PSP
Place Cardinal Mercier 10/L3.05.01
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Bernard Rimé
Professeur ordinaire émérite
Bernard Rimé is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve) and active Researcher at IPSY, the Institute for Research in Psychological Sciences of this University. He currently holds teaching appointments at the University of Lille (France). He has held visiting appointments at the universities of Amsterdam, Bari, Bologna, Geneva, Münster, San Sebastian, Quito, Massachussetts (Amherts, MA) and at the Southern Methodist University (Dallas, TX). He was awarded a Honoris Causa Degree at the University of Bari (Italy). In Belgium, Bernard Rimé was awarded a Francqui Chair (Belgian National Honorary Chair) at the University of Leuven (1992) , the University of Brussels (2001), the University of Ghent (2004) and St Louis Universityin Brussels (2013). Past president of ISRE (International Society for Research one Emotion) and of the Belgian Psychological Society, he is presently president of the National Committee of Psychological Sciences of the Royal Academy of Belgium. Expert in the study of emotion, his research addresses the social psychology of emotion with a particular interest for the strong links existing between emotions and social communication. In the last two decades, his studies documented the fact that emotions powerfully stimulate social communication, that emotional information propagates across social networks, and that the social sharing of emotions impacts upon social ties. His current research examines individual and collective effects of collective emotional expression in mass gatherings such as civil or religious ceremonies, commemorations, collective festivities, and sporting, musical, folk, or socio-political events. Other studies currently conducted address emotions and collective memory in intergroup conflicts. Bernard Rimé authored "Le partage social des émotions" (The social sharing of emotions) (2009, Presses Universitaires de France) and he coedited "Les Emotions: Textes de base" (Emotions: Basic readings) (1989, Delachaux) with Klaus Scherer. He also coedited "Fundamentals of Nonverbal Behavior" (1991, Cambridge University Press) with Robert Feldman, "Collective memory of political events" (1997, Erlbaum), with James Pennebaker and Dario Paez, and most recently "Changing Emotions" (2013, Taylor & Francis) with Dirk Hermans and Batja Mesquita.
Publications : Articles & Chapters (2010 – Current)
Rimé, B., Yzerbyt, V., & Mahjoub, A. (2017). Perception of emotional climate in a revolution. Test of a multistage theory of revolution in the Tunisian context. British Journal of Social Psychology (in press).
Rimé, B. (2017) Social integration and health: Contributions of the social sharing of emotion at the individual, the interpersonal and the collective level. Emotion Review (in press).
Rimé, B. (2017). The Social Sharing of Emotion in Interpersonal and in Collective Situations. In J. A. Holyst (Ed.). Cyberemotions: Collective Emotions in Cyberspace (p. 53-69). London, UK: Springer Verlag. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-43639-5
Bobowik, M., Páez, D., Arnoso, Cárdenas, M., Rimé, B. Zubieta, E., & Muratori, M. (2017). Institutional Apologies and Socio-emotional Climate in the South American Context. British Journal of Social Psychology (in press).
Rimé, B. (2017). Emotions animales et émotions humaines. In B. Cyrulnik (dir.), L'incroyable pouvoir des animaux. Savigny-sur-Orge : Philippe Duval, coll. "Sciences Psy".
Rimé, B. (2016). Les émotions : conceptions médiévales et conceptions contemporaines. Revue Philosophique de Louvain, 114, 69-74. DOI: 10.2143/RPL.114.5.3152074
Rimé B. (2016). Self-Disclosure. In: H. S. Friedman (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Mental Health, 2nd edition (Vol. 4, pp. 66-74). Waltham, MA: Academic Press.
Balon, S. & Rimé, B. (2016). Lexical Profile of Emotional Disclosure in Socially Shared vs. Written Narratives. Journal of Language and Social Psychology. 35, 345–373. DOI: 10.1177/0261927X15603425
Cantisano, N., Rimé, B., Afzali, M. H., & Muñoz-Sastre, M. T. (2016). Health outcomes resulting from the quality of emotional expression in HIV/AIDS patients. Revue Européenne de Psychologie Appliquée/European Review of Applied Psychology, 66(3), 95-100.
Rimé, B. (2015). Grandeur et misère des victimes. In H. Romano & B. Cyrulnik (Dir.), Je suis victime. L'incroyable exploitation du trauma (pp. 109-134). Savigny-sur-Orge, France : Editions Philippe Duval
Rimé, B., Bouchat, P., Klein, O., & Licata, L. (2015). When Collective Memories of Victimhood Fade. Generational Evolution of Intergroup Attitudes and Political Aspirations in Belgium. European Journal of Social Psychology, 45, 512-532. DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.2104
Curci, A., Soleti, E., Lanciano, T., Doria, V., & Rimé, B. (2015). Balancing emotional processing with ongoing cognitive activity: The effects of task modality on intrusions and rumination. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1275. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01275
Páez, D., Rimé, B., Basabe, N., Wlodarczyk, A. & Zumeta, L. (2015). Psychosocial effects of perceived emotional synchrony in collective gatherings. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 108, 711-729. DOI: 10.1037/pspi0000014
Cardenas, M., Paez, D., Rimé, B., Arnoso, M. (2015). How transitional justice processes and official apologies influence reconciliation: the case of the Chilean “Truth and Reconciliation” and “Political Imprisonment and Torture” commissions. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 26, 515-530. DOI: 10.1002/casp.2231
Cantisano, N., Rimé, B., & Munoz-Sastre, T. (2015). The importance of quality over in quantity in the Social Sharing of Emotions (SSE) in people living with HIV/AIDS. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 20, 103-113. DOI:10.1080/13548506.2014.901544
Van Cappellen, P. & Rimé, B. (2015). Emotions positives et transcendence de soi. In V. Saroglou (Dir.), Psychologie de la religion (pp. 111-132). Bruxelles: De Boeck.
Rimé, B. (2015). Social sharing of emotion and emotional regulation. In P. Fernandez-Berrocal et al. (Eds.), From neurons to happiness. Ten proposals using emotional intelligence (pp. 137-153). Santander, Spain: Fundación Botín.
Paez, D. & Rimé, B. (2014). Collective emotional gatherings. Their impact upon identity fusion, shared beliefs and social integration. In C. von Scheve & M. Salmela (Eds.), Collective Emotions: Perspectives from Psychology, Philosophy, and Sociology, (pp. 204-216).Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press.
Rimé, B. & Paez, D. (2014). Eventi emotivi collettivi e rappresentazioni sociali. In A. Palmonari e F. Emiliani (a cura di), Psicologia delle rappresentazioni Sociali. Teoria e applicazioni (pp. 95-122). Milano : Il Mulino.
Cantisano, N., Rimé, B., & Munoz-Sastre, T. (2014). The Social Sharing of Emotions (SSE) in the Dominican Republic’s Cultural Context: Autobiographical Descriptive Data. Universitas Psychologica, 13, 457-466. doi:10.11144/Javeriana.UPSY13-2.ssed
Cardenas, M., Paez, D., Rimé, B., Arnoso, M., Asun, D., & de los Angeles Bilbao, M. (2014). Personal emotions, emotional climate, social sharing, beliefs and values among people affected and unaffected by past political violence. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 20, 452-464. DOI: 10.1037/pac0000038
Brans, K., Van Mechelen, I., Rimé, B., & Verduyn, P. (2014). To share, or not to share? Examining the emotional consequences of social sharing in the case of anger and sadness. Emotion, 14, 1062-1071. DOI: 10.1037/a0037604
Kanyangara, P., Rimé, B., Paez, D., & Yzerbyt, V. (2014). Trust, Individual Guilt, Collective Guilt and Dispositions toward Reconciliation among Rwandan Survivors and Prisoners before and after their Participation in Postgenocide Gacaca Courts in Rwanda. Journal of Social and Political Psychology , 2, 401-416. DOI:10.5964/jspp.v2i1.299
Duprez, C., Christophe, V., Rimé, B., Congard, A, & Antoine, P. (2014). Motives for the Social Sharing of an Emotional Experience. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 1-31. DOI: 10.1177/0265407514548393.
Van Cappellen, P. & Rimé, B. (2014). Positive emotions and self-transcendence. In V. Saroglou (Ed.), Religion, personality, and social behavior (pp. 123-145). London: Psychology Press.
Curci, A., Lanciano, T., Soleti, E., & Rimé, B. (2013). Negative emotional experiences arouse rumination and affect working memory capacity. Emotion, 13, 867-.880. DOI: 10.1037/a0032492
Brans, K., Van Mechelen, I., Rimé, B., & Verduyn, P. (2013). The relation between social sharing and the duration of emotional experience. Cognition & emotion, 27, 1023-1041. DOI:10.1080/02699931.2012.762758
Cardenas, M., Paez, P., Arnoso, M., & Rimé, B. (2013). Percepción del Clima Socioemocional y la Confianza Institucional en Víctimas de Violencia Política: Valoración del Impacto de la Comisión Nacional de Verdad y Reconciliación (The Perception of the Socio-emotional Climate and Institutional Trust in Victims of Political Violence: Impact Assessment of the National Commission of Truth and Reconciliation). Psykhe, 22,111-127 DOI: 10.7764/psykhe.22.2.572.
Cardenas, M., Paez, D., & Rimé, B. (2013). El impacto psicosocial de los procesos transicionales en Chile: evaluación de los efectos de las Comisiones Nacional de “Verdad y Reconciliación” y “prisión política y tortura” (The psychosocial impact of transitional processes in Chile: Assessing the impact of the National Commissions on “Truth and Reconciliation” and “Political Imprisonment and Torture”). Revista de Psicología Social, 28, 145-156 DOI:10.1174/021347413806196717
Balon, S., Lecoq, J., & Rimé, B. (2013). Passion and personality. Is passionate behavior a function of personality dimensions? European Review of Applied Psychology. 63, 59-65. DOI: 10.1016/j.erap.2012.06.001.
Páez, D., Javaloy, F., Wlodarczyk, A., Espelt, E. & Rimé, B. (2013). El movimiento 15-M: sus acciones como rituales, compartir social, creencias, valores y emociones (The 15-M movement: Actions as rituals, social sharing, beliefs, values and emotions). Revista de Psicología Social, 28, 19-33. DOI:10.1174/021347413804756078
Páez, D., Javaloy, F., Wlodarczyk, A., Espelt, E. & Rimé, B. (2013). El movimiento 15-M: sus acciones como rituales, compartir social, creencias, valores y emociones (The 15-M movement: Actions as rituals, social sharing, beliefs, values and emotions). Revista de Psicología Social, 28, 19-33. DOI:10.1174/021347413804756078
Balon, S., Lecoq, J., & Rimé, B. (2013). Passion and personality. Is passionate behavior a function of personality dimensions? European Review of Applied Psychology. 63, 59-65. DOI: 10.1016/j.erap.2012.06.001.
Cardenas, M., Paez, D., & Rimé, B. (2013). Transitional justice processes, shared narrative memory about past collective violence and reconciliation: the case of the Chilean “Truth and Reconciliation” and “Political Imprisonment and Torture” commissions. In R. Cabecinhas & L. Abadia (eds.), Narratives and social memory: theoretical and methodological approaches (pp. 61-76). Braga: Communication and Society Research Centre.
Rimé, B. (2013). Can Socially Sharing Emotions Change Emotions? In D. Hermans, B. Rimé, & B. Mesquita (Eds.), Changing Emotions (pp. 91-96). London: Psychology Press
Curci, A. & Rimé, B. (2012). The temporal evolution of social sharing of emotions and its consequences on emotional recovery: A longitudinal study. Emotion , 6, 1404-1414. DOI: 10.1037/a0028651
Cantisano, N., Rimé, B., & Munoz-Sastre, T. (2012). The Social Sharing of Emotions in HIV/AIDS: A comparative study of HIV/AIDS, Diabetes and Cancer Patients. Journal of Health Psychology, 18, 1255–1267. DOI: 10.1177/1359105312462436.
Lane, A., Mikolajczak, M., Rimé, B., Gross, J. J., de Timary, P. & Luminet, O. (2012). Oxytocin increases the readiness to socially share one’s emotions. International Journal of Psychology. 48, 676-681. DOI:10.1080/00207594.2012.677540.
Nils, F. & Rimé, B. (2012). Beyond the myth of venting: Social sharing modes determine the benefits of emotional disclosure. European Journal of Social Psychology. 42, 672-681. DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.1880.
Rimé, B., Kanyangara, P., Paez, D., & Yzerbyt, V. (2012). Social Rituals and Collective Expression of Emotion after a Collective Trauma: Participation in Gacaca and Assimilation of the Rwandan Genocide. In Kai J. Jonas & Thomas Morton (Eds.) Restoring Civil Societies: The Psychology of Intervention and Engagement Following Crisis (pp. 177-191). Malden, MA: John Wiley & Sons.
Rimé, B. (2012). Approche interpersonnelle de la régulation des émotions. In M. Mikolajczack & M. Desseilles (Eds.), Traité de régulation des émotions (pp. 213-225). Bruxelles, Belgique: De Boeck.
Rimé, B. & Paez, D. (2012). L'empathie dans le partage social de l'émotion. Processus individuels et processus collectifs. In A. Cukier & P. Attigui (Eds.), Les Paradoxes de l’empathie. Entre émotion et cognition sociale (pp. 281-295). Paris: Presses Universitaires Paris-Ouest Nanterre.
Rimé, B., Kanyangara, P., Yzerbyt, V. & Paez, D. (2011). The impact of Gacaca tribunals in Rwanda: Psychosocial effects of participation in a Truth and Reconciliation process after a genocide. European Journal of Social Psychology, 41, 695–706,
Garaigordobil, M., Paez, D., Aliri, J., Kanyangara, P., & Rimé, B. (2011). Creencias generales y personales sobre la justicia en el mundo: diferencias de género, relaciones con factores socio-emocionales y efectos de un programa de educación para la paz. In D. Páez, C. Martín Beristain, J. L. González, N. Basabe Y J. De Rivera (Eds.), Superando la violencia colectiva y construyendo cultura de paz (pp. 537-567). Madrid: Editorial Fundamentos.
Martín-Beristain, C., Paez, D., Rimé, B., & Kanyangara, P. (2011). La superación de la violencia colectiva: impactos y problemas de los rituales de la justicia transicional. . In D. Páez, C. Martín Beristain, J. L. González, N. Basabe Y J. De Rivera (Eds.), Superando la violencia colectiva y construyendo cultura de paz (pp. 475-492). Madrid: Editorial Fundamentos.
Paez, D., Iraurgui, I., Kanyangara, P., Rimé, B., Perez-Sales, P., Martín-Beristain, C., Díaz, D., & Blanco, A. (2011). Violencia colectiva y creencias básicas sobre el mundo, los otros y el yo: impacto y reconstrucción. In D. Páez, C. Martín Beristain, J. L. González, N. Basabe Y J. De Rivera (Eds.), Superando la violencia colectiva y construyendo cultura de paz (pp. 247-277). Madrid: Editorial Fundamentos.
Techio. E., Zubieta. E., Páez, D., De Rivera, J., Rimé, B. & Kanyangara, P. (2011). Clima emocional y violencia colectiva: el estado de la cuestión y los instrumentos de medición, In D. Páez, C. Martín Beristain, J. L. González, N. Basabe Y J. De Rivera (Eds.), Superando la violencia colectiva y construyendo cultura de paz (pp. 103-148). Madrid: Editorial Fundamentos.
Rimé, B., Paez, D., Kanyangara, P., & Yzerbyt, V. (2011). The social sharing of emotions in interpersonal and in collective situations: Common psychosocial consequences. In I. Nyklicek, A. J. J. M. Vingerhoets, & M Zeelenberg (Eds.) Emotion Regulation and well-being (pp. 147-164). New-York: Springer.
Martin Beristain, C., Paez, D., Rimé, B. & Kanyangara, P. (2010). Efectos psicosociales de la participación en rituales de justicia transicional (Psychosocial effects of participation in rituals of transitional justice). Revista de Psicologia Social, 25, 9-35
Vrielynck, N., Philippot, P. & Rimé, B. (2010). Level of processing modulates benefits of writing about stressful events: Comparing generic and specific recall. Cognition & Emotion, 24,1117-1132.
Rimé, B., Paez, D., Basabe, N., & Martinez, F. (2010). Social Sharing of Emotion, Posttraumatic Growth and Emotional Climate: Follow-up of Spanish citizen's response to the collective trauma of March 11th terrorist attacks in Madrid. European Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 1029-1045.
Rimé, B. (2010). Les émotions. Conséquences cognitives et sociales. In S. Masmoudi & A. Naceur (Eds.), Du percept à la décision (pp. 177-195). Bruxelles: De Boeck.
Rimé, B. (2010). Préface. In S. Masmoudi & A. Naceur (Eds.), Du percept à la décision (pp. 21-22). Bruxelles: De Boeck.
Rimé, B. (2010). Les émotions médiévales : Réflexions psychologiques. In D. Boquet et P. Nagy (Dir.), Politique des émotions au Moyen Âge (pp. 309-332). Florence: Sismel - Edizioni del Galluzzo..
Rimé, B. (2010). El compartir social de la emoción y la regulación emocional. In R. Sánchez Aragón (Ed.), Regulacion Emocional: Una travesia de la Cultura a la Formacion de las Relaciones Personales (pp. 158-190). México (Mx.): Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. .
Rimé, B. (2010). Emotion regulation and the social sharing of emotion: Interpersonal and collective processes. In R. Schwarzer & P. A. Frensch (Eds), Personality, Human Development, and Culture: International Perspectives on Psychological Science (Volume 2) (pp. 83-95). Hove: Psychology Press.