RESEARCH TOPICS

(1) Threat and challenge: the making and transformation of social knowledge related to threats and collective risks (terrorism, environmental hazards, crises, health-related issues). Dynamics, normative regulation, and time perspective in the transformation of threats into challenges.

(2) Relationships between societies and their environments. Health and environment. Environmental education.

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

(4) Civic responsibility and education related issues.

(5) Corporate social and environmental responsibility.

(6) Lay thinking and behaviors about money and debt issues.

(7) Collective risks: lay thinking, behaviors, and collective memory.

(8) Contribution of the Theory of Social Representations to the study of the efficacy of laws

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:

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

(2) Conflict resolution and peacebuilding

(3) Social thinking and conducts related to water and water pollution

In the past, I have supervised students' research 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 controversial social topics, such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the French referendum of the European Constitution, the U.S. troops in Iraq, Antisemitism, racism, euthanasia, drugs, and obesity.

Primary Interests:

Aggression, Conflict, Peace
Applied Social Psychology
Culture and Ethnicity
Emotion, Mood, Affect
Group Processes
Health Psychology
Intergroup Relations
Life Satisfaction, Well-Being
Organizational Behavior
Persuasion, Social Influence
Political Psychology
Sociology, Social Networks

Aggression, Conflict, Peace
Applied Social Psychology
Culture and Ethnicity
Emotion, Mood, Affect
Group Processes
Health Psychology
Intergroup Relations

Life Satisfaction, Well-Being
Organizational Behavior
Persuasion, Social Influence
Political Psychology
Sociology, Social Networks

Research Group or Laboratory:

Laboratoire de Psychologie Appliquée (Applied Psychology Research Center) [Map]

Journal Articles:

Ernst-Vintila, A., Delouvée, S., et Rouquette, M.-L. (2010). La crise financière de 2008 : menace collective ou défi individuel ? Une analyse de la pensée sociale mobilisée en situation de crise. Cahiers Internationaux de Psychologie Sociale, 87, p. 515-542.
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.
Lo Monaco, G., Piermattéo, A., Guimelli, C., et Ernst-Vintila, A. (2010). Using the Black Sheep Effect to reveal normative stakes: The example of alcohol drinking contexts. European Journal of Social Psychology, 41, 1-5. Published online 29 July 2010 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.764.

Other Publications:

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.
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., & 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.

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 (Observation, Surveys, Experiments)
Risk Perception and Social Thinking about Collective Risks
Social Influence
Statistics for Social Sciences

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 (Observation, Surveys, Experiments)
Risk Perception and Social Thinking about Collective Risks
Social Influence
Statistics for Social Sciences

Andreea Ernst-Vintila
Laboratoire de Psychologie Appliquée
Bâtiment Recherche
57 rue Pierre Taittinger
51096 Reims
France

Phone: +33(0)3 26 91 37 91