Liste des auteurs

Bonnet Claude Professeur de Psychologie Cognitive

et Physiologique
Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg

Bromberg Marcel Maître de Conférences de Psychologie Sociale

Université Paris VIII, Vincennes – St-Denis

Chantrier Nicole Assistante de Psychophysiologie

Université Paris VIII, Vincennes – St-Denis

Crépault Jacques Professeur de Psychologie Cognitive et Génétique

Université Paris VIII, Vincennes – St-Denis

Deleau Michel Professeur de Psychologie génétique

Université de Rennes

Ghiglione Rodolphe Professeur de Psychologie sociale

Université Paris VIII, Vincennes – St-Denis

Ionescu Serban Professeur de Psychologie Clinique

et Pathologique
Université Paris V, René Descartes

Jakobi Jacques-Marie Maître de Conférences de Psychologie Sociale

Université Paris VIII, Vincennes – St-Denis

Jean-François Lambert Assistant de Psychophysiologie

Université Paris VIII, Vincennes – St-Denis

Matalon Benjamin Professeur de Psychologie Sociale

Université Paris VIII, Vincennes – St-Denis

Moro Marie-Rose Maître de Conférences de Psychologie

Clinique et Pathologique
Université Paris VIII, Vincennes – St-Denis

Nathan Tobie Professeur de Psychologie Clinique

Université Paris VIII, Vincennes – St-Denis

Netchine Serge Professeur de Psychologie Génétique

Université Paris VIII, Vincennes – St-Denis

Richard Jean-François Professeur de Psychologie Cognitive

Université Paris VIII, Vincennes – St-Denis

Ricordeau Luc Maître de Conférences de Psychologie Générale

Université de Nantes
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paru dans le volume 1 (3e édition, 1999, pages 323 à 596) et le volume 2
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