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Caroline Blais
Professeure
Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO)
Département de psychoéducation et de psychologie
Caroline Blais dirige le Laboratoire de Perception Visuelle et Sociale à l'Université du Québec en Outaouais où elle est également professeure titulaire. Ses thématiques de recherche sur l'impact de facteurs socio-culturels sur le fonctionnement perceptif et cognitif. Elle accorde une attention toute particulière à l’impact de l’environnement culturel dans lequel une personne a grandi sur le traitement visuel des visages et sur la communication des signaux affectifs. Elle est également titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada en vision cognitive et sociale (Niveau 1).
Productions incluses dans la recherche:
AUT (Autres), BRE (Brevet), CAC (Publications arbitrées dans des actes de colloque), CNA (Communication non arbitrée), COC (Contribution à un ouvrage collectif), COF (Communication arbitrée), CRE, GRO, LIV (Livre), RAC (Revue avec comité de lecture), RAP (Rapport de recherche), RSC (Revue sans comité de lecture).
Année : 1975 à 2024
Publications sélectionnées
2024 |
Bérubé, A.; Pearson, J.; Blais, C.; Forget, H. Stress and emotion recognition predict the relationship between a history of maltreatment and sensitive parenting behaviors: A moderated-moderation Article de journal Dans: Development and Psychopathology, 2024, ISSN: 09545794, (Publisher: Cambridge University Press). @article{berube_stress_2024, Our study proposes to examine how stress and emotion recognition interact with a history of maltreatment to influence sensitive parenting behaviors. A sample of 58 mothers and their children aged between 2 and 5 years old were recruited. Parents’ history of maltreatment was measured using the Child Trauma Questionnaire. An emotion recognition task was performed. Mothers identified the dominant emotion in morphed facial emotion expressions in children. Mothers and children interacted for 15 minutes. Salivary cortisol levels of mothers were collected before and after the interaction. Maternal sensitive behaviors were coded during the interaction using the Coding Interactive Behavior scheme. Results indicate that the severity of childhood maltreatment is related to less sensitive behaviors for mothers with average to good abilities in emotion recognition and lower to average increases in cortisol levels following an interaction with their children. For mothers with higher cortisol levels, there is no association between a history of maltreatment and sensitive behaviors, indicating that higher stress reactivity could act as a protective factor. Our study highlights the complex interaction between individual characteristics and environmental factors when it comes to parenting. These results argue for targeted interventions that address personal trauma. © 2024 Cambridge University Press. All rights reserved. |
Lévesque-Lacasse, A.; Desjardins, M. -C.; Fiset, D.; Charbonneau, C.; Cormier, S.; Blais, C. Dans: Journal of Pain, vol. 25, no. 1, p. 250–264, 2024, ISSN: 15265900, (Publisher: Elsevier B.V.). @article{levesque-lacasse_relationship_2024, Although pain is a commonly experienced and observed affective state, it is frequently misinterpreted, which leads to inadequate caregiving. Studies show the ability at estimating pain in others (estimation bias) and detecting its subtle variations (sensitivity) could emerge from independent mechanisms. While estimation bias is modulated by variables such as empathy level, pain catastrophizing tendency, and overexposure to pain, sensitivity remains unimpacted. The present study verifies if these 2 types of inaccuracies are partly explained by perceptual factors. Using reverse correlation, we measured their association with participants' mental representation of pain, or more simply put, with their expectations of what the face of a person in pain should look like. Experiment 1 shows that both parameters are associated with variations in expectations of this expression. More specifically, the estimation bias is linked with expectations characterized by salient changes in the middle face region, whereas sensitivity is associated with salient changes in the eyebrow region. Experiment 2 reveals that bias and sensitivity yield differences in emotional representations. Expectations of individuals with a lower underestimation tendency are qualitatively rated as expressing more pain and sadness, and those of individuals with a higher level of sensitivity as expressing more pain, anger, and disgust. Together, these results provide evidence for a perceptual contribution in pain inferencing that is independent of other psychosocial variables and its link to observers’ expectations. Perspective: This article reinforces the contribution of perceptual mechanisms in pain assessment. Moreover, strategies aimed to improve the reliability of individuals’ expectations regarding the appearance of facial expressions of pain could potentially be developed, and contribute to decrease inaccuracies found in pain assessment and the confusion between pain and other affective states. © 2023 United States Association for the Study of Pain, Inc. |
Guérette, J.; Blais, C.; Fiset, D. Verbal Aggressions Against Major League Baseball Umpires Affect Their Decision Making Article de journal Dans: Psychological Science, vol. 35, no. 3, p. 288–303, 2024, ISSN: 09567976 (ISSN), (Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc.). @article{guerette_verbal_2024, Excessively criticizing a perceived unfair decision is considered to be common behavior among people seeking to restore fairness. However, the effectiveness of this strategy remains unclear. Using an ecological environment where excessive criticism is rampant—Major League Baseball—we assess the impact of verbal aggression on subsequent home-plate umpire decision making during the 2010 to 2019 seasons (N = 153,255 pitches). Results suggest a two-sided benefit of resorting to verbal abuse. After being excessively criticized, home-plate umpires (N = 110 adults, employed in the United States) were less likely to call strikes to batters from the complaining team and more prone to call strikes to batters on the opposing team. A series of additional analyses lead us to reject an alternative hypothesis, namely that umpires, after ejecting the aggressor, seek to compensate for the negative consequences brought on by the loss of a teammate. Rather, our findings support the hypothesis that, under certain conditions, verbal aggression may offer an advantage to complainants. © The Author(s) 2024. |
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