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Research topic: applied social psychology
Donatienne Desmette
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Due to the current social change, the labour market is concerned with increasing diversity in terms of gender, age, origin, etc. Our research is interested in the effects of social diversity on perceptions about social groups in organisations and on attitudes, behaviour and well-being of members of these groups. In particular, we investigate aging at work in the light of intergroup processes such as age-related stereotypes and social identity processes. These applied social psychology studies are developed in collaboration with public and private organizations. Both scientific and socio-political publications are diffused. |
| Ginette Herman |
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Stigmatisation is at work in many situations and particularly in the labour market, preventing several categories of workers from obtaining or keeping a job. Our research mostly deals with unemployed people and focuses on the effects of the perception of discrimination, on the strategies of defence that are spontaneously adopted, and on the consequences of specific social policies. The most important mediating variables taken into account are group identification, social support, and level of comparison (intergroup, intragroup, interpersonal). At the methodological level, our research mostly relies on correlational, longitudinal or quasi-experimental designs. Because the studies are conducted with the collaboration of field organisations, we pay particular attention to the possible outcomes of our results as far as social policies are concerned. |
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