SSH/PSP Faculté de psychologie, logopédie, sexologie et des sciences de la famille (PSY)
SSH/IPSY Psychological Sciences Research Institute (IPSY)
As a researcher, I am…
- using and refining methods of cognitive psychology and neurosciences
- examining situational and individual factors of social and differential psychology
- testing across clinical populations how social cognition relates to mental health
- developping internet-based solutions for large-scale performance-based testing
- always eager to collaborate, open to share my data, and willing to learn new methods
I study mainly empathy and perspective taking along these lines of research:
1. Deconstructing Self-Other Distinction:
Since we feel, see, and believe while we infer what others feel, see, and believe.
How do we distinguish our own thoughts from those others?
2. Shifting from egocentric to altercentric and more:
We are not always self-focused! Emotions, priming, and social contexts can shift you into being other-focused (i.e., altercentric) or more or less flexible.
3. Beyond poor and good performance in empathy and perspective-taking:
By measuring performance on multiple core dimensions, we provide new insights into individual differences: we can explain why someone is poor or good.
4. Self-knowledge to know others:
Is limited, biased, or unclear knowledge of the Self a barrier to understanding others?
5. Self-Other understanding in clinical populations:
We found that self-understanding and others’ understanding are impaired in autism, borderline personality disorder, schizophrenia, severe alcohol use disorder, and anorexia. Is there a transdiagnostic pattern?
And many other avenues related to perspective taking and psychometrics.
Réseaux sociaux
Bigot, Alix ; Luca Tiberi ; Xavier Saloppé ; Jean-Louis Nandrino ; Thierry Pham ; Bukowski, Henryk. Confusing my viewpoint with his: Altered self-other distinction performance in antisocial personality disorder. In: Antisocial personality disorder : theory, research and treatment, (2023). doi:10.1037/per0000660.
Bigot, Alix ; Emilie Auger ; Bukowski, Henryk ; Karyn Doba ; Jean-Louis Nandrino. Perspective taking processes across anorexia nervosa subtypes: egocentric and altercentric bias. In: European Eating Disorders Review, (2025) (Soumis).
Bigot, Alix ; Bukowski, Henryk ; Salavrakos, Mélissa ; Samson, Dana ; de Timary, Philippe. Effects of alcohol abstinence on a rapid recovery of social cognition. European society for biomedical research on alcoholism (Brussels, du 04/09/2025 au 06/09/2025).
Pronizius, Ekaterina ; Bukowski, Henryk ; Lamm, Claus. Comparing Self-Other Distinction Across Motor, Cognitive, and Affective Domains. In: Royal Society Open Science, (2024) (Accepté/Sous presse).
Quesque, François ; Apperly, Ian ; Baillargeon, Renée ; Baron-Cohen, Simon ; Becchio, Cristina ; Bekkering, Harold ; Bernstein, Daniel ; Bertoux, Maxime ; Bird, Geoffrey ; Bukowski, Henryk ; Burgmer, Pascal ; Carruthers, Peter ; Catmur, Caroline ; Dziobek, Isabel ; Epley, Nicholas ; Erle, Thorsten Michael ; Frith, Chris ; Frith, Uta ; Galang, Carl Michael ; Gallese, Vittorio ; Grynberg, Delphine ; Happé, Francesca ; Hirai, Masahiro ; Hodges, Sara D. ; Kanske, Philipp ; Kret, Mariska ; Lamm, Claus ; Nandrino, Jean Louis ; Obhi, Sukhvinder ; Olderbak, Sally ; Perner, Josef ; Rossetti, Yves ; Schneider, Dana ; Schurz, Matthias ; Schuwerk, Tobias ; Sebanz, Natalie ; Shamay-Tsoory, Simone ; Silani, Giorgia ; Spaulding, Shannon ; Todd, Andrew R. ; Westra, Evan ; Zahavi, Dan ; Brass, Marcel. Defining key concepts for mental state attribution. In: Communications Psychology, Vol. 2, no. 1 (2024) (2024). doi:10.1038/s44271-024-00077-6.
Samuel, Steven ; Erle, Thorsten M. ; Kirsch, Louise P. ; Surtees, Andrew ; Apperly, Ian ; Bukowski, Henryk ; Auvray, Malika ; Catmur, Caroline ; Kessler, Klaus ; Quesque, Francois. Three key questions to move towards a theoretical framework of visuospatial perspective taking. In: Cognition, Vol. 247, p. 105787 (2024). doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105787.
Bigot, Alix ; Tiberi, Luca ; Saloppé, Xavier ; Nandrino, Jean-Louis ; Pham, Thierry ; Bukowski, Henryk. Confusing my viewpoint with his: Altered self-other distinction performance in antisocial personality disorder. 7th Conference of the European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ESSPD).
Bigot, Alix ; Tiberi, Luca ; Saloppé, Xavier ; Nandrino, Jean-Louis ; Pham, Thierry ; Auger, Emilie ; Doba, Karyn ; Bukowski, Henryk. Evaluation des processus de prise de perspective chez les patients anorexiques et antisociaux. GREPACO 2024.
Bukowski, Henryk ; Bigot, Alix ; Tiberi, Luca ; Saloppé, Xavier ; Nandrino, Jean-Louis ; Pham, Thierry. Mistaking my views for his: Impaired self-other distinction in antisocial personality disorder. Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences (BAPS) annual meeting 2024 (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, du 30/05/2024 au 31/05/2024).
Bukowski, Henryk ; Pronizius, Ekaterina ; Bigot, Alix ; Golab, Dominik ; Bogaerts, Annabel ; Horký, Martin ; De Meulemeester, Celine. Self-Other Distinction Self-reported Questionnaire (SOD-SRQ): A multidimensional scale to measure self-other distinction in the everyday life of healthy and clinical populations. 7th Conference of the European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ESSPD) (Antwerp, Belgium, du 23/09/2024 au 25/09/2024).
Bigot, Alix ; Bukowski, Henryk. What does self-priority mean?. European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 7th bi-annual meeting.
Bukowski, Henryk. Modèles influents récents de l’empathie en neuropsychologie et neurosciences. In: Nathalie Nader-Grosbois, L’empathie en développement : Modèles, évaluation et intervention, De Boeck Supérieur, 2023, p. 57-68. 9782807361270.
Bukowski, Henryk. Self-other distinction and Self-other priority in perspective taking. International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS) 2023 (Brussels, du 09/03/2023 au 11/03/2023).
Bukowski, Henryk ; Bigot, Alix ; Leclercq, Sophie ; Tiberi, Luca ; Amadieu, Camille ; Peeters, Jean-Charles ; Saloppé, Xavier ; Nandrino, Jean-Louis ; Pham, Thierry ; de Timary, Philippe. Self-other distinction performance in alcohol use disorder and antisocial personality disorder. North American Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (NASSPD) Conference 2023 (Waltham, Massachusetts, USA, du 21/04/2023 au 22/04/2023).
Bukowski, Henryk. What is worth being measured in perspective taking? A psychometric perspective. Integrating current views on perspective taking (UCLouvain, Woluwe, du 07/03/2023 au 08/03/2023).
Bukowski, Henryk ; Sweeney, Catherine ; Bennett, Deirdre ; Rizzo, Gabriella ; O’Tuathaigh, Colm M.P.. Medical student empathy and breaking bad news communication in a simulated consultation. In: Patient Education and Counseling, Vol. 105, no.5, p. 1342-1345 (2022). doi:10.1016/j.pec.2021.09.017.
Tiberi, Luca ; Saloppé, Xavier ; Bukowski, Henryk ; Degouis, Fanny ; Dogru, Ebru ; Nandrino, Jean-Louis ; Pham Hoang, Thierry. Cognitive Empathy (CE) among antisocial forensic inpatients without (ASPD) and with Psychopathic Personality Disorder (PPD): Comparison between self-evaluation and competencies. 22nd European Society of Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP) Conference (Lille, France, du 30 août au 01 septembre).
Bigot, Alix ; de Timary, Philippe ; Amadieu, Camille ; Leclerq, Sophie ; Saloppé, Xavier ; Tiberi, Luca ; Nandrino, Jean-Louis ; Peeters, Jean-Charles ; Bukowski, Henryk. Identifying transdiagnostic socio-cognitive profiles across 4 clinical populations. European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 6th bi-annual meeting.
Bukowski, Henryk ; Tiberi, Luca ; Saloppé, Xavier ; Pham Hoang, Thierry. La Cognition Sociale chez les patients médico-légaux : Résultats préliminaires de l'évaluation des compétences de prise de perspective et de décodage multi-niveau des émotions. 50 ans de la Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l’Education de l’UMONS (Mons, 17 mai 2022).
Bukowski, Henryk ; Amadieu, Camille ; Leclercq, Sophie ; de Timary, Philippe. L’empathie cognitive chez les alcoolodépendants et impact du microbiote. Forum Addiction et Société 2022 (Bruxelles, du 28/09/2022 au 29/09/2022).
Bukowski, Henryk ; Bigot, Alix ; Amadieu, Camille ; Pham, Thierry ; Saloppé, Xavier ; Tiberi, Luca ; Nandrino, Jean-Louis ; Peeters, Jean-Charles ; de Timary, Philippe. Measuring the building blocks of mentalizing performance across mental disorders. Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences (BAPS) annual meeting 2022 (KU Leuven, du 02/06/2022 au 03/06/2022).
Bukowski, Henryk. Social cognition broken into its building blocks and expanded to large-scale, developmental, and transdiagnostic scopes. IPSY New Academic Members Presentations (Louvain-La-Neuve, 08/06/2022).
de Timary, Philippe ; Amadieu, Camille ; Starkel, Peter ; Delzenne, N. ; Mikolajczak, Moïra ; Maurage, Pierre ; Bukowski, Henryk ; Samson, Dana ; Leclercq, Sophie. The gut microbiota, IL8, craving and sociability in AUD. 2nd World Congress on Alcohol and Alcoholism (Cracow, Poland, du 17/09/2022 au 20/09/2022). doi:10.1111/acer.14905.
Bukowski, Henryk ; Bigot, Alix ; Amadieu, Camille ; Leclercq, Sophie ; Pham, Thierry ; Saloppé, Xavier ; Tiberi, Luca ; Nandrino, Jean-Louis ; Peeters, Jean-Charles ; de Timary, Philippe. Uncovering transdiagnostic socio-cognitive profiles by measuring the building blocks of mentalizing performance across mental disorders. 22nd meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP) (Lille, du 29/08/2022 au 01/09/2022).
Bukowski, Henryk. Votre capacité (et celles de vos patients) à prendre le point de l’autre mise à l’épreuve via un test de performance en ligne . Forum Addiction et Société 2022 (Bruxelles, du 28/09/2022 au 29/09/2022).
Bukowski, Henryk ; Ahmad Kamal, Nor Faizaah ; Bennett, Deirdre ; Rizzo, Gabriella ; O'Tuathaigh, Colm. Association between dispositional empathy and self-other distinction in Irish and Belgian medical students: a cross-sectional analysis. In: BMJ Open, Vol. 11, no.9, p. e048597 (2021). doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2020-048597.
Bukowski, Henryk ; Samson, Dana. Automatic imitation is reduced in narcissists but only in egocentric perspective-takers. In: Acta Psychologica, Vol. 213, p. 103235 (2021). doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2020.103235.
Bukowski, Henryk ; Todorova, Boryana ; Boch, Magdalena ; Silani, Giorgia ; Lamm, Claus. Socio-cognitive training impacts emotional and perceptual self-salience but not self-other distinction. In: Acta Psychologica, Vol. 216, p. 103297 (2021). doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2021.103297.
Bukowski, Henryk ; Kotsou, Ilios. Leadership & Intelligence émotionnelle. Webinaire Leadership du Service public fédéral Santé publique, Sécurité de la Chaîne alimentaire et Environnement (28/09/2021).
Bukowski, Henryk ; Tik, M. ; Silani, G. ; Ruff, C.C. ; Windischberger, C. ; Lamm, C.. When differences matter: rTMS/fMRI reveals how differences in dispositional empathy translate to distinct neural underpinnings of self-other distinction in empathy. In: Cortex, Vol. 128, no.July 2020, p. 143-161 (2020). doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2020.03.009.
Bukowski, Henryk. From shared to distinct affects via rTMS/fMRI combined: Neuroenhancement of self-other distinction in empathy depends on dispositional empathic understanding. Workshop on Affective Shared Perception 2020 (WASP) (Valparaiso, Chile, 30/10/2020).
Bukowski, Henryk. When differences matter: rTMS/fMRI reveals how differences in dispositional empathy translate to distinct neural underpinnings of self-other distinction in empathy. Neuromatch 3.0 (Online, 29/10/2019).
Bukowski, Henryk. Self-Knowledge. In: V. Zeigler-Hill & T. K. Shackelford, Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, 2019, p. 1-7. 9783319280998. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_2004-1.
Bukowski, Henryk. Influences of Emotions, Sleep Deprivation, and Individual Differences in Visual Perspective Taking Support a Multidimensional Account of Mindreading. International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS) 2019 (Paris, du 07/03/2019 au 09/03/2019).
Bukowski, Henryk. Is there an autist – neurotypical – schizophrenic continuum in social cognition? A critical review of theories and evidence. Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences (BAPS) annual meeting 2019 (du 14/05/2020 au 15/05/2020).
Bukowski, Henryk. The Neural Correlates of Visual Perspective Taking: a Critical Review. In: Current Behavioral Neuroscience Reports, Vol. 5, no.3, p. 189-197 (2018). doi:10.1007/s40473-018-0157-6.
Deliens, Gaétane ; Bukowski, Henryk ; Slama, Hichem ; Surtees, Andrew ; Cleeremans, Axel ; Samson, Dana ; Peigneux, Philippe. The impact of sleep deprivation on visual perspective taking. In: Journal of Sleep Research, Vol. 27, no.2, p. 175-183 (2018). doi:10.1111/jsr.12595.
Bukowski, Henryk ; Lamm, Claus. Superior Temporal Sulcus. In: V. Zeigler-Hill, T. K. Shackelford, Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences (Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences), Springer, Cham, 2018, p. 1-5. 9783319280998. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_463-1.
Bukowski, Henryk. Self-Other distinction in empathy is modulated by cTBS on right supramarginal gyrus and dispositional cognitive empathy: an rTMS/fMRI study. 4th international conference of the European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN) (Leiden, du 19/07/2018 au 22/07/2018).
Bukowski, Henryk. Self-Other distinction in empathy: an rTMS/fMRI study. DFG Workshop Series Understanding Others - Integration of Social Cognitive and Affective Processes (Dresden, du 13/09/2018 au 14/09/2018).
Bukowski, Henryk ; Samson, Dana. New Insights into the Inter-Individual Variability in Perspective Taking. In: Vision, Vol. 1, no.1, p. 8 (2017). doi:10.3390/vision1010008.
Tik, Martin ; Hoffmann, André ; Sladky, Ronald ; Tomova, Livia ; Hummer, Allan ; Navarro de Lara, Lucia ; Bukowski, Henryk ; Pripfl, Jürgen ; Biswal, Bharat ; Lamm, Claus ; Windischberger, Christian. Towards understanding rTMS mechanism of action: Stimulation of the DLPFC causes network-specific increase in functional connectivity. In: NeuroImage, Vol. 162, no.November 2017, p. 289-296 (2017). doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.09.022.
Bukowski, Henryk ; Lamm, Claus. Temporoparietal Junction. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T., Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences, Springer, Cham, 2017, p. 1-5. 9783319280998. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_863-1.
Bukowski, Henryk ; Samson, Dana. Can emotions influence level-1 visual perspective taking?. In: Cognitive Neuroscience, Vol. 7, no. 1-4, p. 182-191 (2016). doi:10.1080/17588928.2015.1043879.
Bukowski, Henryk ; Hietanen, Jari K. ; Samson, Dana. From gaze cueing to perspective taking: Revisiting the claim that we automatically compute where or what other people are looking at. In: Visual Cognition, Vol. 23, no. 8, p. 1020-1042 (2015). doi:10.1080/13506285.2015.1132804.
Lamm, C. ; Bukowski, Henryk ; Silani, G.. From shared to distinct self–other representations in empathy: evidence from neurotypical function and socio-cognitive disorders. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Vol. 371, no.1686, p. 20150083 (2016). doi:10.1098/rstb.2015.0083.
Bukowski, Henryk. Coordinates-based meta-analyses of neuroimaging studies: A critical overview. NEUROCOG 2016 (Leuven, du 28/11/2016 au 29/11/2016).
Bukowski, Henryk. A multidimensional approach to perspective taking. Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences (BAPS) annual meeting 2015 (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 28/05/2015).
Quadflieg, Susanne ; Michel, Caroline ; Bukowski, Henryk ; Samson, Dana. A database of psycholinguistic and lexical properties for French adjectives referring to human and/or nonhuman attributes.. In: Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, Vol. 68, no.1, p. 67-76 (2014). doi:10.1037/cep0000001.
Bukowski, Henryk ; Hietanen, Jari K. ; Samson, Dana. What boosts attention orienting in response to other people's gaze direction?. Social Cognition: Origins, Mechanisms and Disorders (University of Surrey, du 28/08/2014 au 29/08/2014).
Bukowski, Henryk ; Hietanen, Jari K. ; Samson, Dana. What boosts attention orienting in response to other people’s gaze direction?. Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences (BAPS) (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 27/05/2014).
Bukowski, Henryk. What influences perspective taking ? A dynamic and multidimensional approach, prom. : Samson, Dana, 24/10/2014.
Bukowski, Henryk ; Dricot, Laurence ; Hanseeuw, Bernard ; Rossion, Bruno. Cerebral lateralization of face-sensitive areas in left-handers : only the FFA does not get it right. In: Cortex, Vol. 49, no.9, p. 2583-2589 (2013). doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2013.05.002.
Bukowski, Henryk ; Courtain, Audrey ; Samson, Dana. Can you resist the influence of others? Altercentrism, egocentrism and interpersonal personality traits. Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences (BAPS) (Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, 28/05/2013).
Bukowski, Henryk ; Samson, Dana. Effects of one's emotional state on perspective taking and prosocial behavior.. Annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (New Orleans, USA, du 13/10/2012 au 17/10/2012).
Bukowski, Henryk ; Samson, Dana. Effects of one’s own emotional state on perspective taking and prosocial behaviour. Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Science (BAPS) and Sociedad Espanola de Psicologica Experimental (SEPEX) (University of Liege, du 10/05/2012 au 11/05/2012).
Bukowski, Henryk ; Samson, Dana. Effects of one’s own emotional state on perspective taking and prosocial behaviour. Donders Discussions (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands, du 13/10/2011 au 14/10/2011).
Bukowski, Henryk. Penser et agir socialement sous l’émotion : une question de genre ?. Jeunes chercheurs dans la cité (Halles de Schaerbeek, Bruxelles, 23/10/2011).