Andreea Ernst-Vintila

     
Institution
Aix-Marseille Université

Current Position
Full-Time Tenured Associate Professor

Highest Degree
Ph.D. in Social and Environmental Psychology from University of Paris Descartes, 2005

Research Interests
Applied Social Psychology
Communication
Conflict Resolution
Culture/Ethnicity
Emotion
Group Processes
Intergroup Relations
Organizational Behavior
Persuasion/Social Influence
Political Psychology
Research Methods/Assessment
Sociology

Laboratory Home Page
Laboratory of Applied Psychology EA 4298

Courses Taught
Cross-cultural Management
Cross-Cultural Psychology
Dynamics of Social Representations
English for Psychology
History of Psychology
Introduction to Psychology
Introduction to Social Pychology
Research Methods (Surveys; Experiments)
Risk Perception and Social Thinking about Collective Risks
Social Influence
Statistics for Social Sciences

 
Andreea Ernst-Vintila
Laboratory of Applied Psychology
CNRS UMR 6012 Espace
Aix-Marseille Université
Aix-en-Provence
France


Vita

Andreea Ernst-Vintila
Research topics:

(1) Dynamics of social representations. The making and tranformation of social knowledge related to collective risks and to the environment. History and Environment-based perspective

(2) Relationships between societies and environments

(3) Collective risks: lay thinking, behaviors, and collective memory (terrorism, environmental hazards, crises)

(4) Social representations and conducts related to Water (lack, or excess of, Water); cultural and cross-cultural approaches

THEORETICAL ISSUES:

(1) Social Practice (Conducts) as a determinant of the elaboration and transformation of social representations

(2) Personal Involvement as a mediator of the elaboration and transformation of social representations

(3) Injunctive function of social representations (how do social representations guide action?)

(4) Personal Involvement and Sociability (e.g., associative affiliation) as enhancing factors of engagement in (risk-related) social conducts

(5) History of social psychology. European Jewish foundations

APPLIED MATTERS

My students and I work on various applied matters such as:

-- Collective risks: social thinking, memory and behaviours (work in progress: Social representations of terrorism, environmental hazards, crises)

-- Conflict resolution and Peacebuilding

-- Social thinking and conducts related to water and water pollution

In the past, I have supervised students' reasearch on matters such as:

-- Social proximity as an enhancer of message acceptance in various collective or individual risk-related contexts (floods, earthquakes, tsunami, AIDS, etc.) or other controversed social topics, such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the French referendum of the European Constitution, the U.S. troops in Iraq, Anti-semitism, racism, euthanasia, drugs, overweight, etc.


Books:

  • Ernst-Vintila, A. (2009). Le rôle de l’implication personnelle dans l’expression de la pensée sociale sur les risques (The role of personal involvement in the expression of social thinking about risks). In M-L. Rouquette (Ed.), La pensée sociale. Perspectives théoriques et recherches appliquées (Social thinking. Theoretical stands and applied research). Ramonville St Agne: Erès, pp. 161-190.

Journal Articles:

  • Gruev-Vintila, A. (2006). Les dieux sont tombés… pile! Eléments de l’histoire du risque référés à l’histoire et aux idéologies de l’humanité. Un regard psychosocial. Psihologia Sociala, 18, 139-152.
  • Gruev-Vintila, A. (2004). About the structural analysis of the social representations: The model of Basic Cognitive Schemes (SCB) (original title : Despre analiza structurala a reprezentarilor sociale. Modelul Schemelor Cognitive de Baza (SCB)). Psihologia Sociala, 14, 185-196.
  • Gruev-Vintila, A., & Rouquette, M-L. (2007). Social thinking about collective risk: How do risk-related practice and personal involvement impact its social representations? Journal of Risk Research, 10, 555-581.

Other Publications:

  • Ernst-Vintila, A. (2009). Le rôle de l’implication personnelle dans l’expression de la pensée sociale sur les risques. In M-L. Rouquette (Ed.), La pensée sociale: Perspectives fondamentales et recherches appliquées. Ramonville St Agne: Erès, pp. 161-190.
  • Gruev-Vintila, A. (2007). Teaching social psychology as a discipline anchored in history. Proceedings of the International Scientific & Practical Conference "Contemporary Issues in Teaching Psychology". Yerevan, Armenia (October 2007): Yerevan State University Publishing, pp. 190-194.
  • Gruev-Vintila, A. (2006). Historicité des représentations sociales du risque sismique. Une inscription culturelle et psychosociale dans le contexte roumain. In V. Socorovschi (Ed.), Riscuri þi catastrofe (Risks and catastrophies), Vol. V. Cluj-Napoca : Casa Cartii de Stiinta.
  • Gruev-Vintila, A. (2005). Dynamics of social representations of collective risk and engagement in risk mitigation behaviour: The role of practices, of personal implication and of sociability. [Ph.D. Thesis]
  • Gruev-Vintila, A. (2005). Représentations sociales et conduites de réduction des risques collectifs: Le rôle de l’expérience préalable et de la possibilité perçue d’action (Social representations and collective risks mitigation behaviors: The role of prior experience and of...). In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference of Applied Social Psychology, Rennes, 20-22 October 2005.
  • Gruev-Vintila, A., & Baggio, S. (2007). Risques collectifs et pensée sociale. Le rôle de l’implication personnelle. Symposium chaired at the 8th International Conference of Applied Social Psychology, Besançon, August 29-31, 2007.
  • Gruev-Vintila, A., Pouet, C., Demontis, C., & Hellmuth A. (2007). Social representations of terrorism. A study conducted at the airport of Marseille-Provence. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of Applied Social Psychology, Besançon, August 29-31, 2007.

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