Rémi Thériault

University of Quebec in Montreal | UQAM · Department of Psychology

Les pratiques contemplatives, telles que la présence attentive ou la méditation d’amour-bienveillant, sont de plus en plus populaires dans la société occidentale. De nombreux bienfaits, notamment interpersonnels et sociaux, sont attribués à ces pratiques dans des traditions millénaires, notamment bouddhistes. L’objectif de cette thèse est de clarif...

Beyond the challenge of keeping up to date with current best practices regarding the diagnosis and treatment of outliers, an additional difficulty arises concerning the mathematical implementation of the recommended methods. Here, we provide an overview of current recommendations and best practices and demonstrate how they can easily and convenient...

Introduction This study explores the impact of preferential inclusion on fulfilling basic needs following ambiguous or positive social feedback, considering the moderating effect of social anxiety. Methods Participants (N = 438) received either positive or ambiguous social feedback and engaged in a social participation or preferential social inclu...

Objectives Previous research shows that a novel experimental paradigm consisting of implicitly activating (“priming”) concepts associated with mindfulness through a scrambled sentence task yields positive social effects on cognition and affect. Yet, the effects of this paradigm on social behaviour warrant further investigation. As several studies l...

Beyond the challenge of keeping up-to-date with current best practices regarding the diagnosis and treatment of outliers, an additional difficulty arises concerning the mathematical implementation of the recommended methods. Here, we provide an overview of current recommendations and best practices and demonstrate how they can easily and convenient...

La crise de réplication scientifique que le domaine de la psychologie traverse en ce moment remet en question la réputation de notre discipline et notre confiance dans une majorité de recherches passées et présentes. La communauté scientifique identifie deux causes principales à la crise de réplication en psychologie : les pratiques de recherche qu...

Objectives. A novel experimental paradigm consisting of priming concepts associated with mindfulness has been shown to have some positive social effects. Still, its potential effects on other social behaviours—especially toward others—warrant further investigation. One possible effect is on aggression, as mindfulness negatively relates to aggressi...

Objectives. Previous research shows that a novel experimental paradigm consisting of implicitly activating (“priming”) concepts associated with mindfulness through a scrambled sentence task yields positive social effects on cognition and affect. Yet, its effects on social behaviour warrant further investigation. As several studies link mindfulness...

In both theoretical and applied research, it is often of interest to assess the strength of an observed association. Existing guidelines also frequently recommend going beyond null-hypothesis significance testing and reporting effect sizes and their confidence intervals. As such, measures of effect sizes are increasingly reported, valued, and under...

Résumé Introduction Les recherches en psychologie positive suggèrent que certaines pratiques en psychothérapie engendrent des bénéfices cliniques importants, mais il n’est pas toujours clair pour les cliniciens quelles pratiques prioriser ou bien encore comment les intégrer en psychothérapie. Objectif Cette recherche vise à identifier et explique...

Semantic priming has been studied for nearly 50 years across various experimental manipulations and theoretical frameworks. These studies provide insight into the cognitive underpinnings of semantic representations in both healthy and clinical populations; however, they have suffered from several issues including generally low sample sizes and a la...

PDF print of the Github readme featuring the different functions of the rempsyc R package.

Objective. The current study examines the effects of preferential inclusion on fulfilling fundamental needs after having received ambiguous or positive social feedback and investigates how social insecurity moderates this effect. Method. 438 participants (58.7% women, mean age 39) either received positive or ambiguous social feedback, then particip...

The Rubber Hand Illusion (RHI) creates distortions of body ownership through multimodal integration of somatosensory and visual inputs. This illusion largely rests on bottom-up (automatic multisensory and perceptual integration) mechanisms. However, the relative contribution from top-down factors, such as controlled processes involving attentional...

Background The literature suggests that loving-kindness meditation leads to greater personal and interpersonal well-being, but we do not know whether it affects aggressivity and if it persists through cognitive fatigue (i.e., ego-depletion). Hypotheses/Research Questions We ask: (a) Which of loving-kindness meditation, reflection, or waitlist grou...

Background: The link between aggressivity, prosocial behavior, and subjective fatigue remains unclear. We believe that: (a) compassion, helping intentions and donating behavior should all be lower when aggressiveness (trait, explicit, and implicit variants) is higher; and (b) subjective fatigue should moderate the relationships between these variab...

Perspective-taking, whether through imagination or virtual-reality interventions, seems to improve intergroup relations; however, what intervention leads to better outcomes remains unclear. This pre-registered study collected measures of empathy and race bias from 90 participants, split into one of three perspective-taking groups: embodied perspect...

Problématique. Le lien entre les attitudes et les comportements prosociaux n’est pas clair, spécialement sous une condition de fatigue cognitive. Méthodologie. 287 participants ont complété des questionnaires de trait d’agressivité, d’agressivité explicite et d’agressivité implicite. Nous avons manipulé la fatigue cognitive via une tâche Stroop : l...

The self has fascinated scholars for centuries. Although theory suggests that the self-concept (cognitive self-understanding) and bodily self (pre-reflective awareness of one’s body) are related, little work has examined this notion. To this end, in Study 1, participants reported on self-concept clarity (SCC) and completed the rubber hand illusion...

Background: Bronchial challenge testing (BCT) measures airway hyperresponsiveness; asthma guidelines recommend using BCT when symptoms manifest despite normal spirometry. Improper application of these guidelines commonly results in the misdiagnosis of asthma. Yet, statistics concerning BCT remain largely obscure. The current paper addresses this g...

Identifying what makes some people respond well to placebos remains a major challenge. Here, we attempt to replicate an earlier study in which we found a relationship between hypnotic suggestibility and subjective ratings of relaxation following the ingestion of a placebo sedative (Sheiner, Lifshitz, & Raz, 2016). To assess the reliability of this...