Adam Chesterman

Université de Caen Normandie | UNICAEN · UFR de Psychologie

In France, the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdown measures have created unprecedented circumstances that increase stress and anxiety, thus leading individuals experiencing home confinement to adopt various coping strategies that contribute to building resilience. Given the novelty and recency of the COVID-19 lockdown, factors of coping and resi...

The Perceived Collective Continuity (PCC) scale was developed to measure the perceived past-present-future consistency of groups, but studies often omit to report its latent structure, and no valid French version currently exists. As such, we explored its latent structure in reference to a national group (French people) and a regional group (Camarg...

Sense of Place (SOP) can be defined as an attitude towards places, expressed through affective, cognitive, and behavioural responses that can be operationalised using Jorgensen’s and Stedman’s (2001) SOP scale. However, this scale has not been explored in relation to factors of people-place bonds such as length of residence, personal involvement, a...

Introduction. – More and more, researchers are turning to social representations to explore social thinking about risks, but this may not always be the best option. In particular, low to moderate risks possess inherent characteristics that can potentially constitute an obstacle to sociorepresentational processes, such as translating as “zero risk”...

Background: Lesbians, gays, and bisexual people (LGB) present high levels of suicidal ideation. The disclosure of sexual orientation is a stressful experience which presents a high suicide risk. Research has not paid sufficient attention to stress during this disclosure in order to understand suicide among LGB people. The aims of this study were t...

Ces travaux, conduits en région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, se situent dans l’approche structurale des représentations sociales, et ont visé à étudier la représentation des séismes chez des habitants de zones à sismicité faible, modérée et moyenne. Pour cela, nous avons d’abord mené une analyse prototypique et catégorielle (Vergès, 1992) à l’aide d...

Earthquakes are a concern in many countries and have caused more deaths than any other natural disaster. However, not all areas are submitted to the same level of seismic risk. Where some areas are undoubtedly more at risk than others, those areas that are at risk from moderate earthquakes present specific obstacles that must be considered, especia...

Ces travaux de thèse, financés par la région PACA, visaient à favoriser l’adoption de comportements de protection du risque sismique en région PACA. Pour cela, nous nous sommes intéressé dans un premier temps à la perception des séismes dans la région, pour ensuite mener un certain nombre de travaux en laboratoire visant à élaborer un protocole de...

When dealing with “sensitive” objects, studies have observed a mask/unmask phenomenon of certain elements of social representations: negative opinions are masked in the first person, but unmasked in the third person (substitution). This phenomenon either corresponds to a drop in normative pressure, or a social comparison process allowing people to...

Suite aux recherches de Guimelli (1998 ; Guimelli & Deschamps, 2000) sur la « zone muette », des études ont observé un phénomène de masquage/démasquage des éléments d’une représentation sociale. Les éléments négatifs sont généralement masqués par des individus lorsqu’ils s’expriment en leur propre nom, et démasqués lorsqu’ils sont invités à exprime...

Over the last years, humanity has realized the importance of protecting the environment. Awareness about environmental issues has risen, mainly due to growing media attention to the risks if people don’t change their behaviour. Information and communication are deployed by the media, and have shown their efficiency in changing attitudes, inducing b...