Research directions
My research is concerned
with the study of social change, from the structural processes founding social influence (power, norms, interdependence, ..) to the cognitive and motivational mechanisms that determine individual change. This work is intended to show that it is possible to introduce a change in all human activities and structures, and to show which are the specific processes that underlie specific forms of change. The aim is to point out how change takes place even in the presence of non malleable cognitive "schemas", of unavoidable and uncontrollable "biases" in perception and in reasoning, of "stereotypes" that freeze our attitudes, of "abilities" that constrain our information processing mechanisms. This view counters a representation of human functioning that considers that such phenomena as racism, competition, exclusion, are stable and inevitable phenomena, since they are anchored on stable structures of human "nature". This research programme aims at studying the mechanisms--in particular conflicts --undelying change. This programme has been applied to five domains of human activity: perception, reasoning, learning, motivation and attitudes. These domains correspond to different levels of analysis.
Current PhD students
Laetitia Charalambides
Robert Avery
Fantine Surret
Erjona Manushi (co-direction)
Estelle Milliet (co-direction)
Post-docs
Ocyna Rudmann
Former PhD students
Cinzia Zanetti, 2023
Annalisa Soncini, 2022
Anatolia Batruch, 2018
Nicolas Sommet, 2014
Marie Crouzevialle, 2014
Anne-Sophie Hayek, 2014
Vincent Pillaud, 2013
Caroline Pulfrey, 2010
Claudia Toma, 2007
Céline Darnon, 2004
Marie Depuiset, 2003
Jean-Pierre Vernet, 2003
Dominique Muller, 2002
Céline Buchs, 2002
Former Post-Docs
Rachel Fasel
Wojciech Świątkowski
Emilio Paolo Visintin
Marika Rullo
Oriane Sarrasin
Stefano De Dominicis
Frédérique Autin
Caroline Pulfrey
Annique Smeding
Benoît Dompnier
Inna Bovina
