Symposia

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.

Proposed Symposium (2021)
Milena Dzhelyova (UCLouvain) and Stephanie Van der Donck (KU Leuven)
Scrutinizing the many faces of the face

Alexia Roux-Sibilon (UCLouvain; University Grenoble Alpes, France; University Savoie Mont Blanc, France), Radial biases influence face identification in the periphery
Sofie Vettori (KU Leuven), Combined frequency-tagging EEG and eye-tracking measures provide no support for the “excess mouth/diminished eye attention” hypothesis in autism
Stephanie Van der Donck (KU Leuven), Using facial mimicry recordings to investigate automatic facial emotion processing in boys with and without autism
Milena Dzhelyova (UCLouvain; Université de Lorraine, France), A robust implicit measure of facial attractiveness discrimination

Proposed Symposium (2021)
Annelies Raes (KU Leuven; Université de Lille, France) and Jean Heutte (KU Leuven)
How to measure and support engagement for optimal learning experience?

Jean Heutte (Université de Lille, France), The dualistic perspective of optimal learning experience
Dennis A. Rivera (UCLouvain), The teaching presence in the forums of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to facilitate socio-cognitive conflicts
Annelies Raes (KU Leuven; Université de Lille, France), Creating presence from a distance through the development of optimal learning spaces
Discussants: Karine Verschueren (KU Leuven) and Fien Depaepe (KU Leuven)

Proposed Symposium (2021)
Maaike Van Den Houte (UCLouvain; KU Leuven) and Olivier Desmedt (UCLouvain; FRS-FNRS)
Interoception: Measurement issues and ways to move forward

Olivier Desmedt (UCLouvain, FRS-FNRS), What do measures of self-report interoception measure? Insights from a systematic review, latent factor analysis, and network approach
Maaike Van Den Houte (UCLouvain; KU Leuven), The Respiratory Occlusion Differentiation (ROD) task and training paradigm: A new to measure and improve respiratory interoceptive accuracy
Elke Vlemincx (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands; KU Leuven), A novel measure of self-reported interoception: The Three-domain Interoceptive Sensations Questionnaire
Indra Ramakers (Hasselt University), Interoception and proprioception as an underlying working mechanism of Medically Unexplained Symptoms

Invited Symposium (2020)
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 (2020)
Annalisa Casini (UCLouvain) and Michiel De Proost (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), Gender, feminism and attitudes toward trans* people: a multi-method analysis

Invited Symposium (2020)
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
Elien 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 (2020)
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 and reading
Eleonore Smalle (UGent), Learning a language effortlessly like a child: Unlocking adult’s implicit language learning skill by cognitive depletion
Virginie Crollen (UCLouvain), The role vision plays in shaping the representation of numbers: Insights from deafness and blindness
Bert De Smedt (KU Leuven), The added value of structural brain imaging data in predicting individual differences in children’s arithmetic

Invited Symposium (2020)
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 (2020)
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), Dynamics of emotions and regulatory processes in adolescents with chronic conditions
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 (2020) sponsored by the European Health Psychology Society (details of the symposium to be confirmed)
Stephan Van den Broucke (UCLouvain) and Ann Desmet (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
Gill Rowlands (University of Newcastle, UK)
Stephan Van den Broucke (UCLouvain), Improving the digital health literacy of diabetic patients

Proposed Symposium (2020)
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), Men’s health behavior and wellbeing obstructed: The role of gender identification and precarious manhood in three domains

Proposed Symposium (2020)
Mehdi Senoussi (UGent) and Wim Gevers (ULB)
Representing spatial and ordinal information in working memory

Daniel Memmert (German Sport University Cologne), Visual attention in complex environments: breadth of attention and its link with other cognitive functions.
Muhammet Ikbal Sahan (UGent), The interplay between spatial processes and verbal working memory
Lucie Attout (ULiege), Precision of ordinal representation in working memory: domain specific or domain general?
Myrtille Dewulf (ULB), Comparing and priming ordinal information in working memory

Proposed Symposium (2020)
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)
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)
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)
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

Symposia 2021

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