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Identity and personality transactions and interactions in adolescence and young adulthood: associations with psychological adjustment and physiological processes. KU Leuven

Luc Goossens
School Psychology and Development in Context
When people are describing themselves, they typically refer to characteristics such as outgoing, friendly, and messy. Exactly these kinds of characteristics define ones personality. In adolescence (ages 12 to 18 years) and young adulthood (ages 19 to 30), another aspect of individuality, identity formation, also becomes more salient. Identity formation refers to whether individuals identify themselves with and commit themselves to choices in ...

The process basis and predictive value of emotion dynamics for psychological well-being. KU Leuven

Peter Kuppens
Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences
Our well-being is not only reflected in how we feel on average, but also in how our feelings change. Studying the patterns and regularities of these changes provides a wealth of information about how we emotionally respond to events and how we regulate our emotions, for better or for worse. While we know that these emotion dynamics play an important role for our well-beging, researchers have yet come to understand what lies at the basis of ...

The process basis of emotion dynamics in relation to psychological well-being and maladjustment. KU Leuven

Peter Kuppens
Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences
Our well-being is not only reflected in how we feel on average, but also in how our feelings change. Studying the patterns and regularities of these changes provides a wealth of information about how we emotionally respond to events and how we regulate our emotions, for better or for worse. While we know that these emotion dynamics play an important role for our well-being, researchers have yet come to understand what lies at the basis of ...

A Cultural Psychological Approach to Acculturation: Developing tools to capture psychological acculturation and exploring the micro-processes that account for cultural fit in intercultural interactions. KU Leuven

Jozefien De Leersnyder
Social and Cultural Psychology
The current research is part of a bigger research program in which 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. In the coming two years, I intend to focus on two of the four research lines that ...

The role of psychological factors and central neurotransmitter systems in visceral and somatic pain in health and functional somatic disorders. KU Leuven

Jan Tack
Translational Research in GastroIntestinal Disorders
Functional Dyspensia (FD) is characterized by chronic/recurrent pain/discomfort in the gastroduodenal region that cannot be explained by structural or biochemical abnormalities. The pathophysiology of FD remains incompletely understood, but consists probably of a complex interaction between biological, psychological and social factors. More specifically, peripheral and/or central sensitization at different levels of the 'brain-gut axis' may play ...

What influences the processing of implicatures? An experimental psychological investigation. KU Leuven

Walter Schaeken
Laboratory for Experimental Psychology
In communication, people often intend to convey more than the words they literally utter. The literal, semantic meaning of a sentence can be enriched by its implicit, pragmatic meaning. The term implicature refers to an interpretation of what a speaker didnt explicitly say but intendedto say. Two broad categories of implicatures can be distinguished. On the one hand, there are conversational implicatures of which the scalar implicature is the ...

A Cultural Psychological Approach to Acculturation KU Leuven

Jozefien De Leersnyder
Social and Cultural Psychology

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 ...

The role of central neurotransmittersystems and psychological factors in the perception and suppression of visceral pain in health. KU Leuven

Jan Tack
Translational Research in GastroIntestinal Disorders, Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging, Public Health Psychiatry
Visceral pain is a core symptom of most functional gastrointestinal disorders (FGID). Pathogenetic factors may include peripheral or central sensitization; these may be driven by cognitive-affective processes and their neural substrates. FGID are characterized by chronic/recurrent abdominal pain/discomfort in the absence of an underlying structural or biochemical abnormality that explains the symptoms. Previous studies by our group, together ...

A Cultural Psychological Approach to Acculturation. KU Leuven

Jozefien De Leersnyder
Social and Cultural Psychology

In the current research program, I further develop and empirically test a cultural psychological approach to acculturation that 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 encouraged and rewarded to fit their socio-cultural ...

Time Dynamics of Emotions: Psychological mechanisms and neural correlates KU Leuven

Peter Kuppens
Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences

Emotions are dynamic processes that unfold over time. One way to study their dynamic properties is through the intensity profile tracking approach, which consists in asking people to draw profiles reflecting how their emotion continuously changed during an emotional episode. The resulting intensity profiles can take many shapes that are found to primarily differ in emotion explosiveness (i.e., steepness of the emotion response at onset) and ...