Scientific and Professional Associations

 

  • American Psychological Society, USA (since 2007)
  • Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, USA (since 1999)
  • Society of Experimental Social Psychology, USA (since 1996)
  • Society of Personality and Social Psychology, USA (since 1994)
  • Cercle des Alumni de la Fondation Universitaire, Belgium (since 1994)
  • European Association of Experimental Social Psychology (since 1986)
  • Belgian Federation of Psychologists (since 1986)
  • Belgian Association for Psychological Science (former Belgian Society of Psychology) (since 1986)
  • American Psychological Association (since 1985)

 

 

Official Appointments in Scientific and Professional Associations

 

  • At the international level
    • Organizer (with Stéphanie Demoulin) of the 12th Congrès International de Psychologie Sociale de Langue française of the ADRIPS at Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgique, July 4-6, 2018
    • Organizer (with Olivier Corneille and Stéphanie Demoulin) of the 16th European Social Cognition Network Transfer of Knowledge Conference at Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, September 2014
    • Organizer (with Ruud Custers, Rob Holland, and Michaela Waenke) of the ESCON-ISCON Preconference at the EASP General Meeting, Amsterdam, July 8, 2014
    • Chair of the Steering Committee of the second ESF-Funded European Social Cognition Network (ESCON2) (2009-2014)
    • Member of the Steering Committee of the International Social Cognition Network (ISCON) (2009-2011)
    • Organizer (with Andrea Abele, Amy Cuddy, and Charles Judd) of the EAESP Small Group Meeting "Fundamental dimensions of social perception : A view from different perspectives" at Namur, June 7-9, 2007
    • Instructor at the Summer School of the International Graduate College on the topic "Stability and Change in Intergroup Relations", June 24-30, 2004, Luckenwalde, Germany.
    • President of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology (2002-2005)
    • Member of the Standing Committee for Scientific Affairs of the European Federation of Psychology Associations EFPA (2001-2003)
    • Organizer (with Olivier Corneille and Muriel Dumont) of the 3rd European Social Cognition Network (ESCON) Meeting at Houffalize, Belgium, September 2001
    • Founding Faculty Member of the International Graduate School in Social Psychology, Jena University, Germany (2000-)
    • Belgian coordinator of the ESF-Funded European Social Cognition Network (ESCON)
    • Member of the Executive Committee and Treasurer of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology (1999-2002)
    • Organizer (with Olivier Corneille et Chick Judd) of the EAESP Small Group Meeting "Group homogeneity and group entitativity" at Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, July 1999
    • Instructor at the Summer School of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology held in Leuven from August 2 to August 16, 1998
    • Instructor at the Summer School of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology held in Warsaw from July 24 to August 7, 1994 (Social Categorization and Social Information Processing).
    • Scientific Secretary and Treasurer of the EAESP/SESP Joint Meeting of Experimental Social Psychology held in Leuven/Louvain-la-Neuve in July 1992.
  • At the national level

 

    • Member of the Executive Board of UNIA (Interfederal Center for the Equality of Chances) (2021-2026)
    • Member of the Expert Group ‘Psychology & Corona » (2020-)
    • President of the Coordination Committee of Vice-rectors for Research of the Belgian French Community (2011-2013)
    • Member of the Board of Directors of the Belgian National Science Foundation FRS-FNRS (2009-2014)
    • Organizer (with Stéphanie Demoulin) of the Colloquium "From agression to infrahumanization: An international colloquium in the honor of Jacques-Philippe Leyens" at Louvain-la-Neuve, November 24, 2008
    • Member of the National Graduate College in Psychological and Educational Sciences at the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (2005-2010)
    • Member of the Scientific Committee and speaker for UCL of the Doctoral School of the Communauté Française in Psychological and Educational Sciences, PSYCEDUC (2005-2010)
    • Member of the Executive Committee of the Belgian Federation of Psychologists (1998-1999)
    • Member of the Board of Directors of the Belgian Federation of Psychologists (1997-2001)
    • Member of the National Committee of Psychologists (1996-2000)
    • Secretary (1993-1996) and Secretary General (1996-1998) of the Belgian Society of Psychology