Serge Nicolas
{{Short description|French professor of psychology and author}}
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| name = Serge Nicolas
| birth_date = {{birth date and age |1962|12|16|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Paris
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| field = Psychology
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|workplaces=Institute of Psychology, University of Paris
|alma_mater=PhD (Psychology, 1992), Grenoble II
PhD (Philosophy, 2007), Université Paris VIII}}
Serge Nicolas is a French professor of psychology at the Institute of Psychology of the University of Paris since 2003. He specializes in the study of memory and history of psychology.{{cite web |title=Serge Nicolas' Author Profile |url=https://www.babelio.com/auteur/Serge-Nicolas/92981 |website=Babelio |access-date=23 January 2022 |language=fr}} He is also chief-editor of the journal L'Année psychologique, and a distinguished member of the Institut Universitaire de France since 2016.{{cite web |title=Les membres - Institut Universitaire de France |url=https://www.iufrance.fr/les-membres-de-liuf/membre/1582-serge-nicolas.html |website=www.iufrance.fr}}
Career
Nicolas earned his doctorate in psychology in 1992, on a thesis titled "Memory and its manifestations: from its implicit expression to its explicit actualization" (supervised by Guy Tiberghien) and became associate professor the same year at the University of Paris.{{cite web |title=Doctoral Activity of Serge Nicolas |url=https://www.theses.fr/055384439 |website=www.theses.fr |access-date=23 January 2022}}{{cite web |title=Serge Nicolas - Biographie, publications (livres, articles) |url=https://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=auteurs&obj=artiste&no=3791 |website=www.editions-harmattan.fr |access-date=17 January 2022 |language=fr}} He became full professor there in 2003, and earned a second PhD in philosophy in 2007 from the Université Paris VIII, on a thesis titled "Academic philosophy in France from the Revolution to the Restauration (1789-1830): History of the foundation of a political philosophy based on psychology" (supervised by Patrice Vermeren).
Nicolas' research focuses primarily on cognitive psychology, with a particular interest in memory, as well as on the history of psychology, with several hundred publications on these topics.{{cite web |title=Serge Nicolas |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=fES4MyAAAAAJ |website=scholar.google.com |access-date=17 January 2022}} Beyond the publication, translation, and re-edition of academic books, Nicolas is also the curator of the psychology museum at the Institute of Psychology of the University of Paris, organizing exhibitions in which he showcases private as well as the University's historical pieces.{{cite web |title=Histoire & Expositions: Institut de Psychologie |url=https://psychologie.u-paris.fr/plateformes/musee/ |website=u-paris.fr |access-date=23 January 2022 |language=fr-FR}}
His editorial positions include the directorship of the peer-reviewed academic journal L'Année psychologique, as well as of the Psychological Encyclopedia at L'Harmattan.{{cite web |title=Serge Nicolas |url=https://www.deboecksuperieur.com/auteur/serge-nicolas |website=De Boeck Supérieur |access-date=23 January 2022 |language=fr |date=7 April 2020}}
Nicolas has supervised seven PhD students, including Alessandro Guida (on {{ill|Long-term Working Memory|fr|Mémoire de travail à long terme}}, defended in 2006), Gaën Plancher (on false memories, defended in 2009), Yannick Gounden (on the distinctiveness effect in memory, defended in 2012), and Dominique Makowski (on the paradox of fiction, defended in 2018).{{cite web |title=www.theses.fr - supervisor |url=https://www.theses.fr/055384439#directeurSoutenue |website=www.theses.fr |access-date=22 March 2022}}
He is currently a member of the Memory and Cognition Lab at the Institute of Psychology of the University of Paris.{{cite web |title=Enseignants Chercheurs / Membres / Laboratoire Mémoire Cognition |url=http://recherche.parisdescartes.fr/LaboratoireMemoireCognition/Membres/Enseignants-Chercheurs/Serge-Nicolas |website=recherche.parisdescartes.fr |access-date=17 January 2022}}{{cite web |title=Serge Nicolas |url=https://data.bnf.fr/fr/13618878/serge_nicolas/ |website=data.bnf.fr |access-date=23 January 2022 |language=fr}}
Selected bibliography
Serge Nicolas is the author of several books, including:
- Histoire de la psychologie, Dunod, 2001
- Mémoire et conscience, Armand Colin, 2003
- La psychologie cognitive, Armand Colin, 2003
- Les maladies de la mémoire, In Press, 2007
- Histoire de la psychologie scientifique, De Boeck, 2008
- Introduction à la psychologie cognitive, In Press, 2009
- Études d'histoire de la psychologie, L'Harmattan, 2009
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