Christophe Leys, Prix de Psychologie de l'Académie Royale de Belgique
Écrit par Luce Vercammen
Mercredi, 17 Avril 2013 08:19
Christophe Leys a reçu le Prix de Psychologie de l'Académie Royale de Belgique pour sa thèse "Normes émotionnelles et jugement social: étude de l'influence de la perception du sentiment de culpabilité d'un transgresseur sur les processus d'attribution d'une peine en fonction de son appartenance culturelle", réalisée en 2011.
Ce prix récompense la meilleure thèse de psychologie sur une période triennale allant de 2010 à 2012, il a été décerné en partage avec une homologue de l'Université de Gent, Line Caes. Il conduit à l'obtention d'un diplôme honorifique de "Lauréat de l'Académie Royale de Belgique".
Mise à jour le Mercredi, 17 Avril 2013 08:45
New publication : You Are the One I Want to Communicate With!
Écrit par Luce Vercammen
Mardi, 05 Mars 2013 16:29
in Social Psychology
Authors
Sabrina Pierucci1, Olivier Klein1, Andrea Carnaghi2
1Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium 2Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy
Abstract
This article investigates the role of relational motives in the saying-is-believing effect (Higgins & Rholes, 1978). Building on shared reality theory, we expected this effect to be most likely when communicators were motivated to “get along” with the audience. In the current study, participants were asked to describe an ambiguous target to an audience who either liked or disliked the target. The audience had been previously evaluated as a desirable vs. undesirable communication partner. Only participants who communicated with a desirable audience tuned their messages to suit their audience’s attitude toward the target. In line with predictions, they also displayed an audience-congruent memory bias in later recall.
Mise à jour le Mardi, 05 Mars 2013 16:37
New publication : Low Hopes, High Expectations Expectancy Effects and the Replicability of Behavioral Experiments
Écrit par Luce Vercammen
Mardi, 05 Mars 2013 16:11
in Perspectives on Psychological Science, November 2012; vol. 7, 6:pp. 572-584.
Authors Olivier Klein, Stéphane Doyen, Christophe Leys, Pedro A. Magalhães de Saldanha da Gama, Sarah Miller, Laurence Questienne, and Axel Cleeremans
Abstract
This article revisits two classical issues in experimental methodology: experimenter bias and demand characteristics. We report a content analysis of the method section of experiments reported in two psychology journals (Psychological Science and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology), focusing on aspects of the procedure associated with these two phenomena, such as mention of the presence of the experimenter, suspicion probing, and handling of deception. We note that such information is very often absent, which prevents observers from gauging the extent to which such factors influence the results. We consider the reasons that may explain this omission, including the automatization of psychology experiments, the evolution of research topics, and, most important, a view of research participants as passive receptacles of stimuli. Using a situated social cognition perspective, we emphasize the importance of integrating the social context of experiments in the explanation of psychological phenomena. We illustrate this argument via a controversy on stereotype-based behavioral priming effects.
Mise à jour le Mardi, 05 Mars 2013 16:21
Nouvelle publication : Psychologie des émotions Nouvelles perspectives pour la cognition, la personnalité et la santé
Nouvelle publication: Introduction à la Psychologie Interculturelle
Écrit par Laurent Licata
Mardi, 30 Octobre 2012 18:08
Par Laurent Licata et Audrey Heine
Parution le 5 novembre 2012
La nécessité de mieux comprendre la manière dont les cultures influencent les pensées, les émotions et les comportements humains s’impose aujourd’hui à un nombre croissant de professionnels opérant dans tous les domaines dans lesquels des personnes se référant à des cultures différentes entrent en contact.
New publication : Bridging the Gap on Facebook : Accessing Intergroup Contact and Its Effects for Intergroup Relations
Écrit par Luce Vercammen
Mercredi, 17 Octobre 2012 14:47
Authors
Sandy Schumann, Nicolas Van der Linden and Olivier Klein
Abstract
In line with Allport's contact hypotheses, previous research showed that direct intergroup contact can reduce prejudices. However, establishing face-to-face contact is not always feasible. We postulate that Facebook-groups are a setting where direct and observed intergroup contact can develop, reducing prejudices and increasing mutual acceptance. Analyzing the comments of nine Facebook-groups with the destructive and constructive conflict scale, our results indicated that the expression of prejudices decreased and that of mutual acceptance increased over time, both for in- and outgroup members of the Facebook-groups. Only the expression of less prejudices, but not that of more mutual acceptance was predicted by intergroup contact. The influence of group-based motivations on the engagement in intergroup contact is discussed, and the overall findings are integrated in Steele and Brown's process model of media practices
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