Projects
Cognitive control in an aging society KU Leuven
Cognitive Effort in Context KU Leuven
Rapidly and flexibly adapting to conflicting situations is crucial for almost all of our daily activity. When we encounter conflict, we need to exert cognitive effort to overcome it. The state of the art so far has overlooked that we do this in a complex context. This calls for an in-depth exploration of how effort exertion behaves in context. The overarching goal of my project is therefore to study task-related, dynamic, social and ...
Is fluency the message? Exploring the causal role of cognitive ease in the more-less asymmetry in comparative communication KU Leuven
Rethinking 'thinking about your thinking': Identifying the role of metacognitive monitoring inacademic learning through cognitive psychology methods in educational research. KU Leuven
Feeling is believing: a study of the relation between cognitive control and belief updating Ghent University
In recent years, important political and societal topics, ranging from climate change to conspiracy
theories, dominated our daily news. These dominating topics have in common that they rely from our
beliefs: We believe the veracity of climate change or its absence, a theory or political idea and
whether vaccines help or hurt. What astounds us is the persistence of these beliefs. Once installed, it
seems difficult for ...
From One Election to the Next. A Panel Study on the Cognitive, Attitudinal, and Behavioural Effects of Repeated Elections in Belgium. KU Leuven
Electoral research typically deals with changes over time, as we aim to understand how attitudes and behaviors of voters change from one election to the next. A problem for this kind of research is that election cycles typically span four or five years, and it is impossible to control for all intervening variables. In this project, we seize the opportunity offered by the fact that in Belgium five different elections will be held over a half a ...
Green efforts: Assessing pro-environmental behavior in the lab and real-life through the lens of cognitive effort Ghent University
Despite being aware of the pressing threats related to global warming, shrinking biodiversity, and exhaustion of natural resources, we observe a gap between this awareness and commensurate changes in individuals’ behavior. The present proposal aims to explore the role of cognitive effort in pro-environmental behavior as a potential common denominator of the knowledge-behavior gap, and may in turn help to overcome it. Although humans typically ...
Metacognitive Insight into Latent Cognitive Parameters KU Leuven
The ability to evaluate one's own decision-making, known as metacognition, is critical for successful adaptation in noisy, changing environments. However, it is still unclear whether humans have metacognitive insight into the underlying cognitive parameters that shape their decisions. Such insight would be particularly useful for optimizing decision-making strategies when different latent parameters, such as response bias or impulsivity, lead ...
Risk as a subjective phenomenon. Integrating cognitive science into the concept of risk in European data protection law Vrije Universiteit Brussel
such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which demand that regulatees conduct such
an assessment. The project will respond to the calls for debiasing the law through a better
understanding of the subjective character of risk – including a ‘risk to a right’. This will be done
through the identification ...