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Introduction
Broadly speaking, I am interested in how self-regulatory processes, such as self-control or emotion regulation, moderate social cognition. One of my objectives is to use social cognition theory to create cognitive remediation procedures and prevention programs targeting addictive behaviours. I am also interested in the psychology of politically motivated behaviour and developing integrative theoretical models of processes studied in social cognition through the neurophysiology of stress.
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September 2022 - present
Université de Rouen Normandie
Position
- Professor (Full)
September 2016 - August 2022
September 2012 - December 2015
Education
November 2019 - November 2019
September 2012 - December 2015
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Publications (127)
Background:
Experimental studies investigating the impact of advertising with ecological stimuli on alcohol-related cognition are scarce. This research investigated the cognitive processes involved in learning implicit attitudes toward alcohol after incidental exposure to alcohol advertisements presented in a dynamic context. We hypothesized that...
Right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO) both predict generalized prejudice, dehumanization, intergroup discrimination, oppression, and violence, right-wing political party preference and generally punitive attitudes. Authoritarian attitudes have been theorized to involve maladaptive emotional, cognitive and social s...
Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM) refers to a family of interventions targeting substance-related cognitive biases, which have been found to play a role in the maintenance of addictive behaviors. In this study, we conducted a Bayesian meta-analysis of individual patient data from studies investigating the effects of CBM as a behavior change interve...
Since implicit attitudes (i.e. evaluations occurring outside of complete awareness) are highly predictive of alcohol consumption, we tested an evaluative learning procedure based on repeated pairing to a critical stimulus (i.e. alcohol, the CS) with a valenced stimulus (the US) in order to modify implicit attitudes (i.e. evaluative conditioning; EC...
Organic certification identifies food produced with more sustainable product methods. However, several studies
have pointed out that it is also likely to generate a halo effect on the caloric estimation of food. As a result,
unhealthy foods are perceived as containing fewer calories and may lead to increased consumption intentions.
The aim of this...
Literature shows that intolerance of uncertainty can negatively affect the medical decision-making process of healthcare professionals. However, there are no tools for measuring intolerance of uncertainty in French, so this study aimed to validate the Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale-12 (IUS- 12) in French, and a version of the IUS-12 adapted for h...
Background: Virtual reality (VR) has emerged as a promising tool in health promotion and prevention psychology. Its ability to create immersive, engaging, and standardized environments offers unique opportunities for interventions and assessments. However, the scope of VR applications in this field remains unclear. Objectives: This scoping review a...
Objectives
Anti-tobacco campaigns often suffer from a lack of systematic evaluation and may not always have the intended impact on the target population. Our research adopted immersive virtual reality (iVR) to systematically evaluate preventive anti-tobacco messages in a controlled setting while mimicking a naturalistic and ecological environment....
Background: Burnout is an occupational phenomenon that arises from the unsuccessful management of chronic job stress. Accurate measures of burnout are vital for the implementation of effective interventions. However, existing tools, such as the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and the Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI), have demonstrated variability...
The medical environment is prone to diagnostic errors, which can have serious consequences for patients' health status. However, healthcare professionals (HCPs) are often overconfident in their choices. In this context, there is a growing interest in the influence of variables that may negatively influence the reasoning of HCPs, namely intolerance...
The organic certification is one of the labels associating food with a more sustainable method of cultivation. Several studies pointed out that it is also likely to generate a halo effect on food’s caloric estimation. As a result, unhealthy foods are perceived as containing fewer calories and receive more consumption intentions. The aim of this pap...
Introduction
The Avenir Santé Association implemented a comprehensive prevention program targeting the consumption of the emerging psychoactive substances ecstasy (MDMA), cannabidiol (CBD), and nitrous oxide (N2O).
Methods
The program was evaluated through four actions: (i) training for association workers (n = 84) (ii) on-site student party inter...
Background: M-health applications can facilitate access to effective treatment and therapeutic information services. However, it remains to be seen what the real use of mobile applications for smoking cessation in ecological contexts and their potential impact would be. Objective: In an ecological context, this study aims to estimate the engagement...
Background
Health prevention campaigns often face challenges in reaching their target audience and achieving the desired impact on health behaviors. These campaigns, particularly those aimed at reducing tobacco use, require rigorous evaluation methods to assess their effectiveness.
Objective
This study aims to use immersive virtual reality (iVR) t...
This chapter delves into the critical role of implicit associations in addiction, focusing on their influence on the development, persistence, and relapse of addictive behaviors. We explore various methods for measuring these associations, with a particular emphasis on the Implicit Association Test (IAT), and evaluate its efficacy and limitations....
COVID-19 pandemic caused several lockdowns in most countries, enclosing together perpetrators and victims of intimate partner violence (IPV). Our study investigates psychological mechanisms associated with IPV. We supposed that stress provoked by the pandemic, as well as adhering to authoritarian beliefs will be a predictor of IPV. Using an online...
COVID-19 pandemic caused several lockdowns in most countries, enclosing together perpetrators and victims of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). Our study investigates psychological mechanisms associated with IPV. We supposed that stress provoked by the pandemic, as well as adhering to authoritarian beliefs will be a predictor of IPV. Using an online...
The medical environment is prone to diagnostic errors, which can have serious consequences for patients' health status. However, healthcare professionals (HCPs) are often overconfident in their choices. In this context, there is a growing interest in the influence of variables that may negatively influence the reasoning of HCPs, namely intolerance...
Over the last few years, gambling has diversified, particularly with the arrival of legislation authorizing online gambling in 2010 in France. Psychology has been very interested in emotional regulation strategies, and more recently and more sparsely in the presence of shame and guilt. Through an observational study (N = 1955) shame, guilt, and emo...
BACKGROUND
Mobile health apps can facilitate access to effective treatment and therapeutic information services. However, the real-world effectiveness of mobile applications for smoking cessation and their potential impact in everyday settings remain unclear.
OBJECTIVE
In an ecological context, this study aims to estimate the engagement rate of a...
Background
Virtual reality (VR) has emerged as a promising tool in health promotion and prevention psychology. Its ability to create immersive, engaging, and standardized environments offers unique opportunities for interventions and assessments. However, the scope of VR applications in this field remains unclear.
Objective
This scoping review aim...
BACKGROUND
Background: Health prevention campaigns often face challenges in reaching their target audience and achieving the desired impact on health behaviors. These campaigns, particularly those aimed at reducing tobacco use, require rigorous evaluation methods to assess their effectiveness.
OBJECTIVE
Objective: This study aims to use immersive...
Evaluative conditioning (EC) appears when a neutral conditioned stimulus (CS) is repeatedly paired with a positive or negative unconditioned stimulus (US). Most studies on EC have focused on the influence of procedural factors (e.g., number of presentations) and awareness, while emotional factors have been understudied. However, literature shows th...
Literature shows that intolerance of uncertainty can negatively affect health professionals' medical decision-making process. However, there is no intolerance of uncertainty measurement tools in French, so this study aimed at validating the Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale-12 (IUS-12) in French, and a version of the IUS-12 adapted for healthcare pr...
This scale is designed to measure intolerance of uncertainty in the general population
This scale is designed to measure healthcare professionals' intolerance of uncertainty when caring for patients.
This scale is designed to measure healthcare professionals' intolerance of uncertainty when caring for patients.
Existing studies do not provide consistent results regarding the role of alcohol intoxication on sentencing, and little is known about the specificity of sentencing by judges when compared to the general population. In this study, we experimentally investigated the influence of the level of alcohol intoxication on the sentence given to a defendant...
Introduction
The way we interact with our environment depends on our spontaneous tendency to approach or to avoid emotional experiences triggered by that environment. This dimension of the emotional experience is called the need for affect, that is, the tendency of individuals to adopt approaching or avoidance behaviour with regard to emotional sti...
Background:
Recently, workers employed in vaccination points around the world have been subjected to very high workloads to counter the progress of the COVID-19 epidemic. This workload has a negative effect on their well-being. Environmental psychology studies have shown how the physical characteristics of the workplace environment can influence e...
The COVID-19 pandemic illustrated that intolerance of uncertainty (IU) can hinder problem-solving and lead to avoidance of ambiguous situations. Furthermore, people tend to lack confidence in decisions made in ambiguous contexts. We wanted to investigate the impact of IU on intentions to get vaccinated, to vaccinate one’s children, and to recommend...
Although appearance comparison has emerged as an important mechanism underlying the detrimental effects of exposure to idealized social media images on body image among young women, little is known regarding the role of the direction of these comparisons. In addition, to date, little attention has been paid to the role of self-regulation processes...
Entre information, communication, divertissements et conditionnements, l’exposition aux écrans semblent produire une influence sur le développement des enfants et des adolescents. Mais, plus que l’exposition, facilitée par la démocratisation des technologies numériques et la diversification des supports (tablettes, smartphones, ordinateurs, montres...
RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: Clinical reasoning is currently extensively studied to find out how to make proper diagnoses. Literature indicates that intolerance of uncertainty (IU) may have a strong negative impact on clinical reasoning. We summarize the various consequences of IU on clinical reasoning.
Methods:
A scoping review was conducted...
People across the world and throughout history have gone to great lengths to enhance their physical appearance. Evolutionary psychologists and ethologists have largely attempted to explain this phenomenon via mating preferences and strategies. Here, we test one of the most popular evolutionary hypotheses for beauty-enhancing behaviors, drawn from m...
People across the world and throughout history have gone to great lengths to enhance their physical appearance. Evolutionary psychologists and ethologists have largely attempted to explain this phenomenon via mating preferences and strategies. Here, we test one of the most popular evolutionary hypotheses for beauty-enhancing behaviors, drawn from m...
Background: Literature shows that intolerance of uncertainty can have negative effects on the diagnostic process of health professionals. However, there is no intolerance of uncertainty measurement tools in French, so this study aimed at validating the Intolerance ofUncertainty Scale-12 (IUS-12) in French, and a version of the IUS-12 adapted for he...
Background: Clinical reasoning, which refers to the application of critical thinking in themedical field, is currently extensively studied in order to find out how to make properdiagnoses. Literature indicates that Intolerance of uncertainty (IU) may have a strong impacton clinical reasoning, and this review aims at summarizing the various conseque...
Mistrust in COVID-19 vaccines may hinder vaccination campaigns. We looked at cognitive determinants of vaccination intentions against COVID-19. We were interested in (i) the effects of stress and (ii) the effects of self-protection systems on attitudes and intentions to get COVID-19 vaccines. We conducted an online observational pilot study with 20...
People across the world and throughout history have gone to great lengths to enhance their physical appearance. Evolutionary psychologists and ethologists have largely attempted to explain this phenomenon via mating preferences and strategies. Here, we test one of the most popular evolutionary hypotheses for beauty-enhancing behaviors, drawn from m...
The issues surrounding women's awareness of their gender identity have become increasingly central in recent years. Surprisingly there is little data on the importance of identifying with the feminist movement in marketing. It is particularly interesting when one considers that body image and objectification of female bodies, particularly related t...
Background:Distrust of COVID-19 vaccines may hampervaccination campaigns. Wefocused on the cognitive determinants of intentions to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Wewere interested in (i) the effects of stress, and (ii) the effects of self-protection systems onattitudes and intentions to get vaccinated with a COVID-19 vaccine.Methods:We conducted...
Context
The recent development of “serious games” has produced encouraging results in maintaining adherence to health-related interventions. In alcohol research, several studies have shown that computerized training on attentional bias decreases alcohol consumption bias among students. However, these highly controlled experimental situations, do no...
Lack of sleep is common in adolescence, and represents an important threat to adolescents’ well-being, academic commitment, and general health. It also has significant behavioral consequences through an increased likelihood of interpersonal violence. Previous studies have demonstrated an association between aggressive behavior and lack of sleep, bu...
Introduction : The way we interact with our environment depends on our spontaneous
tendency to approach or to avoid emotional experiences triggered by that environment.
This dimension of the emotional experience is called the need for affect , that is, the
tendency of individuals to adopt approaching or avoidance behaviour with regard to
emotional...
Background: Few studies on problematic gamblers have focused on how environment and personality interact in gambling behavior. The aim of this research is to investigate how social support, dimensions of personality, and advertising campaigns are associated with gambling among problematic or moderate-risk gamblers and recreational gamblers and asso...
Despite the massive distribution of different vaccines globally, the current pandemic has revealed the crucial need for an efficient treatment against COVID-19. Meta-analyses have historically been extremely useful to determine treatment efficacy but recent debates about the use of hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19 patients resulted in contradictory...
Les étudiants sont en première ligne des victimes psychologiques
de la crise sanitaire mondiale. Cette population particulièrement sensible au stress, est aussi sujette à développer des addictions aux substances ou des addictions comportementales, notamment sur le plan alimentaire ; difficultés qui pourraient être aggravées par le confinement et le...
We explored (i) whether narratives can influence viewers’ evaluations towards alcohol through evaluative learning and (ii) compared predictions from dual-process and single-process models of evaluative learning.
In study 1, participants had to read vignettes, while they were exposed to TV show excerpts in study 2. Both studies (nstudy1 = 147; nstud...
Le concept de l’alimentation émotionnelle peut se définir comme une modulation de la
consommation alimentaire en réponse à un ressenti émotionnel et non à la sensation physiologique de faim (Ballon et al., 2015). Les émotions positives, au même titre que les émotions négatives peuvent influencer la prise alimentaire et constituent un facteur de ris...
Background. Evolutionary theory-driven alcohol prevention programs for adolescents are lacking. This study introduced a binge drinking impression formation paradigm to test whether emphasizing sexual dysfunction induced by alcohol abuse lowers positive attitudes and expectancies related to binge drinking when compared with cognitive or long-term he...
Background. Evolutionary theory-driven alcohol prevention programs for adolescents are lacking. This study introduced a binge drinking impression formation paradigm to test whether emphasizing sexual dysfunction induced by alcohol abuse lowers positive attitudes and expectan-cies related to binge drinking when compared with cognitive or long-term h...
We explored (i) whether narratives can influence viewers’ attitudes towards alcohol through evaluative learning and (ii) compared predictions from dual-process and single-process models of evaluative learning.
In study 1, participants had to read vignettes, while they were exposed to TV show excerpts in study 2. Both studies (nstudy1 = 147; nstudy2...
Contexte et objectifs : de nombreuses études scientifiques se sont focalisées sur les profils psychologiques et les motivations à jouer des joueurs ayant un usage problématique et excessif des jeux vidéo. Pourtant, ce sous-ensemble de joueurs n’est pas représentatif de la communauté des « gamers ». La présente étude vise à explorer les profils de p...
The COVIDiSTRESS global survey collects data on early human responses to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic from 173 429 respondents in 48 countries. The open science study was co-designed by an international consortium of researchers to investigate how psychological responses differ across countries and cultures, and how this has impacted behaviour, copin...
Across two experimental studies, we investigated the short-term effect of video games with sexist content (i.e,. representing women as sexual objects and men as hyper-masculine) on women’s objectification . We examine whether identifying with a masculine character who objectified women can increase implicit association of self with masculinity, whi...
Background: This study evaluated factors linked with perceived stress related to the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown and addictive behaviors prior to and during lockdown in a sample of students who indicated engaging in alcohol consumption behaviors before lockdown.
Methods: Cross-sectional study. French students from four universities participated...
The COVIDiSTRESS global survey collects data on early human responses to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic from 173 429 respondents in 48 countries. The open science study was co-designed by an international consortium of researchers to investigate how psychological responses differ across countries and cultures, and how this has impacted behaviour, copin...
Prior studies have mainly focused on the controversial issue of whether violent video games lead to aggressive behavior in real life. However, data regarding antisocial behavior while playing online are still scarce. In this study, we examined the relationship between toxicity (a form of verbal aggressive behavior directed against other players) in...
Prior studies have mainly focused on the controversial issue of whether violent video games lead to aggressive behavior in real life. However, data regarding aggressive behavior while playing online is still scarce. In this study, we examined the relationship between aggressive behaviors in multiplayer online video games and several predictors such...
Context and objectives: Numerous scientific studies have focused on the psychological profiles and motivations to play of video gamers with problematic or excessive use of video games. However, this subset of gamers is not representative of the gaming community. The present study aims at exploring the personality profiles of gamers in non-clinic po...
Background and aims. Since mid-March 2020, over 3 billion people have been confined
as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Problematic eating behaviors are likely to be
impacted by the pandemic through multiple pathways. This study examined the
relationships between stress related to lockdown measures and binge eating and dietary
restriction in a po...
There is an active debate regarding whether the ego depletion effect is real. A recent preregistered experiment with the Stroop task as the depleting task and the antisaccade task as the outcome task found a medium-level effect size. In the current research, we conducted a preregistered multilab replication of that experiment. Data from 12 labs acr...
Little experimental researches have investigated how alcohol portrayal influences alcohol-related cognitions that could lead to long-term alcohol consumption. We identified two potential cognitive processes by which alcohol portrayals could lead to increased change in alcohol consumption: changes in implicit attitudes and association between the ac...
We investigated the cognitive mechanisms underlying change in implicit cognitions following exposure to alcohol portrayals. More precisely, we tested in an experimental study whether this change depends on controlled or automatic processes by putting participants in a state of self-regulatory fatigue prior to being exposed to alcohol portrayals. Ni...
Gambling advertising has become ubiquitous in westernised countries in the last two decades, yet there is little understanding of the relationship between exposure to gambling advertising and gambling attitudes, intentions and behaviour. We conduct a critical and meta-analytic review of the past two decades of empirical research. The research sugge...
Aims. Cognitive Bias Modification (CBM) training has been considered a promising and effective intervention tool for reducing cognitive biases toward alcohol (Boffo et al., 2019). However, the link between the cognitive process and actual behaviour remains statistically insignificant because computerized tasks do not have sufficient ecological vali...
Résumé du symposium :
Une compréhension approfondie des perceptions sociales est nécessaire afin d'orienter et accompagner au mieux les pratiques de prévention luttant contre la discrimination. Depuis plusieurs années, de nouvelles mesures dites implicites ont été développées afin de pallier les limites des mesures explicites (i.e., directe) de la...
Literature shows that women adhere to sexism as a belief in a just world that allow them to justify their place in social hierarchy. We hypothesize that adherence to certain ideological beliefs (i.e., ambivalent sexism) may be explained by heart rate variability (HRV), which is the ability for an organism to be flexible and adaptative, in a heart r...
Specific attributes of a food product can cause it to be spontaneously but wrongly perceived as healthier than it really is (i.e., the health halo effect). Notably, there is preliminary evidence that individuals evaluate organic food as less caloric than regular, non-organic food. However, explanations regarding the cognitive mechanisms underlying...
Need for uniqueness represents the need for people to feel different and distinguish themselves from others. Two major scales exist that measure this need: the Need for Uniqueness scale (NfU; Snyder & Fromkin, 1977) and the Self-Attributed Need for Uniqueness scale (SANU; Lynn & Harris, 1997). We propose here a French version of both scales. Throug...
Background and Objectives: To which extent is a perpetrator responsible for an offense when he has (or not) consumed alcohol remains subject to conflicting results. Methods: In this study, participants (n=162) were randomly asked to sentence a perpetrator for an assault in a nightclub (mild) and spousal violence (severe). In each case, the perpetra...
Background: We tested whether incidental exposure to alcohol marketing messages in sporting events (i) influenced automatic evaluation of brands and alcohol in general and (ii) if these processes occur through deliberative (conscious) or nonconscious processes. Methods: Using an experimental design, participants watched a sport event containing (i)...
Background and Objectives: Addictive behaviors are influenced both by impulsive processes headed toward consumption, and by higher-order, reflective, control-oriented processes. Our objective here was to (i) change automatically-activated action tendencies and explicit attitudes toward alcohol and softdrinks, as well as fat and healthy food through...
There is an active debate regarding whether the ego depletion effect is real. A recent pre-registered experiment with the Stroop task as the depleting task and the antisaccade task as the outcome task found a medium level effect size. In the current research, we pre-registered a multi-lab collaborating project to replicate that experiment. Data fro...
We aimed to contrast implicit and explicit measures of attitudes towards complementary and alternative medicines, to determine which best predicts medicine adherence. 117 participants from University Grenoble Alpes completed online measures of attitudes towards complementary and alternative medicines, including implicit measures (Affect Misattribut...
Regulatory focus (Higgins, 1997) and self-determination (Deci & Ryan, 2000) are two motivation theories widely applied in health intervention research but never conjointly, despite sharing a number of theoretical similarities. In three studies (N = 578), we investigated how university students’ self-determination motives to act upon their nutrition...
