Jean-Baptiste Van Der Henst
Biographic Data
| ID | 78222 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean-Baptiste Van Der Henst |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean-Baptiste |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Der Henst |
| SIGNATURE | VAN DER HENST J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lyon 1 Université |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2489-2328 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Effects of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) Expertise on Social Skills and Self-Reported Quality of Life: An Exploratory Study
This exploratory study examines the effects of nonviolent communication (NVC) practice on social skills and self-reported quality-of-life variables. Using a combination of implicit and explicit measures, this study evaluates whether NVC expertise leads to improvements in cognitive, emotional, and quality-of-life metrics. Participants included beginners ( N = 53) and experts ( N = 30) in NVC. Evaluations spanned spontaneous emotional identificatio…
The cross-cultural temporal neurodynamics of fairness: A developmental machine-learning neuroscience investigation
A sense of fairness is deeply rooted in human nature, and plays a fundamental role in supporting cooperation. This study investigated the electrophysiological responses to third-party resource allocations and behavioral economics games assessing costly sharing and distributive justice decisions in early and middle childhood across three countries, France, Taiwan, and the United States. To examine the temporal dynamics and cultural differences in …
When Maya Children do not see Power as More Masculine: Evidence From Self-Perception and Gender-Power Association Tasks
Recent research has shown that by the age of 4, preschool children tend to associate social power with the male gender. The present study examined this association with a group of children from a Maya community in Guatemala, where gender inequalities are high, and tested the prediction that a strong gender hierarchy reduces girls’ perception of themselves as being dominant in dyadic power situations. However, contrary to our predictions, we did n…
Human and animal dominance hierarchies show a pyramidal structure guiding adult and infant social inferences
Do Preschoolers Align Their Preferences With Those of a Powerful Individual
Very early on, children understand the hierarchical dimension of the social environment and use a variety of cues to guess who has more power in an interaction. A crucial aspect of power perception lies in the evaluation of high-power and low-power individuals. The current study examined the evaluation of power by preschoolers through social influence. Past research has shown that preschoolers take social category information into account when ex…
Sympathy for the underdog: People are inclined to adopt the emotional perspective of powerless (versus powerful) others
Upon learning of the story of Cinderella, most people spontaneously adopt the emotional perspective of this helpless young woman rather than of her older sisters who oppress her. The present research examines whether this pattern reveals a general human tendency to empathise more with the emotions of individuals with low (versus high) power. Six experiments (N = 878) examined how power influences the focus of people’s emotional attributions. Part…
Effects of Montessori Education on the Academic, Cognitive, and Social Development of Disadvantaged Preschoolers: A Randomized Controlled Study in the French Public-School System
Previous research on Montessori preschool education is inconsistent and prone to analytic flexibility. In this preregistered study, disadvantaged preschoolers in a French public school were randomly assigned to either conventional or Montessori classrooms, with the latter being adapted to French public education. Adaptations included fewer materials, shorter work periods, and relatively limited Montessori teacher training. Cross-sectional analyse…
How Preschoolers Associate Power with Gender in Male-Female Interactions: A Cross-Cultural Investigation
Pragmatic abilities in bilinguals: The case of scalar implicatures
The experimental literature on the pragmatic abilities of bilinguals is rather sparse. The only study investigating adult second language (L2) learners ( Slabakova, 2010 ) found an increase of pragmatic responses in that population relative to monolinguals. The results of studies on early bilingual children are unclear, some finding a significant increase in pragmatic responses in early bilingual children (preschoolers) relative to monolinguals (…
Passions sociales
Cross-Cultural Differences in the Valuing of Dominance by Young Children
Developmental research suggests that young children tend to value dominant individuals over subordinates. This research, however, has nearly exclusively been carried out in Western cultures, and cross-cultural research among adults has revealed cultural differences in the valuing of dominance. In particular, it seems that Japanese culture, relative to many Western cultures, values dominance less. We conducted two experiments to test whether this …
Scalar Implicatures: The Psychological Reality of Scales
Scalar implicatures, the phenomena where a sentence like “The pianist played some Mozart sonatas” is interpreted as “The pianist did not play all Mozart sonatas” have been given two different analyses. Neo-Griceans claim that this interpretation is based on lexical scales (e.g. ), where the stronger term (e.g. all) implies the weaker term (e.g. some), but the weaker term (e.g., some) implicates the negation of the stronger term (i.e., some = not …
Children’s allocation of resources in social dominance situations
Two experiments with preschoolers (36 to 78 months) and 8-year-old children (Experiment 1, N = 173; Experiment 2, N = 132) investigated the development of children's resource distribution in dominance contexts. On the basis of the distributive justice literature, 2 opposite predictions were tested. Children could match resource allocation with the unequal social setting they observe and thus favor a dominant individual over a subordinate 1. Alter…
Do Easterners and Westerners Treat Contradiction Differently
Peng and Nisbett (1999) put forward an influential theory of the influence of culture on the resolution of contradiction. They suggested that Easterners deal with contradiction in a dialectical manner, trying to reconcile opposite points of view and seeking a middle-way. Westerners, by contrast, would follow the law of excluded middle, judging one side of the contradiction to be right and the other to be wrong. However, their work has already bee…
Is the Use of Averaging in Advice Taking Modulated by Culture
Many recent experiments have explored the way people take advice into account. It has been observed that in so doing participants often rely on one of the two following strategies: averaging between the different opinions or choosing one of the opinions, as opposed to using more complex weighting strategies. While several factors that affect strategy choice have been investigated, no attention has been paid to potential cultural variations. Among…
Dealing with contradiction in a communicative context: A cross-cultural study
In this paper, we investigate the impact of two factors on the way people address conflicting information. One relates to culture and the other to the communicative context in which contradiction occurs. We compared two theoretical approaches, one that focuses on the former factor—the culturalist approach—and one that focuses on the latter factor—the evolutionary approach. According to the culturalist approach, the way we deal with contradiction …
Symposium on “Cognition and Rationality: Part I” Relevance effects in reasoning
Truthfulness and Relevance in Telling The Time
Someone asked ‘What time is it?’ when her watch reads 3:08 is likely to answer ‘It is 3:10.’ We argue that a fundamental factor that explains such rounding is a psychological disposition to give an answer that, while not necessarily strictly truthful or accurate, is an optimally relevant one (in the sense of relevance theory) i.e. an answer from which hearers can derive the consequences they care about with minimal effort. A rounded answer is eas…
The mental model theory of spatial reasoning re‐examined: The role of relevance in premise order
The effect of premise order on spatial reasoning was investigated using a paradigm introduced by Byrne & Johnson‐Laird in 1989. Three kinds of problems were developed: the first of these was expected to prompt one mental model, whereas the second and third were expected to prompt two mental models. The two‐model problems differed from each other by the position (first or last) of a premise which was responsible for an indeterminacy. On the basis …
Children’s allocation of resources in social dominance situations
Two experiments with preschoolers (36 to 78 months) and 8-year-old children (Experiment 1, N = 173; Experiment 2, N = 132) investigated the development of children's resource distribution in dominance contexts. On the basis of the distributive justice literature, 2 opposite predictions were tested. Children could match resource allocation with the unequal social setting they observe and thus favor a dominant individual over a subordinate 1. Alter…
How Preschoolers Associate Power with Gender in Male-Female Interactions: A Cross-Cultural Investigation
Human and animal dominance hierarchies show a pyramidal structure guiding adult and infant social inferences
Cross-Cultural Differences in the Valuing of Dominance by Young Children
Developmental research suggests that young children tend to value dominant individuals over subordinates. This research, however, has nearly exclusively been carried out in Western cultures, and cross-cultural research among adults has revealed cultural differences in the valuing of dominance. In particular, it seems that Japanese culture, relative to many Western cultures, values dominance less. We conducted two experiments to test whether this …
The mental model theory of spatial reasoning re‐examined: The role of relevance in premise order
The effect of premise order on spatial reasoning was investigated using a paradigm introduced by Byrne & Johnson‐Laird in 1989. Three kinds of problems were developed: the first of these was expected to prompt one mental model, whereas the second and third were expected to prompt two mental models. The two‐model problems differed from each other by the position (first or last) of a premise which was responsible for an indeterminacy. On the basis …
The mental model theory of spatial reasoning re‐examined: The role of relevance in premise order
The effect of premise order on spatial reasoning was investigated using a paradigm introduced by Byrne & Johnson‐Laird in 1989. Three kinds of problems were developed: the first of these was expected to prompt one mental model, whereas the second and third were expected to prompt two mental models. The two‐model problems differed from each other by the position (first or last) of a premise which was responsible for an indeterminacy. On the basis …
Truthfulness and Relevance in Telling The Time
Someone asked ‘What time is it?’ when her watch reads 3:08 is likely to answer ‘It is 3:10.’ We argue that a fundamental factor that explains such rounding is a psychological disposition to give an answer that, while not necessarily strictly truthful or accurate, is an optimally relevant one (in the sense of relevance theory) i.e. an answer from which hearers can derive the consequences they care about with minimal effort. A rounded answer is eas…
Dealing with contradiction in a communicative context: A cross-cultural study
In this paper, we investigate the impact of two factors on the way people address conflicting information. One relates to culture and the other to the communicative context in which contradiction occurs. We compared two theoretical approaches, one that focuses on the former factor—the culturalist approach—and one that focuses on the latter factor—the evolutionary approach. According to the culturalist approach, the way we deal with contradiction …
Symposium on “Cognition and Rationality: Part I” Relevance effects in reasoning
Is the Use of Averaging in Advice Taking Modulated by Culture
Many recent experiments have explored the way people take advice into account. It has been observed that in so doing participants often rely on one of the two following strategies: averaging between the different opinions or choosing one of the opinions, as opposed to using more complex weighting strategies. While several factors that affect strategy choice have been investigated, no attention has been paid to potential cultural variations. Among…
Do Easterners and Westerners Treat Contradiction Differently
Peng and Nisbett (1999) put forward an influential theory of the influence of culture on the resolution of contradiction. They suggested that Easterners deal with contradiction in a dialectical manner, trying to reconcile opposite points of view and seeking a middle-way. Westerners, by contrast, would follow the law of excluded middle, judging one side of the contradiction to be right and the other to be wrong. However, their work has already bee…
Scalar Implicatures: The Psychological Reality of Scales
Scalar implicatures, the phenomena where a sentence like “The pianist played some Mozart sonatas” is interpreted as “The pianist did not play all Mozart sonatas” have been given two different analyses. Neo-Griceans claim that this interpretation is based on lexical scales (e.g. ), where the stronger term (e.g. all) implies the weaker term (e.g. some), but the weaker term (e.g., some) implicates the negation of the stronger term (i.e., some = not …
Children’s allocation of resources in social dominance situations
Two experiments with preschoolers (36 to 78 months) and 8-year-old children (Experiment 1, N = 173; Experiment 2, N = 132) investigated the development of children's resource distribution in dominance contexts. On the basis of the distributive justice literature, 2 opposite predictions were tested. Children could match resource allocation with the unequal social setting they observe and thus favor a dominant individual over a subordinate 1. Alter…
Pragmatic abilities in bilinguals: The case of scalar implicatures
The experimental literature on the pragmatic abilities of bilinguals is rather sparse. The only study investigating adult second language (L2) learners ( Slabakova, 2010 ) found an increase of pragmatic responses in that population relative to monolinguals. The results of studies on early bilingual children are unclear, some finding a significant increase in pragmatic responses in early bilingual children (preschoolers) relative to monolinguals (…
Passions sociales
Cross-Cultural Differences in the Valuing of Dominance by Young Children
Developmental research suggests that young children tend to value dominant individuals over subordinates. This research, however, has nearly exclusively been carried out in Western cultures, and cross-cultural research among adults has revealed cultural differences in the valuing of dominance. In particular, it seems that Japanese culture, relative to many Western cultures, values dominance less. We conducted two experiments to test whether this …
How Preschoolers Associate Power with Gender in Male-Female Interactions: A Cross-Cultural Investigation
Do Preschoolers Align Their Preferences With Those of a Powerful Individual
Very early on, children understand the hierarchical dimension of the social environment and use a variety of cues to guess who has more power in an interaction. A crucial aspect of power perception lies in the evaluation of high-power and low-power individuals. The current study examined the evaluation of power by preschoolers through social influence. Past research has shown that preschoolers take social category information into account when ex…
Sympathy for the underdog: People are inclined to adopt the emotional perspective of powerless (versus powerful) others
Upon learning of the story of Cinderella, most people spontaneously adopt the emotional perspective of this helpless young woman rather than of her older sisters who oppress her. The present research examines whether this pattern reveals a general human tendency to empathise more with the emotions of individuals with low (versus high) power. Six experiments (N = 878) examined how power influences the focus of people’s emotional attributions. Part…
Effects of Montessori Education on the Academic, Cognitive, and Social Development of Disadvantaged Preschoolers: A Randomized Controlled Study in the French Public-School System
Previous research on Montessori preschool education is inconsistent and prone to analytic flexibility. In this preregistered study, disadvantaged preschoolers in a French public school were randomly assigned to either conventional or Montessori classrooms, with the latter being adapted to French public education. Adaptations included fewer materials, shorter work periods, and relatively limited Montessori teacher training. Cross-sectional analyse…
When Maya Children do not see Power as More Masculine: Evidence From Self-Perception and Gender-Power Association Tasks
Recent research has shown that by the age of 4, preschool children tend to associate social power with the male gender. The present study examined this association with a group of children from a Maya community in Guatemala, where gender inequalities are high, and tested the prediction that a strong gender hierarchy reduces girls’ perception of themselves as being dominant in dyadic power situations. However, contrary to our predictions, we did n…
Human and animal dominance hierarchies show a pyramidal structure guiding adult and infant social inferences
The cross-cultural temporal neurodynamics of fairness: A developmental machine-learning neuroscience investigation
A sense of fairness is deeply rooted in human nature, and plays a fundamental role in supporting cooperation. This study investigated the electrophysiological responses to third-party resource allocations and behavioral economics games assessing costly sharing and distributive justice decisions in early and middle childhood across three countries, France, Taiwan, and the United States. To examine the temporal dynamics and cultural differences in …
The Effects of Nonviolent Communication (NVC) Expertise on Social Skills and Self-Reported Quality of Life: An Exploratory Study
This exploratory study examines the effects of nonviolent communication (NVC) practice on social skills and self-reported quality-of-life variables. Using a combination of implicit and explicit measures, this study evaluates whether NVC expertise leads to improvements in cognitive, emotional, and quality-of-life metrics. Participants included beginners ( N = 53) and experts ( N = 30) in NVC. Evaluations spanned spontaneous emotional identificatio…
Psychology (16 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (8 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (7 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works)