Evaluative pressure and selective attention

I have studied how the mere feeling of evaluation (e.g., performance settings, social comparison, evaluative pressure) affects people's attentional processing. I am specifically interested in the changes that occur at a low-level of cognitive functioning and the potential disruption of automatic processes.

Related publications

Belletier, C., Normand, A., Camos, V., Barrouillet, P., & Huguet, P. (2019). Choking under experimenter's presence: impact on proactive control and practical consequences for psychological science. Cognition.

Belletier, C., Normand, A., & Huguet, P. (2019). Social facilitation/impairment effects: From motivation to cognition and social brain. Current Directions in Psychological Science.

Normand, A. (2017). Être évalué, se sentir menacé : l'impact sur la réussite, le rôle de la motivation et les processus attentionnels en jeu. In S. Caillaud, V. Bonnot, E. Drozda (Eds.). Les menaces autrement. Rennes : Presses Universitaires de Rennes.

Normand, A., Autin, F., & J.-C. Croizet (2014). Evaluative pressure overcomes perceptual load effects. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-014-0729-8

Normand, A., Bouquet, C., & J.-C. Croizet (2014). Does evaluative pressure make you less or more distractible? Role of top-down attentional control over response selection. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143(3), 1097-1111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0034985

Normand, A. & J.-C. Croizet (2013). Upward social comparison generates attentional focusing when the dimension of comparison is self-threatening.  Social Cognition, 31(3), 336-348. http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/soco.2013.31.3.336

Normand, A. (2012). Situations évaluatives menaçantes et gestion de l'attention : hypothèse de filtrage et rôle du style de traitement. Thèse de doctorat non publiée. http://theses.univ-poitiers.fr/notice/view/11782

Funding

PhD scholarship (85 k€; 36 months; University of Poitiers (France), CeRCA (UMR CNRS 7295)

Doctoral school international travel grant (3 500€; 5-months in-doc stay at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

EASP Postdoctoral seedcorn research grant (2 000€; 1-year stay at the University College of London, UK)

ADRIPS postdoctoral research grant (1 000€; 1-year stay at the University College of London, UK)