Vincent Yzerbyt

 

Vincent Yzerbyt Full 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 43 76  Fax.:  +32-10-47 37 74  E-Mail:    URL:  Personal Webpage    Research domains    Representative publications

 

 

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Research domains

• Social cognition
• Attribution
• Stereotyping
• Intergroup relations

 

Perhaps as a consequence of my mixed cultural background, the bulk of my research has been concerned with aspects of stereotyping and intergroup relations.

 

After my early work on the Black Sheep effect and the Ingroup Overexclusion effect, I developed an interest in the formation and preservation of stereotypes as well as their suppression.

My perspective is that people rely on stereotypes

• not only for cognitive reasons (they face limited resources) but also
• for motivational (their stereotypes serves their own as well as their group image) and
• social reasons (they believe their stereotypes are shared by their group members).

 

I also studied group perception, examining aspects of

• homogeneity,
• entitativity, and
• essentialism
• as well as such fascinating topics as meta-stereotypes.

 

More recently, I have been doing research on social emotions. I investigate whether, how, and why people experience emotions not because of events that occur to them personally, but because of events that affect members of groups to which they belong.

 

Another of my longtime interests is statistics and methods.

• My most recent contribution on this front focuses on the use of ANCOVA and mediation in personality and social research.

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Representative publications

Smeesters, D., Warlop, L., Van Avermaet, E., Corneille, O. & Yzerbyt, V. Y. (2003). Do not prime hawks with doves: The interplay of construct activation and consistency of social value orientation on cooperative behavior. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 972-987.

Yzerbyt, V. Y., Dumont, M., Wigboldus, D., & Gordijn, E. (2003). I feel for us: The impact of categorization and identification on emotions and action tendencies. British Journal of Social Psychology, 42, 533-549.

Yzerbyt, V. Y., Corneille, O., Dumont, M., & Hahn, K. (2001). The dispositional inference strikes back: Situational correction and dispositional suppression in causal attribution. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 81, 365-376.

Yzerbyt, V. Y., Corneille, O., & Estrada, C. (2001). The interplay of subjective essentialism and entitativity in the formation of stereotypes. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 5, 141-155.

Yzerbyt, V. Y., Castano, E., Leyens, J.-Ph., & Paladino, P. (2000). The primacy of the ingroup: The interplay of entitativity and identification. European Review of Social Psychology, 11, 257-295.