Profile Sander Van den Cruys

Dr. Sander Van den Cruys

Visiting scientist
Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Fellow

 

  • 2020 - 2024 Postdoctoral researcher, The Antwerp Social Lab, University of Antwerp, Belgium 2020-2024
  • Postdoctoral fellow of the Research Fund Flanders (FWO), Brain & Cognition, KU Leuven, Belgium 2015-2019
  • PhD in Psychology, University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium 2014

 

Research interests

Epistemic emotions (curiosity, aha moment), Conspiracy beliefs, Psycho-aesthetics

Selected publications

  • Frascaroli, J., Leder, H., Brattico, E., & Van de Cruys, S. (2024). Aesthetics and predictive processing: grounds and prospects of a fruitful encounter. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 379(1895), 20220410. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0410

  • Van de Cruys, S., Bervoets, J., Gadsby, S., Gijbels, D., & Poels, K. (2024). Insight in the conspiracist’s mind. Personality and Social Psychology Review: An Official Journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 28(3), 302–324. https://doi.org/10.1177/10888683231203145

  • Van de Cruys, S., Frascaroli, J., & Friston, K. (2024). Order and change in art: towards an active inference account of aesthetic experience. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 379(1895), 20220411. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0411

  • Bervoets, J., Milton, D., & Van de Cruys, S. (2021). Autism and intolerance of uncertainty: an ill-fitting pair. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 25(12), 1009–1010. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2021.08.006

  • Van de Cruys, S., Damiano, C., Boddez, Y., Król, M., Goetschalckx, L., & Wagemans, J. (2021). Visual affects: Linking curiosity, Aha-Erlebnis, and memory through information gain. Cognition, 212, 104698. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104698

  • Van de Cruys, S., & Van Dessel, P. (2021). Mental distress through the prism of predictive processing theory. Current Opinion in Psychology, 41, 107–112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2021.07.006

  • Van de Cruys, S., Friston, K. J., & Clark, A. (2020). Controlled Optimism: Reply to Sun and Firestone on the Dark Room Problem. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24(9), 680–681. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2020.05.012

 

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