Olivier Luminet
Lab Director
Olivier is research director at the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (FRS-FNRS), full professor in psychology at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) and associate professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Belgium. He also did long research/education stays at the University of Toulouse (France), Manchester (UK) and Toronto (Canada). He was awarded as Fellow of the European Health Psychology Society to recognize his contribution to the field of health psychology.
A first part of his research activity is dedicated to the links between emotion, identity and memories (both individual and collective). He has conducted several studies on cognitive and emotional determinants of flashbulb memories and its impact on collective memory. His current activities includes coordinating a large interdisciplinary project on « Recognition and resentment : experiences and memories of the Great War in Belgium » and supervising projects on the intergenerational transmission of memories, and on the foresight bias and causal, emotional and temporal approach of historical analogies.
The other part is related to examining the interactions between emotion, personality and health. Current grants involve the moderating effects of alexithymia and emotional competencies on the processing of emotional information and on mental and physical health; neuroendocrinological effects on pro- and antisocial behaviors ; cognitive and emotional processes involved in obesity and eating disorders and the impact of leisure activities on health.
Currently, Olivier is the president of the Belgian Association for psychological Sciences (BAPS). Find his presidential address to: https://www.baps.be/presidential-address
Keywords : emotion regulation, health, personality, alexithymia, food & nutrition, flashbulb memories, collective memories
Affiliation
UCLouvain - Faculté de Psychologie et Sciences de l'Education (PSP)
Psychological Sciences Research Institute (IPSY)
Place du Cardinal Mercier 10/L3.05.01- 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve - Belgium
Phone : +32 10 47 37 67 – Fax : +32 10 47 48 34
Mail: olivier.luminet[at]louvain.be
Office : D217
Find more information on:
Olivier's ResearchGate webpage