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Vincent Yzerbyt was born April 15, 1961 in Kortrijk, Belgium. A full professor of psychology and statistics at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium, he is the head of the Louvain Social Psychology Laboratory.

His research is mainly concerned with social cognition, impression formation, and intergroup relations, and more specifically with the formation and preservation of stereotypes along with their impact on issues of gender and cultural diversity. After his early work on the Black Sheep effect and the Ingroup Overexclusion effect, he mainly developed an interest in stereotyping and more specifically in the formation and preservation of stereotypes as well as their suppression. The basic idea is that people rely on stereotypes not only for cognitive reasons (they face limited resources) but also for motivational reasons (their stereotypes serve their own as well as their group’s image) and social reasons (they believe stereotypes are shared by their group members). He then turned to group perception by examining aspects of homogeneity, entitativity, and essentialism, showing the role of entitativity in people’s tendency to account for group behaviour by referring to inherent characteristics. He also initiated a program of research on social emotions in which he investigated 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.  More recently, he turned his attention to the fundamental dimensions of social perception, i.e., Competence and Warmth. With his Dimensional Compensation Model, Vincent Yzerbyt proposed that people who are perceived to be competent also tend to be perceived as not so warm and conversely. He continues to investigate the way social structural factors that characterize relations between social groups such as power, resources, and status on the one hand and beliefs, values, and goals on the other shape people’s evaluation of themselves and others in terms of competence (comprising ability and assertiveness) and warmth  (comprising friendliness and morality). In 2018, he and four other prominent scholars embarked on an adversarial collaboration whereby researchers join forces to evaluate competing models of social evaluation, an initiative that opened the path to a novel, respectful, and indeed productive way to advance knowledge. When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out, he became involved as one of the main PI’s in the Motivation Barometer, a Belgian interuniversity initiative that lasted for two years and surveyed some 500,000 citizens to monitor a large number of social and psychological variables related to adherence to sanitary measures and vaccination. Clearly, the fundamental dimensions of competence and warmth are at the very heart of trust, a key element in people’s reaction to vaccination. Moreover, his work on social emotions and social identity bears direct relevance for the management of the pandemic not only because emotions (fear, anxiety, resentment, and anger) are at the core of people’s reactions about the COVID but also because the ‘subjective’ definition of the social landscape is a crucial aspect of an efficient communication by experts and authorities. Another line of work to which he contributed is statistics and methods. Vincent Yzerbyt helped delineate conditions for the use of ANCOVA in personality and social research as well as a series of key issues pertaining to tests of moderation and mediation models in both survey and experimental data.

Vincent Yzerbyt is the author of more than 250 peer-reviewed publications, some 50 chapters and a dozen monographs, edited books, and textbooks mostly in English and in French. His most recent books deal with The Psychologies of Gender (2020) and The Psychology of Vaccination (2023). As of July 2023, his Google Scholar H amounts to 76 with 28452 citations. He has supervised 25 Ph.Ds. (with an additional 6 under way), 11 post-docs, and took part in 5 HDR committees in France. He was a visiting professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles and at the University of Amsterdam, of Tunis, and of Clermont-Ferrand and a visiting scholar at the University of Colorado, Boulder and Princeton University.  A Francqui chair recipient of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 2006, he received a Career Trajectory Award by the American Society of Experimental Psychology (2007) as well as the Kurt Lewin Award (2008) followed by a Jean-Paul Codol Award (2017) from the European Association of Social Psychology. He has been the founding chief editor of the Social Psychological and Personality Science (2009-2013) and associate editor of several top-notch outlets in his field (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, British Journal of Social Psychology, and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin). He is the current chief editor of the International Review of Social Psychology (2023-2027). A former President of the European Association of Social Psychology (2002-2005) and Chair of the European Social Cognition Network (2009-2014), he also served as the Vice-Rector of Research of UCLouvain (2009-2014).

 

De la simple passivité à un refus délibéré, parfois claironné publiquement, on trouve une vaste gamme d'attitudes, regroupées sous le vocable « d’hésitation vaccinale ». Cet ouvrage s’intéresse aux personnes qui adoptent cette attitude.

 La psychologie de la vaccination

Klein, O. & Yzerbyt, V. (2023).

Éditions de l'Université de Bruxelles, Bruxelles.

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Véritable panorama de la psychologie sociale et de ses approches européennes et anglo-saxonnes. Tout en couleurs, avec un appareil pédagogique riche.

Psychologie sociale (2 édition)

Yzerbyt, V. & Klein, O. (2023).

De Boeck, Louvain-la-Neuve.

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Une première en langue française ! Rassemblées en un seul ouvrage, les approches du genre dans les différentes sous-disciplines de la psychologie

 Les psychologies du genre : Regards croisés sur le développement, l'éducation, la santé mentale et la société

Yzerbyt, V., Roskam, I. & Casini, A. (2021).

Mardaga, Bruxelles.

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Pour une présentation complète et succincte des travaux sur les relations intergroupes, stéréotypes et autres préjugés…

Les relations intergroupes

Yzerbyt, V. & Demoulin, S. (2019).

Presses Universitaires de Grenoble, Grenoble.

Relations intergroupes

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Pour une approche à la fois moderne et aisée en statistique en sciences humaines et sociales, plongez-vous dans…

L’analyse des données : Une approche par comparaison de modèles.

Judd, C. M., McClelland, G. H., Ryan, C. R., Muller, D., & Yzerbyt, V. (2018).

De Boeck, Bruxelles.

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Pour un tour d’horizon complet en matière de stéréotypes et autres a priori sur tout un chacun, précipitez-vous sur …

Psychologie des préjugés et de la discrimination.

Whitley, B & Kite, M (2013)

(traduit par T. Arciszewski sous la supervision scientifique de V. Yzerbyt et S. Demoulin)

De Boeck, Bruxelles.

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Biographical Information

 

Publications

 

Professional Address

 

Editorial Experience

 

Scientific Awards

 

Ph.Ds. and Dissertations

 

Research Interests

 

Teaching and Professional Experience

 

Research Funding

 

Scientific and Professional Associations


 

Biographical Information

 

  • Born April 15, 1961 at Kortrijk, Belgium
  • Belgian nationality

 

Professional Address

 

 

Scientific Awards

 

  • 2023 Honorary doctorate from the University of Basel (Switzerland)
  • 2022 five-yearly Tobie Jonckheere Award (Psychological and educational Sciences) of the Royal Academy of Belgium for the monograph ‘Les Psychologies du Genre’ (Mardaga, 2020)
  • 2017, Jean-Paul Codol Award de la European Association of Experimental Social Psychology (EASP)
  • 2011, Fellow of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology (USA)
  • 2008, Kurt Lewin Award of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP)
  • 2008, Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (USA)
  • 2007, Career Trajectory Award of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology (USA)
  • 2005-2006, Francqui Chair of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Francqui Foundation
  • 1996, Membership of Society of Experimental Social Psychology (USA)
  • 1994, Five-yearly National Award for Early Career in Psychology, Belgian University Foundation
  • 1984, Fulbright Fellow - Commission for Educational Exchange - USIA grant IA-AEGH-G6192688

 

 

Research Interests

 

  • Stereotyping and intergroup relations
    • Emotions in the context of intergroup relations: collective, intergroup, and group-based emotions
    • Essentialism and entitativity in group perception
    • Stereotype change and stereotype suppression
    • Black Sheep Effect and Ingroup Overexclusion
  • Attribution
    • Fundamental attribution error and dispositional suppression
    • Pragmatic aspects of the overattribution bias
    • Social attribution
  • Data Analysis
    • Analysis of Covariance, ANCOVA
    • Mediation, Moderated Mediation, Mediated Moderation

 

Links

 

Division of Social and Organisational Psychology - UCL

Social Psychology Network

 

 

Links to Various Societies…

and their Publications

 

 

European Association of Social Psychology (EAESP)

European Journal of Social Psychology

European Review of Social Psychology

Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP)

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Personality and Social Psychology Review

 

 

Consortium of ARP / EASP / SESP / SPSP

Social Psychological and Personality Science

 

 

European Social Cognition Network (ESCON)

Social Cognition

Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues

Journal of Social Issues

American Psychological Association

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

American Psychological Society

Psychological Science