Keynote Addresses
Please note that The International Congress of Psychology is a unique event comprising several thousand participants in over 40 thematic areas. Each ICP 2020 theme has its own scientific working group and program track. Experts in the particular field select an outstanding and respected expert to present a Keynote Address at the thematic plenary session. Keynote Addresses remains very special presentation which is honorary and their speakers were nominated in a very competitive process.
Clinical Psychology
| Bernal Guillermo | Puerto Rico | In Search of a Global Family Psychology |
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| Dudley-Grant Rita | British Virgin Islands | Disasters and the Role of Regional Psychology(ies): A Caribbean Perspective |
| Gewirtz Abigail | United Kingdom of Great Britan | |
| Khoury Brigitte | Lebanon | |
| Sodi Tholene | South Africa | Botho/Ubuntu as a foundation for an African-centred and contextually relevant psychology |
| Stelios Georgiades | Cyprus | |
| Zinchenko Yuri Petrovich | Russian Federation | Crossroads and Labyrinths of Psychology: from Classical Patterns to Post-Nonclassical Future |
| Steven Lawyer | Canada |
Cognitive Psychology
| Boroditsky Lera | United States of America | |
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| Denis Michel | France | Space, spatial cognition, navigation: Where psychology meets technology |
| Guo Xiuyan | China | |
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The impact and stability of sex differences in cognition
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| Matsuzawa Tetsuro | Japan | Evolution of human mind viewed from the study of chimpanzees |
| Sebanz Natalie | Hungary | How t(w)o act together |
| Srinivasan Narayanan | India | Intentions, control, outcome content, and sense of agency |
| Verbruggen Frederick | Belgium | |
| Singer Murray | Canada | Text comprehension: Advances and challenges in validation processing |
Crises, Disasters and Trauma Psychology
| Hobfoll Stevan | United States of America | |
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| Jacobs Gerard | United States of America | |
| Levanon Talia | Israel | |
| Tehrani Noreen | United Kingdom of Great Britain | Early Interventions for Traumatic Stress in Emergency Services |
| Bering Robert | Germany |
Cross-Cultural Psychology
| Abubakar Amina | Kenya | |
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| Cheung M. C. Fanny | China | The Need for International & Intersectional Perspectives on Psychology of Women |
| Guerda Nicolas | Haiti | |
| Idemudia Erhabor | South Africa | Psychology in Africa versus African Psychology: What context matters? |
| Khan Katija | Trinidad and Tobago | Culture vultures and other creatures: Navigating cultural validity in the global psychological landscape |
| Worrell Frank | Trinidad and Tobago | Ethnocultural Identities: Stages, Statuses, or Attitudes? |
| Chen Xiaohua Sylvia | Hong Kong | Toward Global Consciousness: Current Studies and Future Directions |
| Bond Michael | Hong Kong | Finding cross-cultural psychology: A pilgrim's progress journeying in the Middle Kingdom and beyond |
Developmental Psychology
| Houdé Olivier | France |
Cognitive developmental psychology 40 years after Jean Piaget (1980-2020) |
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| Richaud Maria Cristina | Argentina | The relation between socio-emotional development and cognitive development in children |
| Ramus Franck | France | Epidemiology of cognitive development |
| Silbereisen Rainer | Germany | How macro social change affects individual behavior and development: New concepts and results |
| Barbarin Oscar | United States of America | Psychosocial Development of Boys of Color |
Educational Psychology
| Assor Avi | Israel | |
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| Elliot Andrew J. | United States of America | Perceived competitiveness and achievement motivation |
| Grabner Roland | Austria | Non-invasive brain stimulation: A promising method to enhance (school) learning? |
| Graesser Arthur C. | United States of America | Conversations with computer agents can help adults learn difficult material: A fusion of psychology, AI, education, and linguistics |
| Singh Nandini C. | India | DALI - The first standardized assessment tool to identify dyslexia in Indian Languages |
| Spiel Christiane | Austria | Turning girls‘ brains pink and boys’ brains blue – the effects of gender stereotypes in education |
| Spinath Birgit | Germany | The Importance of Motivation for School Success and Beyond |
| Tabane Ramodungoane | South Africa | National Health Insurance and psychological wellness of South African Citizens |
Environmental Psychology
| Williams Kathryn |
Australia |
Learning from the ways that psychological concepts are applied in environmental management |
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Mexico
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Positive environments: Merging human wellbeing with environmental quality | |
| United Kingdom | The Role of Psychology in the Global Problem of Plastic Pollution | |
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United Kingdom |
The psychological benefits of aquatic environments: 10 years of the Blue Gym project |
Evolutionary Psychology
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Russian Federation |
Aggression and reproduction in non-industrial societies: do you need to be violent to obtein better reproductive success? |
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| Leongomez Juan David | Colombia | Human voice modulation: Dynamic signals and social contexts in action |
| Fernandez Ana Maria | Chile | Jealousy as an adaptation to protect close attachment bonds |
| Poland | Inter-individual differences in olfactory perception | |
| Varella Correa Marco Antonio | Brazil | Evolutionary Artisticology and the convergent evidence pointing to the evolved status of artistic propensities |
| Dixson Barnaby | Australia | Cross-cultural and experimental studies of sexual selection on human morphology. |
| Lang Martin | Czech Republic | The Role of Evolved Psychological Mechanisms in Religious Rituals |
Forensic Psychology
| Kosinski Michal | United States of America | |
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| Pillay Anthony | South Africa | The minimum age of criminal responsibility needs global alignment and a basis in science |
| Vrij Aldert | United Kingdom of Great Britain |
Geropsychology
| Nyberg Lars | Sweden | Memory, Ageing, and Brain Maintenance |
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Health Psychology
| Blatný Marek | Czech Republic | |
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| Menon Anitha | Zambia | Interpersonal Violence in Lives of Women |
| Mpofu Elias | Zimbabwe | Faithful Health: Constructing Well-being with Religion Followers |
| Renner Britta | Germany |
History of Psychology
| Swartz Leslie | South Africa | Disability in the Global South and the silence of psychology |
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology
| Korunka Christian | Austria | Flexible work: Psychological and social aspects of a multifaceted phenomenon |
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| Vasi Van Deventer | South Africa | THE PERSON IN THE 4th INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION |
Media Psychology
| Livingstone Sonia | United Kingdom of Great Britain | Children's risks and opportunities in a digital world: a global perspective |
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| Peter Jochen | Netherlands |
Methodology in Psychology
| Govia Ishtar | Jamaica | Designing and conducting research for impact |
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| Maree David | South Africa | Re-imagining psychological science: moving beyond epistemic polarities |
| Meiser Thorsten | Germany | What's in a Likert response? Psychometric models for measuring traits and response styles. |
Military and Space Psychology
| Annen Hubert | Switzerland | About the benefit of psychological findings for military organizations |
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| Boe Ole | Norway | Why character strenghts are important for military officers and organizations |
| Gouws Jacques | Canada | Military Psychology: A Front Line Role as Peacemaker |
| Suedfeld Peter | Canada |
Neuropsychology
| Bak Thomas | United Kingdom of Great Britain | |
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| Bezdíček Ondřej | Czech Republic | Processing Speed Differentiates Decliners from Successful Agers in Healthy Aging |
| Crowe Simon | Australia | The long-term adverse cognitive consequences of the GABA-A agonists alcohol and the benzodiazepines. |
| Lamm Claus | Austria | The social neuroscience of empathy - from shared affect to self-other distinction |
| Landeira-Fernandez Jesus | Brazil | Neuropsychological aspects of human consciousness: dissociations from animal behavior and artificial intelligence |
| Mei - Chun Lee Taita | Hong Kong | Neuroplasticity of the Human Brain |
| Reuter Martin | Germany | |
| Suchy Yana | United States of America | Using the ConVExA Approach for Addressing Poor Ecological Validity of Executive Function Tests |
| Tyrer Stephen | United Kingdom of Great Britain | |
| Varrassi Giustino | Malta |
Political Psychology
| Auer Stefan | Hong Kong | |
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| Bar-Tal Daniel | Israel | Human beings and their needs, narratives, and leaders with authoritarian tendencies: Socio-psychological analysis of the deterioration of democracy and the rise of authoritarianism. |
| Boehnke Klaus | Germany | Social Cohesion: A Source of Happiness, Wellbeing, and Health? |
| Mc Farland Sam | United States of America | All Humanity is One: The Study of Global Human identification and Citizenship |
| Moghaddam Fathali | United Sates of America | |
| Hagenaars Polli | Netherlands | Putting human rights for psychologists at the core of the profession: the role of education |
| Waitoki Moana | New Zealand | Pedagogy of the survivors: Indigenous psychology as resistance in a colonised land |
Positive Psychology
| Araujo Ulisess | Brazil | Active learning methods to foster moral development |
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| Delle Fave Antonella | Italy | No discipline is an island: Crossing borders in well-being research |
| Ruch Willibald | Switzerland | Character strengths: what are they and what are they good for? |
| Soosai Lawrence | India | Altruism as a Pathway for Psychological Well-being: A Cross-Cultural Exploration |
| Chia Liu Woon | Singapore | Developing 21st Century Learners: Good and Bad Motivation(s)? |
| Vallerand Robert J. | Canada | The Role of Passion in Positive Psychology |
| Vazquez Carmelo | Spain | |
| Wissing Marié | South Africa | The Changing Landscape of Positive Psychology: The Third Wave and Move to an Open Science |
Psycholinguistics
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India |
Revisiting Bilingual Education (BE): Can Multilingual Education Stand on the two feet of BE? |
Psychotherapy
| Grenyer Brin | Australia |
New Directions in the Treatment of Personality Disorder
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| Iwakabe Shigeru | Japan | Transforming Painful emotions: Change process research in Psychotherapy |
| Kyriakos Platrites | Cyprus | Clinical psychologists join the Cyprus General Healthcare System: A challenge for talk therapies. |
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Längle Alfried |
Austria |
Meaning and fulfillment in life. The contribution of Existential Analysis and Logotherapy
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Psychological Counselling
| Duarte Maria Eduarda | Puerto Rico | Counseling promoting open minds, fair societies, and a better world: what counselors can do? |
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| Farias Miguel | United Kingdom of Great Britain | Fifty years of Meditation Science: Facts, Myths, and Lies |
| Maree Kobus | South Africa | Promoting Group Self- and Career Construction Counselling: Linking Conscious Knowledge with Subconscious Insight |
| Nyklicek Ivan | Netherlands | Does mindfulness facilitate wellbeing and health? For whom and how? |
| Timulak Ladislav | Ireland | Emotion-Focused Therapy for Depression, Anxiety and Related Disorders: a Transdiagnostic Formulation |
Psychological Testing and Assessment
| Frey Andreas | Germany | Computerized Adaptive Testing in Psychological Research and Application |
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Psychology and Ethics
| Allan Alfred | Australia | A reflection on clients' privacy in the first quarter of the 21st century |
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| Gauthier Janel | Canada | Psychology’s Involvement in the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights: Issues and Recommendations |
Psychology of Communication
| Scott Sophie | United Kingdom of Great Britain | The science of laughter |
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Kozlowski Steve |
United States of America |
Psychology of Developmental Disorders
| Caravolas Markéta | United Kingdom of Great Britain | |
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| Spanoudis Georgius | Cyprus | Typical and atypical development: Investigating the interplay of language and cognitive processes |
Psychology of Economics and Business
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United States of America United States of America United Kingdom |
The Future of Coaching: Theory Meets Reality Leading teams: Unleashing the power of collaborative intelligence Entrepreneurs’ Mental Health and Well-Being: A Review and Insights for the Future of Work |
Psychology of Emotions
| Consedine Nathan | New Zealand | |
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| Liang Keng-Chen | Taiwan | A tale of two engrams--Roles of amygdala and hippocampus in fear learning |
| Matsumoto David | United States of America | Reflections on Four Decades of Research on Culture, Emotion, and Expression |
Psychology of Gender
| Gough Brendan | United Kingdom |
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Psychology of Morality
| Flegr Jaroslav | Czech Republic | Effects of Toxoplasma gondii on human behavior and personality – Twenty-five years after |
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| Klicperová-Baker Martina | Czech Republic |
Psychology of Personality
| Paulhus L. Delroy | Canada | Surveying Four Dark Personalities: The Short Dark Tetrad (SD4) |
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| Suh Eunkook M. | Korea | Making Sense of Happiness Findings: Why is Social Experience so Crucial? |
| Tredoux Colin | South Africa | The Own Group Bias in Face Recognition: Recent evidence, and prospects |
| Yik Michelle | Hong Kong | |
| Di Blas Lisa | Italy | Personality development from children's perspective |
| Farley Frank | United States of America | T Behavior: The Thrilling, Risky Life |
Psychology of Prevention and Intervention
| Sanchez Marizaida | Puerto Rico | Implementation Science from an Intersectionality Approach: Lessons learned from the Caribbean |
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| Seedat Mohamed | South Africa | Epistemic Freedom and Epistemic Justice in Community Psychology: Reflections from the South |
| Suffla Shahnaaz | South Africa |
Psychology of Religion
| Paloutzian Ray | United States of America | Believing is a Meaning Making Process -- An Integrative Core to Psychological Science |
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| Saroglou Vassilis | Belgium | Fundamentalism Across Cultures: A Personality and Social Psychology Perspective |
Psychology of Sexual Health
| Borg Charmaine | Netherlands | Sexual Arousal and Negative Emotions |
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| Dewitte Marieke | Netherlands | On the interpersonal dynamics of sexuality |
| Molaeinezhad Mitra | Iran | Drama Therapy on Mental Health Status and Self-Efficacy of People with Gender Dysphoria |
| Klapilová Kateřina | Czech Republic | Sex and nonverbality in the digital age |
| Nobre Pedro | Portugal | The Psychology of Sexual Pleasure: from sexual problems to the promotion of sexual health & rights |
| Pfaus James | Canada | The shifting sands of time: What the study of animal sexual behavior was and has become |
| Varella - Valentova Jaroslava | Brazil | Resolving the evolutionary puzzle of homosexual orientation |
| Zucker Keneth | United States of America | |
| Janssen Erick | Belgium | The psychophysiology of sexual arousal: Old riddles and new insights. |
Psychology of Sport
| Maro Cyprian | United Republic of Tanzania | |
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| Mudrák Jiří | Czech Republic | Systemic approach to the development of excellence: evidence from multiple learning contexts |
| Seiler Roland | Switzerland | |
| Tenenbaum Gershon | United States of America | Multi-Faceted Perspective of the Study of Motor Expertise |
Psychopathology
| Maercker Andreas | Switzerland | Trauma sequelae, human rights, and emerging scientific impulses |
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Social Psychology
| De la Rey Cheryl | South Africa | |
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| Gollwitzer Peter | Germany | Effective Goal Attainment by If-Then Planning |
| Liu Li | China | Corruption: A Multi-Level Analysis |
| Oettingen Gabrielle | Grmany | |
| Roland - Lévy Christine | France | Psychology during the past Hundred years: Looking at the Past to build a better Future |
| Van Dick Rolf | Germany | The social identity approach to effective leadership: A global perspective |
| Bowman Brett | South Africa | Violence and robbery in South Africa |
| Stevens Garth | South Africa | Othering, Violence and the New Governance Regimes of Global Human Mobility |
School Psychology
| Bartolo Paul A. | Malta | Diversity, social justice and inclusion: Why are we not there yet? |
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| Furman Anton | United Sates of America | Skills, Expertise and Activities of School Psychologists: Models vs Reality |
| Juriševič Mojca | Slovenia | Motivation To Learn: From Present to Future |
| Murty Wicaksono Ade Iva | India | Basic Values of Inter Professional Collaboration : A Study of Health Belief Models among Professional Health Human Capital in Indonesia |
| Partanen Petri | Sweden | The role of metacognition and executive functions in mathematical learning in school |
| Pillay Jace | South Africa | Opening Minds, Societies and the World to Child and Youth Mental Health Challenges through a Web-based Profiling System: Implications for Families, Schools and Communities |
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
| Blair Karen | Canada | Developing a Global Perspective on LGBTQ Health, Wellness and Resilience |
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| Peel Elizabeth | United Kingdom of Great Britain | Opening Minds with LGBTIQ Psychology |
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United Sates of America
South Africa |
The Scientific Pursuit of Sexual and Gender Minority Mental Health Treatments: Toward Evidence-Based Affirmative Practice
International Psychology as key in responding to (LGBTIQ+) hate: (South) African perspectives
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Teaching Psychology
| Thompson Ava D. | Bahamas | Realizing a Global Psychology: The Role of Intercultural Dialogue Between Psychologists |
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Theoretical and General Psychology
| Ratele Kopano | South Africa | Why We Have To Decolonise Psychology Teaching, Curricula and Departments |
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| Beckers Tom | Belgium | The fiction of memory reconsolidation therapy |
| Chiu Chi - Yue | Singapore | The cultural context of mindset-inspired education transformation |
| Mendez Milagros A. | Puerto Rico | A decolonizing psychology within a global perspective |
| Pérez-Almonacid Ricardo | Mexico | On the (dis)unification of psychology |
Traffic Psychology
| Chaloupka-Risser Christine | Austria | Can Traffic Psychology survive in the Era of car automation? |
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| Hu Jiangbi | China | |
| Krems Josef | Germany | How we want to be driven. Comfort and automation. |
Others
| Bulhan Hussein | Somalia | |
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| Bullock Merry | United States of America | |
| Cooper Saths | South Africa | |
| Duncan Norman | South Africa | |
| Goboda-Madikizela Pumla | South Africa | |
| Mkhize Nhlanhla | South Africa | |
| Pillay Basil | South Africa | |
| Pons Francisco | AND | |
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Stubbs-Young Nicora |
Bahamas |
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South Africa |
Disability in the Global South and the silence of psychology |