Jusqu’ici, la majorité des études sur les attitudes envers les vaccins s’étaient concentrées sur les adultes, et les quelques études concernant les adolescent·es portent en majorité sur le vaccin HPV. Pourtant, certains résultats suggèrent que les attitudes envers la science se cristallisent avant l’entrée dans l’âge adulte, ce qui fait de l’adolescence une période cruciale pour la mise en place d’interventions sur la vaccination en général.

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Ample theoretical and empirical evidence shows that people’s evaluations of others are not straightforward. Often, we base our judgements not solely on a person’s actions, but also on what we think others think of the person. This reliance on social information (what we could often call gossip) can readily lead to misapprehensions.

This paper examines over 630,000 paintings created since 1400 to explore how visual art reflects its socioeconomic context. We develop an algorithm to classify nine basic emotions expressed in each painting and identify a context effect—the emotional signal common to artworks produced in the same location and year—while controlling for artist-specific, genre-specific, and epoch-specific factors. These emotional distributions reveal subtle yet meaningful information about the living standards, uncertainty, and inequality prevailing at the time of creation.

Institutions are the backbone of our societies. They encourage us to act for the common good by rewarding altruistic behavior and punishing wrongdoing. Thanks to them, strangers can come together to protect shared resources or uphold sophisticated mechanisms like the rule of law.

Abstract coming soon.

In the field of environmental public policies, there can be large divergence between the effectiveness of political measures as estimated by economists and their social acceptability, which nevertheless conditions their real impact. In France, the public opposition to the planned increase in the carbon tax that gave rise to the Yellow Vests movement in 2018 is a striking example of this divergence. However, very few studies have used a cognitive science approach in order to analyze the acceptability of environmental policy.

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Abstract: In this talk, I present a modern evolutionary approach to human emotions – what they are, how they achieve their evolved functions, and how they relate to other aspects of mind and behavior. These topics are illustrated with examples.