Symposia 2021

There are three types of symposia at the BAPS2021 meeting: (1) invited symposia; (2) proposed symposia that are transferred from the postponed BAPS2020 meeting, and; (3) proposed symposia for the BAPS2021 meeting. Invited symposia are co-organised by UCLouvain and one other university. The objective of these symposia are to present cross-disciplinary psychology research. Proposed symposia were submitted from open calls and accepted by the BAPS organisation committee. Our objective for selection is based on quality and balance across the domains. Below, you can see details of all the symposia (listed by first organiser surname; the 2021 symposia are to follow). ​

During the pre-conference (27th May 2021), there will be an opportunity for symposium organizers to organise small pre-symposium meetings to discuss new research perspectives and potential research collaborations. These meetings can be for the symposium speakers, or widened to interested conference delegates. We will add the list of pre-symposium meetings to the conference programme and to this page of the website.
Invited Symposium (details of the symposium to be confirmed)
​Baptiste Barbot (UCLouvain) and Luc Goossens (KU Leuven)
Psychosocial Development in Adolescence
  • Luc Goossens (KU Leuven), Co-development of internalizing problems in adolescence: Combined growth patterns of loneliness, social anxiety symptoms, and depressive symptoms
  • Bart Soenens (UGent), The importance of parental autonomy support for adolescents’ psychosocial development
  • Koen Luyckx (KU Leuven), Identity development in adolescence
  • Baptiste Barbot (UCLouvain), Creativity development and identity processes in adolescence​
Invited Symposium (details confirmed)
Annalisa Casini (UCLouvain) and Michiel Deproost (VUB)​
Perspectives you probably haven't thought of yet when hearing about psychology and gender
  • Isabelle Roskam (UCLouvain), When egalitarian values backfire on women: A 37-country study of parental burnout.
  • Michiel Deproost (VUB), It gives me some peace of mind’: making sense of social egg freezing as a risk ritual
  • Loes Meeussen (KU Leuven), An underexamined inequality: How to foster male engagement in traditionally female communal roles and occupations
  • Emma Sarter (UCLouvain), How can social psychology help us better understand the impact of transnegativity on the health of trans* people? ​
Invited Symposium (details confirmed)
Aline Cordonnier (UCLouvain) and Valentine Vanootighem (ULiège)
Memoirs of a memory: From neurons to collective
  • David Stawarczyk (ULiège and Washington University), Neural activity patterns reinstatement, healthy aging, and memory for change in everyday activities
  • Valentine Vanootighem (ULiège), Frequency of nonbelieved memories
  • Ellen Vanderveren (KU Leuven), Autobiographical memory coherence on the intersection between well-being, meaning making and psychopathology
  • Aline Cordonnier (UCLouvain), Individual and collective functions of family memories of the Second World War
Invited Symposium (details of the symposium to be confirmed)
Martin Edwards (UCLouvain) and Eva Van den Bussche (KU Leuven)​
The brain in development
  • Jolijn Vanderauwera (UCLouvain), The emergence of the white matter network for language in infancy
  • Eleonore Smalle (UGent), Learning a language effortlessly like a child: Enhanced online neural monitoring of
    ​language sequences in adults with a disrupted prefrontal cortex
  • Virginie Crollen (UCLouvain), The role vision plays in shaping the representation of numbers: Insights from blindness
  • Bert De Smedt (KU Leuven), The added value of structural brain imaging data in predicting individual differences in children’s arithmetic
Invited Symposium (details confirmed)
​Sarah Galdiolo (UMons) and Lesley Verhofstadt (UGent)
Multidimensional aspects of couple functioning
  • Liesbet Berlamont (UGent), Associations between affect and empathic accuracy during conflict interactions in couples 
  • Laura Sels (UGent), Expressing thoughts and feelings leads to greater empathic accuracy during relationship conflict
  • Jennifer Denis (UMons), Evaluation of conjugal interactions based on nonverbal communication and the construction of conjugal dialogue
  • Sarah Galdiolo (UMons), Development of trait emotional intelligence in response to childbirth : A longitudinal couple perspective​
  • Anna Schouten (KU Leuven), Interpersonal emotion regulation in Japanese and Belgian couples
Invited Symposium (details confirmed)
​Pierre Philippot (UCLouvain), Marbella Pérez Peña (UCLouvain) and Katleen Van der Gucht (KU Leuven)
Mindfulness-based interventions for vulnerable populations
  • Fabienne Collette (ULiege), The SCD-Well Randomized Controlled Trial:  Effects of a mindfulness-based intervention
    ​versus health education on anxiety level in patients with subjective cognitive decline 
  • Merle Kock (KU Leuven), Can mindfulness help youngsters to open up to their emotions? ​Preliminary results of a school-based randomised controlled trial
  • Michelle Melis (KU Leuven), Mindfulness for breast cancer survivors with cognitive complaints
  • Benjamin Roux (UCLouvain), Mindfulness-based interventions for adolescents with behavior disorders
Invited Symposium sponsored by the European Health Psychology Society (details of the symposium to be confirmed)
Stephan Van den Broucke (UCLouvain) and Anne Desmedt (ULB)
Digital health: Opportunities and challenges
  • Eline Smit (University of Amsterdam), Digital computer-tailored health communication: state-of-the-art, current trends and avenues for the future 
  • Ann DeSmet (ULB), Usability and acceptability of trackers and apps among low SES people
  • Joanne Protheroe (Keele University), Avoiding the digital divide in health information searching behaviour
  • Stephan Van den Broucke (UCLouvain), Strengthening digital health literacy in diabetes patients
Proposed Symposium (2020) (abstracts to be confirmed)
​Amanda Haraldsson (European University Institute) and Iris Meinderts (KU Leuven)
Collective and individual consequences of gender stereotypes
  • Amanda Haraldsson (European University Institute), Effect of media discrimination on men and women’s political ambition
  • Jenny Veldman (KU Leuven), Belonging comparisons between STEM domains explain high school girls’ variability in STEM interest
  • Iris Meinderts (KU Leuven), Evaluation uncertainty in response to stereotyping and fluctuations in self-knowledge and self-esteem
  • Aster Van Rossum (KU Leuven), Title to be confirmed
Proposed Symposium 2020 (one abstract to be added)
​Mehdi Senoussi (UGent) and Wim Gevers (ULB)
Representing spatial and ordinal information in working memory
  • Lucie Attout (ULiege), Precision of ordinal representation in working memory: domain specific or domain general?
  • Muhammet Ikbal Sahan (UGent), The interplay between spatial processes and verbal working memory
  • Daniel Memmert (German Sport University Cologne), Visual attention in complex environments: Breadth of attention and its link to other cognitive functions.
  • Myrtille Dewulf (ULB), Comparing and priming ordinal information in working memory
Proposed Symposium 2020 (details confirmed)
Frank Van Overwalle (VUB) and Kim van Dun (UHasselt)
Social Cerebellum and action sequences
  • Elien Heleven (VUB), Novel fMRI, patient and TMS findings on the role of the cerebellum in social action sequences
  • Min Pu (VUB), The posterior cerebellum supports the explicit sequence learning linked to trait attribution
  • Qianying Ma (VUB), The posterior cerebellum supports implicit learning of true and false belief sequence
  • Kim van Dun (UHasselt), Cerebellar stimulation with TMS and tDCS
Proposed Symposium (2020) (details confirmed)
Marie-Anne Vanderhasselt (UGent) and Alexandre Heeren (UCLouvain)
Application of non-invasive neuromodulation tools in clinical psychology: From basic affective neuroscience to clinical translations
  • Stefanie de Smet (UGent), The effects of transcutaneous vagal nerve stimulation (tVNS) on emotion regulation and rumination
  • Yorgo Hoebeke (UCLouvain), Targeting rumination via transcranial direct current stimulation: A systematic review
  • Elisa Schoder (Brugmann University Hospital; ULB), Treatment of resistant depression: A pilot study assessing the efficacy of a tDCS-mindfulness program compared with a tDCS-relaxation​
  • Charlotte Coussement (UCLouvain; Beau Vallon Psychiatric Hospital), The impact of anodal tDCS on attentional networks as a function of the severity of anxiety and depression symptoms at baseline: A preregistered double-blind sham-controlled experiment​
Proposed Symposium 2020 (details confirmed)
Tim Vantilborgh (VUB) and Bart Wille (UGent)
Studying workplace phenomena from a dynamic perspective
  • Jonas W. B. Lang (UGent; University of Exeter), What is an agile, flexible, or adaptable employee? A typology of dynamic work-related individual differences
  • Evy Kuijpers (VUB), Do you feel better when you behave more extraverted than you are? The relationship between cumulative counterdispositional extraversion and positive feelings​
  • Yang Yang (VUB), The role of need satisfaction and inducement valuation in making sense of psychological contract breach — a moderated mediation mode​
  • Fien Heyde (UGent), Reciprocal relationships between narcissism and agentic versus communal work characteristics across the first six years of the career
Proposed Symposium (2020) (details confirmed)
Karl-Andrew Woltin (UCLouvain) and Vera Hoorens (KU Leuven)
Shall I compare thee to a…: Antecedents and consequences of group comparisons, comparative frames and comparative formats
  • Maike Braun (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, DE), Explaining male privilege or female disadvantage: The transmission of comparative focus in communication chains about gender inequality
  • Alexandra Lux (KU Leuven), Comparison is the thief of truth? Claims about social groups seem less true and socially acceptable if they are explicit rather than superficially non-comparative
  • Yujing Liang (KU Leuven), It is different when it’s about us: Truth judgments of claims about social groups depend on group membership 
  • Karl-Andrew Woltin (UCLouvain), With power “more is more": Comparative framing shapes judgments of the powerful​

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