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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
- Tel:
32 (0) 10/ 47 86 42
- Fax:
32 (0) 10/ 47 37 74
- Email address:
olivier.corneille@uclouvain.be
- Web site: http://www.psor.ucl.ac.be/personal/corneille/
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.
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 1 : Undirected categorization effects in the
recollection of race-ambiguous faces
(Corneille et al., JPSP, 2004)
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 2 : Directed categorization effects in the
recollection of gender-ambiguous faces (Huart et al., JESP, 2005)
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 3 : Race categorization influences the
holistic processing of faces
(Michel et al., Cognitive Science, in press)
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 4 : 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
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).