Andreea Ernst-Vintila

Institution Aix-Marseille Université Current Position 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 Gender Group Processes Intergroup Relations Organizational Behavior Persuasion/Social Influence Political Psychology Prejudice/Stereotyping Psychology and Law Research Methods/Assessment Sociology Laboratory Home Page CNRS UMR 6012 Espace Desmid 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   Andreea Ernst-Vintila Department of Social Sciences and Humanities Aix-Marseille Université CNRS UMR 6012 Espace Marseille France Research topics: (1) Dynamics of social representations. The making and tranformation of social knowledge related to collective risks/threats and to the environment. History and Environment-based perspective (2) Relationships between societies and 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) Collective risks: lay thinking, behaviors, and collective memory (terrorism, environmental hazards, crises). (6) 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: -- 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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