Brice BEFFARA

Quantitative methods in psychology / Méthodes quantitatives en psychologie
Open science tools / Outils pour la science ouverte
Psychometrics / Psychométrie
Statistics / Statistiques

I work in social psychophysiology within a behavioural biology perspective. I am interested in understanding the effect of stress on cooperation and conversely. I am looking for common mechanisms across different species. I also have projects dealing with methodology, epistemology, and data analysis. My current research works follow open, slow and sustainable science practices as much as possible.

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Publications

 

In preparation

Beffara Bret, B., & Beffara Bret, A. (in prep.). State of open science practices in psychological science. A first descriptive overview in European french speaking countries. https://brice-beffara.shinyapps.io/opef/

Preprints

Robin, F., Menetrier, E., & Beffara Bret, B. (2020, Under review). Effect of visual imagery on false memories in DRM and Misinformation paradigms. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/8cznm

Soto Icaza, P., Beffara Bret, B., Aboitiz, F., Vargas, L., & Billeke, P. (2020 - Under review). Alteration in cortical processing of facial emotions in broader autism phenotype. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/582vf

Beffara Bret, A., Beffara Bret, B., Mierop, A., & Mermillod, M.. (2020). Differentiated evaluation of counter-conditioned stimuli as a function of right-wing authoritarianism. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/3mfa8

Beffara, B., Mermillod, M., & Vermeulen, N. (2016). Can we test the influence of prosociality on high frequency heart rate variability? A double-blind sham-controlled approach. bioRxiv, 078006. https://doi.org/10.1101/078006

Beffara, B., Vermeulen, N., & Mermillod, M. (2016). Resting high frequency heart rate variability is not associated with the recognition of emotional facial expressions in healthy human adults. bioRxiv, 077784. https://doi.org/10.1101/077784

 

Peer-reviewed articles

Beffara Bret, B., Beffara Bret, A., & Nalborczyk, L. (2020 - Accepted at Meta-Psychology). A fully automated, transparent, reproducible, and blind protocol for sequential analyses. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/v7xpg

Spatola, N., Santiago, J., Beffara, B., Mermillod, M., Ferrand, L., & Ouellet, M. (2018). When the Sad Past Is Left: The Mental Metaphors Between Time, Valence, and Space. Frontiers in Psychology, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01019

Mermillod, M., Grynberg, D., Pio-Lopez, L., Rychlowska, M., Beffara, B., Harquel, S., . . . Droit-Volet, S. (2018). Evidence of Rapid Modulation by Social Information of Subjective, Physiological, and Neural Responses to Emotional Expressions. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2017.00231

Kauffmann, L., Roux-Sibilon, A., Beffara, B., Mermillod, M., Guyader, N., & Peyrin, C. (2017). How does information from low and high spatial frequencies interact during scene categorization? Visual Cognition, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2017.1347590

Bret, A., Beffara, B., McFadyen, J., & Mermillod, M. (2017). Right wing authoritarianism is associated with race bias in face detection. PloS One, 12(7), e0179894. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179894

Beffara, B., Bret, A. G., Vermeulen, N., & Mermillod, M. (2016). Resting high frequency heart rate variability selectively predicts cooperative behavior. Physiology & Behavior, 164, 417–428. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2016.06.011

Beffara, B., Wicker, B., Vermeulen, N., Ouellet, M., Bret, A., Molina, M. J. F., & Mermillod, M. (2015). Reduction of interference effect by low spatial frequency information priming in an emotional Stroop task. Journal of Vision, 15(6), 16. https://doi.org/10.1167/15.6.16

Bret, A., & Beffara, B. (2013). Anthropomorphising Ourselves : The Origin of the Free Will Illusion. Student Journal of Psychology, 2, 1, 28-30. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/hg462

Beffara, B., Ouellet, M., Vermeulen, N., Basu, A., Morisseau, T., & Mermillod, M. (2012). Enhanced embodied response following ambiguous emotional processing. Cognitive Processing, 13(S1), 103–106. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-012-0468-6

 

Tutorials

 Beffara, B. (2020). Testing an alternative visualisation of ordinal data and regression in R. In Toward Data Science. https://medium.com/@brice_beffara/testing-an-alternative-visualisation-of-ordinal-data-and-regression-in-r-1dc838fcaa2d

 Beffara, B. (2017). How to embed http websites in your R presentation ? https://medium.com/@slowpenscience/how-to-embed-http-websites-in-your-r-presentation-f2b2bcb7a277

 

Diffusion des connaissances en ligne

Beffara, B. (2018). “Homéopathie : peut-on soigner les gens avec du sucre ?” https://medium.com/@slowpenscience/retour-sur-la-vid%C3%A9o-le-monde-hom%C3%A9opathie-peut-on-soigner-les-gens-avec-du-sucre-f2e2b30ddd8c

Beffara, B. (2017). Bon chercheur, Mauvais chercheur. Radio étudiante de l'Université de Lyon http://www.troisieme-lieu.fr/2017/12/04/logos-4-bon-chercheur-mauvais-chercheur

Co-coordinateur des U.E. méthodes
Correspondant Lycée-Université