Laurent Bègue
Biographic Data
| ID | 167628 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurent Bègue |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurent |
| FAMILY NAME | Bègue |
| SIGNATURE | BÈGUE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Grenoble Alpes |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8078-5802 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 183 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Imaginary companions: A meta-analytic investigation on anthropomorphism and chronic loneliness
Loneliness is among the subjective human experiences that can trigger a wide range of psychological, emotional, and even physical reactions. Anthropomorphism, the attribution of human-like characteristics to a non-human entity, represents a coping strategy that may restore a person's sense of social connectedness. The current literature on loneliness and anthropomorphic processes is sparse and inconsistent, so we conducted a multilevel meta-analy…
Sexual Frustration and Sexual Assault Among Higher Education Students in France
Alcohol Consumption and Sexual Aggression Perpetration: A Meta-Analytic Review
Sexual aggression often has serious and lasting effects on victims of all genders. One key risk factor for sexual aggression is alcohol consumption. Alcohol consumption promotes sexual aggression by disrupting cognitive functions, including the ability to process the internal and external cues that regulate social behavior. This meta-analysis of the experimental literature with alcohol administration protocols aimed to quantify this relationship …
Intentional Harm to Animals: A Multidimensional Approach
Despite growing awareness of the social and psychological issues linked with animal abuse, there is a lack of large‐scale research on the multidimensional factors at play in relation to such abuse in the adult population. In this first survey on animal abuse carried out in higher education in France and based on a highly powered sample ( N = 55,040 participants), we investigated the relative weight of risk factors pertaining to major criminologic…
Black-and-White” thinking: Does visual contrast polarize moral judgment? Independent replications and extension of Study 1
International audience
Cognitive Style Underlying Belief in a Just World
Mindless furry test-tubes: Categorizing animals as lab-subjects leads to their mind denial
Despite caring for animals, most people use products tested on lab-animals daily, and rarely consider the implications of their choices for animal testing. We experimentally examined across four preregistered and high-powered online studies (total N = 3405) whether categorizing animals as being lab-subjects, in a context where people are also reminded of the implications of their own consumer choices, could lead to their mind denial. Findings con…
Sommes-nous naturellement altruistes
Universities should lead on the plant-based dietary transition
As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change1Shukla PR Skea J Calvo Buendia E et al.Climate change and land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems.https://www.ipcc.ch/srccl/Date accessed: April 7, 2023Google Scholar and the EAT–Lancet Commission2Willett W Rockström J Loken B et al.Food in the Anthropocene: the…
The Gender Gap in Animal Experimentation Support: The Mediating Roles of Empathy and Speciesism
Sacrificing Animals in the Name of Scientific Authority: The Relationship Between Pro-Scientific Mindset and the Lethal Use of Animals in Biomedical Experimentation
The present research investigated how scientific authority increases the lethal use of animals in biomedical experimentation. In two behavioral studies ( N = 151 and 150), participants were required to incrementally administer 12 doses of a toxic chemical to a 53-cm fish (in reality, a biomimetic robot) for research on animal learning. Consistent with the Engaged Followership Theory on obedience, participants placed in a pro-scientific mindset mo…
Some effects of sexist video games on self-masculinity associations
Across two experimental studies, we investigated the short-term effect of video games with sexist content (i.e,. representing women as sexual objects and men as hyper-masculine) on women’s objectification . We examine whether identifying with a masculine character who objectified women can increase implicit association of self with masculinity, which in turn would increase objectification of women. Participants (n study 1 = 69 (32 men, mean age =…
Applied to video game violence, maximal positive controls is far from even a minimal demonstration: Comment on ( )
Psychological distress mediates the connection between sleep deprivation and physical fighting in adolescents
Lack of sleep is common in adolescence, and represents an important threat to adolescents' well‐being, academic commitment, and general health. It also has significant behavioral consequences through an increased likelihood of interpersonal violence. Previous studies have demonstrated an association between aggressive behavior and lack of sleep, but the psychological mediators remain completely unexplored. Grounded in the General Aggression Model…
The Early Impact of the Covid-19 Lockdown on Stress and Addictive Behaviors in an Alcohol-Consuming Student Population in France
Background: This study evaluated factors linked with perceived stress related to the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown and addictive behaviors prior to and during lockdown in a sample of students who indicated engaging in alcohol consumption behaviors before lockdown. Methods: Cross-sectional study. French students from four universities participated in this study, and 2,760 students reported alcohol use. During the first week of lockdown, students …
How Risk Signaling Influences Binge Drinking Impression Formation: An Evolutionary Experimental Approach
Background . Evolutionary theory-driven alcohol prevention programs for adolescents are lacking. This study introduced a binge drinking impression formation paradigm to test whether emphasizing sexual dysfunction induced by alcohol abuse lowers positive attitudes and expectancies related to binge drinking when compared with cognitive or long-term health consequences. Method . In a between-subjects experiment, 269 French high school students (age,…
Covid-19 pandemic lockdown and problematic eating behaviors in a student population
Self-Regulation Failure Reduces the Effect Alcohol Portrayals in Movies on Indirect Attitudes toward Alcohol
We investigated the cognitive mechanisms underlying change in implicit cognitions following exposure to alcohol portrayals. More precisely, we tested in an experimental study whether this change depends on controlled or automatic processes by putting participants in a state of self-regulatory fatigue prior to being exposed to alcohol portrayals. Ninety participants were randomly assigned to a 2 (attitude measure: before vs after) × 2 (alcohol por…
Authoritarian attitudes are associated with higher autonomic reactivity to stress and lower recovery
Right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) and social dominance orientation (SDO) both predict generalized prejudice, dehumanization, intergroup discrimination, oppression, violence, right-wing political party preference, and generally punitive attitudes. Authoritarian attitudes have been theorized to involve maladaptive emotional, cognitive, and social self-regulation. However, there is no study of authoritarianism using the functioning of the parasympat…
Violences dans le couple: Sanitariser Sans Dégenrer
International audience
Free love? On the relation between belief in free will, determinism, and passionate love
Pourquoi la violence fascine-t-elle
Personality Predicts Obedience in a M ilgram Paradigm
This study investigates how obedience in a M ilgram‐like experiment is predicted by interindividual differences. Participants were 35 males and 31 females aged 26–54 from the general population who were contacted by phone 8 months after their participation in a study transposing M ilgram's obedience paradigm to the context of a fake television game show. Interviews were presented as opinion polls with no stated ties to the earlier experiment. Per…
Consensus on media violence effects: Comment on Bushman, Gollwitzer, and Cruz (2015)
We summarize the main findings of Bushman, Gollwitzer, and Cruz (2015), highlight its empirical contributions, and note interesting patterns and implications for future research. The results demonstrate that consensus exists among experts on the reality of harmful media violence effects on children and adolescents. We note likely differences in the makeup of the different samples and how these might have affected the results. This comment also pr…
Destructive Obedience Without Pressure: Beyond the Limits of the Agentic State
Studies on obedience to authority highlight the power of the situation by showing how an experimental setting can trap participants and force them to commit acts contrary to their values ( Bocchiaro & Zimbardo, 2010 ). The source of obedience has generally been represented by an institutional scientific authority. In the present experiment, we tested a more widespread form of authority: a managerial authority implemented in the form of an adminis…
Experimental Research on Just-World Theory: Problems, Developments, and Future Challenges
M. J. Lerner (1980) proposed that people need to believe in a just world; thus, evidence that the world is not just is threatening, and people have a number of strategies for reducing such threats. Early research on this idea, and on just-world theory more broadly, was reviewed in early publications (e.g., M. J. Lerner, 1980; M. J. Lerner & D. T. Miller, 1978). In the present article, focus is directed on the post-1980 experimental research on th…
Too fatigued to care: Ego depletion, guilt, and prosocial behavior
The more you play, the more aggressive you become: A long-term experimental study of cumulative violent video game effects on hostile expectations and aggressive behavior
Viewing the world through “blood-red tinted glasses”: The hostile expectation bias mediates the link between violent video game exposure and aggression
Belief in a Just World and Commitment to Long-Term Deserved Outcomes
Revisiting the serotonin-aggression relation in humans: A meta-analysis
The inverse relation between serotonin and human aggression is often portrayed as "reliable," "strong," and "well established" despite decades of conflicting reports and widely recognized methodological limitations. In this systematic review and meta-analysis, we evaluate the evidence for and against the serotonin deficiency hypothesis of human aggression across 4 methods of assessing serotonin: (a) cerebrospinal fluid levels of 5-hydroxyindoleac…
A message in a bottle: Extrapharmacological effects of alcohol on aggression
Applied to video game violence, maximal positive controls is far from even a minimal demonstration: Comment on ( )
Violent Video Games Stress People Out and Make Them More Aggressive
It is well known that violent video games increase aggression, and that stress increases aggression. Many violent video games can be stressful because enemies are trying to kill players. The present study investigates whether violent games increase aggression by inducing stress in players. Stress was measured using cardiac coherence, defined as the synchronization of the rhythm of breathing to the rhythm of the heart. We predicted that cardiac co…
Mindless furry test-tubes: Categorizing animals as lab-subjects leads to their mind denial
Despite caring for animals, most people use products tested on lab-animals daily, and rarely consider the implications of their choices for animal testing. We experimentally examined across four preregistered and high-powered online studies (total N = 3405) whether categorizing animals as being lab-subjects, in a context where people are also reminded of the implications of their own consumer choices, could lead to their mind denial. Findings con…
The Gender Gap in Animal Experimentation Support: The Mediating Roles of Empathy and Speciesism
Psychological distress mediates the connection between sleep deprivation and physical fighting in adolescents
Lack of sleep is common in adolescence, and represents an important threat to adolescents' well‐being, academic commitment, and general health. It also has significant behavioral consequences through an increased likelihood of interpersonal violence. Previous studies have demonstrated an association between aggressive behavior and lack of sleep, but the psychological mediators remain completely unexplored. Grounded in the General Aggression Model…
Sweetened blood sweetens behavior. Ego depletion, glucose, guilt, and prosocial behavior
Belief in a Just World or Self-Serving Strategy
This study was conducted to examine the role of the individual's social power on endorsement of belief in a just world in the social domain. We hypothesized that the greater social power an individual has, the stronger the belief which s/he has in a just world. One hundred subjects of low or high socioeconomic status were randomly given low or high diagnosis of their social power after having completed a test which was presented as an evaluation …
The 1999 Balkan War: Changes in Ratings of Values and Pro War Attitudes among French Students
This study investigated the association of Kosovo's 1999 war with a value rating of 56 female French students and links between values evaluated at two times (before and during the war) and attitudes towards the Balkan war. Subjects completed a survey of 15 values by means of a 9-point Likert-type scale one month before the beginning of the Balkan war (Time 1) and during the war, 3 mo. later (Time 2). Attitude towards the war was also measured by…
The 1999 Balkan War: Changes in Ratings of Values and Prowar Attitudes among French Students
This study investigated the association of Kosovo's 1999 war with a value rating of 56 female French students and links between values evaluated at two times (before and during the war) and attitudes towards the Balkan war. Subjects completed a survey of 15 values by means of a 9-point Likert-type scale one month before the beginning of the Balkan war (Time 1) and during the war, 3 mo. later (Time 2). Attitude towards the war was also measured by…
The 1999 Balkan War: Changes in Ratings of Values and Pro War Attitudes Among French Students
Two Spheres of Belief in Justice: Extensive Support for the Bidimensional Model of Belief in a Just World
The purpose of this research comprising five studies ( N =666) was to further corroborate the bidimensional conceptualisation of the belief in a just world proposed by Lipkus et al. (1996) . It was demonstrated that belief in a just world for the Self (and not for Others) was correlated to evaluations of the meaning of life. Belief in a just world for Others was significantly correlated to discrimination against the elderly, stigmatisation of pov…
Self-Esteem Regulation in Threatening Social Comparison: The Roles of Belief in a Just World and Self-Efficacy
In this study, the author hypothesized that a high belief in a just world for Self (BJW-S), coupled with high perceived self-efficacy, would contribute to preservation of self-esteem in threatening social comparison. Participants ( N =186) completed the General Self-Efficacy Scale (Walliser, Schwartzer, & Jerusalem, 1993) and the BJW-S and BJW for Others (BJWO) scales (Lipkus, Dalbert, & Siegler, 1996). They were then given either an upward (unfa…
Experimental Research on Just-World Theory: Problems, Developments, and Future Challenges
M. J. Lerner (1980) proposed that people need to believe in a just world; thus, evidence that the world is not just is threatening, and people have a number of strategies for reducing such threats. Early research on this idea, and on just-world theory more broadly, was reviewed in early publications (e.g., M. J. Lerner, 1980; M. J. Lerner & D. T. Miller, 1978). In the present article, focus is directed on the post-1980 experimental research on th…
Belief in a Just World and Commitment to Long-Term Deserved Outcomes
A message in a bottle: Extrapharmacological effects of alcohol on aggression
“There Is No Such Thing as an Accident,” Especially When People Are Drunk
The intentionality bias is the tendency for people to view the behavior of others as intentional. This study tests the hypothesis that alcohol magnifies the intentionality bias by disrupting effortful cognitive abilities. Using a 2 × 2 balanced placebo design in a natural field experiment disguised as a food-tasting session, participants received either a high dose of alcohol (target BAC = .10%) or no alcohol, with half of each group believing th…
La télévision favorise-t-elle les comportements violents ? De Tueurs-nés à La zone extrême
LE film Tueurs-nes, hyperbole de la violence filmee, aurait ete realise par Olivier Stone pour denoncer les derives des medias en singeant leurs pratiques. Ce film culte, dans lequel un animateurvedette de reality show se trouve pris en otage puis froidement execute par deux tueurs en serie, a defraye la chronique lorsque le realisateur de Natural born killer a lui-meme ete assigne en justice par l’une des victimes d’une agression (doublee d’un m…
Pourquoi l'alcool rend-il violent
Nous croyons que si l'alcool peut rendre violent, c'est uniquement parce qu'il agit sur l'organisme. En realite, des effets de contexte et de culture jouent egalement un role determinant
The Role of Alcohol Consumption in Female Victimization: Findings from a French Representative Sample
Alcohol is frequently related to interpersonal aggression, but information regarding the role of alcohol consumption by victims of severe aggression is however lacking. In order to better understand the dynamic of victimization, we investigated contextual, facilitator, and psychological impact variables related to victimization in a French sample composed of 1,033 females aged 18-74 years. The participants were recruited using quota sampling meth…
Conduites agressives et alcoolisation
International audience
The Disguise of Sobriety: Unveiled by Alcohol in Persons With an Aggressive Personality
This investigation examined the factor structure of 8 well‐validated self‐report measures that assess traits that fall under the rubric of an “aggressive personality” and then determined how those factor(s) moderated the association between alcohol intoxication and aggression. Participants were 518 (252 men and 266 women) healthy social drinkers between 21 and 35 years of age. Following the consumption of an alcoholic or a placebo beverage, parti…
The more you play, the more aggressive you become: A long-term experimental study of cumulative violent video game effects on hostile expectations and aggressive behavior
Viewing the world through “blood-red tinted glasses”: The hostile expectation bias mediates the link between violent video game exposure and aggression
Too fatigued to care: Ego depletion, guilt, and prosocial behavior
Violent Video Games Stress People Out and Make Them More Aggressive
It is well known that violent video games increase aggression, and that stress increases aggression. Many violent video games can be stressful because enemies are trying to kill players. The present study investigates whether violent games increase aggression by inducing stress in players. Stress was measured using cardiac coherence, defined as the synchronization of the rhythm of breathing to the rhythm of the heart. We predicted that cardiac co…
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder’: People who think they are drunk also think they are attractive
This research examines the role of alcohol consumption on self‐perceived attractiveness. Study 1, carried out in a barroom ( N = 19), showed that the more alcoholic drinks customers consumed, the more attractive they thought they were. In Study 2, 94 non‐student participants in a bogus taste‐test study were given either an alcoholic beverage (target BAL [blood alcohol level]= 0.10 g/100 ml) or a non‐alcoholic beverage, with half of each group bel…
Revisiting the serotonin-aggression relation in humans: A meta-analysis
The inverse relation between serotonin and human aggression is often portrayed as "reliable," "strong," and "well established" despite decades of conflicting reports and widely recognized methodological limitations. In this systematic review and meta-analysis, we evaluate the evidence for and against the serotonin deficiency hypothesis of human aggression across 4 methods of assessing serotonin: (a) cerebrospinal fluid levels of 5-hydroxyindoleac…
Sweetened blood sweetens behavior. Ego depletion, glucose, guilt, and prosocial behavior
Personality Predicts Obedience in a M ilgram Paradigm
This study investigates how obedience in a M ilgram‐like experiment is predicted by interindividual differences. Participants were 35 males and 31 females aged 26–54 from the general population who were contacted by phone 8 months after their participation in a study transposing M ilgram's obedience paradigm to the context of a fake television game show. Interviews were presented as opinion polls with no stated ties to the earlier experiment. Per…
Consensus on media violence effects: Comment on Bushman, Gollwitzer, and Cruz (2015)
We summarize the main findings of Bushman, Gollwitzer, and Cruz (2015), highlight its empirical contributions, and note interesting patterns and implications for future research. The results demonstrate that consensus exists among experts on the reality of harmful media violence effects on children and adolescents. We note likely differences in the makeup of the different samples and how these might have affected the results. This comment also pr…
Destructive Obedience Without Pressure: Beyond the Limits of the Agentic State
Studies on obedience to authority highlight the power of the situation by showing how an experimental setting can trap participants and force them to commit acts contrary to their values ( Bocchiaro & Zimbardo, 2010 ). The source of obedience has generally been represented by an institutional scientific authority. In the present experiment, we tested a more widespread form of authority: a managerial authority implemented in the form of an adminis…
Psychology (37 works) · Social Psychology (28 works) · Social Psychology (19 works) · Medicine (15 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (14 works) · Clinical Psychology (13 works) · Aggression (12 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Poison control (10 works) · Political science (10 works)