Upcoming events

Research visit by KYRA HAMILTON (UC Merced) and MARTIN HAGGER (UC Merced) at UCLouvain, Belgium

May 12 – 14, 2025

Magali Beylat will participate in the conference beyond crises: resilience and (in)stability, the ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE MEMORY STUDIES ASSOCIATION, in Prague, Czech Republic

July 14 – 18, 2025

Presentation title: Collective memory of the COVID-19 pandemic in Belgium and its relationship with trust in different actors

Olivier Luminet, Magali Beylat, and Robin Wollast will participate in the conference Putting Health Psychology to Work: Prevention, Practice and Policy, the ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE EUROPEAN HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY SOCIETY in Groningen, the Netherlands

August 25 – 29, 2025

They will take part in a symposium titled Quantitative and qualitative perspectives on pandemic preparedness: insights from five studies focusing on COVID-19, coordinated by Adriana Solovei (University of Amsterdam).

Olivier Luminet will act as the discussant of the symposium.

Robin Wollast will present: Loneliness during pandemics: Introducing a multidimensional scale for measuring loneliness

Magali Beylat will present: New insights into the relationship between trust in government and COVID-19 vaccination

Past events

Research visit by FANNY LALOT (University of Basel) at ULB

November 7–8, 2024

Fanny Lalot is a senior researcher specializing in moral and social behavior, including trust and cooperation. She has notably contributed to a research program assessing changes in societal cohesion in the UK during the pandemic and has published several papers on political trust during this period.

She collaborates with Olivier Klein, Vincent Yzerbyt, and Magali Beylat from our team. Together, they aim to better understand the role of trustworthiness components in vaccination decisions during health crises.

Olivier Luminet, Joachim Waterschoot, and Robin Wollast attended the annual conference of the EUROPEAN HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY SOCIETY in Cascais, Portugal

September 3–6, 2024

Olivier Luminet convened a symposium on “Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic to better prepare for future ones”, where Robin Wollast gave a talk on “Sanitary behaviors and mental health”.

Joachim Waterschoot gave a talk on “Why the quality of motivation matters during a pandemic”, as part of the symposium “Building bridges: Closing the gap between behavioural sciences, epidemiology and infectious disease modelling”.

Talk by JOACHIM WATERSCHOOT at the Brown Bag Seminar at the Australian Catholic University, Australia

May 15, 2024

He presented the results of the Motivation Barometer and the aims of the BELSPO THRIVE project to an international audience.

Research visit by Kyra Hamilton (UC Merced) and Martin Hagger (UC Merced) at UCLouvain

March 27-28, 2024

Symposium 'Psychological Science Meets Policy'

7 Jun 2022 14:19

From the very first day of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was clear that it would not merely become a physical health crisis. In order to control the spread of the virus, a massive behavioral shift was demanded from the population almost overnight, touching people at their very core: their freedom was drastically curtailed, and their social contacts had to be minimized. It was immediately apparent that this would also become a psychological and motivational crisis.