Self Knowing Others – Social cognition workshop

02nd – 03rd DECEMBER 2026 BRUSSELS, BELGIUM

Registration and Abstract submission open soon

What is the structure of social cognition?
Insights from clinical populations, psychometrics, and neuroscience

This two-day workshop brings together approximately 120 senior and junior researchers investigating the socio-cognitive processes that underpin our understanding of self and others, including empathy, mentalizing, perspective-taking, automatic imitation, self–other distinction, and self-knowledge.The aim of this sixth edition is to integrate perspectives across disciplines in order to better model the structure of social cognition, with a particular focus on its conceptualization, measurement, and clinical relevance.

Key Note Speakers

EDITION THEMES

1. Structure and Components of Social Cognition

Exploring how social cognition can be decomposed into distinct but interacting processes across domains such as empathy, mentalizing, and self–other distinction.

2. Measurement and Psychometrics

Advancing tools and methods to assess social cognition, including issues of validity, reliability, and ecological relevance across populations.

3. Clinical and Transdiagnostic Perspectives

Understanding similarities and differences in social cognition across clinical populations to improve diagnostic and intervention approaches.

4. Interdisciplinary Integration

Bridging insights from psychology, neuroscience, and computational approaches to build unified models of social cognition.

The goal is to present theoretical models and empirical tools designed to capture the multifaceted nature of self-other functioning across transdiagnostic contexts.

Meet Our Team

We are a team of passionate researchers from UCLouvain, Belgium and University of Vienna, Austria, 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!