EXPLORA is looking for a doctoral fellow, find the full details in the vacancy below: www.ugent.be/en/work/scie... Apply by 30/7!
Doctoral fellow
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EXPLORA Gent
@explora-gent.bsky.social
Experimental Psychological Research on Autism @ Ghent University / Experimenteel Psychologisch Onderzoek Rond Autisme aan de UGent Dutch: https://www.ugent.be/pp/nl/onderzoek/explora English: https://www.ugent.be/pp/en/research/explora
New EXPLORA paper out, from the PhD of Hannah De Laet: 'Inferring Thoughts by and of Individuals With and Without Autism: An Empathic Accuracy Study' - an empirical test of Double Empathy journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
🤩PREPRINT ALERT🤩: "State of Social Cognition Research: Challenges, Future Directions, and Efforts Toward Consensus Building" osf.io/preprints/ps... Authored by the ManySocialMinds Community and presented at @escaneu.bsky.social in Rome, Italy.
So proud of this collaborative project, two years in the making! Thank you Katja and all others involved 🤩! (Read her full thread below!)
Ekaterina (Katja) Pronizius@epronizius.bsky.social · 2mo ago🤩PREPRINT ALERT🤩: "State of Social Cognition Research: Challenges, Future Directions, and Efforts Toward Consensus Building" osf.io/preprints/ps... Authored by the ManySocialMinds Community and presented at @escaneu.bsky.social in Rome, Italy.
On 25/5, Emma+Hannah took the stage at Nerdland Festival with their talk 'Autism: skills & chills', arguing we shouldn't only look at autism through a negative lens, but also not put on rose-coloured glasses. The truth and value lie in the nuance. Emma's full post: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Paper in Acta Psychologica 🥳 No increased Stroop effect under direct eye gaze vs closed eyes (across 3 exps), irrespective of whether one's own or another person's eyes were presented. @explora-gent.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (L. Amodeo, D. Oomen, me, M. Brass + J.R. Wiersema)
The interference effect of direct eye gaze in the Stroop paradigm
Direct eye gaze is a salient social stimulus that may hinder concurrent task performance, even when presented with another prominent distracter, such …
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EXPLORA goes Nerdland Festival ✨🤓! Emma Asselman and Hannah De Laet will present on autistic skills and autistic communication (in Dutch) on Monday 25/5, 15.45! More info: www.nerdlandfestival.be/nl/programma...
Nerdland Festival — Autisme: skills & chills
Deze talk wil het stigma rond autisme doorbreken en focust daarvoor op research van de laatste jaren.
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Waarom werkt #phishing? Wanneer we onder druk staan of snel moeten handelen, nemen we beslissingen zonder alles grondig te controleren - en criminelen maken hier handig gebruik van! Hoe precies? Mathias Van der Biest schrijft erover in een nieuwe blog! nl.in-mind.org/blog/post/wa...
#INSAR2026 Looking forward to chatting more about the Double Empathy Problem with you 🫵😉
EXPLORA Gent@explora-gent.bsky.social · 4mo agoThen on Friday, 12.30, Rui Liu (@ruiliu-psy.bsky.social) will present her poster "Interpersonal Adjustment As an Account for Communication Challenges between Individuals with Low and High Autistic Traits"!
EXPLORA is at #INSAR2026! Do visit us (see thread)! First up is Emma Asselman, 12.30 tomorrow, with her poster "Associations between Autistic Strengths and Autistic Traits in the General Population"
It's Autism Awareness Day ✨! I wrote about it for the newsletter of the faculty of Arts and Philosophy - more here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Interpersonal Adjustment as An Account for Communication Challenges Among Individuals with High and Low Autistic Traits: https://osf.io/dmb4g
We operationalize Double Empathy Problem distinguishing global autistic-trait differences from local interpersonal adjustment. Our findings suggest continuous accommodation of mental states during interaction as a mechanism through which individual differences shape communication outcomes.
PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 6mo agoInterpersonal Adjustment as An Account for Communication Challenges Among Individuals with High and Low Autistic Traits: https://osf.io/dmb4g
My latest (Dutch!) column for EOS Psyche & Brein was my most personal thus far - it is about how we mourn, and specifically, how I have been mourning the death of my best friend, one year ago last week. You can read it here: www.eoswetenschap.eu/psyche-brein...
Hoe doe je dat, rouwen?
Rouwen is voor iedereen anders. Het raakt verschillende gebieden in onze hersenen die we linken aan emotieregulatie, de controle over ons denken, doen en bel...
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In communication with non-autistics, autistics "are constantly on high alert, overthinking how their words might be misinterpreted" & "often try to read between the lines, which is tiring & can lead to speaking less or feeling less confident" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... mixed methods study
Adults with autism’s communication preferences with others with and without autism: A mixed-methods study
While prevailing theories suggest social interaction difficulties are inherent to individuals with autism, the theory of the double empathy problem pr…
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Since last year (with many thanks to @epronizius.bsky.social!), I have been part of the 'Many Social Minds' community: a group of ECRs who want to better understand the current state of social cognition research, its key challenges, and its future directions. JOIN US: manysocialminds.univie.ac.at
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So happy (and proud of @hannahdelaet.bsky.social!) that our paper "Adults with autism’s communication preferences with others with and without autism: A mixed-methods study" is now published in 'Research in Autism'! 50-day free access through this link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Adults with autism’s communication preferences with others with and without autism: A mixed-methods study
While prevailing theories suggest social interaction difficulties are inherent to individuals with autism, the theory of the double empathy problem pr…
sciencedirect.com
Hannah De Laet@hannahdelaet.bsky.social · 2y agoThe preprint of our questionnaire study is out now! The title already gives away our main finding: “Adults with autism prefer to communicate with others who also have autism: a mixed-method study”. You can find it here: doi.org/10.31234/osf... w/ @annabelnijhof.bsky.social and Roeljan Wiersema
December conference month, part 1! At the social cognition workshop “From Self-Knowledge to Knowing Others”, organized by @henrykbukowski.bsky.social, four EXPLORA members presented their work on a poster! Well done, Anouk, Mathilde, Yulong and Chiara!
Egoïstisch en oppervlakkig? Uit onderzoek blijkt dat veel jongeren juist erg gemotiveerd zijn om anderen te helpen, zowel hun vrienden als maatschappijbreed. Hoe ontwikkelen jongeren hun prosociale vermogen, en wat hebben ze er zelf aan? Sophie Sweijen schreef erover: nl.in-mind.org/article/de-k...
So happy my project on Mind-Space/Double Empathy in autism with Roeljan Wiersema and Geoff Bird got funded!
Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen (FWO)@fwovlaanderen.bsky.social · 8mo ago💡 De nieuwe onderzoeksprojecten fundamenteel onderzoek werden toegekend 👉 www.fwo.be/nl/resultate... We wensen alle onderzoekers veel succes 👏
PsyPost discusses a recent EXPLORA study by @joskerijmen.bsky.social and colleagues on the effect of noise on ADHD traits. Read more below!
PsyPost@psypost.bsky.social · 10mo agoNew study challenges a leading theory on how noise affects ADHD traits
New co-authored paper: research on the neural underpinnings of visuomotor adaptation in children with DCD, by Griet Warlop. Findings highlight the role of sensory prediction error sensitivity in motor difficulties. Check out the infographic by Griet, and the full article: doi.org/10.1016/j.ri...
Of we nu kleding kopen op Vinted of een huisje boeken via Airbnb, vaak vormen we direct onbewuste oordelen over de verkopers en verhuurders. Maar een betrouwbaar gezicht betekent niet noodzakelijk een betrouwbaar persoon. Lees meer in de blog van Mathias Van der Biest: nl.in-mind.org/blog/post/wa...
Werk je in een professionele context (klinisch of wetenschappelijk) met kinderen, jongeren of volwassenen met #ADHD? We horen graag welke termen jij gebruikt om over ADHD te spreken. Laat het horen via ugent.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... (vragenlijst van 5 à 10 minuten). Delen? Heel graag!
Next call for our scholarship for openly autistic academics at (post)doctoral level in autumn 2025! We offer a grant that enables participation in an activity of choice relevant to their research. We also enable them to present their research at our symposium.
Had the best time volunteering at Lowlands Science with Prof Suzanne Dikker's 'Empathy Machine' - see lowlands.nl/acts/ll-scie... - hyperscanning at a festival, because why not? 😁
We are opening a self-funded trainee/intern position of 3-6 months (starting at September 2025). For more information see internship #2 here: bardilab.com/join-us/ (and please reshare!)
May was EXPLORA conference month! 🙋🙋@mauranevejans.bsky.social and @joskerijmen.bsky.social presented at BAPS (Brussels) in a panel on Autism and Neurodiversity, where @annabelnijhof.bsky.social discussed with others on Uncertainty in Academia. Annabel also presented results of an fMRI study at VSS!
Are you passionate about #scicomm & psychology in the context of #Sustainability? We are looking for a PhD-candidate (75%; 4 yrs) for the Hub Science project "Psychology of Transformation" at Leuphana University Lüneburg! www.leuphana.de/universitaet...
Hub Science Project “Psychology of Transformation towards Sustainability”: Doctoral Research Associate with a background in Psychology or a related field
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