The research unit Occupational & Organisational Psychology and Professional Learning consists of 2 research groups: the group Work, Organisational and Personnel Psychology, and the group Professional Learning & Development, Corporate Training and Lifelong Learning.
Learning and memory processes in psychological function and dysfunction, in particular in relation to anxiety, depression and substance use, including:
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 unit School Psychology and Child and Adolescent Development is dedicated to the study of child and adolescent development within schools and other social contexts, that is, family and peer systems. Our main aim is to gain more insight into developmental processes and the factors affecting them by conducting longitudinal research, intervention research, and experimental studies. In most of the studies conducted, a longitudinal ...
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Biomedical variables generally explain only a part of a person’s experience of health and illness and in many instances a novel approach including social and psychological influences is needed. The KU Leuven Research Group “Health Psychology” aims at unravelling how psychological and somatic variables interact in health and disease from a psycho-bio-social perspective. Both fundamental and applied research is ...
The CIP&T investigates learning and teaching in specific subject domains, esp. in mathematics. Emphasis is put on the role of cognitive, metacognitive as well as affective variables in the teaching/learning process. This research takes place in ecologically valid settings and uses a diversity of quantitative and qualitative methods, including design experiments aimed at the construction and validation of powerful learning environments. In ...
EXTO conducts research in four focused research groups 1) BIPS: Physiology & neuropsychology of sleep, sleeplessness and cognitive performance 2) SOSP: Social cognitive neuroscience The way our brain builds up impressions about other people is a major topic of research at the V.U.B. We make use of the most modern techniques using brain imaging to study this, including ERP and fMRI. 3) COPS: Attention and implicit learning, including: * ...
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 ...