Affect Decision-making and Social-Regulation Lab

The research program "Affect, Decision Making & Social Regulation" is funded by a 5 year joined research grant (i.e. Action de Recherche Concertée) from the Université Catholique de Louvain, starting in October 2006.

Researchers from different fields of psychology--emotion, personality, and social cognition-have joined their expertise and resources in order to investigate:

• how emotion intervenes in, and modulates decision making, and
• how decision making impacts upon the regulation of emotion.

A special attention is devoted to the role of emotion and decision making in personal and inter-personal regulation.

This program is structured around three main themes:

• emotional information processing in decision making,
• emotion perception and decision making, and
• empathy and decision making.

    abstract in French online

February, 22nd: Heeren Alexandre - Selective attention and emotional vulnerability in Social Phobia: The experimental manipulation of attentional bias using a modified dot-probe task

    slides online

February, 8th: Vermeulen Nicolas - The attentional blink paradigm: A fascinating tool to put the mind under the microscope

    slides online

Toma, C., & Butera, F. (2009). Hidden Profiles and Concealed Information: Strategic Information Sharing in Group Decision Making. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 35, 793-806.

Toma, C., Yzerbyt, V., & Corneille, O. (in press). Anticipated Cooperation vs. Competition Moderates Interpersonal Projection. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.  

Clémentine Bry, PhD, has updated her profile