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This year, The Ministry of Social Affairs organised the Networking Day “Samen Bouwen aan Samen Leven” (Working Together on Living Together) of the Directie Samenleving & Integratie (Management Society & Integration). During this event, I hosted a workshop on the psychological mechanism underlying prejudice.
Some coverage of the day can be found here (in Dutch).
POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY MEETING - SAVE THE DATE
Please join us for the seventh Political Psychology Meeting, which will take place on Friday November 9th at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (University of Amsterdam).
Political psychology is thriving in the Netherlands and beyond. We organize the political psychology meetings to further consolidate this field of research in the region of the Netherlands by providing an opportunity for political psychologists to connect, share ideas, and provide feedback on each other’s work. The day will run from 10.00 - 16.00 and includes coffee/tea- and lunch-breaks. For the upcoming meeting, we were again able to secure an excellent set of speakers. Please see below for the preliminary program.
It is important to register for the meeting so that we can get an accurate head count for coffee/tea and lunch. Participation is free of charge. Please let us know by October 19th if you plan to attend by filling out this form.
Best regards,
Bert Bakker (University of Amsterdam)
Mark Dechesne (Leiden University)
Jojanneke van der Toorn (Utrecht University & Leiden University)
Preliminary program
10.00-10.30 Coffee/Tea
10.30-11.15 Paul Marx (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Should we study political behaviour as rituals? Towards a general micro theory of politics in everyday life
11.15-12.00 Allard Feddes (University of Amsterdam)
The United Kingdom’s EU membership referendum: Key psychological variables behind voting ‘remain’ and ‘leave’
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-13.30 Efraín García-Sánchez (PhD student; University of Granada)
The vicious cycle of economic inequality: The role of ideology in shaping the relationship between “what is” and “what ought to be” in 41 Countries
13.30-14.00 Martijn Blikmans (Groningen University)
The use of emotions in political speech: Main and moderating effects.
14.00-14.30 Coffee/Tea
14.30-15.15 Florian van Leeuwen (Tilburg University)
Disgust sensitivity relates to attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women (and other sexual groups) across 31 nations
15.150-16.00 To be announced
16.00 Drinks at Crea Cafe
Location:
Amsterdam School of Communication Research Roeterseiland Campus
See http://www.uva.nl/locaties/roeterseiland/rec-b-c-d-ingang-b-c.html?origin=IP
Room: C10.20
Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
1001 NG Amsterdam
I served on the scientific committee of the 2nd conference on LGBTI Research in the Low Countries, which takes place on October 10th at the University of Amsterdam. The program includes a very interesting and diverse set of talks, including keynote lectures by Ilja Meijer and Theo Sandfort.
See here for more information
Register here (until September 28)
Our researchgroup aims to contribute to effective diversity policy by bridging science and practice. In this article (in Dutch), you find a summary of the research that shows why it is important to collect diversity to inclusion at work, and what are potential bottlenecks in practice.
Today, I will be giving a keynote lecture at the Leiden University Medical Center. Join us!
“We are proud to present Professor dr. Jojanneke van der Toorn from Leiden University who will give a lecture regarding LGBT Workplace Inclusion.
More and more organisations acknowledge the importance of an inclusive workspace that accommodates sexual orientation and gender identity. This workspace is hard to realize since an apparently tolerant space is often in fact not so tolerant at all. Persons who support equal rights, can disapprove of a transgender colleague or make remarks that are (unintentionally) hurtful about homosexuality. To promote inclusion of lesbian, homosexual, bisexual and transgender employees (LGBTs) at work, knowledge of the social psychological mechanisms that are the foundation to their stigmatisation is needed. To determine what works, we need to know why something else does not work. This is the added value of a scientific approach. Jojanneke van der Toorn discusses the psychological processes that stand in the way of a truly inclusive workspace for LGBTs and what we can learn from them to find practical solutions. Because inclusivity offers opportunities for both employees and organisations.”
Last night, we celebrated the official inauguration of Leiden University’s LGBT+ Employee Network. Congratulations everyone! I look forward to making inspiring new connections and to working together toward an inclusive workplace.
Also see this nice article in Leidsch Dagblad
This week I had the pleasure of attending a conference and of partying on a boat in the Amsterdam Pride Canal Parade, both organized by the Netherlands Institute for Human Rights.
To be LGBTI is a human right
Alderman Marieke van Doorninck opened the conference by stressing the importance of diversity for the city of Amsterdam. Then sociologist Jan Willem Duyvendak explained the term homonationalism, and argued that viewing LGBTI acceptance as typically Dutch polarizes the debate. Boris Dittrich moderated the afternoon which also included contributions by Marja Lust (Police), Annelies Tukker (Nederlandse organisatie voor seksediversiteit), Isjed Ijaz Hussain (Stichting Prisma Groep & Veilige Haven) en Milan Hendriks (transgender). I gave a flash lecture on LGBT workplace inclusion.
On June 28, the LGBT Network of Leiden University hosted a panel discussion on gender-neutral language use: “He, she or they: how should the university refer to you?”. Together with the audience and three experts from Leiden University, Dick Smakman, Eliza Steinbock, and Caroline van Overbeeke, we discussed the importance of inclusive communication in the university, in which areas we tend to run into binary language usage, and how we may start to address this.
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On June 29th, at SPUI 25, we launched our newest book “World of Difference”, an edited volume with contributions by Naomi Ellemers, Belle Derks, Daan Scheepers, Félice van Nunspeet and myself, resulting from the multidisciplinary Lorentz workshop on the Morality of Inequality.
Van der Toorn, J. (2017). Education and work. In: Ellemers, N., Derks, B., Van Nunspeet, F., Scheepers, D. T., & Van der Toorn, J. (Eds.). World of difference: A moral perspective on social inequality (pp. 39-62). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
Ellemers, N., Derks, B., Van Nunspeet, F., Scheepers, D. T., & Van der Toorn, J. (2017). World of difference: A moral perspective on social inequality. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. SPUI 25, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
On June 21st, social psychologist Adam Hahn from the University of Cologne shared his latest work with us at Utrecht University: some very interesting studies showing that implicit evaluations is not as unconscious as we have taken them to be.
