Raquel Bertoldo

Aix-Marseille University | AMU · ISS - Intéractions Science Société

The role carbon emissions play in contributing to climate change makes clear the necessity for a global reconsideration of current modes of energy production. In recent years, as concerns over the threats of climate change (CC) have become more acute, four technologies have notably risen to the forefront of academic and public discourse: nuclear po...

Nanotechnologies are becoming a larger presence in everyday life, and are viewed by governments and economic actors as a key area for development. The theory of social representations suggests that specialist views eventually disseminate to shape representations among the public (e.g. Bauer and Gaskell 2008). Yet nanotechnologies remain relatively...

Inconsistency between the expressed support for resource-conservation ideas and behaviours has emphasised the need to develop a better understanding of the psychosocial processes through which formal laws (reified universe) also become informal norms (consensual universe). Experimental paradigms of the sociocognitive approach to social norms are ab...

Scientists overwhelmingly agree that climate change (CC) exists and is caused by human activity. It has been argued that communicating the consensus can counter climate scepticism, given that perceived scientific consensus (PSC) is a major factor predicting public belief that climate change is anthropogenic. However, individuals may hold different...

Modern natural risk management presupposes that once natural risks are understood, the necessary measures will be taken by the locally competent bodies. Field observations, however, show that scientific knowledge encounters locally other sources of environmental knowledge which can present resistance to risk management propositions. This special is...

Quantitative text analysis (BERTopic) on textual responses to an open-ended survey question about climate change in French, German, English, and Norwegian.

Climate change is a hazard that our societies have to deal with collectively and individually, either by mitigating it or by adapting to its consequences. In an interdisciplinary approach, psychology can shed light on the psychosocial processes involved in coping with climate change. With this in mind, we have conducted several studies focusing on...

Despite a need for societal change to resolve environmental problems, social psychology has largely focused research on individual changes. At the same time, new climate movements recently emerged and social psychology has theoretical tools to study their societal impacts. In this review, we study how social psychology has approached environmental...

Settled dust can function as a pollutant sink for compounds, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and metal(loid)s (MMs), which may lead to health issues. Thus, dust represents a hazard specifically for young children, because of their vulnerability and hand-to-mouth behavior favoring dust ingestion. The aim of the present study was to e...

We present a study of emotional reactions to climate change utilizing representative samples from France, Germany, Norway, and the United Kingdom (UK). Drawing on appraisal theories of emotion, we examine relations between appraisals, emotions, and behavioral intentions in the context of climate change. We compare the four countries concerning emot...

Brazil has recently been experiencing a phenomenon of political polarization: a conflict involving political views and social identities. Considering the extent to which this socially constructed conflict has been partially fueled by the media, we propose to use the Social Representations Theory. The present study explores how discourses in the mai...

The public awareness of biodiversity loss is growing; however, citizens still engage in behaviours that are harmful to ecosystems, such as buying products shipped from across the world. Exploring the public’s understanding of biodiversity loss is fundamental to promoting behavioural change. To this purpose, we carried out two studies to test whethe...

Industries sometimes leaves invisible yet dangerous chemical memories of their activities. Because these compounds are invisible, people rely on heuristics informed in part by people-place relations to make a risk judgement. The Marseille region of France provides an interesting case to analyse how local risks are judged in relation to people-place...

In order to mitigate the potentially dramatic effects of natural hazards, risk management measures are critical. However, the lack of interdisciplinary indicators and adaptable governance frameworks highlights society's vulnerability in the particular context of global environmental and climate change. This interdisciplinary research aimed at ident...

As coastal floods will grow stronger due to climate change, coastal communities' capacity to perceive, understand and adapt to an evolving environment must be assessed. This study explores how inhabitants of two Mediterranean French cities, Fréjus and Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône (PSLR), understand and prepare for coastal flood risk. A constructivist...

Storm Xynthia (2010) brought to the fore marine submersion as a great concern to French authorities and communities. This storm illustrates how a single major event can have long lasting effects on climate risk management. To discern this effect, we conduct two studies analysing the emergence and evolution of concerns related to marine submersion i...

Risk management is used in societies to mitigate the potentially dramatic effects of natural hazards. Local authorities and managers use different indicators in elaborating rescue and urbanism plans, which are not always efficient in reducing impact in the time of the crisis. This highlights society’s vulnerability in the particular context of glob...

Energy systems across the world must undergo a fundamental transformation towards the use of low-carbon energy sources and technologies in order to reduce global CO2 emissions. While nuclear energy has historically been highly controversial, especially among people concerned about the environment, some voices have begun to suggest that nuclear ener...

Drawing upon a socio-constructivist perspective, this paper aims to gain insight into how two communities in the Italian Apennines region - differentially exposed to severe earthquakes in the past - remember, understand and plan for seismic phenomena. Avezzano was completely devastated in 1915, while the last significant event in Sulmona dates to 1...

Climate change forces coastal communities exposed to floods to involve residents more actively in risk prevention, notably through official communication including behavioral recommendations. In order to improve prevention impact, this study aims to understand how inhabitants deal with this official information and integrate it into their relation...

In a comment on our manuscript recently published in this journal [1], Salhi (2020) raises concerns about the manuscript and the study on which it was based, concluding that ‘the article provides a distorted picture of the reality in the study area’. The points raised by the comment are mainly dealing with the literature review and methodological i...

Wetlands are severely endangered ecosystems worldwide. They provide important services, like water supply, recreation opportunities, flood and climate regulation. Still, they are also considered as disruptive areas, a source of mosquitoes and diseases, which is why they are frequently destroyed by changes in land use. Their degradation is likely to...

Nous observons actuellement une accélération du changement climatique (CC), causée par l'activité humaine liée aux systèmes économique et politique. En France, 73% de la population et 79% des élus admettent l'impact de l'activité humaine sur le CC (ADEME, 2019). Pour autant, la mise en place de politiques environnementales à la hauteur des enjeux f...

North Morocco (region Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima) is characterized by high demographic and economic pressures, which intensify the vulnerability of the coastal areas. Morocco lies both along the Atlantic and the Mediterranean coast, having a rich relief of mountain chains (Atlas and Rif). This diverse context induces the challenge of adapting to en...

Local communities have perfected their knowledge about their environments for generations. Considering modern management dynamics and the changing characteristics of their immediate environments, local communities must trust the authorities’ management of these risks. However, different types of risks expose these communities. This article proposes...

Local communities have perfectioned their knowledge about their environments for generations. Considering modern management dynamics and the changing characteristics of their immediate environments, local communities must trust the management of these risks to authorities. However different types of risks expose these communities. This article prop...

Chercheurs et spécialistes des laboratoires publics et privés se sont mobilisés pour centraliser et synthétiser, dans ce nouveau cahier, les effets du changement climatique sur la santé en région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur et proposer des actions pour en limiter les conséquences. Pour citation : Les cahiers du GREC-SUD édités par l’Association pou...

Scientists overwhelmingly agree that climate change (CC) exists and is caused by human activity. It has been argued that communicating the consensus can counter climate scepticism, given that perceived scientific consensus (PSC) is a major factor predicting public belief that climate change is anthropogenic. However, individuals may hold different...

Todos os dias, nos mais variados veículos de comunicação, jornais, revistas e internet, veiculam informações sobre sismos, alagamentos, secas ou deslizamentos de terras, que demonstram o quanto os indivíduos estão vulneráveis a esses perigos. Mas eles não estão somente vulneráveis aos riscos naturais e tecnológicos, uma vez que os indivíduos estão...

While the Mediterranean coast is exposed to natural phenomena of erosion or submersion, climate change threatens to accentuate and to increase coastal vulnerability. This situation holds the challenge to make the appropriate choices in order to manage environmental risks within a time perspective. Through a multidisciplinary approach, we present a...

As a field for the expression of broader cultural ideologies, health practices are also submitted to social regulations that are legitimized through widely valued and shared standards actualized in mundane judgements. This article proposes to analyse how cultural ideologies, here operationalized as social norms, can influence judgments of health st...

The present study examined the relationships between place attachment, perceived and actual knowledge of safety measures, trust in the authorities, and satisfaction with information delivery among a sample of residents living in a high-risk place. Research on risk perception describes paradoxical effects of place attachment which, on the one hand,...

Face aux menaces du changement climatique, les pouvoirs publics visent l'objectif d'une société énergétiquement plus sobre. La numérisation de la consommation d'électricité s'accompagne de l'espoir d'une plus grande efficacité, notamment grâce à une meilleure prise de conscience par l'usager de ses choix et comportements. Au sein de ce dispositif,...

The sociocognitive approach to social norms and the social representations approach are two important currents of the French social psychology. Despite sharing important epistemological similarities, these two approaches have less often been simultaneously used and have therefore evolved independently. Considering the importance of comparing the co...

Recently, the normativity of the Future Time Perspective construct (FTP) has been demonstrated in a French context. In this article, we intend to address the normativity of FTP in other European countries experiencing the crisis and facing important uncertainties regarding their future. The present research aims to replicate and extend this socioco...

Formal norms, or laws, have constituted important instrument for promoting the changes required for more sustainable societies. However, these pro-environmental formal norms only acquire meaning and social value gradually, in the course of social debate. So as to contribute for the understanding of this process, this work explored the social valori...

One of the ways to tackle the current environmental crisis is by trying to change beliefs and behaviors through the issuance of new laws. But laws and formal norms only become effective once they are also informally valued. This paper aims at determining whether law-regulated pro-environmental beliefs and behaviors (a) have acquired social value in...

The main objective of the VULSACO (VULnerability of SAndy COasts to climate change and anthropic pressure) project was to investigate present day and potential future vulnerability of sandy coasts at the 2030 horizon, i.e. on a time scale related to climate variability. The method, based on a multidisciplinary approach bringing together geologists,...

The theory of social representations has seen a significant evolution and dissemination throughout Brazil. This development has not been without practical implications outside academia, and its particular effects can be observed in social and political spheres as well. It is within this context, one of introduction and expansion of the theory in Br...

Being carbon emitting human activities at the origin of climate change, in order to attenuate this phenomenon our society would have change its behavior in what regards the environment. Another central issue is the individual implication with climate change, which is currently secondary in relation to other current issues. The aim of this study is...

La culture de consommation actuelle dans laquelle l’apparence du corps joue un rôle essentiel, impose les modèles de minceur et de jeunesse véhiculés par les medias. En regard de ces standards le vieillissement représente une perte, particulièrement pour les femmes. Cette étude a pour objectif d’appréhender la dynamique des comparaisons sociales me...

Selon les spécialistes, les activités humaines donneraient lieu aux émissions de carbone à l’’origine du changement climatique, de sorte que l’’atténuation du phénomène passe par un changement comportemental de notre société vis-à-vis de l’’environnement. L’’augmentation de l’’implication individuelle avec le changement climatique est ainsi central...

As part of the ANR VULSACO project (VULnerability of SAndy COast to climate change and anthropic pressure), a specific methodology including a 2030 scenario of a major storm event, a workshop and social representations analysis, is developped and applied to better understand the role played by stake holders in aggravating or reducing the vulnerabil...

Informing communities who live in the vicinity of dangerous industries has become an established principle of risk policy and management, as demonstrated, for instance, by the EU Seveso Directive and the US ‘Right to Know’ Act. The under- lying postulate is that populations will be better off in accident situations if they are informed beforehand....

The study aimed the investigation of the social representations of AIDS among adolescents, as well as their estimations of other adolescents’ representations. The data were gathered from two opened questions: 1) “What do you think of AIDS?” and 2) “What do you think youngsters your age think of AIDS?”, analyzed by the software ALCESTE. 261 high sch...

O presente estudo investigou as representações sociais da AIDS de adolescentes assim como suas estimações sobre as representações dos outros adolescentes. Os dados foram coletados a partir de duas questões abertas: 1) “O que você pensa sobre a AIDS?” e 2) “O que você acha que os jovens da sua idade pensam sobre a AIDS?”, analisadas pelo programa AL...

O aumento do número de pessoas com transtornos ligados à imagem corporal destacou o assunto nos âmbitos científico e midiático. Neste sentido, objetivou-se investigar a relação entre representações sociais e imagem corporal entre estudantes de diferentes cursos universitários. Participaram 278 acadêmicas dos cursos de Psicologia, Educação Física e...

The increasement of people with body image disorders highlighted the issue both in science and in the media. This study's goal was to search the relation between social representations and body image among female university students from different courses. The participants were 278 students from the Psychology, Physical Education and Fashion course...

RESUMO: O presente estudo teve como objetivo investigar as representações sociais do corpo veiculadas pela mídia impressa em revistas de circulação nacional. Trata-se de uma pesquisa documental de caráter exploratório-descritiva, na qual foram contemplados todos os números das revistas Boa Forma, Estilo e Saúde entre 2005 e 2006, totalizando 88 art...

This study aims at investigating the social representations of the body in three Brazilian magazines. It is a document-based research, comprising the magazines Boa Forma, Estilo and Saúde, published between 2005 and 2006, covering a total of 88 articles. The magazine sections were divided into two corpus, regarding the topics of beauty and health....

O objetivo do estudo foi medir e comparar o impacto sobre o conhecimento científico dos alunos que visualizaram diferentes tipos de vídeo documentário sobre o HIV/Aids – um com abordagem mais científica e outro mais popularizada. Participaram 141 alunos do ensino médio de Florianópolis, divididos em 3 grupos: controle (sem a visualização de vídeo),...

O objetivo do estudo foi medir e comparar o impacto sobre o conhecimento científico dos alunos que visualizaram diferentes tipos de vídeo documentário sobre o HIV/Aids – um com abordagem mais científica e outro mais popularizada. Participaram 141 alunos do ensino médio de Florianópolis, divididos em 3 grupos: controle (sem a visualização de vídeo),...

The study aimed to measure and to compare the impact on scientific knowledge of students visualizing different kinds of documentary videos about HIV/Aids – one with a more scientific approach and another with a more popularized one. One hundred and forty one (141) high school students from the city of Florianópolis participated in the study. They w...

Os objetivos deste trabalho são diagnosticar a estrutura da representação social da aids de adolescentes, e examinar a relação desta representação com o conhecimento científico sobre a aids. Participaram 262 estudantes do ensino médio da rede pública de Florianópolis. Utilizou-se um questionário auto-aplicado, um teste de evocação livre e um teste...

The goals of this study were to diagnose the structure of adolescents' social representation about aids and to examine the relationship of that representation with students' scientific knowledge about aids. A total of 262 students from a public high school in Florianópolis (Brazil) took part in the study. A self-applied questionnaire, and a scienti...

Os relacionamentos íntimos, dentre eles o namoro, pressupõem a existência de identidades e representações sociais, que são compartilhadas através de comportamentos, normas e valores sociais. Objetivou-se identificar a representação social e a particularização em função da identidade sexual e experiência com o namoro. Para tal, a amostra foi compost...

Os adolescentes fazem parte de uma população vulnerável à Síndrome da Imunodeficiência Adquirida, pois demandam emancipação, o que implica riscos. O presente estudo compara adolescentes de meios socioculturais distintos (escola pública - diurno e noturno - e privada) quanto ao conhecimento, comunicação, risco sobre a Síndrome da Imunodeficiência Ad...

RESUMO Os autores analisaram 94 casos de suicídios, ocorridos na Grande Florianópolis, no período de 2000 à 2003. Os resultados apontaram características quantitativas individuais quanto: ao instrumento utilizado, idade, sexo e estado civil. Além daqueles números individuais, os itens foram correlacionados entre si, de forma que, houve característi...