Activities
In order to achieve the goals of the Association, the BAPS organises several activities:
- The annual meeting
- Two awards: Best thesis award and the Annual Meeting Poster Award
- The General Assembly
In order to achieve the goals of the Association, the BAPS organises several activities:
BAPS coordinates the organization of an annual scientific meeting. The purpose of the meeting is to provide a platform for presenting current research conducted in Belgian universities as well as state of the art reviews in areas of interest to members by means of invited plenary sessions. The different Belgian universities each organise in turn the annual meeting. The latest meetings were hosted by:
Since 2003, BAPS 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 are judged by a panel of three members of the executive committee. The winner is announced before the start of the General Assembly. Currently, BAPS offers a prize to the 3 best posters. The prize winners receive 150 euros and one year free affiliation to BAPS.
Posters in any domain of psychology will be considered by a panel of three judges appointed by the executive committee of BAPS. As part of the first round of selection, submitted poster abstracts will be assessed according to:
The posters selected after the first round will then be assessed during the poster session according to the following criteria:
By their participation, the candidates accept the general conditions of the award.
Alain Van Hiel, UGent, Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology , FaculteitFaculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, H. Dunantlaan 2 9000 Gent.
BAPS annually sponsors an award for the best master thesis in Psychology. The purpose of the award is to recognize master theses which use a scientific approach and make an original contribution to any field in psychology (clinical, social, cognitive, modelling, developmental, etc.). The winners of the Best Thesis Award receive 1,000 euros.
Candidates must have a Master degree in psychology delivered by a psychology department of a Belgian University. The degree must be obtained in the academic year that precedes the award year (e.g., to enter the 2010 competition, the thesis must have been completed during the 2008-2009 academic year) and the thesis must have been awarded a grade of at least 16/20. Furthermore, candidates must be members of BAPS (or have applied to become a member before the submission deadline).
Candidates must submit an electronic abstract of the thesis. The abstract should be written in English and should not exceed 2000 words. Candidates are allowed to include a maximum of 3 tables or figures (these are not included in the word count). The abstract should clearly convey the theoretical basis of the work, the methods, the main results, a discussion of the main findings, and the references cited in the abstract. Up to 3 keywords specifying the domain of the thesis should be provided. Candidates should also clearly state their name, address, telephone number and e-mail, and provide the names of their institution and their supervisor. From 2005 onwards, submissions should be sent to Alain Van Hiel (UG) before November 17th, 17:00h. Reception of the abstracts will be notified within 24 hours. Candidates shortlisted on the basis of the assessment of the abstract will be invited to send five copies of their thesis. Only master 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 |
| 2010 | Kevin D’Ostilio - ULg | Neural correlates of unconscious self-activation and self- inhibition of motor action |
| 2011 | Joan Liu - UCL | Gradually revealed properties of general and familiar face processing : an fmRI study |
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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