publications

BOOK. 

Veissière, S. (2025). Homo Fragilis: Aux origines évolutives de la fragilité humaine. FYP Éditions.

RECENT PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Rousseau, C., Ngov, C., Veissière, S., Desmarais, C., Santavicca, T., & Johnson-Lafleur, J. (2025). Being Heard, Restoring a Social Connection and Decreasing Anger: Adult Patients’ Perceptions of Clinical Services Addressing Violent Extremism in Montreal, Canada. SSM-Mental Health, 100427.

Rousseau, Cécile,  Johnson-Lafleur, J., Ngov, C., Savard, C., Veissière, S. (2024). Hybrid Ideologies in Clinical Settings: Implications for Intervention of the Changing Landscape in Violent Extremism. Perspectives on Terrorism,18(3), 1-19.

Veissière, S., Johnson-Lafleur, J., Ngov, C., Savard, C., & Rousseau 1 22, C. (2024). Le deuil épistémique: trajectoires familiales et sociales vers la radicalisation «hybride». Dialogue, 244(2), 83-99.

Robertson, K., Gold, I., Veissière, S., Robillard, R., & Solomonova, E. (2024). Delusional ideation is associated with social imagery: Felt presence, social anxiety, empathy and loneliness. Psychiatry Research Communications, 4(2), 100169.

Olson, J. A., Sandra, D. A., Veissière, S. P., & Langer, E. J. (2023). Sex, age, and smartphone addiction across 41 countries. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 1-9.

Rousseau, C., Johnson-Lafleur, J., Ngov, C., La Rochelle, X., Brouillette-Alarie, S. Gignac, M., Veissière, S., Crocker, A. (2023) Risk assessment challenges in a specialized clinic for individuals referred for violent extremism. Journal of Threat Assessment and Management

Rousseau, Johnson-Lafleur, J., C., Bonnel, A., Mittermaier, S., Savard, C., Veissière, S. P. (2023) Social and Individual Grievances and Attraction to Extremist Ideologies in Individuals with Autism: Insights from a clinical sample. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.

Robertson, K., Gold, I., Veissiere, S., Robillard, R., & Solomonova, E. (2022). Socially Distanced: An Exploratory Study of the Relationships Between Delusional Ideation and Social Imagery Under the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic. (submitted)

Dupuis, D., & Veissière, S. (2022). Culture, context, and ethics in the therapeutic use of hallucinogens: Psychedelics as active super-placebos?. Transcultural Psychiatry, 59(5), 571-578.

Olson, J. A., Sandra, D. A., Chmoulevitch, D., Raz, A., & Veissière, S. P. (2022). A nudge-based intervention to reduce problematic smartphone use: Randomised controlled trial. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 1-23

Olson, J. A., Sandra, D. A., Colucci, É. S., Al Bikaii, A., Chmoulevitch, D., Nahas, J., ... & Veissière, S. P. (2022). Smartphone addiction is increasing across the world: A meta-analysis of 24 countries. Computers in Human Behavior, 129, 107138.

Olson, J. A., Sandra, D. A., Langer, E. J., Raz, A., & Veissière, S. P. (2022). Creativity and smartphone use: Three correlational studies. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 1-6.

Millette-Gagnon, A., Veissière, S., Friston, K, Ramstead, M. (2022) An active inference approach to semiotics: a variational theory of signs. In. The Routledge Hanbook of Neurosemiotics. Eds. Adolfo M. García & Agustín Ibáñez, New York, Routledge.

Drapeau, M., Whitley, R., & Veissière, S. (2021). Victimisation perçue et radicalisation : perspectives psychologiques, évolutives, sociales et clinques. Psychologie Québec, 38(3), 28-30.

Olson, J. A., Lifshitz, M., Raz, A., & Veissière, S. P. L. (2021). Super placebos: A feasibility study combining contextual factors to promote placebo effects. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 222. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.644825

Robillard, R., Saad, M., Edwards, J., Solomonova, E., Pennestri, M. H., Daros, A., Veissière, S. P.... & Kendzerska, T. (2020). Social, financial and psychological stress during an emerging pandemic: observations from a population survey in the acute phase of COVID-19. BMJ open, 10(12), e043805.

Solomonova, E., Picard-Deland, C., Rapoport, I., Pennestri, M. H., Saad, M., Kendzerska, T., Veissière, S.... & Robillard, R. (2021). Stuck in a lockdown: dreams, bad dreams, nightmares, and their relationship to stress, depression and anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic. Plos One

Thibault, R. T., Veissière, S., Olson, J. A., & Raz, A. (2021). EEG-Neurofeedback and the Correction of Misleading Information: A Reply to Pigott and Colleagues. Journal of attention disorders, 25(3), 458-459.

Stendel, M., Ramstead, M. J. D., & Veissière, S. P. L. (2020). Internet sociality. In L. J. Kirmayer, C. M. Worthman, S. Kitayama, R. Lemelson, & C. A. Cummings (Eds.), Culture, mind, and brain: Emerging concepts, models, and applications (pp. 461–476). Cambridge University Press.

Gómez-Carrillo, A., Lencucha, R., Faregh, N., Veissière, S., & Kirmayer, L. J. (2020). Engaging culture and context in mhGAP implementation: fostering reflexive deliberation in practice. BMJ Global Health, 5(9), e002689.

Olson, J. A., Stendel, M., & Veissière, S. (2020). Hypnotised by your phone? Smartphone addiction correlates with hypnotisability. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, 578.

Olson, J. A., Suissa-Rocheleau, L., Lifshitz, M., Raz, A., & Veissière, S. P. (2020). Tripping on nothing: placebo psychedelics and contextual factors. Psychopharmacology, 237(5), 1371-1382.

Veissière, S. P., Constant, A., Ramstead, M. J., Friston, K. J., & Kirmayer, L. J. (2020). TTOM in Action: Refining the Variational Approach to Cognition and Culture Short title. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Veissière, S. P., Constant, A., Ramstead, M. J., Friston, K. J., & Kirmayer, L. J. (2020). Thinking through other minds: A variational approach to cognition and culture. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43

Constant, A., Ramstead, M. J., Veissière, S. P., & Friston, K. (2019). Regimes of expectations: An active inference model of social conformity and human decision making. Frontiers in psychology, 10, 679.

Veissière, S. P. L. (2018). “Toxic Masculinity” in the age of# MeToo: ritual, morality and gender archetypes across cultures. Society and Business Review, 13(3), 274-286.

Marini, D., Medema, W., Adamowski, J., Veissière, S. P., Mayer, I., & Wals, A. E. (2018). Socio-psychological perspectives on the potential for serious games to promote transcendental values in IWRM decision-making. Water, 10(8), 1097.

Thibault, R. T., Veissière, S., Olson, J. A., & Raz, A. (2018). Treating ADHD with suggestion: neurofeedback and placebo therapeutics. Journal of Attention Disorders, 22(8), 707-711.

Constant, A., Ramstead, M. J., Veissiere, S. P., Campbell, J. O., & Friston, K. J. (2018). A variational approach to niche construction. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 15(141), 20170685.

Veissière, S. (2018). Cultural Markov blankets? Mind the other minds gap!. Comment on" Answering Schrödinger's question: A free-energy formulation" by Maxwell James Désormeau Ramstead et al. Physics of life reviews, 24, 47-49.

Veissière, S. P., & Stendel, M. (2018). Hypernatural monitoring: A social rehearsal account of smartphone addiction. Frontiers in psychology, 141.

Kirmayer, L. J., Gomez-Carrillo, A., & Veissière, S. (2017). Culture and depression in global mental health: An ecosocial approach to the phenomenology of psychiatric disorders. Social Science & Medicine, 100(183), 163-168.

Ramstead, M. J., Veissière, S. P., & Kirmayer, L. J. (2016). Cultural affordances: Scaffolding local worlds through shared intentionality and regimes of attention. Frontiers in psychology, 7, 1090.

Veissière, S. (2016). Varieties of tulpa experiences: The hypnotic nature of human sociality, personhood, and interphenomenality. Hypnosis and meditation: Towards an integrative science of conscious planes, 55-78.

Veissiere, S., & Gibbs-Bravo, L. (2016). Language, ritual, and placebo sociality in a community of extreme eaters. Food cults: How fads, dogma, and doctrine influence diet, 63-86.

Veissiere, S. (2016) The Internet is Not a River: Space, Movement, and Relationality in a Wired World. Click and Kin: Transnational Identity and Quick Media, 214-238.