Professor of Psychology ยท Ghent University
I am a Psychology Professor investigating the (implicit) mental processes underlying behaviour and behaviour change.
I am a member of the Learning and Implicit Processes (LIP) lab at Ghent University, Belgium.
I am a founding member of Behavioural Insights Belgium .
I am an ambassador of the Center for Open Science .
I am a father of two wonderful children.
Awards: a.o.: Rising Star Award Association for Psychological Science ; Early Career Award Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences .
Keywords: researcher, evidence-based practitioner, idealist, environmentalist, critical mind, family man.
In my research I try to unravel the mental processes underlying human behaviour. I focus on the investigation of implicit belief-based processes that determine adaptive behavior or behavioral patterns such as pro-environmental behavior, mental health skills, healthy habits, or positive automatic evaluation.
Given the importance of behaviour in all life domains, I strive for the large-scale application of robust scientific research about the determinants of behaviour to promote adaptive behaviour for societal benefit.
Real-life behaviour change domains of particular interest: addiction, happiness, prejudice, depression, climate change, and mental health .
Keywords: Behaviour change, metatheory, implicit cognition, automatic beliefs and inferences.
