Benoît Dardenne has a degree in psychology from the University of Liège. After a year as a Research Assistant at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA, he gained a doctorate at the UCL and defended his thesis (Confirmatory strategies in social judgment: functional categorization, implicit theory and judgment construction) in 1995. He was then successively a FNRS postdoctoral researcher and then research associate at the UCL. He rejoined the University of Liège in 1998 to become head of the social psychology department. Benoît Dardenne carries out research and gives courses in different areas of social psychology, notably changes in attitude and social influence, environmental psychology, the forming of impressions and intergroup relations, as well as social neurosciences. Since very recently his research has focused on the neuronal substrates of social behaviour.

Selection of publications

DUMONT, M., SARLET, M. & DARDENNE, B. Be kind to a woman, she’ll feel incompetent: benevolent sexism shifts self-construal and autobiographical memories towards incompetence. Sex Roles, in preparation for publication.

DELACOLLETTE N., DARDENNE B. & DUMONT M., Stéréotypes prescriptifs et avantages des groupes dominants. L’Année Psychologique, 2009.

DARDENNE B., DUMONT M. & BOLLIER T., Insidious dangers of benevolent sexism: Consequences for women's performance. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, (2007) 93, 764-779.

DARDENNE B., DELACOLLETTE N., GREGOIRE C., & LECOCQ D., Latent Structure of the French Validation of the Ambivalent Sexism Inventory: Echelle de Sexisme Ambivalent. L'Annee Psychologique, (2006) 106, 235-264.

GREGOIRE C., & DARDENNE B., Affect and approach/avoidance strategies. Revue Internationale de Psychologie Sociale, (2004) 17, 111-144.

DARDENNE B., YZERBYT V., & GREGOIRE C., Active search for information: The effects of subjectively experienced control on stereotyping. In Bless, Herbert (Ed); Forgas, Joseph P (Ed). The message within: The role of subjective experience in social cognition and behavior. (pp. 304-321). xvi, 402 pp. New York, NY, US: Psychology Press, 2000.

YZERBYT V. Y., LORIES G. & DARDENNE B., Metacognition: Cognitive and social dimensions. Thousand Oaks, CA, US: Sage Publications, Inc., 1998.

DARDENNE B. & LEYEN J.-P., Confirmation bias as a social skill. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, (1995), 21, 1229-1239.