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Topic A: Personnel Assessment Techniques- - Executive Search: Psychological and Economic constraints - - Predicting Performance: A longitudinal study - -Topic B: Opinion Surveys in Industry - -Topic C: Team Building - - Effects of team actions on the implementation of a Total Quality Campaign - -Topic D: Questionnaire Research - -Topic E: Organisational Development - - Effects of team actions on the implementation of a Total Quality Campaign ...

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 Department of Cognitive and Biological Psychology is persueing both fundamental and applied research on human psychological functions and their biological basis.

The main research topics of the department COPS are the following: 1. New paradigms for hypnotic treatment in insomnia and depression; 2. Quality of life assessment in chronic insomnia and narcolepsy; 3. Psychoneuroimmunology in insomnia and sleep apnea syndrome; 4. Shift work as a contributor to occupational stress; 5. Development of neuropsychological assessment procedures for children; 6. Neuropsychological screening of ALTE and SIDS ...

The main fundamental and applied research activities within the department of developmental and life span psychology focus on different stages of human development from birth to old age, with specific interest for the multidimensional analyses of coping behaviour. Not only the different aspects of the personal developmental process, such as cognitive, neuropsychological and social development, but also the dynamics of intergenerational value ...

Some standard personality questionnaires (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory - 2, Baron Emotional Quotient Inventory, Millon Clinical Multiaxional Inventory) have been translated into Dutch and research is done in order to construct local norms and to validate the different questionnaires in different clinical settings and with different groups of patients. At the same time new scales are constructed to measure personality disorders ...

Topic A : Coping processes and coping strategies of adults, children and family systems related to significant life events. - -Parent and elder abuse.- -Artificial insemination - IVF oocyte donation : effects on parent child relationships.- -Topic B: Explorative empirical research on problems related to socialisation and education. - -Prevention of (functional) illiteracy in elementary (primary) school. - -Illiteracy in Flanders: detection of ...