Jean Monéger CV

Cognition, Clinic and Behavior

and SoCog

1) Cognitive and emotional consequences of self-focused Attention

Is self-awareness (i.e., attention directed toward the self) an aversive state? Despite being crucial in goal-pursuit and self- improvement (Carver & Scheier, 1981), but also related to effort mobilization and creativity (Gendolla et al., 2012; Silvia & O’brien, 2004), self-focus entails self-to-standards comparisons (Duval & Wicklund, 1972) that could foster negative self- evaluations. Consequently, self-focused attention increases escape-related thoughts accessibility (Selimbegović & Chatard, 2013) and is linked to negative affects (Fejfar & Hoyle, 2000). Given that self-focused attention is highly prevalent, it is important to better understand its emotional, cognitive and motivational consequences.

2) Self-focus avoidance, personality and failure

I have conducted research on the motivational consequences of failure salience on self-focused attention. Namely, I investigate whether failure can motivate an individual to avoid self-focused attention (to the extent that this state is related to self-to- standards comparisons) and how inter-individual variables, such as guilt-proneness and locus of control, might moderate failure effects on self-focus avoidance.

3)  Meta-science, replication and reproducibility

During the last two decades, it has been systematically reported that most effect sizes in social psychology are over-estimated (Klein et al., 2018; Open Science Collaboration, 2015). In addition, the current publication system favoring the quantity of research over its quality encourages the use of questionable research practices (Smaldino & McElreath, 2016). In an effort to increase credibility, transparency is highly encouraged as a best research practice. However, do modern recommendations ensure computational reproducibility? How can we reform the scientific culture to improve research credibility?

Keywords:

Social Cognition; Reflexive Emotions; Self-Focused Attention; Motivation; Meta-Science

• Social psychology (L1 & L3, University of Poitiers)
• Statistics (L1, University of Poitiers)
• Perceiving and explaining behaviors (L2, University of Poitiers)
• Manipulation & Propaganda (L2, University of Poitiers)
•  Cognitive psychology (L3, University of Poitiers)
• Social cognition (L3, University of Poitiers)
• Epistemology (M1, University of Poitiers)
• Evolutionary psychology (L3,University of Poitiers)

• Sophia Crüwell (PhD Student, University of Cambridge, UK)
• Nicholas J. Brown (PhD, Linnaeus University, Sweden)
• Constantine Sedikides (Professor, Southampton University, UK)