LIPlab at UGent

Another year, another successful LIPLab retreat! The team spent two days brainstorming on new research ideas for the upcoming year (as well as getting some cardio in playing laser tag)!

***WE ARE HIRING!***👨‍🔬 For a position aimed at broadening learning research to systems other than individual organisms. This position can be at PhD or junior postdoc level. Full job description in image. Interested? Questions? Send a DM or email jan.dehouwer@ugent.be!

Just accepted at Learning & Behavior!

A new paper from our lab (Jan, Martin, Matthias, @psycholojamie, and Yannick) that argues instances of learning can be conceived of as instances of relational behaviour - namely the behavioural process known as arbitrarily applicable relational responding. researchgate.net/publication/36…

Some thoughts from @psycholojamie and Jan relating to idionomic vs. group-level statistical approaches to individual-level prediction. In short: we believe both approaches have value; which one to pick is constrained by many factors. liplab.be/onewebmedia/Bl…

Very happy that this paper is going to be published! A big thanks to @LIPlabUGent and especially @psycholojamie for giving me the opportunity to participate in this interesting line of research!

A new paper from @psycholojamie, @MauraNevejans, Dylan Colbert, and Jan now in press at the Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, exploring how different types of relational abilities are related, and how training one influences others. doi.org/10.1016/j.jcbs…

A new paper from Jan and Yannick (and other non-LIPLab-ers) arguing against recent claims from Wood et al. relating to S-R perspectives on habits in humans. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36356057/

A write-up of Sean and Jan's recent paper from Perspectives on Psychological Science is now out on the @PsychScience website! psychologicalscience.org/news/news-rele…

A new post from @psycholojamie on our Psychology Today blog about the logic behind his postdoctoral research! psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sponta…

Jan, Jamie, and Marine spent several days last week in Como participating in the 2nd @learnvul summer school. A productive and fun way to kick off the new academic year!

A fun and invigorating two days now done after our annual LIPLab retreat! Lots of discussion of the practical tests and applications of learning principles, wine, and bowling!

Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Kasran on an absolutely fantastic PhD defence!

A new paper from Pieter, Yannick, and Sean in press at Scientific Reports on nudging societally relevant behaviour! nature.com/articles/s4159…

New paper published about nudging societally relevant behavior by targeting cognitive inferences, with Yannick Boddez and @seanhughes102 doi.org/10.1038/s41598…

We are beyond excited to announce that Her Royal Majesty Mathilde will be giving a speech at our Junior day tomorrow ! You don’t believe us? check it out here monarchie.be/nl/agenda/belg…

Further information here:

A call for papers for a special collection on the link between Learning and Personality at @CollabraOA. Guest-edited by lab members Jan & Yannick (+ Marco Perugini & Florin Sava). Papers can be submitted between June 1st and September 30th 2022. More info: online.ucpress.edu/collabra/pages…