Joël Billieux
joelbillieux.bsky.social
Joël Billieux
@joelbillieux.bsky.social

Professor of Clinical Psychology, Psychopathology, and Psychological Assessment #Unil. Highly engaged in Boardgames and TTRPGs.

Psychology 51%
Sociology 13%
Very excited to introduce InteroMap, a new bodily mapping tool designed to measure how we subjectively experience our bodily sensations, what we call interoceptive phenomenology 🧵👇

Not yet but soon

A key strength of project is that it avoids
pathologizing the use of technology by children and adolescents - yet emphasizes that technology poses important challenges (for children, adolescents, teachers, parents, …) and a panoply of risks and benefits

· Technology use and misuse is an important public health issue. An appropriate level of evidence-based concern is required. Proactive action is required

· The response SHOULD NO be fear; (moral) panics and inappropriate/excessive regulation or prohibition

Earlier this week an event took place in Madrid to present the study and discuss its results and implications, in presence of Spanish government and its president Pedro Sanchez. The entire event can be seen here at the following link: lnkd.in/eBnu_hWg

This study is definitively one of the strongest of this type available at the worldwide level (nationally representative sample of 100'000 children/adolescents aged 10-20, 7000 teachers,qualitative data on parents, teachers, children, and international experts)
www.unicef.es/sites/unicef...

Such an honor to act as the special scientific advisor of the project “Infancia, Adolescencia y Bienestar Digital” #infanciadigital, led by @unicefespana.bsky.social Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Consejo General de Colegios Profesionales de Ingeniería Informática. @unil.bsky.social

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Ravie d’assister ce jour au colloque jeux et santé à @uparisnanterre.bsky.social et particulièrement à cette première partie avec @joelbillieux.bsky.social et Marie Grall Bronnec
Merci le GIS jeu et Sociétés !

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Robert Heirene, @lucas-palmer.bsky.social, @joelbillieux.bsky.social, Beata Bothe, Damien Brevers, @zhangchen.bsky.social, @joshuagrubbsphd.bsky.social, Anja Kräplin, Karol Lewczuk, Philip Newall, @jcesarpl.bsky.social, @peterslab.bsky.social, Ruth can Holst and @lukeclark.bsky.social

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Une récente étude de la Prof. Baggio (@unil.bsky.social), menée avec plusieurs universités australiennes, révèle qu'interdire les smartphones à l’école pourrait améliorer la santé mentale des élèves.

▶️ En savoir plus: www.unil.ch/news/1756718...

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Intervention de @joelbillieux.bsky.social, Prof. de psychologie clinique et psychopathologie au sein de notre Faculté, sur la thématique des achats impulsifs et des achats compulsifs, publiée sur RTS. 👇🏼
De l’achat impulsif à l’addiction au shopping, 450'000 Suisses perdent parfois le contrôle
En Suisse, une personne sur vingt révèle avoir des comportements potentiellement problématiques ou excessifs en matière d'achat. Parmi elles, une minorité souffre même d’une véritable « addiction au s...
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Towards a Psychological and Holistic Approach to Chemsex

With Dr. Cora von Hammerstein, we are editing a special issue on #Chemsex in Addictive Behaviors.

Submission Deadline : 30.04.26

www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Addictive Behaviors | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier - Addictive Behaviors | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Read the latest articles of Addictive Behaviors at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
www.sciencedirect.com

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🔎 La Journée de la recherche en SSP se tiendra l’après-midi du jeudi 3 avril à Géopolis, UNIL. Elle mettra en lumière les expériences et les pratiques de partage des savoirs des chercheur·euses de la Faculté.

📄 Consultez le programme détaillé et inscrivez-vous ici 👉🏼 wp.unil.ch/journeereche...

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Le Temps @letemps.ch · Mar 16
Le jeu de rôle, cet outil insoupçonné pour réduire l’anxiété sociale et l’usage excessif des jeux vidéo
➡️ https://l.letemps.ch/nNa

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Thrilled to share the publication of "Can playing Dungeons & Dragons be good for you?" led by the brilliant @joelbillieux.bsky.social and his fantastic team. I was lucky to play a small part in this epic quest. 🎲🐉🧟‍♀️🔥⚔️

Link: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

#DnD #MentalHealth #TTRPG
Can playing Dungeons and Dragons be good for you? A registered exploratory pilot programme using offline tabletop role-playing games to mitigate social anxiety and reduce problematic involvement in mu...
Gamers with poor self-concept, high social anxiety and high loneliness are more at risk of problematic involvement in video games, such as massively multiplayer online role-playing games. There is a r...
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Still very popular … unfortunately. And for some behaviors like problematic social media use / the most popular scales are based on it

Was wondering if there is people I know on this Bluesky 🤣

Ready for #ICBA2025 !

Bonjour Nantes

Ready for #ICBA2025 in Nantes ! I will among other co-chair with Loïs Fournier the Session 4A: Is the components model of addiction truly valid in the context of behavioral addictions? (Auditorium, 8 July, 13h30).

Teaser 😇 : slide taken from my talk + detailed program of this sympo

Conférences et soirée jeux autour des mondes virtuels et du jeu de rôle

17 juin (18h-24h). Musé Suisse du Jeu

museedujeu.ch/evenement/co...

@unil.bsky.social

And this is when the total score is reported (and analyzed) in addition to the facets scores
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Me when I read a paper using a total UPPS score instead (even not in addition) of facets scores

#impulsivity
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Le processus de mise en place d’un nouveau logo a #unil
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Three editorial decisions in a single day ! That's a lot. I am not the author here - but the editor in charge 😅

Will (or is) Nature Communications becoming the « New » Scientific Reports, i.e. A journal initially seen as prestigious and targeted by a lot of people, which then becomes just another of these mega open access journal (of questionnable quality)? Genuine question.
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Daniel King, Paul Delfabbro and I just published in World Psychiatry a viewpoint on the screening, assessment, and treatment of Gaming Disorder.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Screening, assessment and management of gaming disorder: recent evidence and future directions
Click on the article title to read more.
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Impatient de présenter les travaux de notre équipe sur l'utilisation du jeu de rôle sur table (type "donjons et dragons") dans le cadre d'interventions psychologiques. #TTRPG

Cela prendra place le 20 Mai à 14h à Lausanne, voir les infos ci-dessous 👇

@unil.bsky.social

C est parti pour le #GREPACO2025 à Lyon ! Au nom du comité scientifique ~ un immense merci aux organisatrices et organiseurs locaux.

Deux jours entiers de conférences, ateliers, et discussions autour de la psychopathologie cognitive

Dans un cadre et un amphithéâtre exceptionnel.

Mes slides sont disponibles osf.io/efhpx

Merci aux étudiant-e-x-s et collègues ayant participés aux débats, conférences et discussions pendant ces deux jours #ACFAS2025 @acfas.ca Nous ne pouvions être à Montréal ; mais nous avons activement participé depuis @unil.bsky.social