The aim of these informal meetings is to provide an opportunity to hear about colleagues' research projects, questions, and methods. The dean hopes that this meeting will see the same fruitful interdisciplinary interaction as the previous ones. The presentations and discussions are in English.

Naomi Ellemers (Psychology): 'Moral values as a source of social identity'

In this presentation I will consider moral values as a relevant source of social identity. This complements existing approaches that examine group dynamics and inter-group relations primarily in terms of differential competences and resource control. I will present recent data to examine the psychological processes indicating the specific implications of shared moral values for people’s social identities. These data include self-reported emotions and goal achievement strategies, as well as more implicit and less controllable (psycho-physiological) indicators of task motivation and performance monitoring. This not only indicates how moral values impact on the way group members process information about themselves and others, but also elucidates how this affects their motivational goals and behavioural strategies in social interactions and during task accomplishment.