Publications HAL

The induced-hypocrisy paradigm combines two steps - promoting a social norm and recalling past transgressions - leading individuals to adopt more norm-consistent behavior (Priolo et al., 2019). While this effect has long been explained by a self-threat mechanism, a social-norm deviation approach […]

Psychological distance (PD) to climate change has emerged as an insightful framework for explaining climate inaction, integrating temporal, spatial, social, and hypothetical factors previously studied separately (see Milfont, 2010). However, both correlational and experimental studies have yielded […]

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This research integrates social judgement and social identity theories to examine evaluations of defensive (narcissistic) and secure social identity (vs. lack of identification) expressed by targets with varying group statuses (advantaged vs. disadvantaged). Across three studies (total N = 2,915), […]

Some individuals experience such intense worry about climate change that they may develop impairment-based climate anxiety, which is characterized by cognitive, affective, and functional impairments. In this online study (n = 359), we examined whether self-reported pro-environmental behaviors and […]

<div><p>Two studies investigated the impact of stereotype threat on aggressive reactions. Female participants performed a working memory task under a stereotype threat or a control condition. Following this task, they had the opportunity to display aggression towards a simulated partner […]

Conspiracy beliefs entail a scapegoating function by attributing the consequences of crises, such as economic downturns, to the secret action of outgroups. While conspiracy beliefs have been described as reactions to economic threats, we argue that this factor alone is not sufficient. Rather, […]

Psychological distance (PD) to climate change is often assumed to reduce climate action. Yet, correlational and experimental studies have yielded inconsistent findings. Although several systematic reviews have addressed this topic, a quantitative meta-analytical synthesis has been lacking. In this […]

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Les stimuli qui approchent sont évalués plus négativement que s’ils restent à distance : on parle d’aversion à l’approche (Mühlberger et al., 2008). Si l’effet semble robuste, on observe certaines inconsistances dans la littérature et les mécanismes sous-jacents restent à […]

“Proximizing climate change” is a widely used strategy for promoting public engagement in environmental communication. However, experimental manipulations of psychological distance often fail to substantially reduce the perceived distance of climate change, and, do not systematically affect […]

Conspiracy mentality is conceptualized as a continuum. Research on this topic has focused on unwarranted conspiracy claims and the upper end of the conspiracy-mentality continuum—people seeing conspiracies everywhere. This focus neglects warranted conspiracy claims and the lower end of the […]