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Testing if the movement by valence interaction in Muhlberger et al. (2008) is due to dominance confound

In this study, we will assess the link between mood and self-other distinction. We test the hypothesis that a positive mood is associated a reduction in the Self-advantage relative to other (stranger or friend) in a shape-label matching task.

In the Affect Misattribution Procedure (AMP; Payne et al., 2005), participants are exposed to an affect-laden prime (e.g., a picture of a baby or a snake) followed by an ambiguous target (Chinese ideographs for non-Chinese readers). The typical instructions for the task stress that the prime should be ignored and the target be evaluated for pleasantness in a binary categorization task (i.e., pleasant/unpleasant). Despite these instructions, the primes influence the judgment of the targets: targets that appear after pleasant primes (e.g., a baby) are rated as more pleasant than targets that appear after unpleasant primes (e.g., a snake). Participants’ biased responses toward the prime were initially assumed to reflect an automatic activation of a positive or negative affective reaction that was subsequently misattributed to the target. The AMP was used as a valid and reliable indirect measure that seemed to circumvent the issues posed by the evaluative priming task (EPT) or the Implicit Association Test (IAT). However, recent research challenged the view that responses in the AMP capture genuine automatic affect misattribution. Indeed, priming effects in the AMP is not systematic and can be moderated by a host of variables: There is evidence in the literature suggesting that more active control strategies can alter priming effects. For example Hazlett and Berinsky (2018) found that participants that resisted the influence of the primes were able to eliminate priming effects. Still, they argued that the AMP appears to be relatively immune to control for some participants. In another study, Bar-Anan and Nosek (2012) showed that priming effects were found for participants reporting to intentionally evaluate the primes rather than the targets. More recently, Gawronski and Ye (2014) investigated the relationship between metacognitive knowledge and priming effects in the AMP, and do not rule out the role of intentional processes in this phenomenon. Finally, Hughes et al. (2021) examined the priming effects in the AMP and their predictive validity across eight studies as well as meta-analyses. They challenged the automaticity of the priming effects and argue that they are heavily driven by influence awareness. Thus, the bulk of evidence suggests that the priming effects in the AMP are open to control or strategic influences. In the present study, we take another perspective to test the contribution of strategic influences on the AMP. Based on previous findings in the EPT (Alexopoulos et al., 2017) showing that priming effects are sensitive to processing styles, we argue that inducing participants to a global vs. local processing style can alter priming effects in the AMP.

The aim of this study is to compare perceptions of homework from the parents' and the teachers' perspectives. We hypothesize that upper-middle class parents' perception of homework will match the teachers'. We hypothesize that there will be a mismatch between working-class parents' perspective and teachers' perspective. This anonymous study will be run online, in France.

we examine whether the diversity norms (e.g., the two Laïcité) can set the stage for specific prejudice regulatory strategies. Our reasoning derives from an application of the Justification-Suppression Model bolstered by classical work on mental control, modern racism and diversity ideology. From this, we sketch out the operative functioning of two distinct regulation processes: (a) one that prevents prejudicial attitudes but which can have unexpected consequences on stereotyping within the Historic Laïcité context (i.e., suppression) and (b) one that helps realize prejudice within the New Laïcité context (i.e., justification).

Dans ce projet, nous essayons d’étudier les effets de la tristesse sur le comportement d’achat: la tristesse augmente la somme d’argent que les individus sont prêts à mettre pour acquérir un bien (Cryder et al., 2008; Garg et al., 2018; Lerner et al., 2004). Certains proposent d’expliquer cet effet par une plus grande focalisation sur soi lorsque de la tristesse est ressentie ce qui entraînerait une dévaluation de soi accompagnée d’une motivation à se re-valoriser (Cryder et al., 2008). Selon le modèle conceptuel de Cryder et al. (2008), la tristesse et la focalisation sur soi entraînent une dévaluation de soi implicite qui à son tour entraîne le désir d’améliorer soi même (qui se traduit par une augmentation de la valeur des biens que l'on pourrait acquérir). Dans ce projet, nous souhaitons étendre ces travaux en manipulant la focalisation sur soi et en mesurant la dévaluation de soi.

Does cultural mismatch persists to limit working-class students’ opportunities for achievement throughout college? A French conceptual replication of Philipps, Stephens, Townsend, & Goudeau (in prep)

This study examines posture as a way to manipulate interpersonal approach behaviors

This study aims to test the attentional capture effect of fake news.

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This study examines posture as a way to manipulate interpersonal approach behaviors

The aim of this research is to examine the role of French National Identification & Laïcité norm endorsement on the BLM support.

During social interactions, the enactment of approach toward interaction partners produces positive evaluations of them. As social interactions unfold as a dyadic sequence, embedded in a physical and social environment, the positive effect of approach behaviours on evaluation may not tell us the whole story. In this paper, we consider the often neglected perspective of the one who is approached. We argue that being approached is, ironically, threatening and leads to more negative interpersonal evaluations: the approach-aversion effect. Although previous research brings initial evidence of this approach-aversion effect, it leaves some questions unanswered relative to the operating conditions and the generalisation of such an effect. To fill this gap, we rely on Virtual Reality and provide a powerful and highly ecological test of the approach-aversion effect in the context of social interactions. Across three well-powered preregistered experiments (NTotal = 450), participants gave their impression about approaching and static virtual individuals. We manipulated the threatening nature of approaching individuals via the features of the targets (emotional facial expressions in Experiment 1 and group membership in Experiment 2), as well as the agency of the targets’ movements (Experiment 3). The results confirm that being approached is threatening by showing a general approach-aversion effect. This effect is less pronounced when the self, as compared to the target, initiates the movement. These findings emphasise the importance of considering the interactional aspects of the social situation as a whole in the study of human approach-avoidance behaviours.

This research investigates the link between self-esteem and self-other inclusion in the context of close relationships.

This study focuses on the role of digital technology in the creation of educational disparities in relation to the families' social class.

This study examines posture as a way to manipulate interpersonal approach behaviors

Abstract. The approach-aversion effect refers to a devaluation of approaching (vs. static) stimuli and is attributable to the fact that being approached is threatening. However, the explanation and the generalizability of this effect still remain unclear. To fill this gap, we provide a powerful test of the approach-aversion effect using Virtual Reality. Participants evaluated approaching and static virtual individuals for which we manipulated the threatening nature via their emotional facial expressions (Experiment 1), their group membership (Experiment 2), and the agency of their movements (Experiment 3). The results suggest a general approach-aversion effect which is attenuated when the self (vs. the target) initiates the movement. We thus bring convergent evidence that being approached is threatening.

With this pilot study, we aim to examine the relationship between children's chronic social exclusion, their chronic goals and their social behavioral tendencies through path analysis.

We aim to show that the prioritization of early anti- vs. prosocial responses following an episode of social exclusion depends on initial situational appraisals. This online study will examine the approach/avoidance behavioral responses toward exclusionary (angry faces) and inclusionary (smiling faces) targets via the VAAST (Aubé et al., 2019; Rougier et al., 2018). We will randomly assign participants to a 2 (social exclusion, inclusion) x 2 (situational potential: future exclusion, inclusion) factorial design.

This theoretical paper examines the context-sensitivity of the impact of cultural norms on prejudice regulation. Granting the importance of understanding intergroup dynamics in cultural-ecological contexts, we focus on the peculiarities of the French diversity approach. Indeed, the major cultural norm, the Laïcité (i.e., French secularism) is declined today in two main variants: The Historic Laïcité, a longstanding egalitarian norm coexisting with its amended form: The New Laïcité, an assimilationist norm. In fact, these co-encapsulated Laïcité variants constitute a fruitful ground to cast light on the processes underlying prejudice regulation. Indeed, it is documented that the assimilationist New Laïcité is linked to higher levels of prejudice as compared to the egalitarian Historic Laïcité. To this day, research mainly explored interindividual determinants of Laïcité endorsements and specified how these endorsements shape prejudice. Crucially, this “indirect-endorsement path” does not account for the more straightforward causal relationship between Laïcité and prejudice. Moreover, recent experimental evidence suggests that the normative salience of both Laïcité norms shape intergroup attitudes beyond personal endorsement. Therefore, in this contribution, we complement previous work by investigating the possible socio-cognitive processes driving this “direct-contextual path.” In doing so, we seek to bridge the gap of causality by investigating how the Laïcité norms can set the stage for specific regulatory strategies. Our reasoning derives from an application of the Justification-Suppression Model bolstered by classical work on mental control, modern racism and diversity ideology. From this, we sketch out the operative functioning of two distinct regulation processes: (a) one that prevents prejudicial attitudes but which can have unexpected consequences on stereotyping within the Historic Laïcité context (i.e., suppression) and (b) one that helps realize prejudice within the New Laïcité context (i.e., justification). From this analysis, we discuss the consequences for intergroup relations within and beyond the French context. In particular, we outline the importance of an adequate framing of egalitarian ideologies so that they achieve their goal to foster harmonious intergroup relations.

International audience; Comment on Maestripieri, Henry, Nickels: Explaining financial and prosocial biases in favor of attractive people: Interdisciplinary perspectives from economics, social psychology, and evolutionary psychology”, forthcoming in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

With this pilot study, we aim to examine the relationship between children's chronic social exclusion, their social behavioral tendencies, and their academic achievement through structural equation modeling.