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Emotion Regulation: Advances in Theory, Assessment, and Clinical Treatment

David Preece, Curtin University and University of Western Australia (Perth, Australia)

Emotions are central to daily life and issues with emotion underpin many different psychiatric disorders. This means that emotion regulation is a key area of study for clinical research and practice. In this presentation, Dr Preece will summarize recent advances in the emotion regulation field with respect to theory, assessment, and treatment. He will detail his recent work developing new psychometric measures of emotion regulation and will illustrate the importance of considering emotion regulation problems across both negative and positive emotions. Dr Preece will discuss how different profiles of emotion regulation can underpin different psychopathologies and, in the tradition of precision psychiatry, how this can inform more targeted transdiagnostic treatments for emotional disorders.

Invited by: Olivier Luminet and Illuminetti lab

Date: Wednesday 17 April 

Time: 4.15pm
Locaton: Michotte building Salle du conseil A224

Loneliness as an Emotional Disorder: Bridging Affective and Clinical Science

David Preece, Curtin University and University of Western Australia (Perth, Australia)

Loneliness is a significant and growing public health issue, which is a key risk factor for a variety of mental and physical health issues across the lifespan. To date, loneliness treatments have had relatively low effectiveness, emphasizing the pressing need for more work in this area. In this presentation, Dr Preece will outline recent theoretical advances from his lab on the understanding of loneliness, harnessing insights from the affective science field to conceptualize loneliness as an emotional disorder. He will present recent data illustrating how emotion regulation patterns can explain substantial variance in loneliness levels and will detail the unique emotion regulation profiles underpinning loneliness. Dr Preece will discuss how these insights can inform more comprehensive and targeted treatments for loneliness.

Invited by: Olivier Luminet and Illuminetti lab

Date: Tuesday 23 April 

Time: 14.00pm

Location: Michotte building, E241

Navigating Pandemics and Political Polarization: Insights from COVID-19 and Brexit Studies

Michèle Birtel, University of Greenwich

Infectious diseases and polarized conflicts represent urgent global challenges necessitating effective action. Understanding the attitudinal and behavioral responses to health and political threats to society is key to improving future interventions. How can psychology contribute to enhancing societal responses and interventions? This presentation reports findings from multiple experimental, cross-sectional and longitudinal studies from countries across the world that examine the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and Brexit. Our findings highlight the significance of national and moral identity, social norms, attitudes towards opposing groups, and endorsement of conspiracy theories in shaping how individuals navigate societal threats. They also show that positive contact may mitigate conflict and the negative effects of strained intergroup relations on wellbeing. Potential implications of these findings for managing future pandemics and political polarization are discussed, emphasizing the importance of considering intergroup dynamics when designing interventions aimed at promoting effective collective health behavior, reducing conflict, and improving health and wellbeing.

Invited by: Olivier Luminet and Illuminetti lab

Date: Monday 29 April 

Time: 9.15 am
Location: Michotte building, Socr 42

Conceptualizing constructs: New and uncommon methods

David Grüning, Université Mannheim, Gesis - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences,  Germany

The conceptualization of constructs has a long tradition in self-report research. Interestingly, the methods commonly used to theorize and test constructs are rather restrictive in at least three ways.
First, statistical modelling of construct factors is strongly focused on the idea that a latent factor is best represented by items that are highly similar to each other (i.e., items to which participants respond very similarly). However, similarity is only one of several criteria by which items can be clustered to represent a hypothesized factor (see e.g., increase in predictability or interindividual variance).
Second, the trend in construct modelling has mostly focused on confirmatory approaches. An extensive prior exploration of the factor structure can inform limitations of an assumed factor model. Third, confirmatory model testing is often applied in a narrow sense. That is, common applications of confirmatory model fit testing can be advanced in several informative ways. In the present talk, I aim to provide a compact overview of the landscape of exciting but more or less uncommon methods to address the three restrictions. These methods can substantially improve our understanding of the constructs we measure on a daily basis through self-report.
I illustrate each method with examples, mostly from personality and psychopathology research, and offer ideas for their application in other fields

Invited by: Olivier Luminet and Illuminetti lab

Date: Monday 29 April 

Time: 4.00 pm
Location: Michotte building, E241

Alexithymia: Towards an Experimental, Processual Affective Science and Effective Interventions

Kristy Nielson, Department of Psychology, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, USA; Department of Neurology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA

Alexithymia is a multi-dimensional personality trait involving difficulty identifying feelings (DIF), difficulty describing feelings (DDF), and an externally oriented thinking style (EOT). Poor fantasy life (PF) is debated as another facet. For over 50 years, the alexithymia literature has examined how alexithymia-related disturbances in perceiving and expressing feelings contribute to mental and physical disorders.
We review the current understanding of alexithymia, including its definition, etiology, measurement, vulnerabilities for both mental and physical illness, and treatment. We then focus on the importance of further experimental and processual affective science research that a) emphasizes facet-level analysis toward understanding the nuanced bases of alexithymia effects on neural, cognitive, and behavioral processes; b) distinguishes between emotion deficits and emotion over-responding, including when over-responding is functional; and c) clarifies when and how impairments occur for neutral and positively valenced information or contexts. Taken together, clarification of these issues will provide clear directions for effective, tailored, alexithymia interventions.

Invited by:  Olivier Luminet and Illuminetti lab

Date: Friday 3 May 

Time: 11.00 am

Location: Auditoire Science 2

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Énervé·e, enthousiaste, triste ? À quoi servent les émotions ? 

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Emotions and Alexithymia - Émotions et Alexithymie

Énervé·e, enthousiaste, triste ? À quoi servent les émotions ? Podcast Milgram de Savoirs avec Olivier Luminet

Comment le manque d'émotions peut-il affecter notre santé? Podcast FNRS - 15/12/2022

No words for feelings: Alexithymia as a fundamental personality dimension at the interface of cognition and emotion 

Presentation slides - 01/11/2022

Est-ce un problème de ne pas montrer ses émotions? Vidéo du F.R.S. - FNRS sur youtube - 28/10/2022

L'alexithymie, comment le manque d'émotions affecte notre santé, Olivier Luminet Youtube - 19/11/2013

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Mental health & Society - Santé mentale & Société

La santé mentale des jeunes... 

...au Parlement de la FWB à l'invitation des commissions de l'éducation, de la santé, et de la jeunesse.

Après la projection de Tout va s'arranger (ou pas) un débat avec les députés. 

Oser en parler sans être stigmatisé? Fini les mesures "sparadrap"? Des investissements à long terme pour la prévention primaire? La santé mentale aussi prioritaire que la santé physique? Des états généraux de la jeunesse? L'école au centre de l'action? Enfin une vraie priorité pour les prochaines élections? Et pour les prochains gouvernements?

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Ici le lien vers le débat parlementaire (1H25)

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Climate crisis & Society - Crise climatique & Société

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RTBF - La Première - 25/11/2022
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Les nudges environnementaux, c'est quoi? RTBF - 05/11/2022

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Coronavirus & Society - Coronavirus & Society

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Health Psychology - Psychologie de la santé

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Le bénévolat est bon pour la santé. Science Today UCLouvain ScienceToday - 11/02/2020

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Nutrition & Health - Nutrition & Santé

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