Research

Cognitive, emotional, moral, and social determinants of religious fundamentalism and ideological dogmatism (Vassilis Saroglou)
Prosocial and antisocial consequences as a function of religion, fundamentalism, and submissiveness (Joanna Blogowska)
Radicalisms' abstract deontology conflicting with empathy and care; emotional aspects (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 (Magali Clobert)
Positive emotions as leading to religion and spirituality (Patty Van Cappellen)
Influence of religion on sexuality- and family-related attitudes and behaviors (Caroline Rigo)

Accomplished research projects (2002-2011)

Moral reasoning, existential quest, and supra-humanization in emotions as a function of religious and non-religious closed-mindedness (Matthieu Van Pachterbeke)
The role of religion on host society's and immigrants' acculturation; religious vs. ethnic prejudice (Ulrike Rangel)
The new converted : A challenge for theories of functionalism and religious socialization (Coralie Buxant)
Religion, acculturation, and mental health among Muslim immigrants (Mike Friedman)
Contested new religious movements in a pluralist society: Devices for a policy of precaution (Louis-Léon Christians, Coralie Buxant, Stefania Casalfiore)
Religion and prosocial behavior: From aggression to sacrifice (Isabelle Pichon)

PhDs (accomplished)

Patty Van Cappellen: Positive emotions, religion, and spirituality: Psycological and biblical studies (2012, adv. Vassilis Saroglou)
François Mathijsen: Paranormal beliefs in adolescence (2011, adv. James Day)
Matthieu Van Pachterbeke: "Sens et bien en question: De l'ouverture d'esprit dans les domaines existentiel, idéologique et moral" (2011, adv. V. Saroglou; afterwards lecturer at the University of Louvain)
Coralie Buxant: Les motifs d'attraction pour le religieux: des besoins compensatoires au désir de réalisation de soi" (2007, adv. V. Saroglou; afterwards lecturer at the Universities of Louvain and Namur)
Isabelle Pichon: "Specifics and limits of the role of religion in prosociality" (2006, adv. V. Saroglou; afterwards lecturer at the Université de la Réunion)
Napoléon Tapia: "La construction de l'identité personnelle dans le développement socio-moral et le discours religieux" (2000, adv. J.-M. Jaspard; today professor at the University of Costa Rica)
Vassilis Saroglou: "Humour, religion et personnalité" (1999, adv. J.-M. Jaspard; today professor at the University of Louvain)
Bernadette Wiame: "Pour une inculturation du cours de religion catholique" (1998, adv. J.-M. Jaspard; afterwards lecturer at the University of Louvain)
Jean-Marie Matutu: "Approche de l'attitude des jeunes auprès du rite eucharistique" (1998, adv. J.-M. Jaspard; today teaches at the Facultés catholiques de Kinshasa, Congo)

DEA (till 2005) & Doctoral school

Gregory Escande (France): Contribution méthodologique à une anthropologie clinique : Cas d'une pratique thérapeutique en Amazonie péruvienne (2000, adv. J.-M. Jaspard)
Isabelle Pichon (France): Perceptions stéréotypiques des croyants et de non-croyants (2002, adv. V. Saroglou)
Philippe Galand (Belgium): Identities, values, and religion: A study among Muslim immigrant and native Belgian young adults after the September 11 attacks (2003, adv. V. Saroglou)
Abla-Antoinette Safadi (Brasil): Values and stereotypical perceptions between Catholics and Muslims in Brasil (2003, adv. V. Saroglou)
Jean-Michel Abrassart (Belgium): Dispositional and situational determinants of paranormal beliefs (2004, adv. V. Saroglou)
Coralie Buxant (Belgium): Cognitive, affective, and well-being-related characteristics of NRM's members (2005, adv. V. Saroglou)
François Mathijsen (Belgium): Young adults born of Muslim immigration: The role of religion on social identity (2005, adv. V. Saroglou)
Serge Dupont (Belgium): Moral principlism as opposing empathy and care (2010)

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