Olivier Corneille

 
 

   

Olivier Corneille
Professor
Division of Social and Organizational Psychology
 Address:  Department of Psychology
 Catholic University of Louvain
 Place du Cardinal Mercier 10
 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
 Belgium
 Phone:  +32-10-47 86 42
 Fax.:  +32-10-47 37 74 
 E-Mail:

 

 URL:  Personal Webpage
   
   Research domains
   Representative publications

 

 

Research domains

  • Categorization
  • Stereotyping
  • Face perception

 

My research is mainly concerned with how categorization influences perception, judgment and memory.

A classic outcome of categorization is the accentuation of perceived between-categories differences and within-categories similarities. Stereotyping illustrates this process (e.g., "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus"). In my recent research, I have examined category-based accentuation effects in the perception and memory of simple and complex stimuli, including faces and voices.

  • For instance, my colleagues and I have shown that people (mis)remember faces from different races and gender as more typical of their race and gender category than they really are.
  • The same applies to the recollection of faces whose gender identity is made ambiguous, and to the recollection of voices whose pitch is made ambiguous.

 

Other recent research interests include the study of "automatic" processes in social behaviors and in the processing of affective information.

  • For instance, my colleagues and I have shown that attitude acquisition via evaluative conditioning (a basic form of "affective learning") is unlikely to emerge without Ps' knowledge that attitude objects have been associated with valenced items.

 

 

 

Representative publications

Pleyers, G., Corneille, O., Luminet, O. & Yzerbyt, V. (in press). 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.

Corneille, O., Goldstone, R. L., Queller, S., & Potter, T. (in press). Asymmetries in the Categorization, Perceptual discrimination, and Visual Search for Reference and Non-Reference Exemplars. Memory & Cognition.

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.

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.

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.

 

| contact : Anne-Catherine Defeldre | 4/01/2010 |