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Serge Lecours
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Latest papers
Networks of self-defining memories as a contributing factor to emotional openness
Cognition & Emotion · 2017
Parent-child relationship associated with the development of borderline personality disorder: A systematic review.
Personality and mental health · 2017
Alexithymia, Cognitive Complexity, and Defensive Avoidance of Emotion in a Situation of Experimentally Induced Sadness
Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association · 2013 · first author
Latest funding
- $359,552
Cognitive organization of maltreatment memories as a key moderator of the association between child maltreatment and mental health in early adulthood
CIHR · 2019 · Co-investigator
- $95,938
Entre maltraitance et troubles du comportement sévères : la mentalisation et l'autorégulation
SSHRC · 2011 · Co-investigator
11 publications.
Networks of self-defining memories as a contributing factor to emotional openness
Iliane Houle, Frédérick L. Philippe, Serge Lecours, Josiane Roulez
Parent-child relationship associated with the development of borderline personality disorder: A systematic review.
Boucher MÈ, Pugliese J, Allard-Chapais C, Lecours S, Ahoundova L, Chouinard R, Gaham S
Alexithymia, Cognitive Complexity, and Defensive Avoidance of Emotion in a Situation of Experimentally Induced Sadness
Serge Lecours, Frédérick L. Philippe, Stéphanie Arseneault, Marie‐Eve Boucher, Lola Ahoundova
The role of episodic memories in current and future well-being.
Philippe FL, Koestner R, Beaulieu-Pelletier G, Lecours S, Lekes N
What does sadness mean to BPD patients?
Briand-Malenfant R, Lecours S, Deschenaux E
The role of autobiographical memory networks in the experience of negative emotions: how our remembered past elicits our current feelings.
Philippe FL, Koestner R, Lecours S, Beaulieu-Pelletier G, Bois K
The role of attachment avoidance in extradyadic sex.
Beaulieu-Pelletier G, Philippe FL, Lecours S, Couture S
Gender differences in self-reported defense mechanisms: a study using the new Defense Style Questionnaire-60.
Petraglia J, Thygesen KL, Lecours S, Drapeau M
Resilience and Positive Emotions: Examining the Role of Emotional Memories
Frédérick L. Philippe, Serge Lecours, Geneviève Beaulieu‐Pelletier
Supportive interventions and nonsymbolic mental functioning.
Lecours S
Cognitive organization of maltreatment memories as a key moderator of the association between child maltreatment and mental health in early adulthood
Principal investigators: Philippe, Frederick L
Keywords: Adulthood; Autobiographical Memory; Child Maltreatment; Cognition; Memory; Mental Health
Entre maltraitance et troubles du comportement sévères : la mentalisation et l'autorégulation
Principal investigators: Lafortune, Denis
Keywords: autorégulation émotionnelle; mentalisation; troubles du comportement sévères; maltraitance; attachement
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Frédérick Philippe and Richard Koestner: 10 shared papers
- Frédérick Philippe and Serge Lecours: 6 shared papers
- Richard Koestner and Serge Lecours: 2 shared papers
- Richard Koestner and Martin Drapeau: 1 shared paper
- Martin Drapeau and Serge Lecours: 1 shared paper
- Département de psychologie
- Department of Psychology
- Educational and Counselling Psychology (ECP)
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