SSH/PSP Faculté de psychologie, logopédie, sexologie et des sciences de la famille (PSY)
SSH/IPSY Psychological Sciences Research Institute (IPSY)
As a researcher, I am…
- using and refining methods of cognitive psychology and neurosciences
- examining situational and individual factors of social and differential psychology
- testing across clinical populations how social cognition relates to mental health
- developping internet-based solutions for large-scale performance-based testing
- always eager to collaborate, open to share my data, and willing to learn new methods
I study mainly empathy and perspective taking along these lines of research:
1. Deconstructing Self-Other Distinction:
Since we feel, see, and believe while we infer what others feel, see, and believe.
How do we distinguish our own thoughts from those others?
2. Shifting from egocentric to altercentric and more:
We are not always self-focused! Emotions, priming, and social contexts can shift you into being other-focused (i.e., altercentric) or more or less flexible.
3. Beyond poor and good performance in empathy and perspective-taking:
By measuring performance on multiple core dimensions, we provide new insights into individual differences: we can explain why someone is poor or good.
4. Self-knowledge to know others:
Is limited, biased, or unclear knowledge of the Self a barrier to understanding others?
5. Self-Other understanding in clinical populations:
We found that self-understanding and others’ understanding are impaired in autism, borderline personality disorder, schizophrenia, severe alcohol use disorder, and anorexia. Is there a transdiagnostic pattern?
And many other avenues related to perspective taking and psychometrics.
