Psych Young Researchers Day 2023

Dear all,

We are very excited to share the program of the first edition of the Open Minds: Psych Young Researcher Day (17th of May) conference. Please find attached the program and the abstract book of the day.
We are also pleased to welcome two keynote speakers during the day (find below the abstracts).

As a reminder, the conference will take place at the Socrate building in room -242 and will start at 10:00 am (registration: at -2 floor from 9:30 to 10:00 am). One of the aims of this event is to reduce the ecological impact so we encourage all of you to bring your own cup to be used during the coffee breaks and lunch.

Keynotes abstracts:

Miguel Silan (Université Lumière Lyon 2)

Title: Rethinking multi-site studies: Can the cross-indigenous approach remedy common cross-cultural vulnerabilities?

Psychologists often want generalizable psychological knowledge, and this is commonly done through large-scale cross-cultural studies. However, this kind of multi-site approach can be vulnerable to multiple issues: 1.) it can put WEIRD situations to non-WEIRD populations; 2.) it stringently assumes cultural comparability and measurement equivalence, and, 3.) these sources of “error” and violations of assumptions can remain undetected in the analysis of the gathered data. The cross-indigenous approach represents another path to a generalizable psychology. This stems from the methodological approaches of indigenous psychology (e.g. Enriquez, 1979, Kim, Yang, & Hwang, 2006a, Pe-Pua & Protacio-Marcelino, 2000) an introduction of which will be presented. The discussion will then compare the cross-indigenous and cross-cultural approaches, and potential ways that the cross-indigenous approach can mitigate the vulnerabilities of the cross-cultural approach.

Rakoen Maertens (University of Cambridge)

Title: Towards A Psychological Vaccine Against Misinformation
Our society is plagued by distrust, polarisation, and misinformation. However, not all hope is lost. In this keynote I will present some of the recent interdisciplinary research on the development of interventions that tackle misinformation susceptibility. I will present how inoculation theory can be used to develop text-based, gamified, and video-based interventions that train people to recognise misinformation at an early stage. I will also discuss methodological and practical issues related to misinformation research, such as the accurate measurement of misinformation susceptibility, and the effect of research design choices on the estimated impact of applied interventions. I will conclude with a hopeful message, that if we combine forces, we can work towards herd immunity against misinformation.

We are looking forward to seeing you there!

Best,

The “Open Minds: Psych Young Researcher Day” organizers: Marco, Chloé, Sarah, Marie, Mrittika, Alexia.

>Program

>Abstract book