BRIEF BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE
DOISE, Willem
Born on July 20, 1935, in Poperinge, Belgium
Address:
Professor of Experimental Social Psychology
Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l’Education
Université de Genève
40, bd du Pont d'Arve, CH-1205 Geneva
Academic career and distinctions:
- Ph.D. in social psychology at the Sorbonne, Paris, 1967
- Researcher at the C.N.R.S., Paris, 1968-1972
- Professor of experimental social psychology at the University of Geneva, 1972 to date
- Member of the executive committee of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology (E.A.E.S.P.), 1975-1981
- President of the E.A.E.S.P., 1978-1981
- State doctorate in literature and human sciences, Paris 1980
- Head of the Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, 1983-1985
- Medal from the University of Helsinki, 1989
- Head of the Department of Psychology, University of Geneva, 1989-1991
- Member of a committee for the assessment of psychology programs in eleven Dutch and Flemish Universities, 1994.
- Honorary PhD, Panteion University Athens, 1997
- Medal from the Scientific Research Foundation Flanders (Belgium), 1998.
- Honorary PhD, University "Alexandru Ioan Cuza", Iasi (Romania), 1999
- Honorary professor of the University of Geneva (2003)
- Honorary PhD, University of Bologna, 2005
- Honorary PhD, University of Helsinki, 2006
- Visiting professor at the Universities of: Brussels, 1976-1977, Auckland, 1978, Tilburg, 1978-1979, Bologna, 1982, Rome, 1985, Leuven, 1986, Belgrano, Argentina, 1988, Otago, New Zealand, 1991, Liège, Belgium (project Erasmus), 1993-1994, Savoie, France, 1995-1999, Provence, France (project Erasmus), 1995, Brasilia, 2000, Siena, 2003, Macerata, 2004-2005
Research interests:
Intergroup relations, social identity, socio-cognitive development, social representations of human rights, explanations in social psychology.
Monographs in English:
Social Psychology and Intergroup Relations, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1978. With Gabriel Mugny, The Social Development of the Intellect, Oxford, Pergamon Press, 1984. Levels of Explanation in Social Psychology, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1986. With Alain Clémence and Fabio Lorenzi-Cioldi, The Quantitative Analysis of Social Representations, Hemel Hempstead, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993. With Serge Moscovici, Conflict and Consensus, London, Sage Publications, 1994. Human Rights as Social Representations. London, New York , Routledge, 2002. .