Keynote speakers TCDW 2023
Dr. Delia VÎRGĂ
Professor Hab. at West University of Timișoara, Romania
Delia VÎRGĂ is currently a Professor in the Department of Psychology of the West University of Timișoara, with a Ph.D. in Psychology from the "Babes-Bolyai" University, Cluj Napoca. She is the director of the Department of Psychology and coordinator of the master's program in Work,
Organizational, and Transport Psychology (PMOT). She is a principal psychologist in work and organizational psychology, with the constant activity of organizational consulting for over 20 years.
She was a member of the Steering Committee of the Romanian College of Psychologists in the Commission of Work Psychology, Transport, and Services (2013-2022). She was the president of the Association of Industrial and Organizational Psychologists during 2015-2017. She is also a member of
international professional associations (EAWOP, EOHP) and a member of the Standing Committee for
Work and Organizational Psychology at EFPA (2019-present).
She is the author of over 50 articles in international journals and has coordinated 5 research grants. Her research in organizational and occupational psychology focuses on personal resources and their
relationship with performance and well-being, in different professional categories, as well as the design and implementation of organizational interventions to improve employee’s well-being.
Keynote: Proactive strategies in work environments: relations with well-being and performance
The role of individual strategies in relation to well-being is a current topic in occupational health
psychology research, being proactive behaviors that can contribute to creating new resources (personal
and job-related). Proactive work behavior is "anticipated, self-initiated action aimed at changing either the situation or oneself" (Bindl & Parker, 2011, p. 567). In recent years, the Job Demands-Resources theory has proposed several individual proactive strategies, such as proactive vitality management, job crafting, strengths use, and playful work design. In the context of the Job Demands-Resources model,the role of individual strategies on well-being is highlighted not only in relation to variables from the organizational context but also to personal variables. Therefore, daily diary studies provide us with additional knowledge of the dynamics of the interpersonal transfer of these strategies and their effect on performance. The possibility of studying the effectiveness of some interventions on individual strategies can give us a complex picture of the feasibility of these studies. Based on recent research, we will discuss the state-of-the-art related to proactive strategies used in work environments.
Dr. Vasile MĂRINEANU
Associate Professor PhD. At University of Bucharest, Romania
Dr. Vasile MĂRINEANU
Associate Professor PhD. At University of Bucharest, Romania
Dr. Vasile Doru MARINEANU is the head of the National Military Psychology and Behavioral Health Center, president of the Military Psychology Society and associate professor in the Psychology Department of the University of Bucharest. Dr. Marineanu is a member of the Psychology Commission for Defense, Public Order and National Security of the Romanian College of Psychologists and a national representative in the EFPA Committee (European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations) for Psychology in the event of disasters, crises and traumas (Standing Committee on Disaster, Crisis and Trauma Psychology).
He has over 20 years of experience in the field of clinical and operational psychology, acquired in the theaters of military operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina (1997), Kosovo (2000, 2002, 2004) and Afghanistan (2010), where he mainly carried out operational activities focused on mental health, providing psychological first aid and crisis intervention to victims of war and refugees. He also coordinated a series of psychological and informational operations programs, addressed to local communities, in support of victims of sexual violence, hostage-taking or armed robbery. He also specializes in the field of applied psychology in training programs for survival in extreme conditions, evasion of capture, resistance in isolation conditions and reintegration of personnel returned from captivity (SERE Psychology).
Keynote: Vulnerability and Resilience Factors in the Decision-Making Process under Stress
On one hand, the relationship between stress and cognition is quite simple. Stress, in its many forms, creates cognitive effects in a variety of ways, most of which are negative. When we analyze this relationship more deeply, however, a series of complex dynamics emerge.
This multifaceted interaction between stress and cognition is relevant to the experience of participants in high-risk missions and is central to understanding the mechanisms underlying operational and clinical applications of military psychology. To better understand these complexities, it is necessary to examine how information processing occurs, especially under conditions of extreme stress.
In this sense, the presentation will highlight both the conceptual framework needed in the process of understanding what happens in people’s minds while making important decisions, under conditions of extreme stress, and the practical ways of managing the experience of making decisions under stress, starting from the key factors of vulnerability and resilience.
Dr. Csaba KISS
Associate Professor PhD. at University of Bucharest, Hyperion University and Titu Maiorescu University of Bucharest, Romania
Principal psychologist, forensic psychology – assessment of simulated behavior using the polygraph technique, Forensic expert authorized by the Ministry of Justice in the detection of simulated behavior (polygraph), Trainer and supervisor in the field of forensic psychology – assessment of simulated behavior using the polygraph technique, Trainer at the National Institute of Magistracy
Keynote: The utility of Polygraph examinations in the investigation of crimes with sexual motivation
The lecture is primarily aimed at polygraph examiners who are conducting their activity in law enforcement institutions. It is equally open to beneficiaries’ evaluation results or expertise carried out in the specialty “judicial psychology evaluation the behavior simulated by the technique, i.e. the judicial bodies, namely the police, magistrates or lawyers. Last but not least, it is aimed at students of the faculties of psychology or law who want to build a career in the criminal field as psychologists’ forensic scientists or as workers in criminal investigation services. We aim to provide the audience with a working model of the examination activity polygraph in situations where the subject of the test is an alleged perpetrator of motivated crimes “single” or repeated sexual acts. We will discover together the approach paradigms, the models pretest and posttest interview, the questionnaires that must be used. We will present the limiting conditions under which an assessment of real victims can be made but also of the alleged victims. All these aspects will be supported by provided examples from real causes in which the polygraph examination captured and definitively fixed the reality investigated by diagrams and later by obtaining confessions from the suspects.
Dr. Roxana MAIER
Associate Professor at Babeș Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca, Romania
Dr. Roxana MAIER Associate Professor at Babeș Bolyai University of Cluj Napoca, Romania Roxana Maier is a doctor in psychology, Associate Professor at Aurel Vlaicu University in Arad and “Babeș Bolyai” University of Cluj Napoca, psychotherapist and P.E.U. counselor, P.E.U. trainer, member of the Educational Psychology Commission, school and vocational counseling within the College of Psychologists in Romania. Mrs. Roxana Maier’s areas of academic and scientific interest are the psychology of trauma, education, clinical psychology, work and transport, and practical experience as a supervisor. Over the years, she has published numerous books as sole author but also as co-author, articles in specialized magazines and chapters in collective volumes edited nationally. Roxana Maier is a practicing psychologist with over 15 years of experience in the field of psychotherapy. |
Keynote: Good practice guidelines in the field of psychology. Particular case Guide for adoptions
Good practice guidelines serve as a benchmark in the work of any psychologist. Therefore, the presentation of new guidelines by those who create them provides appropriate information and the opportunity to answer questions for specialists in the field. Research in the field of adoptions has emphasized that changes in legislation constantly require necessary clarifications to assess their impact on adoptions. As such, the guide proposes milestones to achieve assessments in order to obtain an adoptive family certificate, as well as guidelines for re-evaluation in the event of an appeal against the failure to obtain the adoptive family certificate.
Dr. Gabriela DUMITRIU
Associate Professor PhD at Spiru Haret University and PhD student in psychology at Romanian Academy
Dr. Gabriela DUMITRIU
Associate Professor PhD at Spiru Haret University and PhD student in psychology at Romanian Academy
Gabriela Dumitriu is a PhD student in psychology at the Romanian Academy, clinical psychologist and integrative psychotherapist with expertise in psychological expertise and Associate Professor at Spiru Haret University, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences. Gabriela Dumitriu’s areas of academic and scientific interest are child and family psychology in crisis situations (divorce, abuse), trauma psychology, clinical psychology, psychology of highly sensitive children, together with practical experience as a supervisor. Her practical and scientific interest in these fields has also materialized through the publication of chapters in collective volumes and articles in specialized journals, nationally and internationally, as well as through participation in Erasmus+ projects. Gabriela Dumitriu has worked in the child rights protection system for a period of 10 years and has practical experience in the field of clinical psychology and psychotherapy for over 15 years. |
Keynote: Good practice guidelines in the field of psychology. Particular case Guide for adoptions
Good practice guidelines serve as a benchmark in the work of any psychologist. Therefore, the presentation of new guidelines by those who create them provides appropriate information and the opportunity to answer questions for specialists in the field. Research in the field of adoptions has emphasized that changes in legislation constantly require necessary clarifications to assess their impact on adoptions. As such, the guide proposes milestones to achieve assessments in order to obtain an adoptive family certificate, as well as guidelines for re-evaluation in the event of an appeal against the failure to obtain the adoptive family certificate.
Dr. Chinaza ULEANYA
Associate Professor PhD at Department of Education Leadership and Management, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Vice-Chancellor’s Academic and Research Awards, University of Zululand, South Africa November 2020, Research Awards for Excellence, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, Emerging Scholar Award, Common Ground Research Network
Title: Towards postdigital learning: Utopia or dystopia
Beyond effectiveness and efficiency of technology, appropriateness is expected to be taken into consideration. However, this is sometimes not the case. This has led to the subject of digitalization versus postdigitalization. Meanwhile, there is need to clarify the concept ‘postdigital’, which does not connote after digital. The quest for postdigital is expected to be stimulate education research which has a moral duty to critique, explore and map to what extent technology can address pedagogical questions in distributed learning contexts. Hence, the question: Is postdigital learning utopic or dystopic?
Drs. Paul Hubert Vossen
Experimental-mathematical psychologist at the Radboud University of Nijmegen, Holland
Project coordinator at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam Fraunhofer Institute for Work and Organization in Stuttgart, Germany Group-Peer-Assessment Specialist
Distributive Fairness in the Digital Age
Our private / professional lives are increasingly based on collaboration and cooperation. We can’t ignore the increased challenge for higher education to make an integral part of teaching, learning, and assessing. For several decades, project-based learning (PBL) has been an obvious response to this challenge, at all levels of public education.
The challenges for teachers and students are different, but highly related. Teachers must learn how to set up project assignments that are complex enough to require for a successful accomplishment, but not so complex as to endanger the primary learning goals or put unrealistic demands on students.
Students must learn, that and how may help them master a bundle of new topics and skills through an assignment, that would be impossible to accomplish when studying / working alone.
To thinking up an adequate project assignment (teachers) and fulfilling the assignment through group work (students) comes a third challenge: the teachers must also assess (1) the quality of the final result of the group work, and (2) the quality of by the resp. group members. Generally, the assessment
challenges are at least so complex as the assignment challenges, although the final result of a well-designed project assignment need not be harder to assess than an individual assignment – provided the teacher has built enough “quality handles” or “quality criteria” into the assignment. The harder problem is, how to assess group dynamics.
Currently, there is wide agreement among teaching and assessment staff, that students’ individual contributions to a project should be considered as part of assessment. The problem is that teachers have no insight into the team dynamics. Thus, a substitute assessment has been proposed: peer assessments on behaviourally anchored quality criteria. The final student grades are then a combination of peer ratings and teacher’s group grade.
For small groups we have proposed a measurement framework that satisfies the Split-Join-Invariance principle of Distributive Fairness: the average of student grade must be equal to the group grade. In the digital age, this very solution is challenged in multiple ways. (1) Student projects may become much larger than before: advances in IT enable dozens of students to work collectively on larger assignments.
The number of peer-to-peer assessments grows rapidly, a real logistic burden. (2). For on-line projects, large unconnected resources become available: the potential for plagiarism and other forms of cheating increases. Preventing and detecting such fraud will become a new challenge for the assessors. (3) The reduced “bandwidth” of human communication offered by current IT (mainly visual and textual) may hamper effective / satisfiable. (4). The kind of data that can be automatically collected during P2P communication is not yet rich enough as a substitute for the C&C assessment provided directly by the peers. All this raises the critical question how Distributive Fairness can be saved over to the Digital Age if we want the skills of to remain part of the educational agenda.
Dr. Rajeeb DEY
Assistant Professor in the department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam, India.
Dr. Rajeeb Dey is currently working as Assistant Professor-I in the department of Electrical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Assam, India. Prior to joining NIT Silchar he was Associate Professor in Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim till 2014. He has obtained his B. Tech (Electrical Engineering) in 2001 from NERIST, Itanagar, M.Tech in Control Engineering from IIT Kharagpur in 2007 and PhD in Control Engg from Jadavpur University in 2012. He was a post-doctorate fellow in the department of Automatic control, Centre for research and advanced studies (CINVESTAV) at Mexico City during 2015-2016.
Dr. Dey has more than 20 years of teaching and around 12 years of research experience in the area of control and applied mathematics. He is a recipient of The world Academy of Science (TWAS), Italy post-doc fellowship in 2015. During 2018 – 2020 he was visiting faculty under ERASMUS+ program of European Union to Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania. In 2020 August he has been appointed as a visiting faculty by Aurel Valicu University, Arad, Romania. He has guided 04 PhD students so far and 02 are currently registered under him. He has handled 03 sponsored projects from AICTE, MoE and SERB in the area of automation and control, executed 04 GIAN (Global Initiative for Academic Networking) program by the MoE, GoI during 2016-2019.
He is a senior member of IEEE since 2013, Fellow IE(I), he is currently Secretary of ACDOS (Advanced Control and Dynamic Optimization Society) an Indian National Member Organisation of IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control), Honorary Secretary of The Institution of Engineers (India) Silchar Local Centre. In the past he has served as Executive member of ACDOS for almost 10 years since 2014, founding Executive Committee Member of IEEE Joint CMS Kolkata Chapter, Executive committee member (Electrical) of IEI Silchar Local Centre.
Dr. Dey has published several books, research monographs, journal articles, conference papers and Indian patents with reputed international publishers (Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor and Francis, IEEE etc). His research interest are Time-delay control, Control applications in Biomedical Engineering, Machine learning and data science in control engineering and Psychological modelling and dynamics.
Title: Mathematical model and stability assessment of Interpersonal relationship among dyads in an Indian Urban setting: System Theory Approach
Abstract: Interpersonal relationships with a bit of romance between the dyads are typically considered a fundamental component of a balanced happy life in western societies. When people are asked what they believe necessary for happiness they usually give priority to ‘love’ or to ‘a close relation. It is hard to think of another aspect of human life involving so many cultural, sociological, psychological or economic issues. Whereas the initial stage of interpersonal relationships seems to be controlled by chemical processes, the issue of maintaining a healthy relationship may rather belong in the realm of rational decisions. People usually engage in long-term relationships –typically marriage– only after due consideration. However, dyadic interpersonal relationships or interactions are complicated and difficult to predict. One of the possibilities of making some predictions is to use mathematical modelling or statistical approach.
The focus of our research is to develop a mathematical model from the existing love dynamics model by including social factors along with the psychological parameters for an India urban society. The developed model will undergo stability tests to assess the stability of the interpersonal relationship among the dyads. One of the corner stone for proposing such a dynamical model for the Indian urban setting is to identify the influencing socio-psychological factors that influences the stability of interpersonal relationship. Both the linear and nonlinear models will be developed.
Research issues/questions:
- Development of Parameter identification method for the mathematical models from the Questionnaire & Survey?
- Prediction of interpersonal stability for the nonlinear model using the concept of chaos and bifurcation theory?
- Stability assessment of the interpersonal relationship due delayed emotion or any social factor for both linear and nonlinear model?
- Deciding the time horizon of the psychological or social states (factors) variable involved in the mathematical model for the evolution of the future states that can eventually predict stability of the relationship.
- Validation of the models from the content (or story or fact) available with the marriage counsellor or divorce lawyer or from the story line of any subject (if possible to collect).
References:
- J. Gottman et. Al, The Mathematics of Marriage.
- Sergio Rinaldi and Alessandra Gragnani, Love Dynamics Between Secure Individuals: A Modeling Approach, Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology and Life Sciences, Vol 2 (4), 1998.
- Natalia Bielczyk, Urszula Forys ´ and Tadeusz Płatkowski, DYNAMICAL MODELS OF DYADIC INTERACTIONS WITH DELAY, Journal of Mathematical Sociology, Vol. 37, 2013.
- Sergio Rinaldi et. Al, Temporary Bluffing can be rewarding in a social system: The case of Romantic Relationship, The Journal of Mathematical Sociology, vol. 39, 203-220, 2015.