Research output per year
Research output per year
Accepting PhD Students
Research activity per year
While we can easily think about people, who they are, why they do what they do, etc., most of the time we don't need to engage in such thoughts or inferences before we are able to interact with someone. In fact, if you start thinking about exactly what you both are doing and why, social interaction will soon break down. I'm interested in what social interaction brings to the table, how embodiment and being a two-agent system creates new dynamics that determine how the interaction will develop, and which individual cognitive processes are changed by this interaction. In particular, does the experience of others' reactions modify our behaviour in the long run via reward processing, does it change the way we feel about our own actions and our sense of agency? In parallel, I've been studying how subjective ratings of visual awareness reflect conscious content, and am specifically interested in the difference between conscious and unconscious processes, in particular as the latter play a more central role in social interaction.
Current SInC lab members:
C.A. Silver (PhD student, sense of agency in social interaction)
M. Kasprzyk (PhD student, behavioural effects of social interaction-related reward)
A. Haliou (PhD student, psychopathic traits and social facial expressions)
Former SInC lab members:
C.J. Luke (Postdoc, Dual Interactive eye tracking w Virtual Avatars, 2016-17)
I. Barišić (RA, Dual Interactive eye tracking w Virtual Avatars, 2010-13, Cologne)
S. Schwarzkopf (RA, perspective taking in autism, 2010-12, Cologne)
Undergraduate
Level 1–3 – Psychology Methodology curriculum coordinator
Level 2 – PS2518 Advanced Psychology 2 - Methods & Applications
Level 3 – PS3015 Methodology A [+course coordinator]
Level 3 – PS3522 Methodology B [+course coordinator]
Level 3 – PS3520 Social Psychology
Level 3–4 – SX3504 Consciousness [+course coordinator]
Level 4 – PS4019 / PS4038 Psychology Thesis [supervision]
Postgraduate
MRes – PS5302 / PS5801 Basic & Advanced Research Methods for Postgraduates
MRes – PS5017 Research Project for PG Students in Psychology [supervision]
MSc Psychological Studies – PS5903 Research Project [supervision]
PhD co-supervisor to L. Weinreich, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Sep 2020 → …
PhD external advisor to L. Albantakis, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
Aug 2019 → Jun 2020
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Bert Timmermans (Host)
Activity: Hosting a visitor › Hosting an academic visitor
Bert Timmermans (Organiser), Nura Sidarus (Speaker), Crystal Silver (Speaker), David Vogel (Speaker), Emilie Caspar (Speaker) & Bruno Berberian (Speaker)
Activity: Attending or organising an event › Attending/organising a Conference
Matthew Hudson (Examiner) & Bert Timmermans (Examiner)
Activity: Examination, Marking, Reviewing, Supervision, Teaching, or Tutoring › Examination
Inez Myin-Germeys (Supervisor), Olivia Kirtley (Supervisor), Ulrich Reininghaus (Supervisor), Koen Demyttenaere (Examiner), Luc Goossens (Examiner), Bert Timmermans (Examiner), Stijn Vanheule (Examiner), Patrick Callaerts (Examiner) & Patrick Dupont (Examiner)
Activity: Examination, Marking, Reviewing, Supervision, Teaching, or Tutoring › Examination
Bert Timmermans (Speaker)
Activity: Disseminating Research (including talks, presentations, public lectures, public engagement, outreach and knowledge exchange) › Presentation