Olivier Corneille
My research focuses on three general topics: (1) categorization, (2) face perception and memory, and (3) affective learning.
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 more typical of their race and gender category than they actually are. A similar 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. I also recently proposed to apply the Attractor Fields Model to social cognition phenomena.
Affective learning:
Recently, I have been increasingly interested in how people acquire attitudes. In this research, 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. Another affective learning process I am currently studying is concerned with mimetic desires (i.e., the idea that people develop implicit preferences toward stimuli that are perceived to be objects of attention in others).
Primary Interests:
- Attitudes and Beliefs
- Culture and Ethnicity
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Intergroup Relations
- Interpersonal Processes
- Motivation, Goal Setting
- Person Perception
- Social Cognition
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Journal Articles:
- Categorization: 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.
- Categorization: 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.
- Categorization: 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.
- Evaluative conditioning: 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.
- Evaluative conditioning: 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.
- Evaluative conditioning: 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.
- Evaluative conditioning: 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.
- Face perception: Corneille, O., Hugenberg , K., & Potter, Y. (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.
- Face perception: 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.
- Face perception: Hugenberg, K., & Corneille, O. (2009). Holistic processing is tuned for in-group faces. Cognitive Science, 33, 1173-1181.
- Face perception: Michel, C., Corneille, O., & Rossion, B. (in press). Holistic face encoding is modulated by perceived face race: Evidence from perceptual adaptation. Visual Cognition.
- Face perception: Michel, C., Corneille, O., & Rossion, B. (2007). Race categorization modulates holistic face encoding. Cognitive Science, 31, 911-924.
- Priming: 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.
- Priming: 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.
Courses Taught:
- Analysis of Situations in Social Psychology, Work and Organizations
- Attitudes and Social Influence
- Experimental Methods in Psychology
- Introduction to Social Psychology
- Psychology of Behavior Change: Health, Consumption, Decision-Making
Olivier Corneille
Psychologie Sociale et des Organisations
Université catholique de Louvain
10, place du Cardinal Mercier
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium
- Phone: +32 (0) 10478642
- Fax: +32 (0) 10473774