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Teaching Experience

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Research Interests

 

Publications

 

Ph.Ds. and Dissertations

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Professional Address

 

Olivier Corneille

Université catholique de Louvain

Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l'Education

Unité de Psychologie sociale et des Organisations

Place de Cardinal Mercier 10

B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve

Belgique

 

 

 

 

Main research interests (Examples are provided at the bottom of this webpage)

 

Categorization :

 

My main research interest is concerned with how categorization influences the perception, judgment and memory for social (and occasionally non-social) stimuli. Most of this research has been concerned with categorical accentuation effects for simple and multi-faceted stimuli (i.e., the idea that categorization accentuates the perception of differences between categories and of similarities within categories). In this context, my colleagues and I showed that faces are (mis)remembered as being more typical of their race and gender category than they actually are. This accentuation bias also applies to voice memory.

 

 

Face perception and memory

 

A related research interest concerns how faces that vary in attractiveness, race and emotions are mentally represented, again with implications for perception, judgment and memory. For instance, attractive faces are represented at more average and densely clustered face-space regions, leading to false recognition effects. In this research, I also studied how the social categorization of faces impacts on their holistic processing and on their representation. One of these studies made use of a face adaptation paradigm. I also recently proposed to apply the Attractor Fields Model to social cognition phenomena.

 

 

Affective learning

 

More recently, I have been increasingly interested in how people acquire attitudes. In this recent work, I provided evidence suggesting that affective learning through evaluative conditioning depends on people’s processing goals, attentional resources and awareness of the CS-US contingencies. In particular, successful EC seems contingent upon valence awareness for both psychologically meaningless (i.e., random letter strings) and meaningful (e.g., consumption products) stimuli. Another affective learning process I am currently studying deals with mimetic desires the idea that an object is preferred when it is perceived to be a target of attention. I also recently studied the impact of personality factors in the automatic processing of affective information.

 

 

 

 

Current Ph.Ds.:

 

Jonathan Dedonder (ARC; co-supervised with Vincent Yzerbyt) –  Jonathan’s webpage

 

Delphine Grynberg (FNRS; co-supervised with Olivier Luminet) – Delphine’s webpage

 

Timothée Mahieu (ARC; co-supervised with Vincent Yzerbyt)

 

Evelyne Treinen (FSR)

 

Jessica De Groote (ARC; co-supervised with Olivier Luminet)

 

Mélanie Lannoy (co-supervised with Stéphanie Demoulin)

 

 

Collaborators outside the laboratory (past and present)

 

Dijksterhuis A., Holland, R. & Strick, M. (Radboud University Nijmegen, NL)

Goldstone, R., & Queller, S. (Indiana University, USA)

Hugenberg, K. (Miami University, USA)

Judd, C. (University of Colorado, USA)

Monin, B. (Stanford University, USA)

Rhodes, G. (University Western Australia, Australia)

Ruys, K. (University of Utrecht, NL)

Smeesters D. (University of Tilburg, NL)

Stahl, C. (University of Freiburg, DE)

Stern, S. & Mullenix, J. (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

Unkelbach, C. (Univeristy of Heidelberg, DE)

Tanaka, J. (University of Victoria, CA)

 

Publications

 

These documents are protected by various copyright laws, but in each case I am allowed to distribute copies to individuals for personal, research use. Your click on any of the links below constitutes your request to me for a personal copy of the linked article, and my delivery of a personal copy. Any other use is prohibited!

 

Articles :

 

Mikolajczak, M., Gross, J. J., Lane, A., Corneille, O., de Timary, P. & Luminet, O. (in press). Oxytocin makes us trusting, not gullible. Psychological Science.

Toma, C., Yzerbyt, V. & Corneille, O. (in press). Anticipated cooperation vs. competition moderates interpersonal projection. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

Michel, C., Corneille, O. & Rossion, B. (in press). Holistic face encoding is modulated by perceived face race: evidence from perceptual adaptation. Visual Cognition. Link to pdf

Vermeulen, N., Mermillod, M., Godefroid, J. & Corneille, O. (2009). Unintended Embodiment of Concepts into Percepts: Sensory Activation Boosts Attention for Same-Modality Concepts in the Attentional Blink paradigm. Cognition, 112, 466-472.  Link to pdf

 

Stahl, C., Unkelbach, C. & Corneille, O. (2009). On the respective contributions of awareness of US valence and US identity in attitude formation through evaluative conditioning. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 97, 404-420.  Link to pdf

 

Saroglou, V., Corneille, O. & Van Cappellen, P. (2009). "Speak, Lord, your servant is listening": Religious priming activates submissive thoughts and behaviors. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 19, 143-154. Link to pdf

 

Hugenberg, K. & Corneille, O. (2009). Holistic Processing is Tuned for In-Group faces. Cognitive Science, 33, 1173-1181.  Link to pdf

 

Pleyers, G., Corneille, O., Yzerbyt, V. & Luminet, O. (2009). Evaluative conditioning may incur attentional costs. Journal of Experimental Psychology : Animal Behavior Processes, 35, 279-285. Link to pdf

 

Smeesters, D., Yzerbyt, V., Corneille, O. & Warlop, L. (2009). When do primes prime ? The moderating role of the self-concept in individual’s susceptibility to priming effects on social behavior. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 211-216.  Link to pdf

 

Corneille, O., Mauduit, S. Strick, M. & Holland, R. (2009). Liking Peppermints by the Head of a Dog: Perceived Orientation of Attention Induces Valence Acquisition. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 234-237. Link to pdf

 

Corneille, O., Yzerbyt, V., Pleyers, G. & Mussweiler, T. (2009). Beyond Awareness  and Resources: Evaluative Conditioning may be Sensitive to Processing Goals. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 45, 279-282. Link to pdf

 

Vermeulen, N., Corneille, O. & Niedenthal, P. M. (2008). Sensory load incurs conceptual processing costs. Cognition, 109, 287-294. Link to pdf

 

Ruys, K., Dijksterhuis, A. & Corneille, O. (2008). On the (Mis)Categorization of Unattractive Brides and Attractive Prostitutes: Extending Evaluative Congruency Effects to Social Category Activation. Experimental Psychology, 55, 3, 182-188. Link to pdf

 

Potter, T. & Corneille, O. (2008). Locating Attractiveness in the Face Space: Faces Are More Attractive When Closer to Their Group Prototype. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15, 615-622. Link to pdf

 

Michel, C., Corneille, O. & Rossion, B. (2007). Race categorization modulates holistic face encoding. Cognitive Science, 31, 911-924. Link to pdf

 

Corneille, O., Hugenberg, K. & Potter, T. (2007). Applying the Attractor Field Model to Social Cognition: Perceptual Discrimination is Facilitated but Memory is Impaired for Faces displaying Evaluatively-Congruent Expressions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93, 335-352. Link to pdf

 

To Access the Face Materials used in Corneille, Hugenberg & Potter (2007):

click HERE for Experiment 2 ; click HERE for Experiment 3

 

Tanaka, J. W. & Corneille, O. (2007). Typicality Effects in Face and Object Recognition: Further Evidence for the Attractor Field Model. Perception & Psychophysics, 69, 619-627. Link to pdf

 

Potter, T., Corneille, O., Ruys, K. I. & Rhodes, G. (2007). S/he’s just another pretty face : A multidimensional scaling approach to face attractiveness and face variability. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 14, 368-372. Link to pdf

 

Vermeulen, N., Corneille, O. & Luminet O. (2007). A mood moderation of the Extrinsic Affective Simon Task. European Journal of Personality, 21, 359-369. Link to pdf

 

Stern, S. E., Mullennix, J. W., Corneille, O. & , Huart, J. (2007). Distortions in the Memory of the Pitch of Speech. Experimental Psychology, 54, 2, 148-160.  Link to pdf

 

Pleyers, G., Corneille, O., Luminet, O. & Yzerbyt, V. (2007). Aware and (Dis)Liking: Item-based analyses reveal that valence acquisition via evaluative conditioning emerges only when there is contingency awareness. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 33, 130-144. Link to pdf

 

Corneille, O., Goldstone, R. L., Queller, S., & Potter, T. (2006). Asymmetries in the Categorization, Perceptual discrimination, and Visual Search for Reference and Non-Reference Exemplars. Memory & Cognition, 34, 3, 556-567. Link to pdf

 

Vermeulen, N., Luminet, O., & Corneille, O. (2006). Alexithymia and the Automatic Processing of Affective Information. Cognition & Emotion, 20, 64-91. Link to pdf

 

Huart, J., Corneille, O., & Becquart, E. (2005). Face-based Categorization, Context-based Categorization, and Distortions in the Recollection of Gender Ambiguous Faces. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 598-608. Link to pdf

 

Yzerbyt, V., Provost, V., & Corneille, O. (2005). Not Competent but Warm… Really ? Compensatory Stereotypes in the French-Speaking Word. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 8, 291-308. Link to pdf

 

Corneille, O., Monin, B., & Pleyers, G. (2005). Is Positivity a Cue or a Response Option? On the Unique Contribution of a Beautiful-is-familiar Effect in the Memory for Attractive and Not-so-Attractive Faces. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 41, 431-437. Link to pdf

 

Corneille, O., Huart, J., Becquart, E., & Brédart, S. (2004). When Memory Shifts Towards More Typical Category Exemplars: Accentuation Effects in the Recollection of Ethnically Ambiguous Faces. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 86, 236-250. Link to pdf

 

Dijksterhuis, A., Corneille, O., Aarts, H., Vermeulen, N., & Luminet (2004). Yes, there is preferential detection of negative stimuli: A response to Labiouse. Psychological Science, 15, 571-572. Link to pdf

 

Geeraert, N., Yzerbyt , V.Y., Corneille, O., & Wigboldus, D. (2004). The return of Dispositionalism: On the linguistic consequences of dispositional suppression. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 264-272. Link to pdf

 

Smeesters, D., Warlop, L., Van Avermaet, E., Corneille, O., & Yzerbyt, V. (2003). Do Not Prime Hawks With Doves: The Impact of Dispositions and Situation-Specific Features on the Emergence of Cooperative Behavior in Mixed-Motive Situations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 972–987. Link to pdf

 

Provost, V., Yzerbyt, V. Corneille, O., Désert, M., & Francard, M. (2003). Stigmatisation sociale et comportements linguistiques: le lexique menacé. Revue Internationale de Psychologie Sociale, 16, 177-200.

 

Corneille, O., Klein, O, Lambert, S., & Judd, C. M. (2002). On the role of familiarity with units of measurement in categorical accentuation: Tajfel and Wilkes (1963) revisited and replicated. Psychological Science, 4, 380-383. Link to pdf

 

Yzerbyt, V., Corneille, O., Dumont, M., & Hahn, K. (2001). The dispositional inference strikes back: Situational focus and dispositional suppression in causal attribution. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 365-376. Link to pdf

 

Corneille, O., Yzerbyt, V., Rogier, A., & Buidin, G. (2001), Threat and the Group Attribution Error: When threat elicits judgments of extremity and homogeneity. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 27, 437-496. Link to pdf

 

Yzerbyt, V., Corneille, O., & Estrada, C. (2001). The Interplay of Naive Theories and Entitativity  from the Outsider and the Insider Perspectives. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 5, 141-155. Link to pdf

 

Corneille, O., Vescio, T., & Judd, C. M. (2000). Incidentally Activated Knowledge and Stereotype Based Judgments: A Consideration of Primed Construct - Target Attribute Match, Social Cognition, 18, 1, 377-399.

 

Corneille, O., & Judd, C. M. (1999). Accentuation and sensitization effects in the categorization of multi-faceted stimuli. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77, 927-941. Link to pdf

 

Corneille, O., Leyens, J-Ph, Yzerbyt, V., & Walther, E. (1999). Judgeability concerns: The interplay of information, applicability, and accountability in the overattribution biais, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 76, 377-387.

 

Leyens, J.-Ph., & Corneille, O. (1999). Asch's social psychology: Not as social as you may think, Personality and Social Psychology Review, 3, 345-357. Link to pdf

 

Yzerbyt, V., Leyens, J.-Ph., & Corneille, O.  (1998).  Social Judgeability Theory and the bogus pipeline: The role of naive theories of judgment in impression formation. Social Cognition, 16, 56-77.

 

Leyens, J.-Ph., Yzerbyt, V.-Y., & Corneille, O. (1996). The role of concept applicability in the emergence of the overattribution bias.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 70, 219-229.

 

Corneille, O. (1994). Le contact comme mode de resolution du conflit intergroupe: une hypothèse toujours bien vivante [Contact as a way to reduce intergroup conflicts; A still alive hypothesis ]. Cahiers internationaux de Psychologie sociale, 23, 40-60.

 

Corneille, O. (1993).  Une synthese critique du Modèle de Probabilité d'Elaboration [A critical  synthesis of the Elaboration Likelihood Model]. L'Année Psychologique, 93, 583-602.

 

Corneille, O. (1992).  Le Modèle de Probabilité d'Elaboration: une nécessaire mise au point [Comments on the Elaboration Likelihood Model].  Cahiers internationaux de Psychologie sociale, 16, 42-62.

 

         Books and Chapters:

 

Corneille, O. (2010). Nos préférences sous influence: Déterminants psychologiques de nos preferences et choix. Mardaga.

 

Yzerbyt, V. Y., & Corneille, O. (2005). Cognitive process: Reality constraints and integrity concerns in social perception. In J. F. Dovidio, P. Glick, & L. Rudman (Eds.), Reflecting on the nature of prejudice (pp. 175-191). London, UK: Blackwell.

 

Yzerbyt, V., Judd, C. M., & Corneille, O. (2004). The Psychology of Group Perception: Homogeneity, Entitivity, and Essentialism. Philadelphia: Psychology Press.

 

Yzerbyt, V., Estrada, C., Corneille, O., Seron, E., & Demoulin S. (2004). Subjective essentialism in action: Self-anchoring and social control as consequences of fundamental social divides. In C. M  Judd,. V.Yzerbyt, & O. Corneille, The Psychology of Group Perception: Contributions to the Study of Homogeneity, Entitivity, and Essentialism. pp 101-126. Philadelphia: Psychology Press.

 

Judd, C. M., Yzerbyt, V., & Corneille, O. (2004). Perceived variability, entitativity and essentialism: Introduction and overview. In V. Yzerbyt, C. M. Judd, & O. Corneille (Eds), The Psychology of Group Perception: Homogeneity, Entitivity, and Essentialism, pp 1-24. Philadelphia: Psychology Press.

 

Corneille, O., & Yzerbyt, V. (2002) : Dependence and the formation of stereotyped beliefs about groups: From interpersonal to intergroup perception. In C. McGarty, V. Yzerbyt & R. Spears (Eds.), The formation of stereotypes. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

 

Leyens, J. Ph., & Corneille, O. (2001). Perspectives psychosociales sur les stereotypes. In C. Garaud (Ed), Sont-ils bons? Sont-ils mechants? Usage des stereotypes (pp. 13-25). Honoré Champion.

 

Corneille, O. (2001). Cognition et pratiques sociales, In J-M. Monteil et J-L. Beauvois (Eds.), La psychologie sociale, 5: Des compétences pour l'application. Grenoble: Presses Universitaires de Grenoble.

 

Corneille, O.,  Leyens, J.-Ph., Bellour, F. & Nils, F. (1997).  La part de la coherence explicative dans le biais de surattribution [The impact of explanatory coherence in the overattribution bias]. In J.-M. Monteil, J.-L. Beauvois (Eds.), Perspectives cognitives et conduites sociales [Cognitive perspectives on social behavior].

 

Corneille, O. (1997).  Les modeles sequentiels de l'inference causale [Sequential models of causal inference]. In J-Ph. Leyens, & J.-L. Beauvois (Eds.), La psychologie sociale: l'ère de la cognition [Social psychology: the cognition era].  Grenoble, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble.

 

Corneille, O. (1997).  La categorisation sociale [Social categorization]. In J-Ph. Leyens, & J.-L. Beauvois (Eds.), La psychologie sociale: l'ère de la cognition [Social psychology: the cognition era]. Grenoble, Presses Universitaires de Grenoble.

 

Corneille, O., & Leyens, J.-Ph. (1994). Catégories, catégories sociales et essentialisme psychologique [Categories, social categories and psychological essentialism]. In R. Bourhis and J.-Ph. Leyens (Eds.), Stéréotypes, discrimination et rapports intergroupes [Stereotypes, discrimination and intergroup relations]. Liège:  Mardaga.

 

Yzerbyt, V. Y. & Corneille, O. (1994). La persuasion. Neuchatel: Delachaux et Niestle.

 

Yzerbyt, V. Y. & Corneille, O. (1994). Prolégomènes à la persuasion et au changement d'attitude. In V. Y. Yzerbyt et O. Corneille, O. (Eds.)  La persuasion (pp. 13-50). Neuchâtel: Delachaux et Niestlé.

 

 

Ph.Ds. and Dissertations

 

Completed PhDs:

 

Tim Potter

Nicolas Vermeulen (co-supervised with Olivier Luminet)

Arnaud Liégeois (co-supervised with Vincent Yzerbyt)

Johanne Huart

Gordy Pleyers (co-supervised with Olivier Luminet)

Giulio Boccato (co-supervised with Vincent Yzerbyt)

 

Member of Dissertation Committee:

 

Alastair Coull, 1999; Jeroen Vaes, 2001; Valérie Provost, 2002; Dominique Muller, 2002; Florence Dumas, 2003; Nicolas Geeraert, 2004; Andrea Carnaghi, 2004; Jean-Baptiste Legal, 2005; Nicolas Vermeulen, 2005; Anne-Catherine Defeldre, 2005; Arnaud Liégeois, 2005; Johanne Huart, 2005; Gordy Pleyers, 2006; Giulio Boccato, 2007; Aurore Neuman, 2007; Joel Cretenet, 2007; Gert Cornelisen, 2007, Clémentine Bry, 2007; Caroline Michel, 2007; Tim Potter, 2008; Marieke de Vries, 2008; Nicolas Kervyn, 2008.

 

 

Teaching:

 

2006- …: Psychologie du changement de conduites: Consommation, santé et prise de décision (UCL PSYM 2311)

2005- …: Méthodologie de l’Expérimentation (UCL PSP 1274)

2004-2005: Introduction à la Psychologie sociale (UCL PSP1310b; UCL COPS1214)

2003-2004: Séminaire thématique de psychologie sociale (UCL NCC 3404)

2002 - ... : Changement d'attitudes et Influence sociale. (UCL PSY 2220)

2001 - ... : Introduction à la Psychologie sociale (UCL- SESP 1232)

1999-2000 : Introduction à la Psychologie sociale (UCL- EDFO 2002)

1998-1999 : Séminaire sur l'ethique et l'épistemologie de la recherche en psychologie et sciences de l'education (UCL- PSY 3100; with P. Feyereisen)

1998-1999 : Séminaire de psychologie sociale cognitive (UCL- PSY 3010 with J-Ph. Leyens & V. Yzerbyt)

1996-1997 : Psychologie sociale expérimentale et cognitive (ULG)

 

 

 

A FEW EXAMPLES OF CATEGORIZATION EFFECTS INFLUENCING FACE PERCEPTION AND MEMORY…

 

 

 

Example : Undirected categorization effects in the recollection of race-ambiguous faces 

(Corneille et al., JPSP, 2004)

Link to pdf

 

 

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The Caucasian face appearing at the center is more likely to be (mis)remembered as being the left (more Caucasian) than the right (less Caucasian) face. Conversely, the Asian face appearing at the center is more likely to be (mis)remembered as being the right (more Asian) than the left (less Asian) face. Yet, the objective differences between the faces are kept constant. In other words, face memory is spontaneously distorted towards faces that are more typical of their race category (and less typical of the general category of faces).

 

 

Note : A similar effect applies to voice memory, with voices of ambiguous pitch distorted towards voices that are more typical of their pitch category (Stern et al. EP, in press - Link to pdf).

 

 

LowerPitch   SomewhatLowTargetVoice   HigherPitch

 

 

The somewhat Low-pitch Target voice (i.e. 105 Hz), is more likely to be identify as the Lower-pitch distracter voice than as the higher-pitch distracter voice (You can click on the above links to listen to the voices)

 

 

 

 

Example : Directed categorization effects in the recollection of gender-ambiguous faces (Huart et al., JESP, 2005)

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The gender-ambiguous faces appearing at the center tends to be (mis)remembered as being the right (more masculine) face when called John and as being the left (more feminine) face when called Mary… but only when the name if provided prior to the presentation of the face. Hence, categorization distorts face memory towards faces more typical of their category, but only when categorical cues are communicated prior to face encoding.

 

 

 

Example : Race categorization influences the holistic processing of faces

 (Michel et al., Cognitive Science, in press)

Link to pdf

 

 

 

Consider the two Caucasian faces depicted in the above figure (A).  Although the top-half of the left and of the right faces are the same, they tend to be perceived as more different in the first row (i.s., same-aligned) than in the second row (same-misaligned). This illusion occurs because people process faces holistically.

 

Holistic face processing, however, is more likely to apply to same-race than to other-race faces. As such, the composite illusion will be generally larger for Caucasian individuals processing A (i.e., Caucasian) faces than the B (i.e., Asian) faces. Conversely, the composite illusion will be larger for Asian individuals processing the B (i.e., Asian) faces than the A (i.e., Caucasian) faces (see Michel et al., Psych Science, in press).

 

The third column (i.e., C) depicts blends of Caucasian and Asian faces. These race-ambiguous faces will be processed more holistically (leading to a larger composite illusion) when Caucasian participants think they are Caucasian than when they think they are Asian. In other words, categorization impacts on the perceptual integration of facial features (Michel et al., Cognitive Science, in press). 

 

 

 

Example : Attractive faces are less distinctive, leading to false recognition effects

 (Corneille et al, JESP, 2005 ; Potter et al, PB&R in press)

Link to 1st pdf ; Link to 2nd pdf

 

 

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The face appearing on the right looks more attractive than the one appearing on the left. It also displays less distinctive facial features and is thus more representative of the general category of faces. The averageness and indistinctiveness of attractive faces produce biases in face identification : people are more likely to wrongly believe they have seen before an attractive than an unattractive face.

 

This false recognition bias in the identification of attractive faces occurs because attractive faces are represented in denser regions of the face-space (Potter et al., in press) and because they elicit a feeling of perceptual fluency that is mistaken for familiarity (Corneille et al., 2005).