et al., 2009). The first paper will review the specific effect of cannabis usage (Kivimes et al., 2012) on risk of violence among psychotic forensic patients. Secondly, evidence suggests that emotion recognition is central to human interactions. Particularly, fear has attracted the most attention in the literature given its key role as potential inhibitor of violent behavior. However, little research has focused on emotion recognition among sexual offenders. The second paper will outline our recent data on facial, prosody and bodily gestures among adult forensic sex offenders. Thirdly, research has highlighted that training sessions, using simulation with chatbots and virtual avatars, constitute an effective educational approach in medical and mental health sciences (Raiche et al., 2023). The third paper will describe a specific methodology that examines if score risk of violence at the Level Service Inventory-revised (Andrews & Bonta, 1995) varies according to physical traits relating to different cultural backgrounds. We focus on the development of autonomic virtual agents (AVA) in Belgium. Potential research applications are discussed with reference to the international literature. Overall, the symposium discusses potential discrimination criteria for the diagnoses of psychosis and sexual offender emotion processing. Risk assessment methodology is enhanced by the AVA support. The implications of the overall results will be discussed in the light of the dominant domain of Risk Need Receptivity (Andrews & Bonta, 2010) in forensic psychology.
Building S, level 0 - Salle Baugniet
REGULAR SYMPOSIUM 6
HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT: INSIGHTS FROM ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
Chair - Ruth Krebs (UGent)
Presenters - Florian Lange (KU Leuven), Sarah Kusch (UGent), Alessandra Carella (University of Padova, IT), Yannick Joye (Vilnius University, LT), Alexander Hooyberg (UGent)
The urgent challenges related to climate change and biodiversity loss demand significant individual and collective action to mitigate further environmental degradation. Despite widespread scientific consensus about human-induced climate change, there remains knowledge gaps on how to foster sustainable human-environment relationships. Research in the field of environmental psychology has outlined two pathways through which this discipline can contribute to understanding the relationship between human behavior and the natural environment. One path focuses on the cognitive and affective processes that may hinder or promote pro-environmental behavior (“human-to-environment”). The second path focuses on the effects of the natural and built environment on human well-being and behavior ("environment-to-human"). In this symposium we will present recent research along both pathways to showcase how psychological science can advance our understanding of motivation or amotivation in the face of climate-related and environmental challenges and contribute to developing behavior-change interventions. Five speakers will present the methods, key findings, and implications of their research, each followed by a brief question round.
REGULAR SYMPOSIUM 6
HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT: INSIGHTS FROM ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
Chair - Ruth Krebs (UGent)
Presenters - Florian Lange (KU Leuven), Sarah Kusch (UGent), Alessandra Carella (University of Padova, IT), Yannick Joye (Vilnius University, LT), Alexander Hooyberg (UGent)
The urgent challenges related to climate change and biodiversity loss demand significant individual and collective action to mitigate further environmental degradation. Despite widespread scientific consensus about human-induced climate change, there remains knowledge gaps on how to foster sustainable human-environment relationships. Research in the field of environmental psychology has outlined two pathways through which this discipline can contribute to understanding the relationship between human behavior and the natural environment. One path focuses on the cognitive and affective processes that may hinder or promote pro-environmental behavior (“human-to-environment”). The second path focuses on the effects of the natural and built environment on human well-being and behavior ("environment-to-human"). In this symposium we will present recent research along both pathways to showcase how psychological science can advance our understanding of motivation or amotivation in the face of climate-related and environmental challenges and contribute to developing behavior-change interventions. Five speakers will present the methods, key findings, and implications of their research, each followed by a brief question round.
Building R, level 5 - 5.103
ORAL PRESENTATIONS 11
PERCEPTION AND COGNITIVE PROCESSING
Presenters - François Foerster (ULB), Simon Ladouce (KU Leuven), Inès Mentec (ULB), Lisa Moreel (UGent)
Spatial but not temporal orienting of attention enhances the temporal resolution of human peripheral vision in an ecologically valid scenario.
François Foerster (chair), Axel Cleeremans, Anne Giersch
Taking the eye-tracker out for dinner: characterizing spatial biases during an everyday life behaviour
Simon Ladouce, Céline Gillebert
Neutrality doesn’t exist: an EEG study of micro-valence
Inès Mentec, Guillaume Pech, Axel Cleeremans
Detecting lateralization of arithmetic with functional transcranial Doppler Sonography: A failure to replicate?
Lisa Moreel, Robin Gerrits, Wim Fias
ORAL PRESENTATIONS 11
PERCEPTION AND COGNITIVE PROCESSING
Presenters - François Foerster (ULB), Simon Ladouce (KU Leuven), Inès Mentec (ULB), Lisa Moreel (UGent)
Spatial but not temporal orienting of attention enhances the temporal resolution of human peripheral vision in an ecologically valid scenario.
François Foerster (chair), Axel Cleeremans, Anne Giersch
Taking the eye-tracker out for dinner: characterizing spatial biases during an everyday life behaviour
Simon Ladouce, Céline Gillebert
Neutrality doesn’t exist: an EEG study of micro-valence
Inès Mentec, Guillaume Pech, Axel Cleeremans
Detecting lateralization of arithmetic with functional transcranial Doppler Sonography: A failure to replicate?
Lisa Moreel, Robin Gerrits, Wim Fias
Building R, level 5 - 5.107
ORAL PRESENTATIONS 12
INTERVENTIONS AND METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES
Presenters - Eva Geluk (Antwerp Management School), Zhefei Mao (UGent), Guillaume Pech (ULB), Tassilo Tissot (UGent)
Integrating Employee and Workplace Perspectives in Return to Work After Burnout: A Mixed-Methods Study
Eva Geluk (chair), David Stuer, Remco Lenstra, Bart Cambré, Anja Van den Broeck
Strengthening Evaluative Conditioning Effect by Targeting Inferential Processes
Zhefei Mao, Pieter Van Dessel, Marine Rougier, Jan De Houwer
A simulated comparison of three univariate outlier detection methods—Standard Deviation (SD), Median Absolute Deviation (MAD), and Interquartile Range (IQR)—across various distributions, data points, and outlier scenarios: Introducing of a new method, the MAD, IQR, and SD Simultaneously (MISS method).
Guillaume Pech, Emilie Caspar, Uri Maoz, Axel Cleeremans, Christophe Ley
Co-Creating Integrity: Development of a Moral Intervention for Fraud Prevention among Young Athletes
Tassilo Tissot, Alain Van Hiel, Cleo Schyvinck, Bram Constandt, Annick Willem, Leen Haerens
ORAL PRESENTATIONS 12
INTERVENTIONS AND METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES
Presenters - Eva Geluk (Antwerp Management School), Zhefei Mao (UGent), Guillaume Pech (ULB), Tassilo Tissot (UGent)
Integrating Employee and Workplace Perspectives in Return to Work After Burnout: A Mixed-Methods Study
Eva Geluk (chair), David Stuer, Remco Lenstra, Bart Cambré, Anja Van den Broeck
Strengthening Evaluative Conditioning Effect by Targeting Inferential Processes
Zhefei Mao, Pieter Van Dessel, Marine Rougier, Jan De Houwer
A simulated comparison of three univariate outlier detection methods—Standard Deviation (SD), Median Absolute Deviation (MAD), and Interquartile Range (IQR)—across various distributions, data points, and outlier scenarios: Introducing of a new method, the MAD, IQR, and SD Simultaneously (MISS method).
Guillaume Pech, Emilie Caspar, Uri Maoz, Axel Cleeremans, Christophe Ley
Co-Creating Integrity: Development of a Moral Intervention for Fraud Prevention among Young Athletes
Tassilo Tissot, Alain Van Hiel, Cleo Schyvinck, Bram Constandt, Annick Willem, Leen Haerens
Building R, level 5 - 5.110
ORAL PRESENTATIONS 13
HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
Presenters - Martina Camelio (University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, IT), Caroline Langhendries (ULB; Institut Jules Bordet), Femke Legroux (VUB), Sadio Righes (ULB)
The role of alexithymia in self-esteem modulation among patients in a weight-loss intervention: a longitudinal analysis
Martina Camelio (chair), Martina Di Perna, Piero Porcelli, Olivier Luminet, Marine Mas, Chiara Conti
A cross-sectional study of advanced cancer patients' (un)willingness to discuss their life-sustaining treatment preferences with their primary caregiver while experiencing sentinel events for readdressing goals of care
Caroline Langhendries, Yves Libert, Ahmad Awada, Lisa Choucroun, Paulus Kristanto, Gabriel Liberale, Aurore Liénard, Nathalie Meuleman, Darius Razavi, Dirk Van Gestel, Isabelle Merckaert
Exploring the dynamic relationship between job demands, job resources, and burnout dimensions
Femke Legroux, Aleksander Banasik, Tim Vantilborgh, Sara De Gieter
Efficacy of a brief ecologically boosted emotion and self-regulation group in breast cancer survivors: Identifying who benefits most through latent profile analysis
Sadio Righes, Waroquier Pauline, Paulus Kristanto, Isabelle Merckaert
ORAL PRESENTATIONS 13
HEALTH AND WELL-BEING
Presenters - Martina Camelio (University "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara, IT), Caroline Langhendries (ULB; Institut Jules Bordet), Femke Legroux (VUB), Sadio Righes (ULB)
The role of alexithymia in self-esteem modulation among patients in a weight-loss intervention: a longitudinal analysis
Martina Camelio (chair), Martina Di Perna, Piero Porcelli, Olivier Luminet, Marine Mas, Chiara Conti
A cross-sectional study of advanced cancer patients' (un)willingness to discuss their life-sustaining treatment preferences with their primary caregiver while experiencing sentinel events for readdressing goals of care
Caroline Langhendries, Yves Libert, Ahmad Awada, Lisa Choucroun, Paulus Kristanto, Gabriel Liberale, Aurore Liénard, Nathalie Meuleman, Darius Razavi, Dirk Van Gestel, Isabelle Merckaert
Exploring the dynamic relationship between job demands, job resources, and burnout dimensions
Femke Legroux, Aleksander Banasik, Tim Vantilborgh, Sara De Gieter
Efficacy of a brief ecologically boosted emotion and self-regulation group in breast cancer survivors: Identifying who benefits most through latent profile analysis
Sadio Righes, Waroquier Pauline, Paulus Kristanto, Isabelle Merckaert
Building R, level 4 - 4.110
BAPS JUNIOR BOARD - WORKSHOP 5
TURNING IMPOSTOR FEELINGS INTO A SUCCESS STORY
Presenters - Siglinde Van Den Bossche (VUB)
BAPS JUNIOR BOARD - WORKSHOP 5
TURNING IMPOSTOR FEELINGS INTO A SUCCESS STORY
Presenters - Siglinde Van Den Bossche (VUB)
16.50 - 17.30 AWARD ceremony
The award ceremony will take place in Salle Dupréel (building S, level 1).
from 18.30 BAPS JUNIOR BOARD SOCIAL EVENT
After the BAPS conference, the BAPS Junior Board is organizing a fun post-conference social event!
The event will take place at the WOLF (Rue du Fossé aux Loups 50, 1000 Bruxelles - it's near Bruxelles Central Station!).
Register here to let us know that you want to attend!
The event will take place at the WOLF (Rue du Fossé aux Loups 50, 1000 Bruxelles - it's near Bruxelles Central Station!).
Register here to let us know that you want to attend!
