

Stéphanie Demoulin
Stéphanie Demoulin earned her masters degree in psychology at Free University of Brussels (Thesis: Emotions et sentiments: Différences et participation dans le processus de discrimination de l'exogroupe) and her Ph.D. in Psychology, under the supervision of Jacques-Philippe Leyens, in psychology at Catholic University of Louvain (Thesis: Infra-humanization: Using Uniquely Human Emotions to Discriminate Outgroups). In 2003 she became a post-doctoral student at Friedrich-Schieller Universität, Jena, and since then she has published on a variety of topics related to prejudice, intergroup relations, and infra-humanization. In 2006, she has been appointed assistant professor at the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. In her current research she attempts to investigate intergroup negotiations from a social-psychological perspective.
Primary Interests:
- Aggression, Conflict, Peace
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Group Processes
- Intergroup Relations
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
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Journal Articles:
- Demoulin, S., Leyens, J. Ph., Paladino, P. M., Rodriguez, A. P., Rodriguez, R. T., & Dovidio, J. (2004). Dimensions of "uniquely" and "non uniquely" human emotions. Cognition and Emotion, 18, 71-96.
- Demoulin, S., Leyens, J. Ph., Rodriguez, R. T., Rodriguez, A. P., Paladino, M. P., & Fiske, S. T. (2005). Motivation to support a desired conclusion versus motivation to avoid an undesirable conclusion: The case of infra-humanization. International Journal of Psychology, 40, 416-428.
- Demoulin, S., Leyens, J. Ph., & Yzerbyt, V. Y. (2006). Lay theories of essentialism. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 9, 25-42.
- Demoulin, S., Saroglou, V., & Van Pachterbeke, M. (2008). Infra-humanizing others, supra-humanizing gods: The emotional hierarchy. Social Cognition, 26, 235-247.
- Gaunt, R., Leyens, J. Ph., & Demoulin, S. (2002) Intergroup relations and the attribution of emotions: Control over memory for secondary emotions associated with ingroup versus outgroup. Journal of Experiment Social Psychology, 38, 508-514.
- Kervyn, N., Yzerbyt, V.Y., Demoulin, S., & Judd, C. M. (2008). Competence and warmth in contexts: The compensatory nature of stereotypic views of national groups. European Journal of Social Psychology, 38, 1175-1183.
- Leyens, J. Ph., Cortes, B. P., Demoulin, S., Dovidio, J., Fiske, S. T., Gaunt, R., Paladino, M. P., Rodriguez, A. P., Rodriguez, R. T., & Vaes, V. (2003). Emotional prejudice, essentialism, and nationalism. European Journal of Social Psychology, 33, 703-717.
- Leyens, J. Ph., Paladino, P. M., Rodriguez, R. T., Vaes, J., Demoulin, S., Rodriguez, A. P., & Gaunt, R. (2000). The emotional side of prejudice: The role of secondary emotions. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 4, 186-197.
- Leyens, J. Ph., Rodriguez, A. P., Rodriguez, R .T., Gaunt, R., Paladino, P. M., Vaes, J., & Demoulin, S. (2001). Psychological essentialism and the differential attribution of typically human emotions to ingroups and outgroups. European Journal of Social Psychology, 31, 395-411.
- Paladino, M. P., Leyens, J. Ph., Rodriguez, R. T., Rodriguez, A. P., Gaunt, R., & Demoulin, S. (2002). Differential associations of uniquely and non-uniquely human emotions to the ingroup and the outgroups. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 5, 105-117.
Other Publications:
- Demoulin, S., Rodriguez, R. T., Rodriguez, A. P., Vaes, J., Paladino, M. P., Gaunt, R., Cortes, B. P., & Leyens, J. Ph. (2004). Emotional prejudice can lead to infra-humanization. In W. Stroebe & M. Hewstone, European Review of Social Psychology, Vol. 15. London: Psychology Press.
- Leyens, J. Ph., Demoulin, S., Désert, M., Vaes, J., & Phillipot, P. (2002). Expressing emotions and decoding them: In-groups and out-groups do not share the same advantages. In D. Mackie & E. Smith (Eds.), From prejudice to intergroup emotions: Differentiated reactions to social groups. Philadelphia, PA: Psychology Press.
- Yzerbyt, V., Estrada, C., Corneille, O., Seron, E., & Demoulin, S. (2004). Subjective essentialism in action: Self-anchoring and social control as consequences of fundamental social divides. In V. Y. Yzerbyt, C. M. Judd, & O. Corneille (Eds.), The psychology of group perception: Contributions to the study of homogeneity, entitativity, and essentialism. London: Psychology Press.
- Yzerbyt,V., Y., Demoulin, S. (in press). Intergroup relations. In D. T. Gilbert, S. T. Fiske, & G. Lindzey (Eds.), The Handbook of Social Psychology (5th ed). New York: McGraw-Hill.
Courses Taught:
- Conflict and Negotiation
- Intergroup Relations
- Theory and Practice in Negotiations
Stéphanie Demoulin
Psychologie Sociale et des Organisations
Université catholique de Louvain
10, place du Cardinal Mercier
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium
- Phone: + 32 10 473010
- Fax: +32 10 473774
- Email: stephanie.demoulin@uclouvain.be