Mathieu Cassotti
Ph.D, HDR
Full professor
Paris Cité University and IUF
Mathieu is a full Professor of developmental psychology and he is a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He is also the head of the DEVMaster at Université Paris Cité. He obtained his PhD in Psychology in 2010 (Paris Descartes University). He was a postdoctoral fellow at Mines ParisTech from 2010 to 2011 before being hired as an associate Professor at Paris Descartes university in 2011. His project aim at investigating the role of executive processes and of the socio-emotional context in the development of decision-making and creativity. More specifically, his research seek to provide a better understanding of how children, adolescents and adults make decisions in uncertain situations and how they generate new solutions to a problem in unknown environments.
PUBLICATIONS
Desdevises, J., & Cassotti, M. (2024). How do out-group and in-group competitions influence idea generation in creative problem solving? International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation, 12(4), 258–273. https://doi.org/10.1080/21650349.2024.2377548 | |
Camarda, A., De Neys, W., Ozkalp-Poincloux, B., Hooge, S., Le Masson, P., Weil, B., & Cassotti, M. (2024). Detecting fixation bias in creative idea generation: Evidence from design novices and experts. Creativity Research Journal, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2024.2424620 | |
Rezende, G., Le Stanc, L., Menu, I., Cassotti, M., Aïte, A., Salvia, E., Houdé, O., Borst, G.*, & Cachia, A.* (2023). Differential effects of mindfulness meditation and cognitive training on cool and hot inhibitory control in children and adolescents. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 235. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2023.105741. | More |
Osmont, A., & Cassotti, M. (2023). Development of Ambiguity Aversion from Early Adolescence to Adulthood: New Insights from the Ellsberg Paradox. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 47(1), 47–58. https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254221104056 | |
Habib, M., Osmont, A., Tavani, J.-L., Cassotti, M., & Caparos, S. (2023). Is adolescence believed to be a period of greater risk taking than adulthood? International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 28(1), 2242469. https://doi.org/10.1080/02673843.2023.2242469 | More |
Kruse, J. A., Martin, C. S., Hamlin, N., Slattery, E., Moriarty, E. M., Horne, L. K., Ozkalp-Poincloux, B., Camarda, A., White, S. F., Oleson, J., Cassotti, M., & Doucet, G. E. (2023). Changes of creative ability and underlying brain network connectivity throughout the lifespan. Brain and Cognition, 168, 105975. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2023.105975 | More |
Draperi, M.*, Aïte, A.*, Cassotti, M., Le Stanc, L., Houdé, O., & Borst, G. (2022). Development of cool and hot theory of mind and cool and hot inhibitory control abilities from 3.5 to 6.5 years of age. PLoS ONE 17(1), e0262251. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262251 | More |
Osmont, A., Camarda, A., Habib, M., & Cassotti, M. (2021). Peers' Choices Influence Adolescent Risk‐taking Especially When Explicit Risk Information is Lacking. Journal of research on adolescence, 31(2), 402-416. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12611 | More |
Bouhours*, L., Camarda*, A., Ernst, M., Osmont, A., Borst, G., & Cassotti, M. (2021). How does social evaluation influence Hot and Cool inhibitory control in adolescence? Plos one, 16(9), e0257753. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257753 | More |
Camarda, A., Bouhours, L., Osmont, A., Le Masson, P., Weil, B., Borst, G., & Cassotti, M. (2021). Opposite effect of social evaluation on creative idea generation in early and middle adolescents. Creativity Research Journal, 33(4), 399‑410. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2021.1902174 | |
Ezzat, H., Agogué, M., Le Masson, P., Weil, B., Cassotti, M. (2020). Specificity and Abstraction of Examples: Opposite Effects on Fixation for Creative Ideation. The Journal of Creative Behavior, 54(1), 115-122. https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.349 | |
Salvia, E., Tissier, C., Charron, S., Herent, P., Vidal, J., Lion, S., Cassotti, M., Oppenheim, C., Houdé, O.*, Borst, G.*, & Cachia, A.* (2019). The local properties of bold signal fluctuations at rest monitor inhibitory control training in adolescents. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 38, 100664. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100664 | More |
Camarda, A., Borst, G., Agogué, M., Habib, M., Weil, B., Houdé, O., & Cassotti, M. (2018). Do we need inhibitory control to be creative? Evidence from a dual-task paradigm. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 12(3), 351–358. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000140 | More |
Camarda, A., Salvia, E., Vidal, J., Weil, B., Poirel, N., Houdé, O., Borst, G., & Cassotti, M. (2018). Neural basis of functional fixedness during creative idea generation: An EEG study. Neuropsychologia, 118(A), 4-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.03.009 | More |
Aïte, A., Cassotti, M., Linzarini, A., Osmont, A., Houdé, O., & Borst, G. (2018). Adolescents’ inhibitory control: keep it cool or lose control. Developmental Science, 21, e12491. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12491 | |
Ezzat, H.*, Camarda, A., Cassotti, M.*, Agogué, M., Houdé, O., Weil, B.*, & Le Masson, P.* (2017). How minimal executive feedback influences creative idea generation. Plos One, 12(6), e0180458. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0180458 | More |
Osmont, A., Moutier, S., Simon, G., Bouhours, L., Houdé, O., & Cassotti, M. (2017). How Does Explicit Versus Implicit Risk Information Influence Adolescent Risk‐Taking Engagement?. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 30(5), 1093-1103. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2026 | More |
Bonnaire, C., Barrault, S., Aïte, A., Cassotti, M., Moutier, S., & Varescon, I. (2017). Relationship between pathological gambling, alexithymia, and gambling type. The American journal on addictions, 26(2), 152-160. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajad.12506 | |
Cassotti, M., Agogué, M., Camarda, A., Houdé, O., Borst, G. (2016). Inhibitory control as a core process of creative problem solving and ideas generation from childhood to adulthood. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 151, 61-72. | |
Cassotti, M., Camarda, A., Poirel, N., Houdé, O., Agogué, M. (2016). Fixation effect in creative ideas generation: Opposite impacts of example in children and adults. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 19, 146-152. | |
Mevel, K., Poirel, N., Rossi, S., Cassotti, M., Simon, G., Houdé, O., De Neys, W. (2015). Bias detection: Response confidence evidence for conflict sensitivity in the ratio bias task. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 27, 227-237. | |
Habib, M., Borst, G., Poirel, N., Houdé, O., Moutier, S., Cassotti, M. (2015). Socio-emotional context and adolescents’ decision making: The experience of regret and relief after social comparison. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 25, 81-91. | |
Rossi, S., Cassotti, M., Moutier, S., Delcroix, N., Houdé, O. (2015). Helping reasoners succeed in the Wason selection task. PloS ONE, 10(4), e0123024. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123024. | |
Habib, M., Cassotti, M., Moutier, S., Houdé, O., Borst, G. (2015). Fear and anger have opposite effects on risk seeking in the gain frame. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 253. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00253 | |
Agogué, M., Le Masson, P., Dalmasso, C., Houdé, O., Cassotti, M. (2015). Resisting classical solutions: The creative mind of industrial designers and engineers. Psychology of the Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, 9, 313-318. | |
Cassotti, M., Aïte, A., Osmont, A., Houdé, O., Borst, G. (2014). What have we learned about the processes involved in the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) from developmental studies? Frontiers in Psychology, section Decision Neuroscience, 5, 915. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00915 | |
Osmont, A*., Cassotti, M*., Agogué, M., Houdé, O., Moutier, S. (2014). Does ambiguity aversion influence the framing effect during decision making? Psychonomic Bulletin Review, 22, 572-577. | |
Agogué, M., Poirel, N., Pineau, A., Houdé, O., Cassotti, M. (2014). The impact of age and training on creativity: a design-theory approach to study fixation effects. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 11, 33-41. | |
Aïte, A., Barrault, S., Cassotti, M., Borst, G., Bonnaire, C., Houdé, O., Varescon, I., Moutier, S. (2014). The impact of alexithymia in pathological gamblers' decision-making skills: A preliminary study on pathological gamblers recruited in an ecological setting. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, 27, 59-67. | |
Agogué, M., Kazakçi, A., Hatchuel, A., Le Masson, P., Weil, B., Poirel, N., Cassotti, M. (2014). The impact of type of examples on originality: Explaining fixation and stimulation effects. The Journal of Creative Behavior, 48, 1-12. | |
Aïte, A., Borst, G., Moutier, S., Varescon, I., Brown, I., Houdé, O., Cassotti, M. (2013). Impact of emotional context congruency on decision making under ambiguity. Emotion, 13, 177-182. | |
Borst, G., Poirel, N., Pineau, A., Cassotti, M., Houdé, O. (2013). Inhibitory control efficiency in a Piaget-like class-inclusion task in school-age children and adults: A developmental negative priming study. Developmental Psychology, 49, 1366-1374. | |
Beaucousin, V., Simon, G., Cassotti, M., Pineau, A., Houdé, O., Poirel, N. (2013). Global interference during early visual processing: ERP evidence from a rapid global/local selective task. Frontiers in psychology, 4, 539. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00539 | |
Cassotti, M., Habib, M., Poirel, N., Aïte, A., Houdé, O., Moutier, S. (2012). Positive emotional context eliminates the framing effect in decision-making. Emotion, 12, 926-931. | |
Poirel, N., Cassotti, M., Beaucousin, V., Pineau, A., Houdé, O. (2012). Pleasant emotional induction broadens the visual world of young children. Cognition Emotion, 26, 186-191. | |
Aïte, A*., Cassotti, M*., Rossi, S., Poirel, N., Lubin, A., Houdé, O., Moutier, S. (2012). Is human decision-making under ambiguity guided by loss frequency regardless of the costs? A developmental study using the Soochow Gambling Task. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 113, 286-294. | |
Habib, M., Cassotti, M., Borst, G., Simon, G., Pineau, A., Houdé, O., Moutier, S. (2012). Counterfactually mediated emotions: A developmental study of regret and relief in a probabilistic gambling task. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 112, 265-274. | |
Borst, G., Poirel, N., Pineau, A., Cassotti, M., Houdé, O. (2012). Inhibitory control in number-conservation and class-inclusion tasks: A neo-Piagetian inter-tasks priming study. Cognitive Development, 27, 283-298. | |
Poirel, N.*, Borst, G.*, Simon, G., Rossi, S., Cassotti, M., Pineau, A., Houdé, O. (2012). Number conservation is related to children's prefrontal inhibitory control: An fMRI study of a Piagetian task. PLoS ONE, 7(7), e40802. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0040802 | |
Cassotti, M., Houdé, O., Moutier, S. (2011). Developmental changes of win-stay and loss-shift strategies in decision making. Child Neuropsychology, 17, 400-411. | |
Poirel, N., Simon, G., Cassotti, M., Leroux, G., Perchey, G., Lanoë, C., Lubin, A., Turbelin, M.-R., Rossi, S., Pineau, A., Houdé, O. (2011). The shift from local to global visual processing in 6-year-old children is associated with grey matter loss. PLoS ONE, 6(6), e20879. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0020879 | |
Beaucousin, V., Cassotti, M., Simon, G., Pineau, A., Kostova, M., Houdé, O., Poirel, N. (2011). ERP evidence of a meaningfulness impact on visual global/local processing: When meaning captures attention. Neuropsychologia, 49, 1258-1266. | |
Cassotti, M., Moutier, S. (2010). How to explain receptivity to conjunction fallacy inhibition training: evidence from the Iowa Gambling Task. Brain and cognition, 72, 378-384. |