Broadly speaking I'm working on social comparison processes. More precisely, my major theoretical interest is on the study of social factors' impact on cognitive processes. Hence, we study notably the impact of coaction and social comparison (at an interindividual level and more recently at an intergroup level) on visual processing (Muller, Atzeni, & Butera, 2004; Muller & Butera, 2007). The aim of this line of research is on the one hand to study how and when social context can help information processing and on the other hand to understand better the way social context moderates cognitive functioning (see Muller & Fayant, 2010 for a review). I'm also interested in the junction between interpersonal and intergroup social comparisons (Marx, Stapel, & Muller, 2005). More recently, we studied the impact of embodied cognition on how social comparison influences self-evaluation (Fayant, Muller, Nurra, Alexopoulos, & Palluel-Germain, 2011).

My second area of research interest is about data analysis methods. Our current research deals with the adjustment function within regression models. This function is notably implied in what is known as ANCOVA models (Yzerbyt, Muller, & Judd, 2004) and mediation analyses (Muller, Judd, & Yzerbyt, 2005; Muller, Yzerbyt, & Judd, 2008).

Research Interests

Social Comparison
Attention
Self Regulation
Data analysis

Professional Positions

Full Professor of Psychology, University of Grenoble
Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Grenoble
Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Paris Descartes
Postdoc, University of Colorado at Boulder

Professional Associations

Association for Psychological Science (APS)
Association pour la Diffusion de la Recherche Internationale en Psychologie Sociale (ADRIPS)
European Association of Social Psychology (EASP)
Society of Experimental Social Psychology (SESP)
Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP)

Editorial Board

European Journal of Social Psychology (Associate Editor)
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (A&SC)
Psychologie Française
Social Psychological and Personality Science

Primary Interests:

Emotion, Mood, Affect
Group Processes
Intergroup Relations
Motivation, Goal Setting
Prejudice and Stereotyping
Self and Identity
Social Cognition

Emotion, Mood, Affect
Group Processes
Intergroup Relations
Motivation, Goal Setting

Prejudice and Stereotyping
Self and Identity
Social Cognition

Research Group or Laboratory:

Laboratoire Inter-universitaire de Psychologie
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Courses Taught:

Data Analysis (Quasi-Experimental Designs and Analysis of Variance)
Data Analysis and Methodology
Research Methods
Social Cognition
Social Psychology

Data Analysis (Quasi-Experimental Designs and Analysis of Variance)
Data Analysis and Methodology
Research Methods

Social Cognition
Social Psychology

Dominique Muller
Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale
Pierre-Mendès-France University
UFR SHS, 1251 av. Centrale, BP 47
38040 Grenoble Cedex 9
France

Phone: (+33 4) 76 82 58 90
Fax: (+33 4) 76 82 56 65