Anne-Sophie Gousse-Lessard

• Ph.D
• Professor at University of Quebec in Montreal

Purpose The current pandemic and ongoing climate risks highlight the limited capacity of various systems, including health and social ones, to respond to population-scale and long-term threats. Practices to reduce the impacts on the health and well-being of populations must evolve from a reactive mode to preventive, proactive and concerted actions...

In the context of the current socioecological crisis, mobility issues represent a staunch question. Quebec’s car-centric mobility system has well-documented negative consequences for the environment, health, quality of life, personal finances and for the province’s economy. In terms of climate, the road passenger transport sub-sector (cars and ligh...

The current pandemic and ongoing climate risks highlight the limited capacity of various systems, including health and social ones, to respond to population-scale and long-term threats. Practices to reduce the impacts on the health and well-being of populations must evolve from a reactive mode to preventive, proactive and concerted actions beginnin...

Le vocable « écoanxiété » a récemment fait son entrée dans le discours médiatique, celui des mouvements sociaux et au sein des milieux éducatifs. Si le milieu de la recherche n'est pas en reste, trop peu d'écrits, particulièrement en français, se sont penchés sur le phénomène que le terme « écoanxiété » tente de saisir et sa prise en compte en éduc...

La nécessité d’apporter des réponses adéquates aux changements climatiques pose pour l’éducation relative à l’environnement (ERE), plusieurs défis quant à la diffusion des connaissances et leur traduction en actions, dans un contexte de déni persistant sur fond de polarisation idéologique. Certaines sciences cognitives, telle la psychologie cogniti...

L’arrivée de la pandémie de COVID-19 a bouleversé l’organisation économique et sociale du monde entier. Au Québec, elle a coïncidé avec la période des crues printanières. Soucieux du possible chevauchement de sinistres et de crises, le RIISQ a organisé au printemps 2020 un atelier participatif auprès de ses membres et du public intéressé par cette...

Panel : Engaging Communication for a Sustainable Future: From Commitment to Concrete Action For more than 20 years now, the Réseau des femmes en environnement (Women’s Environment Network) has been working to create and promote innovative actions and provide a space for dialogue for women in order to improve the quality of the environment, health...

Les jeunes actuels présentent des tendances de mobilité qui semblent s’écarter des générations précédentes. Cette conférence présente les résultats d’un questionnaire web et de focus groups réalisés auprès de jeunes de niveau collégial afin d’explorer leur relation avec les différents modes de transport et leurs aspirations futures face à la mobili...

Panel title : « Dépendance à l'automobile : La révolution sera culturelle »

Background In the current context of climate change, climate forecasts for the province of Quebec (Canada) are a lengthening of the thunderstorm season and an increase in episodes of intense precipitations. These changes in the distribution of precipitations could heighten the intensity or frequency of floods, a natural hazard that concerns 80% of...

Panel title : « L'économie comportementale et les Nudges au service de l'écoresponsabilité?»

Presented to Ville de Montréal

Présentation publique offerte à l'Éco-quartier de Montréal-Nord

Conférence offerte dans le cadre du cours « Psychologie positive » au baccalauréat en psychologie à l'UQTR

Presentation for Ville de Montréal - Direction de l'urbanisme

Panel title : « Changements climatiques : Pour passer à l'action il faut changer les perceptions »

Workshop

The Dualistic Model of Passion (DMP) proposes two types of passion, namely harmonious passion and obsessive passion. The DMP posits that the activity becomes part of one’s identity. However, little research assessed how the two types of passion relate to identity. Two important facets of identity hypothesized to be associated with passion are ident...

The Dualistic Model of Passion (DMP; Vallerand et al., 2003) proposes two types of passion, namely harmonious passion (HP; where one has control over the activity that one loves) and obsessive passion (OP; where one is being controlled by the activity). The DMP posits that the activity becomes part of one’s identity. However, little research assess...

Environmental issues are serious contemporary problems directly related to human activities, including recreations such as some specific outdoor activities. Indeed outdoor activities may harm environment such as disturbance of wildlife and flora, and cope with the growth of practitioners, these issues become more and more alarming. However, one can...

L'aggravation de la situation environnementale est un problème contemporain préoccupant, directement liée à l'activité humaine, dont les loisirs (Mounet, Nicollet & Rocheblave, 2000). Face à la hausse du nombre de pratiquant, cette problématique devient de plus en plus alarmante. Si certains pratiquants organisent leur activité de manière à limiter...

The dualistic model of passion proposes that individuals can have two distinct types of passion toward an activity, a harmonious passion (HP) or an obsessive passion (OP), that lead to more or less adaptive outcomes, respectively. The purpose of the present research was to investigate the differential role of passion toward the environmental cause...

Talk presented à the 20th congress of The Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication (EECOM)

Talk presented at the 80th congress of ACFAS

Poster presented at the 13th international conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)

Poster presented at the 2nd international conference of International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA)

Poster presented at the 72th annual congress of the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA)

Poster presented at the 4th international conference of Self Determination Theory (SDT).

Poster presented at the 32th annual congress of the Société Québécoise pour la Recherche en Psychologie (SQRP).

Paper presented at the 11th annual congress of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP).

Paper presented at the 70th annual congress of the Société canadienne depsychologie (SCP).