International Conferences

2025

S4SN

The 2025 Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) 2025 was held in Lisbon from 23th to 26th of September 2025.

The Distress Lab  presented a poster entitled “Links between interpersonal neural synchrony and parent-child behaviors during naturalistic interactions: a systematic review,” as part of her thesis work, which aims to better understand the role of inter-brain synchrony in the transmission of anxious behaviors and stress resilience in families.

2025

ECDP

The 2025 European Conference on Developmental Psychology (ECDP) 2025 was held in Vilnius from 25th to 29th of August 2025.

The Distress Lab organised a symposium entitled: “Biobehavioral dynamics of family interactions: socioemotional development in children taking into account synchrony, attachment and family resilience.”

2024

IARR

The International Association for Relationship Research (IARR) Conference was held in Boston from 5th till 8th of July 2024.

The Distress Lab organised a symposium on: “Synchrony Shaping the Interpersonal Relationships of Dyads and their Interactions in Face of Stress.”

2024

BAPS

The 2024 Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences (BAPS) was held in Brussels. The centra theme was: Dealing with Transformative Change: Societal Challenges for Psychological Science.

The Distress Lab organised a symposium entitled: “Resilience & Family Dynamics: Triadic Synchrony and Parental Support in the Face of Stress: An Excellence of Science (EOS-FWO/FNRS) Symposium”. Moreover, two oral presentations took place: “Stress resilience in university students: evaluation of coping strategies, empathy, attachment, and gratitude” and “Visual-spatial reasoning performance under social observation and collaboration: a tangram-based task”.

2024

ESCAN

The European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN) Conference was held in Ghent from 22nd till 25th of May 2024.

The Distress Lab presented a poster on Visual-spatial reasoning performance under social observation and collaboration: a tangram-based task.

2023

Emotions

The Emotions 2023 conference held in Tilburg University showcased empirical and theoretical research in the field of emotions.

The Distress Lab organised a symposium on the observation of emotional experiences between parents and children with different ages. A poster was also presented consisting of a systematic review on synchrony within a family context.

2023

WAIMH

The 2023 World Association for Infant Mental Health conference was held in Dublin. This conference focused on Early Relationships Matter: Advancing Practice, Policy and Research in Infant Mental Health. 

The Distress Lab proudly participated in that conference with a poster on parent’s neuroticsm & postpartum depression: the mediating role of interpretation bias.

2023

BACI

The 2023 Basic and Clinical Multimodel Imaging conference was held in Istanbul in Turkey. The main focus of this conference was the meeting point of the neuroelectrophysiology and genetics.

The Distress Lab proudly participated in that conference with a poster as well as a flash-talk.

2023

BAPS

The 2023 annual meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences (BAPS) took place at the University of Mons in Belgium. The special focus of this year’s conference was: clinical challenges and theoretical models: new dialectical relationships.

Some team members of The Distress Lab organised and participated in this annual conference by presenting some of their original work in form of posters and flash-talks.