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The intention of this article is two-fold : to justify the validity of a study of ideology which is within the framework of representation and centred on the research of invariable strategies indicative of the ideological process ; then to identify the traces of an ideological process which is at work within the mental construction of French « laïcité ». We suggest in fact that when individuals process information regarding French « laïcité », they become cognitively immune to all information which is likely to question its necessity. Our hypothesis is confirmed : an interplay of filters applies to the representation of « laïcité », as if to preserve the idea of the essence of a French cultural being, the object of culture becoming an object of nature.

In Induced hypocrisy paradigm, subjects make socially valued speech. Then, they remember their personal transgressions of the speech. Effects classically obtained from the hypocrisy paradigm might be due to cognitive dissonance resulting from inconsistency between an prescriptive norm and behaviour. In a first experiment, we reproduced classical effects of hypocrisy paradigm concerning tobacco prevention. In a second experiment, we only reminded subjects about a norm against tobacco and of their own anti-normative behaviour. These manipulations generated higher vulnerability and higher intention to protect themselves from tobacco among hypocrisy-condition subjects, compared to other subjects. We argue that effects of hypocrisy paradigm can be attributed to inconsistency between behaviour and injunctive norm.

The recent wave of popularity towards voluntary simplicity raises questions about those who choose this lifestyle. This research tries to validate a french-canadian version of the Échelle de Simplicité Volontaire (Voluntary Simplicity Lifestyle scale ; Iwata, 2001) to contribute to the progress of knowledge on the subject. The scale is translated by a double-blind method and is validated with two different samples of 350 participants each. The construct validity is evaluated with varimax type factor analyses. Convergent and discriminant validity are evaluated using two other scales. Results confirm the factorial validity of the Échelle de Simplicité Volontaire.

The concept of identity strategies derived from social psychology is commonly seen by the culture contact psychology as a kind of interculturation, but with a lack of demonstrated identification tool. In a first procedure, migration stories of Japanese and Senegalese living in France (N=17) are examined by means of a hierarchical and factorial lexical analysis. This latter shows that the migrant native culture and the type of link with the welcoming country both shape his migratory experience. These results confirm the interest of comparative approach with regards to identity strategies assessment. They also initiate the building procedure of an identification tool, on the basis of target population's discourse about their migratory story..

This research analyzes the acculturation strategies, starting from the model of Berry. With reference to the theory of the zone of proximal development, and using the implicative data analysis, we investigate the bonds between the strategies of acculturation and the psychosocial characteristics of Algerian migrants, and the sociodemographic differentiations relative to these bonds. The integration is not related to any psychosocial characteristic. Thus, the marginalisation implies the Self-Esteem, and their association condition the cultural identity. The assimilation involves the satisfaction with life, and the separation the values. The young people, the « not-parents » and the actives are concerned with the marginalisation, the Self-Esteem and the cultural identity ; and the non actives by the assimilation and the satisfaction with life. Finally, the actives, the « not-parents », the men and the young people are affected by the separation and the values. The theoretical and practical prospects for these results on the accompaniment of the migrants are discussed.

This study aims to show the grouping effect (symmetrical versus dissymmetrical) on the decisional performances in team games for 11–12 year-old girls in a Physical Education teaching. The situation of cooperative training is an alternation of handball rises of ball with two attackers against two defenders and verbal interactions dyadic. The results show better performances with the post-test for the declaratory measurement of the action project and with the post-test differed for the procedural measurement of the choice relevance from the subjects having interacted in dissymmetrical condition. The progresses are stronger with the initially weak subjects who are in dissymmetrical dyads. The results are thorough by a conversational analysis starting from tactical rules propositional contents and the dyadic interactive dynamics.

The linguistic intergroup bias model predicts that positive ingroup and negative outgroup behaviors will be described in more abstract terms than negative ingroup and positive outgroup behaviors (Maass, Salvi, Arcuri et Semin, 1989). In this present research, LIB analysis of french and foreign newspapers titles about the world football cup 2006 (study 1) and those produced by receivers (study 3), confirmed the model. Nevertheless, when we ask participants to choose a title (study 2), results demonstrate that, if they prefer an abstract title (vs concrete) for describing ingroup (vs outgroup) victories, they use a concrete title for defeats of both groups. These results are discussed in terms of control level.