Projects
Problems with decoupling self from others: An experimental approach to mentalizing about self and others in borderline personality disorder KU Leuven
The capacity for self-other distinction (SOD) refers to the ability to distinguish one’s own body, actions, and mental states from those of others. Although several theoretical and treatment approaches, such as mentalization-based treatment and transference-focused psychotherapy, suggest that impairments in the capacity for SOD may play an important role in explaining key features of patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD), little ...
The self as subject and the self as object. A study into the role of the body for the understanding of self-consciousness. KU Leuven
The impact of self and peer assessment in wiki-based CSCL-environments on students' self regulated learning and learning outcomes Ghent University
The aim of this project is studying the impact and added value of self and peer assessment in wiki-based computer-supported collaborative learning environments. Within higher and secondary setting, the impact on students' self regulated learning and performance will be studied, together with the differential impact of the amount, type, and quality of the feedback within the peer assessment conditions.
How to stimulate reflection on the disciplinary future self through internships: challenges and opportunities. KU Leuven
Disciplinaire persoonsvorming via stages en praktijkervaringen: opleidingsspecifieke en facultaire uitdagingen en kansen
In het onderwijsbeleidsplan van de KU Leuven (2014-2017) wordt sterk de nadruk gelegd op het belang van het voortdurend aanspreken en ter discussie stellen van het disciplinaire future self van studenten en op de bijdrage die de universiteit op die manier kan leveren tot hun ...
Related and autonomous: Cultural perspectives on self, acculturation and adjustment KU Leuven
How are culturally valued ways of being and relating reflected in different self-construals across individualistic and collectivistic cultural contexts? What happens to the self-construal of acculturating persons from a collectivistic cultural background who either migrate to, or who are born into, individualistic mainstream cultures? Self-construals – how people define themselves in relation to others – differ between ...
Murderers, whores and sodomites. Stigma and the Self in the Southern Netherlands (1750-1830). KU Leuven
Scholars in the history of the self often stress the importance of change in the late eighteenth century, noting an increasing stress on interiority, stability, wholeness and self-control. Their analyses are often based on sources pertaining to literate elites: learned philosophical tracts, memoirs and diaries, journals and novels. The aim of my dissertation is to analyse whether common people also took part in the new modes of selfhood, and ...
On self-deception, the deceptive self and the desire to live in truth. KU Leuven
This dissertation endeavors to track down the phenomenon of self-deception by revealing its inherent traits and querying its various manifestations. An exploration of the current, analytic debate on self-deception sheds light on how the epistemological restrictions, the unsteady analogies and illegitimate assumptions stand in the way of the intelligibility of the phenomenon. The search for a more adequate approach that would do justice to ...
The neural representation of self and others KU Leuven
The ability to distinguish self from others plays a crucial role in social interactions in humans and animals. Deficits with self-recognition are observed in psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia. How the brain processes sensory signals related to self and others to enable social recognition is currently not well understood. I address this question in mice, the genetically most tractable mammal. In rodents, social information ...