02nd – 03rd DECEMBER 2026 BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
What is the structure of social cognition?
Insights from clinical populations, psychometrics, and neuroscience
This two-day workshop brings together approximately 120 senior and junior researchers investigating the socio-cognitive processes that underpin our understanding of self and others, including empathy, mentalizing, perspective-taking, automatic imitation, self-other distinction, and self-knowledge. The aim of this sixth edition is to integrate perspectives across disciplines in order to better model the structure of social cognition, with a particular focus on its conceptualization, measurement, neural underpinnings, and clinical relevance.
Key Note Speakers
EDITION THEMES
1. Structure and Components of Social Cognition
Exploring how social cognition can be decomposed into distinct but interacting processes across domains such as empathy, mentalizing, and self–other distinction.
2. Measurement and Psychometrics
Advancing tools and methods to assess social cognition, including issues of validity, reliability, and ecological relevance across populations.
3. Clinical and Transdiagnostic Perspectives
Understanding similarities and differences in social cognition across clinical populations to improve diagnostic and intervention approaches.
4. Interdisciplinary Integration
Bridging insights from psychology, neuroscience, and computational approaches to build unified models of social cognition.
Meet Our Team
We are members of the Social Cognition on the Line lab (www.socoollab.org) from UCLouvain, Belgium. We are interested in building a network of like-minded individuals focused on investigating the complexity of social cognition in both general and clinical populations. If you would like to connect, please get in touch!
UCLouvain, BE
UCLouvain, BE
UCLouvain, BE
The workshop program is here!
Our workshop has received generous support from:
