Research directions
Racism and xenophobia
Cross-national comparisons
Le racisme en Europe
Experimental social psychology
Social representations
In line with the social representations' theory, this area of research aims at analyzing the reasonings in everyday life, in particular about the processing of news items and about the transformation of information during its circulation. The processes of distribution and transformation of the scientific knowledge constitutes an essential aspect of the studies in this domain.
Motivation and learning styles
Factors influencing motivation (achievement goals and perceived locus of causality) and learning styles in academic and professional settings
La Motivation et les Styles d'Apprentissage
Les facteurs qui influencent la motivation (les buts d'accomplissement le locus perçu de causalité) et les styles d'apprentissage dans des contextes académiques et professionnels
Les Hiérarchies de Pouvoir et de Statut au sein de Systèmes
L'impact de types de statut différent chez les groupes dominants sur les attitudes et le comportement des subordonnés
Les Pratiques d'Evaluation
L'influence des styles d'évaluation sur la performance, la motivation et le comportement, ceci dans des contextes académiques et professionnels
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.
Attribution et relations entre groupes
Recherches sur l'explication quotidienne et l'attribution dans le cadre de relations entre groupes
Recherches sur "Explication quotidienne et SIDA"
Identité sociale
Recherches sur les représentations de soi et du monde de jeunes en formation (lycéens/apprentis)
Recherches sur l'identité psychosociale et particulièrement sur l'identité des membres de groupes minoritaires
Relations et représentations entre groupes
Recherches sur les représentations entre groupes, le processus de différenciation catégorielle et la prototypicalité
Recherches sur la variabilité perçue à l'intérieur des groupes
Recherches sur les stéréotypes et la solidarité dans le cadre des relations intergénérationnelles
Représentations sociales
Recherches sur les représentations sociales de lamour
Recherches sur les représentations sociales des Gitans
Recherches sur les représentations sociales de linsécurité
Recherches sur les représentations sociales de la vieillesse
Recherches sur les représentations sociales du passé
Power and status hierarchies in systems
The impact of subordinate perceptions of different types of status in higher status groups on subordinate attitudes and behaviour
Evaluation practices
The influence of different modes of evaluation on performance, motivation and normative behaviour in academic and professional contexts
Social Psychology of violence, insecurity and vulnerybility
The perspectives of the social representations and the relations between groups are mobilized for studying societal dynamics. Studies focused on violence, which emerges in various contexts (definitions of acts of violence, aggression in sport, the incivilities in the school contexts), and also on trajectories of individuals or groups which allow to understand the expression of insecurity and vulnerability under diverse forms.
Causal attribution
Scholastic judgment
Achievement goals
sexist attitudes and behaviours
attitudes toward immigrants
sustainable attitudes and behaviours
Uncertainty, social identity, intergroup relations, populism
What is the effect of self-uncertainty on social identity ? According to the theory, the more you feel uncertain about yourself, the more you will identify with social groups.
attitudes toward the Muslim headscarf
Immigration attitudes
Social value of motivation and the impact on performance
In this research field, we investigate the consequences of social (de)valorization of motivations (approach and avoidance) on the latter's effects. Specifically, in reference to the theory of social value of Beauvois and Dubois (2009), we study how the attribution of social value to performance goals at University (seeking to demonstrate competence in comparison with other students) can change their effects on academic achievement.
Under the supervision of Benoît Dompnier.
Social perception of older people
This research program focuses at better understanding how older people are perceived in society. Based on the bidimensional model of social judgment of Fiske et al. (2002) and the socio-cognitive perspective on age stereotypes (Hummert, 1999), we seek to explain some perception differences related with the existence of different elderly subtypes.
In collaboration with Valérian Boudjemadi and Antonin Carrier.
