Social Cognition Workshop “From Self-Knowledge to Knowing Others”

27TH – 28TH NOVEMBER 2024 BRUSSELS, BELGIUM

New advances in unlocking the plasticity of social cognition in general and clinical populations

The two-day program aims to inform participants about the empirical tools and theoretical models available to capture the plasticity of social cognition across both healthy and clinical populations.

Key Note Speakers

Prof. Isabel Dziobek: “From interaction-focused group psychotherapy to robot-assisted intervention: New therapies for social difficulties in individuals with autism”
Arthur Pabst: “Social cognition in alcohol use disorder: why it matters, what we know, where to go”
Prof. Dr. Dirk Scheele: “Chronic loneliness as a risk factor for stress-related disorders: cognitive biases and neural mechanisms”
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Prof. Heather Ferguson: “Autistic adults experience greater malleability of the self after simulating other people than neurotypical adults”
Dr. Ekaterina Pronizius: “Self-other distinction in individuals with borderline personality disorder: a behavioral, large-scale collaboration”
Prof. Maude Schneider: “Daily-life social functioning in neurodevelopmental disorders: insights from EMA studies”
Prof. Pavla Linhartová: “Borderline personality disorder: From neuroscience to effective treatments”
Prof. Dr. Leonhard Schilbach: “Second-person neuroscience: Focusing on change and dynamics of social interactions”
Prof. Dr. Jan Van den Stock: “Social cognition deficits in neurodegeneration”

EDITION THEMES

Towards better Interventions

Understanding and tracking changes

Devising well-targeted, specific, individualized, engaging, long-term, useful, and efficient interventions poses various challenges, contributing to the difficulty of assessing social cognition (pre/post) and the absence of shared practices in this field. We aim to learn from and share insights about your initiatives, methods, results, and strategies for enhancing or modulating social cognitive processes.

Social performance is likely to vary over time. Determining whether these changes are lasting, transient, context-specific, generalized, fluctuant, or stabilizing requires a clear identification of what is changing and what has caused the change. We aim to foster further collaborations between researchers, clinicians, and practitioners to unlock the plasticity of social cognition.

The goal is to bridge the gap between understanding plasticity and applying practical interventions.

Meet Our Team

We are a team of passionate researchers from UCLouvain, interested in building a network of like-minded individuals focused on investigating the complexity of social cognition in both general and clinical populations. If you would like to connect, please get in touch!

Prof. Henryk Bukowski

Professor of psychometrics,
UCLouvain, BE

Alix Bigot, MSc.

Prae-doctoral researcher,
UCLouvain, BE

Dr. Ekaterina Pronizius

Postdoctoral researcher,

UCLouvain BE & UniVienna, AT

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Our workshop has received generous support from: