School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences

About: School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences is a facility organization based out in Villejuif, France. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Politics. The organization has 1230 authors who have published 2084 publications receiving 57740 citations. The organization is also known as: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales & EHESS.

Less-Detailed Representation of Non-Native Language: Why Non-Native Speakers' Stories Seem More Vague

Abstract: The language of non-native speakers is less reliable than the language of native speakers in conveying the speaker's intentions. We propose that listeners expect such reduced reliability and that this leads them to adjust the manner in which they process and represent non-native language by representing non-native language in less detail. Experiment 1 shows that when people listen to a story, they are less able to detect a word change with a non-native than with a native speaker. This suggests they represent the language of a non-native speaker with fewer details. Experiment 2 shows that, above a certain threshold, the higher participants' working memory is, the less they are able to detect the change with a non-native speaker. This suggests that adjustment to non-native speakers depends on working memory. This research has implications for the role of interpersonal expectations in the way people process language.

Pour l’Euro, l’heure du bilan a sonné. Quinze leçons et six conclusions

Abstract: La zone Euro est aujourd'hui clairement en crise. Cependant, la crise de liquidite qu'elle subit actuellement, pour dangereuse qu'elle soit et pour toute son urgence, n'est que le resultat d'une crise de competitivite a la fois plus profonde et plus longue. Cette crise provient de la constitution d'une Union Monetaire avant que ne soit constitue un Etat federal. Mais cette construction d'un etat federal est au mieux un processus long et douloureux, dont le succes est tout sauf garanti. Il en resulte que l'approfondissement de la crise ces derniers mois a ete spectaculaire. Une solution actuellement envisagee est le soi-disant " saut federal ", mais ceci ne decrit en fait que des regles communes encadrant le volet " depense " des budgets et non une mise en commun des recettes. Ce saut federal est condamne a l'echec pour des raisons tant politiques qu'economiques. On a pris en consideration aussi la perspective d'une inflation differentielle de l'Allemagne et nous concluons que c'est un projet mort-ne. Ceci ne laisse a la Zone Euro que des politiques de deflation salariale qui ne sont en realite que l'equivalent des politiques de deflation du debut des annees trente, dont les consequences furent catastrophiques. Dans cette situation, la seule option raisonnable reste le demontage coordonne de la zone Euro.

Subliminal Number Priming Within and Across the Visual and Auditory Modalities

Abstract: Whether masked number priming involves a low-level sensorimotor route or an amodal semantic level of processing remains highly debated. Several alternative interpretations have been put forward, proposing either that masked number priming is solely a byproduct of practice with numbers, or that stimulus awareness was underestimated. In a series of four experiments, we studied whether repetition and congruity priming for numbers reliably extend to novel (i.e., unpracticed) stimuli and whether priming transfers from a visual prime to an auditory target, even when carefully controlling for stimulus awareness. While we consistently observed cross-modal priming, the generalization to novel stimuli was weaker and reached significance only when considering the whole set of experiments. We conclude that number priming does involve an amodal, semantic level of processing, but is also modulated by task settings.

North-South Climate Change Negotiations: A Sequential Game with Asymmetric Information

Abstract: This article determines the conditions under which theSouthern countries should act together, or separately, whilenegotiating with the North about climate change policy andabout the conditions for future Southern engagement. The papermodels the international negotiations with complete and withasymmetric information in a dynamic framework. Results showthat, depending on their characteristics, the differentplayers can obtain benefits delaying the moment of theagreement.