ESPLAT 2025 conference: Scientific thinking in challenging times

European perspectives on psychology teaching and learning: Tension between didactics and educational psychology?
Organisers: Ingrid Scharlau & Lenka Sokolová
Discussant: Maria Tulis

This symposium will focus on a topic that, as of yet, has hardly been addressed: the tension between the (emerging) didactics of psychology and its overlap with and differentiation from educational...

Introduction
Emotion regulation is critical for individual well-being and social success. This complex process involves strategies like situation selection, modification, attentional deployment, cognitive change, and response modulation. Deficiencies in emotion regulation can negatively impact mental health. This study investigates differences in emotion regulation skills between psychology...

In recent years, a large amount of theoretical speculation and research has been dedicated to the study of that knowledge defined as opaque or implicit (Perruchet, 1988), to the role of reflexivity in professional activity as well as to the subject's access to the body of knowledge that she hold (or that she is supposed to hold) and to the different degrees of awareness that characterize the...

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Psychotherapeutic social skills are essential for psychotherapy outcomes, making their training key in higher education. However, corresponding teaching concepts are lacking and the systematic, behavior-based assessment and training of social skills are scarce. With a new competency-based teaching concept we aim to systematically assess and train psychotherapeutic social skills...

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Therapeutic lying and deception are frequently employed by caregivers of older adults with neurocognitive disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease. These conditions often involve severe anterograde amnesia: while past memories remain intact, new experiences fail to be encoded, resulting in “time-shifting.” Consequently, individuals may repeatedly relive significant news, such as a...

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In an era marked by widening educational disparities and declining trust in science, psychology education must champion innovation and accessibility. Simulation-based education (SBE) has become a vital component of psychotherapy training, yet traditional models remain costly and logistically demanding. This research explores the educational potential of generative...