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Social and cultural psychology studies how people interactand how they think and feel about one another and about the world, both as individuals and as groups. It starts from the premise that all behavior is contextualized, and conversely, that individuals' and groups' behaviors constitute the social and cultural landscape. Our research spans a wide range of different methods and contexts, varying from controlled laboratory experiments that ...

Our research interests focus on three major fields: 1. Work and Organisational Psychology: important topics relate to human resource management (career management, orientation programmes, multi-rater evaluation), managerial behaviour (managerial motivation, managerial behaviour in profit- and non-profit organisations), personnel selection (assessment centres), and total quality management (teamwork, social impact, and impact on organisational ...

The Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences consists of 8 research units: Occupational & Organisational Psychology and Professional Learning; Brain and Cognition; Education, Culture and Society; Parenting and Special Education; Behaviour, Health and Psychopathology; Methods, Individual and Cultural Differences, Affect and Social Behavior; Education and Training; School Psychology and Child and Adolescent Development.

The research group IDNS started at the end of 2007 as a non-binding collaboration with the aim of developing the postmodern, social-constructionist perspective that developed within different psychological and orthopedagogical research projects theoretically and methodologically, and to develop a theoretical and methodological framework to further study psychological and orthopedagogical themes. The collaboration led to the development of its ...

Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences

Development of personality traits, personality disorders and psychopathology across the lifespan. Investigating developmental pathways - based on biological and psychosocial factors - towards vulnerability or protection for psychopathology and considering the evolution of personality characteristics across the life phases. oInfant development and parenting. Studying different aspects of infant development and parenting, such as parent-infant ...

The research group of Clinical Psychology investigates: (a) processes in the development and course of psychological problems and psychopathology, and (b) the development of assessment and intervention methods.

The research group consists of the following researchers (in alphabetical order):

Clinical Psychology, option (young) adults

Laurence Claes

Her research is situated in the domain of (a) clinical ...

The Research Group Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences focuses on the interplay between substantive-psychological research and the development of novel formal models (including associated procedures for model estimation and testing). On the basis of substantive questions new formal models are being developed; in turn, these models are estimated and tested in substantive research, and contribute there to a breeding ground for ...

The research group Work, Organization and Personnel Psychology (WOPP) focuses on the study of the psychological aspects of organizational change. The process of organizational change is approached at the task-related level (job insecurity, employability), interpersonal level (leadership, conflict management, negotiation) and the organizational level (change management).
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