Christophe Blaison

Université de Paris · Institut de Psychologie / Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale

Living near an unsafe housing block or a landfill is unattractive because of their negative influence on the environment. The question we ask is: would a nearby attractive location cancel out this negative influence? In two studies participants were shown fictitious neighborhoods that contained an unattractive location (an unsafe housing block or a...

This research aimed to assess top-down effects of social judgments on (facial) emotional mimicry. Based on the mimicry as social regulator model (Hess & Fischer, 2013) and the notion that people can use emotion expressions as cues to an expresser's traits (Hareli & Hess, 2010), we predicted that participants judge expressers who show affectively de...

This article reviews our experimental work about affective judgment in spatial context. This type of judgment serves to regulate one's distance toward people and things in physical space. The main idea is that orienting within physical space requires not only knowing where places are but also how places feel. This, in turn, depends on the influence...

Social support from family and friends, albeit associated with beneficial health effects, does not always help to cope with pain. This may be because humans elicit mixed expectations of social support and evaluative judgment. The present studies aimed to test whether pet dogs are a more beneficial source of support in a painful situation than human...

Facial electromyography (EMG) was used to investigate patterns of facial mimicry in response to partial facial expressions in two contexts that differ in how naturalistic and socially significant the faces are. Experiment 1 presented participants with either the upper- or lower-half of facial expressions and used a forced-choice emotion categorisat...

Prior research suggests that group membership impacts behavioral and self-reported responses to others’ facial expressions of emotion. In this paper, we examine how the mere labelling of a face as an ingroup or outgroup member affects facial mimicry (Study 1) and judgments of genuineness (Study 2). In addition, we test whether the effects of group...

We investigated how emotion regulation (ER) effectiveness – both on a level of self-reported rating as well as emotional expression ( corrugator supercilii muscle activity) – is affected by the characteristics of the situation (low vs. high negativity), the strategy used (reappraisal, distraction, suppression, no regulation control condition) and i...

Zusammenfassung. Die emotionale Bewertung von Eigenschaftsbegriffen und Persönlichkeitsattributen ist in vielen Forschungsbereichen und für viele Forschungszwecke von Bedeutung. Diese Untersuchung liefert eine neue Datenbank für emotionale Bewertungen von 140 Persönlichkeitsmerkmalen. Die Bewertungen von N = 701 Teilnehmenden wurden erhoben. In Erw...

HDR Blaison 2020

Invited talk at Université Paris Descartes in February 2019

Shows that a hotspot that constitutes a real physical threat to Ss causes the affective polarization of the surroundings in a German participants.

Abel and Kruger (2010) found that smile intensity, coded from photographs of professional baseball players who were active in the year 1952, predicted these players’ longevity. In the current investigation, we sought to replicate this result and to extend the initial analyses. We analyzed (a) a sample that was almost identical to the one from the o...

Data from two studies were used to estimate the reliability of facial EMG when used to index facial mimicry (Study 1) or affective reactions to pictorial stimuli (Study 2). Results for individual muscle sites varied between muscles and depending on data treatment. For ifference scores, acceptable internal consistencies were found only for corrugato...

Contrary to lay conceptions, unattractive locations can under certain circumstances increase the perceived value of neighboring areas. This phenomenon is akin to a contrast effect. However, extant research on this type of contrast suffers from two limitations. First, the use of repeated measures may inflate the likelihood of observing a contrast ef...

The notion that motivation influences empathic accuracy has been inferred from aspects of the task, the situation or the relationship between interaction partners or between groups. The present research assessed whether monetary reward influences cognitive and affective empathy. In Study 1, cognitive empathy was assessed for 42 participants who dec...

Data from two studies were used to estimate the reliability of facial EMG when used to index facial mimicry (Study 1) or affective reactions to pictorial stimuli (Study 2). Results for individual muscle sites varied between muscles and depending on data treatment. For difference scores, acceptable internal consistencies were found only for corrugat...

Human interactions are replete with emotional exchanges, and hence, the ability to decode others’ emotional expressions is of great importance. The present research distinguishes between the emotional signal (the intended emotion) and noise (perception of secondary emotions) in social emotion perception and investigates whether these predict the qu...

We assessed the impact of social context on the judgment of emotional facial expressions as a function of self-construal and decoding rules. German and Greek participants rated spontaneous emotional faces shown either alone or surrounded by other faces with congruent or incongruent facial expressions. Greek participants were higher in interdependen...

Mimicry, the imitation of the nonverbal behaviour of others, serves to establish affiliation and to smoothen social interactions. The present research aimed to disentangle rapid facial reactions (RFRs) to affiliative emotions from RFRs to nonaffiliative emotions from a trait perspective. In line with the Mimicry in Social Context Model by Hess and...

Experiment 3 constitutes the critical test between the semantic misattribution account and the affective misattribution account.

Experiment 3 is the most critical test between the semantic misattribution account and the affective misattribution account.

The present research explores the boundary conditions of the emergence of emotional mimicry with regard to face visibility and social context. For this, we assessed mimicry to covered female faces that revealed only the eye region and to uncovered faces that served as controls. We further manipulated out-group status through the type of face cover....

Is full emotion communication possi-ble when only information from the eye region is available? We assessed both recognition of and mimicry reactions to partially covered faces, which revealed only the eye regions. Results showed that not only can basic emotions be suc-cessfully conveyed, but these expres-sions are also mimicked. A secondary questi...

The Affect Misattribution Procedure (AMP; Payne, Cheng, Govorun, & Stewart, 2005) is an important tool in implicit social cognition research, but little is known about its underlying mechanisms. This paper investigates whether, as the name implies, affect-based processes really underlie the AMP. We used a modified AMP that enabled us to separate th...

This chapter contains two studies aimed to assess the relative influence of semantic and evaluative information of self-concept traits usually considered as attributes in self-concept IATs and SC-IATs on the scores of these implicit measures. The studies extend previous results by Perkins and Forehand (2006) and provide evidence that traditionally...

Three different studies were conducted to examine the impact of heuristic reasoning in the perception of health-related events: lifetime risk of breast cancer (Study 1, n = 468), subjective life expectancy (Study 2, n = 449), and subjective age of onset of menopause (Study 3, n = 448). In each study, three experimental conditions were set up: contr...

This article presents 2 studies aimed at exploring some retirement anxiety predictors including the Big-five personality traits, anxiety, depression, sense of coherence, social support, subjective health, dyadic adjustment, specification and construction of personal goals, subjective age, masculinity, femininity, time of retirement. Participants (N...

Cette recherche présente deux études ayant pour objectif d’explorer quelques prédicteurs de l’anxiété à l’égard de la transition à la retraite, à savoir les cinq facteurs de la personnalité, l’anxiété-trait, l’humeur dépressive, le sentiment de cohérence, le soutien social, la santé subjective, l’ajustement dyadique, le processus de réalisation des...

This research aimed to evaluate the potential of the SC-IAT (Single Category Association Test; Karpinski & Steinman, 2006) in assessing the implicit self-concept of masculinity (M) and femininity (F). The SC-IAT is a promising instrument, showing good reliability and some interesting new features compared to the standard IAT (Implicit Association T...

In order to remedy the limits of self-report measures (self-presentational biases, introspective limits...), several indirect measures have been developed. The Implicit Association Test (IAT, Greenwald, McGhee et Schwartz, 1998) is the one that has concentrated most interest and research: it is flexible enough to measure a broad range of constructs...

This article presents a validation of an adaptation in French of the Reminiscence Functions Scale (RFS). Our sample consisted of 141 elderly subjects. The results led us to conclude that our French version is psychometrically sound. Indeed, the scores proved to be reliable. The construct validity of the RFS scores was provided by their correlation...