Serge Guimond
Biographic Data
| ID | 169613 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Serge Guimond |
| GIVEN NAMES | Serge |
| FAMILY NAME | Guimond |
| SIGNATURE | GUIMOND S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale et Cognitive |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0267-7659 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 513 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Gender inequality and cultural values in explaining gender differences in positive and negative emotions: A comparison of 24 countries during the Covid-19 pandemic
The coronavirus pandemic posed a major challenge to mental health. Existing evidence shows that COVID-19 is related to poor emotional well-being, particularly among women. However, most work on the subject uses single-country samples, limiting the ability to generalize the disparity or explain it as a function of societal variables. The present study investigates the expression of positive and negative emotions during the pandemic as a function o…
Group Relative Deprivation and Violent Radicalism: Moving Toward a Comprehensive Model
Many terrorist attacks, carried out in the name of Islam, have posed significant threats to human lives across the globe. Research aiming to understand the roots of radicalism has identified Group Relative Deprivation (GRD) as a central explanatory concept. The present research (Study 1, N = 209; Study 2, N = 611; Study 3, N = 638) conducted in France, home to Western Europe’s largest Muslim community, failed to confirm the role of GRD in explain…
Psychological responses to jihadist terrorism: Exploring a small but significant opinion shift towards minority inclusion among French citizens in response to the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks
Experiences with jihadist terrorism sparked debates about the boundaries of religious expression within secular societies. Standpoints majority members hold in such discussions may be inclusive or exclusive towards religious minorities and inform wider intergroup perceptions. The present research explores these relationships in the context of the 2015 Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks in Paris, France. Using longitudinal data from a diverse French …
The Social and Political Psychology of Violent Radicalism
Can Biases in Perceived Attitudes Explain Anti-Conformism
In two studies about farming practices, the respondents who are particularly favorable to organic farming tend to have a higher intention to convert their farm to organic when they perceive other farmers as not very favorable to this practice. This intention can be considered as anticonformist, as it is in opposition to the general view of others. This article hypothesizes that this phenomenon can be explained by some biases on the perceptions of…
Dynamiques entre attitudes personnelles et normes sociales perçues dans les comportements de changement. Le cas de la conversion à l’agriculture biologique
Le présent travail de recherche a recours à la psychologie sociale et à la socioanthropologie pour analyser les dynamiques entre les attitudes personnelles de producteurs agricoles et leurs perceptions des normes environnantes lors d’un processus de conversion à l’agriculture biologique. Les entretiens semi-directifs auprès d’éleveurs de la région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes démontrent un poids important de la relation dynamique entre ce que les individ…
Social dominance and anti‐immigrant prejudice: A cross‐national and prospective test of the mediating role of assimilation, multiculturalism, colour blindness, and interculturalism
Decades of research have shown that social dominance orientation (SDO) is one of the most important predictors of anti‐immigrant attitudes. However, the mechanisms through which SDO can explain prejudice have been studied insufficiently. Using rich and diverse samples from France and from the province of Québec in Canada, the present research provides a cross‐national ( N = 1,852) and prospective ( N = 534) analysis of a theoretical model in whic…
You read what you eat! Selective exposure effects as obstacles for environmental risk communication in the meat consumption debate
The selective exposure effect describes people's tendency to prefer information that confirms rather than challenges existing beliefs. The present research replicates the selective exposure effect in the context of meat reduction as a proposed strategy to combat climate change. Additionally, we tested whether biased information selection can help explain polarization dynamics on the individual and group-level. We recruited a French crowd working …
Power to the people: Disidentification with the government and the support for populism
Populist attitudes have been shown to predict voting behavior. These attitudes consist of a belief that everyday citizens are better judges of what is best for their own country than politicians and that the political elites are corrupt. As such, a clear “us” (pure and good everyday citizens) and “them” (the evil political elite) rhetoric is present. In the present research, we propose that identification with the government may predict whether p…
Bottom-up populism: How relative deprivation and populist attitudes mobilize leaderless anti-government protest
The present research focuses on populism as a bottom-up phenomenon that emerges from shared perceptions of relative deprivation. We predict that by serving as a shared ideological basis, populist attitudes can mobilize leaderless anti-government protest across ideological boundaries. We test this prediction in the context of the French Yellow Vests movement. Using a sample of French citizens (N = 562), we compare the effects of different indicato…
The impact of national integration policies on prejudice and psychological well‐being: The fundamental role of the clarity and coherence of integration policies
Recent advances in social psychological research have shown that national integration policies influence how immigrants are perceived and treated by the mainstream population. However, the processes by which these policies come to have an impact on prejudice and well‐being of the general population are largely unknown. Moreover, past research has often relied on unrepresentative samples limiting generalizability. The present research proposes tha…
The effect of the normative context on intergroup discrimination: Implications for the scientific value of exact and conceptual replications
Intergroup threat, social dominance, and the malleability of ideology: The importance of conceptual replication
Consistent with the theory of malleable ideology, research has shown that, under intergroup threat, antiegalitarian individuals will exploit the malleable character of color blindness and strategically claim to be strong supporters of it. In three studies conducted in France, we found no support for this theory when measuring color blindness but strong support when using measures of laïcité , an ideology of secularism. Indeed, those who score low…
The woman who wasn't there: Converging evidence that subliminal social comparison affects self-evaluation
Although social comparison is often considered as an automatic process, the evidence in support of this idea is weak and inconclusive. In this paper, we reexamined the question of automaticity in social comparison by testing the hypothesis that subliminal social comparison affects explicit self-evaluations. In two high-powered experiments, young women were subliminally exposed (or not) to a high standard of comparison (media images of ultra-thin …
L'égalité républicaine, un barrage à l'intolérance
The Role of Assimilation and Multiculturalism for the Relation Between Social Dominance Orientation and Prejudice: The Case of Anglophones and Francophones in Québec
Research on national diversity policies show that cultural norms promoted by the government such as multiculturalism and assimilation play an important role in predicting the majority group members' prejudice toward immigrants. However, the extent to which minority groups can share these cultural norms with majority group members is largely unknown. The first goal of the current research is to determine if majority and minority groups perceive si…
Schooling, Citizen-Making, and Anti-Immigrant Prejudice in France
Are schools an effective institution to build citizenship and to transmit values associated with a given citizenship regime? A survey of 300 middle and high school pupils showed that for pupils, the representation of the French citizenship model is structured in two dimensions, ‘republican citizenship’ (or colorblind equality) and ‘new laïcité’ (or secularism), replicating previous research among adults. Moreover, the results support the schools’…
From social class to self-efficacy: Internalization of low social status pupils’ school performance
Immigrants' generational status affects emotional reactions to informal social control: The role of perceived legitimacy of the source of control
Les représentations du multiculturalisme en France: Décalage singulier entre l'individuel et le collectif
Studies on the perception of multiculturalism, in France and elsewhere, usually look only at personal attitudes without asking what individuals perceive as the norm in their community. This article presents the findings of a survey based on a representative sample of the French population ( N = 1001) which aims to fill this gap. In accordance with the concept of 'pluralist ignorance', the results reveal a significant difference between personal a…
Living in a multicultural world: Intergroup ideologies and the societal context of intergroup relations
In a relatively short time span, issues of ethnic, cultural, and religious diversity have become central topics of discussion in various nations. As a result, the role of broad ideologies that frame and structure relations between groups has received increasing attention by social psychologists. Of particular concern has been the role of these intergroup ideologies in promoting intergroup harmony and reducing prejudice. In this article, we apprai…
Diversity policy, social dominance, and intergroup relations: Predicting prejudice in changing social and political contexts
In contrast to authors of previous single-nation studies, we propose that supporting multiculturalism (MC) or assimilation (AS) is likely to have different effects in different countries, depending on the diversity policy in place in a particular country and the associated norms. A causal model of intergroup attitudes and behaviors, integrating both country-specific factors (attitudes and perceived norms related to a particular diversity policy) …
Personal self and collective self: When academic choices depend on the context of social comparison
Power and Legitimizing Ideologies in Hierarchy‐Enhancing vs. Hierarchy‐Attenuating Environments
According to social dominance theory, intergroup dynamics are strongly influenced by the social positions which individuals hold in society. Several studies suggest that holding a position of power can, sometimes automatically, generate negative attitudes and hostile behaviors toward subordinate social groups. However, at present, the studies carried out on these effects of power have not taken into account the influence of the normative context.…
Assimilation, multiculturalism, and colorblindness: Mediated and moderated relationships between social dominance orientation and prejudice
Does social dominance generate prejudice? Integrating individual and contextual determinants of intergroup cognitions
Social dominance orientation (SDO) has been proposed as an important variable in the explanation of prejudice. We distinguish between three conceptualizations of SDO: SDO as a personality trait (personality model), SDO as a moderator of the effects of situational variables (Person x Situation model), and SDO as a mediator of the effect of social position on prejudice (group socialization model [GSM]). Four studies (N = 1.657) looking at the relat…
Diversity policy, social dominance, and intergroup relations: Predicting prejudice in changing social and political contexts
In contrast to authors of previous single-nation studies, we propose that supporting multiculturalism (MC) or assimilation (AS) is likely to have different effects in different countries, depending on the diversity policy in place in a particular country and the associated norms. A causal model of intergroup attitudes and behaviors, integrating both country-specific factors (attitudes and perceived norms related to a particular diversity policy) …
Assimilation, multiculturalism, and colorblindness: Mediated and moderated relationships between social dominance orientation and prejudice
Relative deprivation theory and the Quebec nationalist movement: The cognition–emotion distinction and the personal–group deprivation issue
The present study investigated the effect of unfavorable intergroup comparisons on feelings of group discontent and examined the importance of various types of relative deprivation (RD) to explain militant sociopolitical attitudes (or nationalism). Francophones from Montreal answered a questionnaire that either informed them that according to several studies, Francophones have a lower average annual income than Anglophones or did not inform them …
Culture, gender, and the self: Variations and impact of social comparison processes
Psychological differences between women and men, far from being invariant as a biological explanation would suggest, fluctuate in magnitude across cultures. Moreover, contrary to the implications of some theoretical perspectives, gender differences in personality, values, and emotions are not smaller, but larger, in American and European cultures, in which greater progress has been made toward gender equality. This research on gender differences …
Education and Causal Attributions: The Development of "Person-Blame" and "System-Blame" Ideology
Serge Guimond, Guy Begin, Douglas L. Palmer, Education and Causal Attributions: The Development of "Person-Blame" and "System-Blame" Ideology, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 52, No. 2 (Jun., 1989), pp. 126-140
Social comparison, self-stereotyping, and gender differences in self-construals
Four studies examined gender differences in self-construals and the role of social comparison in generating these differences. Consistent with previous research, Study 1 (N=461) showed that women define themselves as higher in relational interdependence than men, and men define themselves as higher in independence/agency than women. Study 2 (N=301) showed that within-gender social comparison decreases gender differences in self-construals relativ…
Social identity, relative group status and intergroup attitudes: When favourable outcomes change intergroup relations…for the worse
This study examines in a natural setting (N = 253) the effects of favourable outcomes at the individual and group levels on the relations between members of high (nondisabled) and low (disabled) status groups. Consistent with past research, the results show that, overall, high‐status group members are more likely than low‐status group members to display ingroup bias. Furthermore, as hypothesized on the basis of the role of relative gratification …
How good are you in math?” The effect of gender stereotypes on students’ recollection of their school marks
Bragging About One's School Grades: Gender Stereotyping and Students' Perception of Their Abilities in Science, Mathematics, and Language
Bottom-up populism: How relative deprivation and populist attitudes mobilize leaderless anti-government protest
The present research focuses on populism as a bottom-up phenomenon that emerges from shared perceptions of relative deprivation. We predict that by serving as a shared ideological basis, populist attitudes can mobilize leaderless anti-government protest across ideological boundaries. We test this prediction in the context of the French Yellow Vests movement. Using a sample of French citizens (N = 562), we compare the effects of different indicato…
Attitude Change During College: Normative or Informational Social Influence
Type of academic training and causal attributions for social problems
To provide evidence of the effects of academic training on causal attributions, university students in social science, commerce and engineering were compared at different points of their training in terms of their explanations of poverty and unemployment. Results of cross‐sectional analyses showed no field differences in causal attributions at the beginning of the first academic year but significant differences at the end of the year, with social…
The trouble with assimilation: Social dominance and the emergence of hostility against immigrants
Implicit and explicit measures of prejudice and stereotyping: Do they assess the same underlying knowledge structure
Do implicit and explicit measures of ethnic attitudes assess the same underlying knowledge structure in long term memory? This study uses both a correlational and an experimental design ( N = 133) in order to address this central question. In the first part, we suggest that self‐presentational strategies can partly explain why the relation between implicit and explicit measures is inconsistent in the existing literature. More specifically, we sho…
The Role of Assimilation and Multiculturalism for the Relation Between Social Dominance Orientation and Prejudice: The Case of Anglophones and Francophones in Québec
Research on national diversity policies show that cultural norms promoted by the government such as multiculturalism and assimilation play an important role in predicting the majority group members' prejudice toward immigrants. However, the extent to which minority groups can share these cultural norms with majority group members is largely unknown. The first goal of the current research is to determine if majority and minority groups perceive si…
From social class to self-efficacy: Internalization of low social status pupils’ school performance
Education, academic program and intergroup attitudes
Plusieurs études ont montré l'existence d'une relation positive entre le degré d'instruction et les attitudes intergroupes. Ces résultats suggèrent à certains chercheurs que l'éducation réduit les préjugés mais d'autres soutiennent que les gens les plus instruits ont simplement plus de facilités à cacher leurs préjugés. De façon similaire, si plusieurs considèrent que l'éducation rend les gens plus réceptifs à l'idéologie dominante, d'autres main…
Schooling, Citizen-Making, and Anti-Immigrant Prejudice in France
Are schools an effective institution to build citizenship and to transmit values associated with a given citizenship regime? A survey of 300 middle and high school pupils showed that for pupils, the representation of the French citizenship model is structured in two dimensions, ‘republican citizenship’ (or colorblind equality) and ‘new laïcité’ (or secularism), replicating previous research among adults. Moreover, the results support the schools’…
Les représentations du multiculturalisme en France: Décalage singulier entre l'individuel et le collectif
Studies on the perception of multiculturalism, in France and elsewhere, usually look only at personal attitudes without asking what individuals perceive as the norm in their community. This article presents the findings of a survey based on a representative sample of the French population ( N = 1001) which aims to fill this gap. In accordance with the concept of 'pluralist ignorance', the results reveal a significant difference between personal a…
Power and Legitimizing Ideologies in Hierarchy‐Enhancing vs. Hierarchy‐Attenuating Environments
According to social dominance theory, intergroup dynamics are strongly influenced by the social positions which individuals hold in society. Several studies suggest that holding a position of power can, sometimes automatically, generate negative attitudes and hostile behaviors toward subordinate social groups. However, at present, the studies carried out on these effects of power have not taken into account the influence of the normative context.…
Intergroup threat, social dominance, and the malleability of ideology: The importance of conceptual replication
Consistent with the theory of malleable ideology, research has shown that, under intergroup threat, antiegalitarian individuals will exploit the malleable character of color blindness and strategically claim to be strong supporters of it. In three studies conducted in France, we found no support for this theory when measuring color blindness but strong support when using measures of laïcité , an ideology of secularism. Indeed, those who score low…
The politics of Canadian social scientists: A comment on Baer and Lambert
À partir d'une analyse secondaire d'un sondage national mené en 1983, Baer et Lambert (1990) soutiennent que les études universitaires ont un effet idéologique unidirectionnel allant dans le sens d'un renforcement de l'idéologie dominante. Us affirment de plus avoir démontré de façon «convaincante» que les études en sciences sociales n'ont pas un effet opposé; que les spécialistes des sciences sociales au Canada, loin d'être radicaux, sont probab…
Developmental Changes in Ingroup Favouritism among Bilingual and Unilingual Francophone and Anglophone Students
Relations between bilingualism and intergroup attitudes are examined among 663 Francophone students in Quebec, 521 Anglophone cadets at an Ontario military college, and in a longitudinal Anglophone 271-student sample from an Ontario university. In each of the three samples, among older students, unilinguals display ingroupfavouritism; bilinguals do not. Educational level is positively related to ingroup favouritism among unilinguals. Among biling…
Liberal reformers or militant radicals: What are the effects of education in the social sciences
Relative deprivation theory and the Quebec nationalist movement: The cognition-emotion distinction and the personal-group deprivation issue
Relative deprivation theory and the Quebec nationalist movement: The cognition–emotion distinction and the personal–group deprivation issue
The present study investigated the effect of unfavorable intergroup comparisons on feelings of group discontent and examined the importance of various types of relative deprivation (RD) to explain militant sociopolitical attitudes (or nationalism). Francophones from Montreal answered a questionnaire that either informed them that according to several studies, Francophones have a lower average annual income than Anglophones or did not inform them …
La représentation des causes de l'infériorité économique des québécois francophones.
Education, academic program and intergroup attitudes
Plusieurs études ont montré l'existence d'une relation positive entre le degré d'instruction et les attitudes intergroupes. Ces résultats suggèrent à certains chercheurs que l'éducation réduit les préjugés mais d'autres soutiennent que les gens les plus instruits ont simplement plus de facilités à cacher leurs préjugés. De façon similaire, si plusieurs considèrent que l'éducation rend les gens plus réceptifs à l'idéologie dominante, d'autres main…
Education and Causal Attributions: The Development of "Person-Blame" and "System-Blame" Ideology
Serge Guimond, Guy Begin, Douglas L. Palmer, Education and Causal Attributions: The Development of "Person-Blame" and "System-Blame" Ideology, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 52, No. 2 (Jun., 1989), pp. 126-140
Type of academic training and causal attributions for social problems
To provide evidence of the effects of academic training on causal attributions, university students in social science, commerce and engineering were compared at different points of their training in terms of their explanations of poverty and unemployment. Results of cross‐sectional analyses showed no field differences in causal attributions at the beginning of the first academic year but significant differences at the end of the year, with social…
Developmental Changes in Ingroup Favouritism among Bilingual and Unilingual Francophone and Anglophone Students
Relations between bilingualism and intergroup attitudes are examined among 663 Francophone students in Quebec, 521 Anglophone cadets at an Ontario military college, and in a longitudinal Anglophone 271-student sample from an Ontario university. In each of the three samples, among older students, unilinguals display ingroupfavouritism; bilinguals do not. Educational level is positively related to ingroup favouritism among unilinguals. Among biling…
The politics of Canadian social scientists: A comment on Baer and Lambert
À partir d'une analyse secondaire d'un sondage national mené en 1983, Baer et Lambert (1990) soutiennent que les études universitaires ont un effet idéologique unidirectionnel allant dans le sens d'un renforcement de l'idéologie dominante. Us affirment de plus avoir démontré de façon «convaincante» que les études en sciences sociales n'ont pas un effet opposé; que les spécialistes des sciences sociales au Canada, loin d'être radicaux, sont probab…
Liberal reformers or militant radicals: What are the effects of education in the social sciences
Attitude Change During College: Normative or Informational Social Influence
Group socialization and prejudice: The social transmission of intergroup attitudes and beliefs
In order to examine the social transmission of prejudice in the military, attitudes and beliefs of Francophone (minority) and Anglophone (majority) prospective military officers toward their own and other groups were assessed at the beginning and at the end of a four-year officer-training program. Consistent with social dominance theory and system justification theory, majority group members become significantly more negative toward outgroups (e.…
Introduction to the Special Issue: The Social Psychology of Academic Achievement: Progress and Prospects
Bragging About One's School Grades: Gender Stereotyping and Students' Perception of Their Abilities in Science, Mathematics, and Language
When Prosperity Breeds Intergroup Hostility: The Effects of Relative Deprivation and Relative Gratification on Prejudice
In previous theory and research dealing with relative deprivation (RD), the role of relative gratification (RG), the opposite of RD, was relatively overlooked. Two experiments (N = 245) tested the impact of both RD and RG on prejudice toward socially significant outgroups. Experiment 1 manipulated temporal RD and RG by confronting participants to declining (RD) or improving (RG) job opportunities and found no effect of RD on prejudice but reliabl…
Social identity, relative group status and intergroup attitudes: When favourable outcomes change intergroup relations…for the worse
This study examines in a natural setting (N = 253) the effects of favourable outcomes at the individual and group levels on the relations between members of high (nondisabled) and low (disabled) status groups. Consistent with past research, the results show that, overall, high‐status group members are more likely than low‐status group members to display ingroup bias. Furthermore, as hypothesized on the basis of the role of relative gratification …
Does social dominance generate prejudice? Integrating individual and contextual determinants of intergroup cognitions
Social dominance orientation (SDO) has been proposed as an important variable in the explanation of prejudice. We distinguish between three conceptualizations of SDO: SDO as a personality trait (personality model), SDO as a moderator of the effects of situational variables (Person x Situation model), and SDO as a mediator of the effect of social position on prejudice (group socialization model [GSM]). Four studies (N = 1.657) looking at the relat…
Les racines de la révolte
Le défi éducatif
Implicit and explicit measures of prejudice and stereotyping: Do they assess the same underlying knowledge structure
Do implicit and explicit measures of ethnic attitudes assess the same underlying knowledge structure in long term memory? This study uses both a correlational and an experimental design ( N = 133) in order to address this central question. In the first part, we suggest that self‐presentational strategies can partly explain why the relation between implicit and explicit measures is inconsistent in the existing literature. More specifically, we sho…
Social Comparison and Social Psychology: Understanding Cognition, Intergroup Relations, and Culture
Much of our knowledge about ourselves, and about the world in which we live, is based on a process of social comparison. Our tendency to appraise events, objects, people, and social groups by making comparisons has captured the interest of social psychologists for over half a century. This volume provides an up-to-date synthesis of the latest theoretical and empirical developments in social psychology through research on social comparison process…
La fonction sociale des préjugés ethniques
En psychologie sociale, de nombreux travaux ont proposé une explication des préjugés ethniques basée sur le rôle de divers facteurs individuels habituellement de nature négative. Selon ces travaux, les préjugés ont pour fonction de restaurer l’image de soi suite à un échec, une frustration personnelle ou une privation. On présente dans cet article une série de recherches expérimentales suggérant, au contraire, que le succès, la prospérité économi…
How good are you in math?” The effect of gender stereotypes on students’ recollection of their school marks
Social comparison, self-stereotyping, and gender differences in self-construals
Four studies examined gender differences in self-construals and the role of social comparison in generating these differences. Consistent with previous research, Study 1 (N=461) showed that women define themselves as higher in relational interdependence than men, and men define themselves as higher in independence/agency than women. Study 2 (N=301) showed that within-gender social comparison decreases gender differences in self-construals relativ…
Culture, gender, and the self: Variations and impact of social comparison processes
Psychological differences between women and men, far from being invariant as a biological explanation would suggest, fluctuate in magnitude across cultures. Moreover, contrary to the implications of some theoretical perspectives, gender differences in personality, values, and emotions are not smaller, but larger, in American and European cultures, in which greater progress has been made toward gender equality. This research on gender differences …
The trouble with assimilation: Social dominance and the emergence of hostility against immigrants
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