Description: Senior lecturer specialised in social behavior, disagreement, discrimination and autism.
I’m a senior postdoctoral scientist at Macquarie University in Sydney. I’ve also conducted research the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, at Ghent University and KU Leuven in Belgium, Melbourne's Monash University , and at Berlin's Humboldt University .
I work in social neuroscience, experimental psychology, philosophy of mind and social psychology, with an added interest in sociology.
My thinking focusses mainly on how the neurotypical and autistic brain monitors conflict between one's own and another's worldview. You may call it sheer disagreement, if you will. I refer to the process in the brain as 'relational mentalizing' (Deschrijver & Palmer, 2020; Deschrijver, 2021). I also publish on automatic imitation, empathy for pain, social touch processing, predictive coding, illusory self superiority biases, and gender backlash in academia.