Hanging up our coat, tidying our desk, classifying our books, what meanings do these mundane practices convey? Extending Mary Douglas’s work, this article investigates tidiness from the angle of symbolic pollution. Based on photo-elicitation, it shows that, similarly to symbolic pollution...

The objective of this doctoral thesis is to put forth the role of psychology in the fluctuations of production, redistribution and inequalities. Our work is centered on two axes : i) the importance of psychology with regards to inequalities in determining individual beliefs about the role of...

L’économie et les sciences sociales utilisent fréquemment la notion de rationalité, les travaux

La presse financiere et les praticiens de la finance font souvent reference a l'existence de barrieres psychologiques sur les indices boursiers ou les taux de change. L'existence de telles barrieres interesse egalement la litterature academique car elle constitue a priori une violation de...