In order to achieve the goals of the Association, the BAPS organises several activities:
Additionally, the BAPS supports different workgroups and can give grants for Ph. D. Programs.
The Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences coordinates the organization of a scientific meeting every year. Its purpose is to provide a floor for presenting current research at Belgian universities as well to provide reviews of the state of art in specific areas of interest to members, essentially by means of invited plenary sessions. The annual meeting is organized in turn by the different Belgian universities. The last few meetings were hosted as follows:
Starting in 2003, the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences annually sponsors a prize for the best poster presented during the Annual Meeting. The purpose of the award is to foster creative poster design, to reward effective poster presentations, and to recognize the importance of poster presentations during the Annual Meeting. posters will be judged by a panel of three members of the executive committee during the Annual Meeting. The winner is announced before the start of the General Assembly. From 2005 on, BAPS offers a prize to the 3 best posters (a free BAPS affiliation for the next year). From 2006 on, the prizes to be obtained are 150 euros.
Posters in any domain of psychology will be considered by a panel of three judges appointed by the executive committee of the Belgian Psychological Society. Submitted poster abstracts will first be assessed, based on the following content criteria:
Next, the remaining posters will be evaluated based on the following design criteria:
By their participation, the candidates accept the general conditions of the award.
Axel Cleeremans Université Libre de Bruxelles Séminaire de Recherche en Sciences Cognitives 50, avenue F.-D. Roosevelt CP 191 1050 Bruxelles, BELGIUM.
The Belgian Association for Psychological Science annually sponsors an award for the best undergraduate thesis in Psychology. The purpose of the award is to encourage licentiate theses with an original contribution to any field in psychology. The prize is 1,000 euros.
The Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences annually sponsors an award for the best undergraduate thesis in Psychology. The purpose of the award is to encourage licentiate (undergraduate) theses with an original contribution to any field in psychology (clinical, social, cognitive, modelling, developmental, etc.). However, it should be stressed that the Belgian Psychological Society wants to promote scientific approaches to psychological phenomena. The Best Thesis winner will receive a prize of 1,000 euros.
Candidates must have a degree of licentiate (Licentiaat or Licence)
in the field of psychology, obtained in the academic year that
precedes the award year (e.g., to enter the 2003 competition,
the thesis must have been completed during academic year 2001-2002)
in the psychology department of a Belgian University.
The thesis must have been awarded a grade of at least 16/20
Candidates should be member of BAPS (or have applied to become
member before the submission deadline).
Candidates must submit an electronic summary of the thesis, in English, with a maximum length of 2000 words. You are allowed to include a maximum of 3 tables or figures (these are not included in the word count). The summary should clearly convey the theoretical basis of your work, as well as the methods, the major results, a discussion of your main findings, and the references cited in the summary. Up to 3 keywords specifying the domain of the thesis should be provided. Also clearly state your name, address, telephone number and e-mail, as well as provide the names of your institution and your supervisor. From 2005 onwards, submissions should be sent to Alain Van Hiel (UG) before November 17th, 17:00h. Reception of the manuscript will be notified within 24 hours. After a first screening of the summaries, the remaining candidates will be notified by the jury to send in five copies of their licentiate thesis. Only licentiate theses written in French, Dutch or English are eligible. By their participation, the candidates accept the general conditions of the award.
Alain Van Hiel Vakgroep Ontwikkelings-, Persoonlijkheids-, en Sociale Psychologie, Universiteit Gent Henri Dunantlaan 2 B-9000 Gent, BELGIUM.
| Year | Name & Affiliation | Thesis title |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | Walter Schroyens - KUL | Het redeneren over de waarheid of valsheid van beweringen (Meta-propositional reasoning about the truth or falsity of propositions) |
| 1997 | Francis Tuerlinckx - KUL | Loglineaire formuleringen van modellen voor itemafhankelijkheden (Modeling local item dependencies in item response theory) |
| 1998 | Kristien Dieussaert - KUL | Strategies for dealing with complex deductive problems: combining and dividing |
| 1999 | Vincent Goetry - ULB | The role of rhythmic cues for speech segmentation in monolingual and bilingual listeners. |
| 2000 | Jan Vanrie - KUL | Viewpoint-dependent versus -independent 3-D object perception: a direct comparison |
| 2001 | Wouter Duyck - UGent | What number translation studies can teach us about the lexico-semantic organisation in bilinguals |
| 2002 | Timothy Verbeemen - KUL | Determinants of speeded categorization in natural concepts |
| 2003 | Stefaan Vandorpe - UGent | The odd-even effect in multiplication: Familiarity with even numbers or a parity rule after all? |
| 2004 | Ineke Imbo - UGent | New insights in the role of working memory in carry and borrow operations |
| 2005 | -- | -- |
| 2006 | Elodie David - ULB | Change blindness to gradual changes: an exploratory study on facial expressions |
| 2007 | Steven Verheyen - KUL | Het leren van hiërarchisch georganiseerde categorieën |
| 2009 | Astrid Vermeiren - UGent | Tracking down the asymmetric switch cost: the case of the antisaccades |
The official address of the society to contact for miscellaneous matters:
Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences
Galerie Agora/Agora Galerij
Rue du Marché aux Herbes/Grasmarkt, 105/18
1000 Bruxelles/Brussel
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