IACCP 2026
14 juillet 2026 · 8h30 – 18 juillet 2026 · 18h00
Le congrès de l’International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP) se tiendra à Leuven (Louvain), en Belgique, du 14 au 18 juillet 2026. Magali Clobert (MC, LPCN, Université de Caen Normandie) interviendra lors de cet évènement.
Organisateur :
International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP)
L’IACCP est l’une des principales associations scientifiques consacrées à l’étude des relations entre culture et psychologie. Son congrès international, organisé tous les deux ans, réunit des chercheurs, enseignants, praticiens et doctorants du monde entier afin de présenter les avancées les plus récentes en psychologie interculturelle. L’édition 2026 de son congrès se déroulera à Leuven (Louvain), en Belgique, du 14 au 18 juillet 2026. Il réunit des chercheurs, enseignants-chercheurs et doctorants du monde entier afin de présenter les avancées théoriques, méthodologiques et empiriques du domaine. Le programme couvre un large éventail de thématiques, notamment les processus d’acculturation, les identités culturelles, les migrations, la santé mentale, l’éducation et les relations interculturelles. Le congrès constitue ainsi un espace privilégié pour la diffusion des connaissances, les échanges scientifiques et le développement de collaborations internationales en psychologie interculturelle.
Une chercheuse du LPCN sera présente
Magali Clobert est maîtresse de Conférences, à l’université de Caen Normandie. Elle est adossée au programme de recherche PROECO. Ses travaux de recherche portent sur la manière dont la culture façonne les préjugés par le biais des valeurs affectives. Elle s’intéresse également aux facteurs socioculturels qui influencent la santé, tant objective que subjective.
Elle participe au symposium 10.1 Culture and Religion du jeudi 16 juillet de 15h55 à 17h15 – Aula Max Weber, sa présentation s’intitule :
Religion as cultural force, mirror, or compensatory mechanism? Differences in values, self, and cognition
Magali Clobert1, Vassilis Saroglou2, Jeanne Tsai3, Adam Cohen4, K.-K. Hwang +5
1Université de Caen, France, 2UCL Belgium, 3Stanford University, U.S.A., 4Arizona State University, U.S.A., 5National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Culture and religion have long been known to both shape individuals’ psychological processes across domains ranging from cognitive styles to the sense of self. Recently, the interplay between cultural and religious systems has gained increasing attention, leading to the identification of distinct potential pathways. While religiosity can act as a cultural force, uniquely shaping individuals’ psychological processes regardless of national culture, it can also mirror rooted cross-cultural differences or interact with cultural demands, thereby compensating for the effects of culture on psychological outcomes.
In two studies conducted in collectivist (Study 1: China and Hong Kong; Study 2: Taiwan) and individualist cultural contexts (Study 1: Belgium and the USA; Study 2: Canada), the relationships between individual religiosity and cognitive style, sense of self, and values were examined to clarify the interplay between cultural and religious influences. Study 1 (N = 849) showed that religiosity was associated with communal values across cultural contexts, reflecting a possibly universal function of religion. In addition, religiosity interacted with culture in predicting private self-consciousness, such that religiosity was associated with higher private self-consciousness in collectivist countries and lower private self-consciousness in individualist countries. These findings suggest that the effects of religiosity on self-concept run counter to classic cross-cultural patterns, which typically show greater private self-consciousness in individualist cultures and greater objective self-consciousness in collectivist cultures. In Study 2 (N = 332), religiosity was positively associated with holistic thinking in Taiwan but negatively associated in Canada, mirroring classic cross-national differences in cognitive styles. However, religiosity was positively associated with promotion orientation in Taiwan and negatively associated in Canada, countering traditional cross-cultural findings on goal orientation.
Together, these findings plead for a culturally sensitive approach to religion, as cultural and religious systems continuously interact in a complex pattern highlighting multiple pathways through which religion may function—as a universal value system, a cultural amplifier, or a compensatory mechanism.