Research

          Research highlights         

          Current research projects

• Cognitive, emotional, moral, and social determinants of religious fundamentalism and ideological dogmatism (ARC; Vassilis Saroglou)
• Clarifying the very nature of awe and its implications for spirituality (JTF; Hanyi Xu, Claire Prade)
• Positive emotions, spirituality, and health (Marianne Bourdon) 
• Radicalisms' abstract deontology conflicting with empathy and care; emotional aspects (FNRS; Csilla Deak)
• Religious experience, moral judgment, and the role of gender and culture (James Day) 
• Religion, prejudice, and dogmatism in Eastern, non-monotheistic cultural contexts (FNRS; Magali Clobert)
• Influence of religion on sexuality- and family-related attitudes and behaviors (UCL; Caroline Rigo)
• Restricting Islam in the public sphere: the role of secularism and religiosity (Marie Curie; Jolanda van der Noll)
• Social psychology of power, submission, and religion (ARC; Rob Kaelen) 

Accomplished research projects (2002-2012)

• Prosocial and antisocial consequences as a function of religion, fundamentalism, and submissiveness (Joanna Blogowska, 2008-2012)
• Positive emotions as leading to religion and spirituality (Patty Van Cappellen, 2008-2012)
• Moral reasoning, existential quest, and supra-humanization in emotions as a function of religious and non-religious closed-mindedness (Matthieu Van Pachterbeke, 2004-2011)
• The role of religion on host society's and immigrants' acculturation; religious vs. ethnic prejudice (Ulrike Rangel, 2009-2010)
• The new converted : A challenge for theories of functionalism and religious socialization (Coralie Buxant, 2005-2007)
• Religion, acculturation, and mental health among Muslim immigrants (Mike Friedman, 2006-2007)
• Contested new religious movements in a pluralist society: Devices for a policy of precaution (Louis-Léon Christians, Coralie Buxant, Stefania Casalfiore, 2003-2005)
• Religion and prosocial behavior: From aggression to sacrifice (Isabelle Pichon, 2002--2006)