CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Popoviciu, C., Giosan, C. (March 28-29, 2024). Predictors of Adolescents' Social Media Engagement and Digital Addiction. Presented at ICPLT-24 (International Conference on Psychology, Language and Teaching). Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Giosan, C. (2023) The Role of Virtual Reality and the Metaverse for Addressing the Impact of Trauma in Ukrainian Civilians and Warfighters (November 28-December 01, 2023). Immersive Tech Week, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Giosan, C. (2023) The Role of Virtual Reality and the Metaverse for Addressing the Impact of Trauma in Ukrainian Civilians and Warfighters (November 1-4, 2023). Presented at the ISTSS (International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies) 2023, 39th Annual Meeting "Scalable Strategies to Address the Impact of Trauma Worldwide. Los Angeles, US.

Giosan, C. (October 20, 2022). Keynote. Clinical Applications of Evolutionary Psychology. Presented at "Teme si idei fundamentale din domeniul psihologiei si stiintelor educatiei", Academia Romana, Filiala Iasi, Institutul de Cercetari Economice si Sociale "Gh. Zane".

Giosan, C. (2021). Head of the Scientific Committee, Moderator, "Applications of AI in Psychhology", Psychology and Technology: Connected to the Future" APR Conference, Bucharest, Romania.

Courtney Crosby, David Buss, Carlota Batres, Harrison Kitema, Illia Yahiiaiev, Karine Malysheva, Andrii Trofimov, Adil Samekin, Tatyana Rezvushkina, Telman Seisembekov,
Artyom Dontsov, Symbat Abdramanova, Egor Burtsev, Sergei Vykhodtcev, Kseniya Mikhalchenko, Cezar Giosan, Adrian Gorbanescu, Cornel Mincu, Violeta Rotarescu, Zeno Cretu (2020). Sex Differences in Sexual Disgust: A Cross-cultural Analysis. Poster presented at the 2020 Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Convention, New Orleans, USA. Link to poster.

Giosan, C., Cobeanu, O., Mureşan, V., Szentagotai, A., Mogoașe, C., (2019, May-June). Cognitive-Evolutionary Therapy for Depression - Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial. Oral presentation at the 31st Annual Human Behavior & Evolution Society meeting. Boston.

Giosan, C. (2019, April). New directions in military psychology. Presented at the InfoPsiho Military Psychology Symposium, Bucharest.

Giosan, C., Mureşan, V., Cobeanu, O., Szentagotai, A., Mogoașe, C., Boian, R., & David, O. (2018, October). BeatSadness.com - A mobile app for the prevention and treatment of depression. Presented at the 6th Annual Consortium for Critical Reading, Writing, and Thinking, Berkeley College, New York.

Giosan, C., Mureşan, V., Cobeanu, O., Szentagotai, A., Mogoașe, C., Boian, R., & David, O. (2018, July). BeatSadness.com - A mobile app for the prevention and treatment of depression. Presented at the Fifth Annual International Conference on Public Health, Bangkok, Thailand.

Giosan, C., Mureşan, V., Cobeanu, O., Szentagotai, A., Mogoaşe, C., Boian, R., & David, O. (2017, July). Reducing depressive symptomatology with a smartphone app. Preliminary results of a randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial. Presented at the 9th International Congress of Cognitive Psychotherapy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Giosan, C., Cobeanu, O., Mogoase, C., Szentagotai, A., Mureşan, V., & Boian, R. (2017, April). Using a smartphone app to reduce minimal depressive symptoms. Presented at the 5th CPSYC International Congress on Clinical and Counseling Psychology, Bari, Italy.

Giosan, C., Mureşan, V., Cobeanu, O., Szentagotai, A., Mogoașe, C., Boian, R., & David, O. (2016d, December). A comprehensive computerized intervention for depression. Presented at the 30th International Research Conference on Business, Economics, and Social Sciences, IRC-216, Singapore.

Giosan, C., Mureşan, V., Cobeanu, O., Szentagotai, A., Mogoașe, C., Boian, R., & David, O. (2016a, September). A mobile app for the treatment of depression. Presented at the MMHS 34th International conference on Medical, Medicine, and Health Sciences, Bangkok, Thailand.

Giosan, C., Mureşan, V., Cobeanu, O., Szentagotai, A., Mogoașe, C., Boian, R., & David, O. (2016b, September). A mobile intervention for the treatment of depression. Presented at the 4th International Conference of Business, Economics, Management, Information Technology and Social Sciences, Phuket, Thailand.

Giosan, C., Mureşan, V., Cobeanu, O., Szentagotai, A., Mogoașe, C., Boian, R., & David, O. (2016c, September). A mobile intervention for the treatment of depression. Presented at the 19th International Conference on Medical, Medicine and Health Sciences (MHS-2016), Bali, Indonesia.

Giosan, C., Mureşan, V., Szentagotai, A., Mogoaşe, C., & Cobeanu, O. (2016, June). Cognitive evolutionary therapy for depression: A case study. Presented at the Northeastern Evolutionary Psychology Society (NEEPS), Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Giosan, C., Mureşan, V., Cobeanu, O., Szentagotai, A., & Mogoaşe, C. (2016, March). The development of a novel, automated smartphone application for treating depression. Presented at the 24th European Congress of Psychiatry (EPA 2016), Madrid, Spain.

Giosan, C., Mureşan, V., Cobeanu, O., Szentagotai, A., & Boian, R. (2015, December). A mobile, automated intervention for depression. Presented at the 4th International Conference on Sociality and Humanities (ICOSH, 2015), Tokyo.

Mogoașe, C., Cobeanu, O., David, O., Giosan, C., & Szentagotai, A. (2015, September). The scientific status of internet-based psychotherapy for adult depression: time to consider the mechanisms of change. Presented at the 45th Annual EABCT Congress, Jerusalem, Israel.

Giosan, C., Mureşan, V., Boian, R., Cobeanu, O., & Szentagotai, A. (2016, July). A mobile intervention for the treatment of depression. Presented at the 31th International Conference on “Medical, Medicine and Health Sciences” (MMHS-2016), Bangkok, Thailand.

Giosan, C., Mureşan, V., Boian, R., Cobeanu, O., & Szentagotai, A. (2016, June). A mobile intervention for the treatment of depression. Presented at the Singapore Conference on Applied Psychology (SCAP), Singapore.

Giosan, C., Mureşan, V., Boian, R., Cobeanu, O., & Szentagotai, A. (2016, June). A mobile intervention for the treatment of depression. Presented at the International Conference on Social Science, Arts, Economics, and Education (ICSAEE 2016), Bangkok, Thailand.

Giosan, C., Vlad, M., Cobeanu, O., Szentagotai, A., & David, O. (2015, May). An online automated psychotherapeutic intervention: efficacy and therapeutic relationship. Presented at the 16th International Academic Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Giosan, C., Muresan, V., Szentagotai, A., & Cobeanu, O. (2015, April). Cognitive-evolutionary therapy for depression. Presented at the NEEPS 9th Annual Conference, Boston, USA.

Bradu,  Ștefan, Adar, T., Rabinovich, L., Giosan, C., & Brody, N. (2015, March). Botulinum toxin injections targeting the corrugators result in selective effects on the facial expressions of multiple basic human emotions. Presented at the 73rd Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Dermatology, San Francisco.

Giosan, C., Mureşan, V., Szentagotai, A., Cobeanu, O., & David, O. (2015, January). Towards a comprehensive computerized intervention for depression. Presented at the 5th International Conference on Advances in Social Sciences (ICASS), Bangkok, Thailand.

Giosan, C., Muresan, V., Mogoaşe, C., Szentagotai, A., & David, O. (2014, November). Cognitive-evolutionary therapy for depression. Presented at the Global Conference on Psychology Researches, University of Barcelona, University of Barcelona, Spain.

Giosan, C., Muresan, V., & Cobeanu, O. (2014, August). A new therapeutic approach to depression: enhancing the clinical conceptualization. Presented at the 7th World Congress for Psychotherapy, Durban, South-Africa.

Giosan, C., Muresan, V., Mogoașe, C., & Szentagotai, A. (2014, March). Clinical applications of evolutionary psychology. Presented at the International Conference of Experiential Psychotherapy (SPER), 5th edition, Bucharest, Romania.

Giosan, C., Muresan, V., Mogoașe, C., & Szentagotai, A. (2013, December). An evolutionary approach to the treatment of depression. Presented at the 2nd Hong Kong International Conference on Education, Psychology and Society, Hong Kong.

Giosan, C., Muresan, V., Mogoașe, C., Szentagotai, A., & Rusu, A. (2013c, July). Darwinian-enhanced CBT for depression. Presented at the 7th World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Lima, Peru.

Giosan, C., Muresan, V., Mogoașe, C., Szentagotai, A., & Rusu, A. (2013b, June). Darwinian psychotherapy for depression. Presented at the European Conference on Social Science Research, Istanbul, Turkey.

Giosan, C., Muresan, V., Mogoașe, C., Szentagotai, A., & Rusu, A. (2013a, March). Charles Darwin, clinical psychologist. applications of evolutionary psychology to clinical practice. Presented at the International Conference of Experiential Psychotherapy (SPER), 4th Edition, Bucharest, Romania.

Giosan, C. (2013, January). Darwinian-enhanced CBT for depression. Presented at the International Conference of Social Sciences (BCISS), Bangkok, Thailand.

Giosan, C. (2012d, September). Evolutionary psychology and psychotherapy: new trends. Presented at the Conference on "Diaspora în cercetarea ştiinţifică şi învăţământul superior din România," Bucharest, Romania.

Giosan, C. (2012c, August). Darwinian fitness, depression and PTSD. Presented at the Shanghai International Conference on Social Science, Shanghai, China.

Cocia, I., Uscătescu, L., Butucescu, A., Rusu, A., & Giosan, C. (2012, July). The Romanian validation of the High-K Strategy Scale: preliminary results. Presented at the International Test Commission (ITC) Conference, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Giosan, C. (2012b, April). Charles Darwin, Clinical Psychologist. Presented at the Babeș - Bolyai University, Cluj - Napoca, Romania.

Giosan, C. (2012a, March). High-K reproductive strategy and posttraumatic stress disorder. Presented at the 20th European Congress of Psychiatry, Prague, Czech Republic.

Giosan, C. (2011, May). Evolutionary Psychology and its applications in mental health. Presented at the International Conference “From Knowledge to Intervention in Psychology” Asociatia Pro-Psi, Venus, Romania.

Malta, L., Giosan, C., Szkodny, L., Slibersweig, D., Rizzo, A., & Difede, J. (2010, November). A virtual reality study of trauma memory formation. Presented at the 26th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Montreal, Canada.

Giosan, C., & Malta, L. (2010, September). Virtual Reality and mental health. Presented at the Conference on “Diaspora în cercetarea ştiinţifică şi învăţământul superior din România,” Bucharest, Romania.

Malta, L., Wyka, K., Giosan, C., Jayasinghe, N., & Difede, J. (2009, November). Functional relationships between PTSD re-experiencing, avoidance, numbing and hyperarousal symptoms. Presented at the 25th Silver Anniversary Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Atlanta, USA.

Giosan, C. (2007, April). High-K reproductive strategy as a negative predictor of depressive symptomatology. Presented at the Northeastern Evolutionary Psychology Society (NEEPS) Conference, New Paltz, USA.

Malta, L., Difede, J., Wyka, K., Giosan, C., & Jayasinghe, N. (2006a, November). PTSD symptom profiles as predictors of remission and treatment response. Presented at the 22nd Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), Hollywood, CA, USA.

Malta, L., Difede, J., Wyka, K., Giosan, C., & Jayasinghe, N. (2006b, November). PTSD symptom profiles as predictors of remission of chronic PTSD. Presented at the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Convention, Chicago, IL.

Cukor, J., Difede, J., Giosan, C., & Roberts, J. (2005, November). The course of subsyndromal PTSD in disaster relief workers following September 11, 2001. Presented at the 39th Annual Convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Washington, D.C.

Cukor, J., Difede, J., Hoffman, H., Patt, I., Giosan, C., & Jedel, S. (2005, November). Virtual reality exposure therapy for treatment refractory PTSD following the WTC attack. Presented at the 21st Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), Toronto, Canada.

Difede, J., Roberts, J., Rubenstein, A., Giosan, C., & Singer, M. (2005b, November). A comparison of brief prevention and supportive counseling as treatment for PTSD in adult World Trade Center survivors. Presented at the 21st Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), Toronto, Canada.

Evans, S., Giosan, C., Patt, I., & Difede, J. (2004, November). Anger and posttraumatic stress disorder in disaster relief workers responding to the September 11, 2001 World Trade Center disaster. Presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, New Orleans, USA.

Jayasinghe, N., Difede, J., Roberts, J., & Giosan, C. (2005, November). Predictors of treatment dropout in disaster workers. Presented at the 21st Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), Toronto, Canada.

Roberts, J., Difede, J., Rubenstein, A., Giosan, C., Singer, M., & Brown, A. (2005, November). A comparison of exposure therapy and supportive counseling as treatment for PTSD in a mixed sample of World Trade Center (WTC) survivors. Presented at the 21st Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), Toronto, Canada.

Giosan, C., Difede, J., & Spielman, L. (2005, November). Memory change for traumatic events following 9/11 and PTSD in disaster workers. Presented at the 21st Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS), Toronto, Canada.

Difede, J., Cukor, J., Patt, I., Giosan, C., & Hoffman, H. (2005, September). The Application of Virtual Reality to the Treatment of PTSD Following the WTC Attack. Presented at the Psychobiology of PTSD (New York Academy of Sciences), New York, USA.

Giosan, C., Difede, J., Evans, S., Jayasinghe, N., Spielman, L., & Jedel, S. (2005, September). Relationships between sleep disturbance and PTSD in disaster workers. Presented at the Psychobiology of PTSD (New York Academy of Sciences), New York, USA.

Difede, J., Hoffman, H., Cukor, J., Patt, I., & Giosan, C. (2005, June). Virtual reality therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder following September 11, 2001. Presented at the CyberTherapy 2005 Conference, Basel, Switzerland.

Difede, J., Roberts, J., Rubenstein, A., Giosan, C., & Singer, M. (2005a, May). A comparison of brief prevention and supportive counseling as treatment for PTSD in adult World Trade Center survivors. Presented at the American Psychiatric Association 2005 Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.

Difede, J., Roberts, J., Weathers, F., Jayasinghe, N., Leck, P., Cukor, J., … Crane, M. (2005, May). Prevalence and predictors of post-traumatic stress disorder in a population of 2,960 disaster workers deployed to the World Trade Center following the attack of September 11, 2001. Presented at the American Psychiatric Association 2005 Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.

Jayasinghe, N., Giosan, C., Robin, L., & Spielman, L. (2005, May). World Trade Center attack disaster workers’ responses to psychotherapy referral. Presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting, American Psychiatric Association, Atlanta, Georgia.

Leck, P., Difede, J., Patt, I., Giosan, C., & Spielman, L. (2005, May). Prevalence of male childhood sexual abuse in a sample of disaster workers. Presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting, American Psychiatric Association, Atlanta, Georgia.

Giosan, C., & Difede, J. (2004, November). Relationships between sleep disturbances and PTSD. Presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, New Orleans, USA.

Singer, M., Roberts, J., Giosan, C., & Difede, J. (2004, November). Concurrent depression and PTSD in relief workers following 9/11/01. Presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, New Orleans, USA.

Giosan, C., & Holtom, B. (2004, August). Antecedents of job embeddedness. Presented at the 2004 Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Kramer, M., Brown, D., Spielman, L., Giosan, C., & Rothrock, M. (2004, August). Psychological reactions to the national terror-alert system. Presented at the 2004 Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Difede, J., Hoffman, H., & Giosan, C. (2004, May). Virtual reality and its applications in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder. Presented at the 1st Central European International Multimedia and Virtual Reality Conference, Veszprém, Hungary.

Difede, J., Hoffman, H., Abrams, H., Hendrickson, D., Giosan, C., & Cukor, J. (2004, February). Applications of virtual reality technology in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic grief. Presented at the NAIDA “Virtual Reality: Opportunities for the National Institutes of Health”, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA.

Jayasinghe, N., Giosan, C., Robin, L., & Difede, J. (2004, May). Psychological treatment readiness in disaster relief workers affected by the 9/11 WTC attack. Presented at the 2004 Annual Convention of the American Psychiatric Association, New York, USA.

Giosan, C., Glovsky, V., & Haslam, N. (2002, September). Cultural differences in the perception of the concept of mental disorder. Presented at the Conference on Social Representations, University of Stirling, Scotland.

Haslam, N., Glovsky, V., & Giosan, C. (2001, October). The lay concept of “Mental Disorder”: A cross-cultural study. Presented at the Paper presented at the XXXI Reuniao Anual de Psicologia, Sociedade Brasileira de Psicologia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.