Projects
Project Spanish Federal Research Fund: "Emotion, memory, linguistic identity and emotional acculturation: influences on the learning of Spanish as a migrant language" KU Leuven
Within this project (funding by the Spanish Federal Research Fund (FFI2017-83166-C2-2-R; Ministerio de EconomÃa, Industria y Competitividad. Gobierno de España; PI: Susana MartÃn Leralta (Universidad Nebrija, Madrid), 27.467€) we investigate the possible impact of migration on language and emotions. Emotional experiences are closely related to the cultures to which we belong and the languages we speak. As a result of migrations, when people ...
Cognitive Functional Therapy in nurses with persistent low back pain: an intervention based on an individualised multidimensional evaluation KU Leuven
Nurses perform essential healthcare tasks within our healthcare system and adequate nursing health is crucial for the provision of effective, empathic and efficient health care. However, occupational Low Back Pain (LBP) is very common among nurses. Lifetime prevalence ranges from 35 to 84% and annual prevalence is approximately 70%. LBP is worldwide the leading cause of disability and has a significant personal, social and economic impact. ...
A Cultural Psychological Approach to Acculturation KU Leuven
In the current research program, I further develop and empirically test a cultural psychological approach to acculturation. This approach centers on the notion of ‘cultural fit’ – i.e., the extent to which an individual’s pattern of psychological functioning is similar to the typical pattern of others in the socio-cultural context. I start from the cultural psychological insights that people are socially ‘wired’ to fit their socio-cultural ...
Exploring the dialectic relation between narrative and context from an interactional sociolinguistic perspective: The case of World War II-testimonies KU Leuven
This project scrutinizes the relation between the way narrators construct their stories and identities in relation to the dominant discourses circulating in the global context. Only recently have interactional sociolinguists increasingly examined this dialectic relation between the local interactional level of narrative and the surrounding socio-cultural context and its ‘big D’-discourses (Gee 1999). This is also thanks to positioning ...
When the going gets tough: the impact of coaches' and athletes' leadership on team resilience and the development of mental skills in youth sport teams KU Leuven
Athletes’ resilience refers to the psychological processes that protect individuals from potential performance decrements when the stakes are high. At team level, a sports team’s resilience refers to the processes that protect the group, as a whole, from stressors collectively encountered. It has been found that a team’s resilience is more than the sum of the individual athletes’ resilience. Team resilience is rather determined by the group’s ...
ACTION: Advance care planning – een innovative palliative care intervention to improve quality of life in oncology Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Development and validation of active and passive immunotherapy targeted at protein Tau in transgenic mouse models for Alzheimer's disease KU Leuven
The offender’s experience of punitiveness : a descriptive phenomenological study KU Leuven
Imposing a penal sanction generally implies the intentional infliction of suffering or pain on a person convicted of committing criminal offenses. On the one hand, this added suffering is being legitimized by penal goals, whether or not they are being made explicit, on the other hand this practice is being legitimized by respecting the principles of fair sentencing, such as proportionality and equality. When determining the punishment and the ...