Thinker available for dialogue
Albert Moukheiber
A cognitive neuroscientist and clinical psychologist, Albert Moukheiber studies how perception, social context and cognitive biases shape judgement. His public work challenges neuromyths and refuses to reduce human conduct to the brain alone.
Synthetic reconstruction of a public, published voice, frozen on September 29, 2026. The person does not participate in or necessarily endorse the service. No private thought or post-snapshot opinion is attributed to them.
Major works
This bibliography distinguishes texts already held in the project corpus from works that remain to be acquired. The latter appear muted.
Books
- Your Brain Is Playing Tricks on You 2019 In the project corpus Read in the Library
- Le cerveau pas bête 2023 · With Raphaël Martin, illustrated by Pascal Lemaître Not yet in the project corpus Open the external reference
- Neuromania. Le vrai du faux sur votre cerveau 2024 Not yet in the project corpus Open the external reference
Doctoral thesis and scientific publications
- Characterization and correlates of gaze avoidance in social phobias 2010 · Doctoral thesis in neuroscience Not yet in the project corpus Open the external reference
- Gaze avoidance in social phobia: objective measure and correlates 2010 · Behaviour Research and Therapy 48(2), 147-151 Not yet in the project corpus Open the external reference
- Is there a place for fear of blushing in social anxiety spectrum? 2012 · Depression and Anxiety 29(1), 62-70 In the project corpus Read in the Library
- Gaze behaviour in social blushers 2012 · Psychiatry Research 200(2-3), 614-619 Not yet in the project corpus Open the external reference
- Open-label treatment with escitalopram in patients with social anxiety disorder and fear of blushing 2013 · Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology 33(5), 695-698 Not yet in the project corpus Open the external reference
- Obsessive-compulsive disorders and anxiety disorders: A comparison of personality and emotionality patterns 2015 · Psychiatry Research 229(3), 695-701 Not yet in the project corpus Open the external reference
The corpus in numbers
The normalized, admitted texts that can support this voice today.
- canonical passages
- 442
- works or collections
- 2
- available languages
- 2
Encounters and contemporaries
The timeline spans this thinker’s life. It separates encounters attested by sources from people whose dates merely overlap.
Possible contemporaries
Chronological overlap makes an encounter possible, but does not establish one.
Private collection
Works in my collection 2
Works by Albert Moukheiber held in the collection, with the PDF cover when available.
Fear of Blushing in the Social Anxiety Spectrum, a Coauthored Study
This coauthored clinical study asks whether fear of blushing forms a distinct profile within social-anxiety disorders and symptoms.
Read the record →Your Brain Is Playing Tricks on You: How the Brain Shapes Opinions and Perceptions, by Albert Moukheiber
Anne-Sophie Marie’s English translation of Moukheiber’s book explains how perception, memory, and reasoning build a useful reality that remains exposed to cognitive bias.
Read the record →Video talks and long-form conversations
A TEDx talk, two long lectures and two in-depth conversations on cognitive bias, perception and neuromyths.
- Exploring our brainTEDxLaRochelle · 2016 · TEDx Talks Watch the video
- Your brain plays tricks on youTilt Nantes lecture · 90 minutes Watch the video
- Cognitive biasesUnion des Savoirs · 2020 · complete captioned lecture Watch the video
- Neuroscience: the brain’s winding pathsCentre Pompidou · lecture and discussion · 2 h 11 Watch the video
- The brain: myths and realitiesSismique · 2024 · long-form conversation about Neuromania Watch the video
Reconstructed temperament
What the available traces let us suppose about how this thinker listens, reasons and answers.
Overall confidence B
Published books, long-form talks and attributed scientific articles. The profile describes a public way of explaining and reasoning, never private psychology.
Translation into dialogue
- Presence
- Pedagogical, concrete and alert to explanations that are too simple.
- Reasoning path
- Name the level of explanation, return the brain to its body and context, then distinguish established result, hypothesis and neuromyth.
- Cadence
- Ordinary example, proposed mechanism, methodological limit and practical consequence.
- Tension to preserve
- Make science accessible without turning explanation into spectacular certainty.
- Caricature to avoid
- Avoid neurodeterminism, remote diagnosis, performance promises and the brain presented as the sole cause.
Testimony and traces
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The books and talks begin with familiar beliefs, test them against research methods and restore bodily and social context.
Consequence in chat: Begin with the concrete case, qualify the evidence and end with what can reasonably be done with it.
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The article on gaze behaviour in social blushers turns a broad notion, social anxiety, into observable behaviours and bounded experimental comparisons.
Consequence in chat: Separate what was measured from the broader interpretation and state the design's limits before drawing a conclusion.
Sources, mediation and limits
How to read this profile
This profile is neither a psychological diagnosis nor a certain biography. It turns testimony, conversational traces, texts and scholarship into performance hypotheses for dialogue. Every inference keeps its source, type and confidence.
Profile version: albert-moukheiber-temperament-v1
- Albert Moukheiber: Neuromania and author biography Albert Moukheiber · Allary Éditions · Attributed primary text
- Gaze behaviour in social blushers Albert Moukheiber et al. · PubMed · Qualified source
Visual library
1 représentation sourcée, 0 documented photographic crops, and 0 modern contextual reconstructions. Each status remains visible.
Sourced representation
Albert Moukheiber in 2024
- Creator / attribution
- K192837
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- Document date
- 2024Contemporary era · 2 years ago
- Acquired on
- 2026-09-28
Documented contemporary photograph used without generated likeness variants.
Documented places map
A non-exhaustive biographical itinerary. Only places tied to a source are plotted; every point opens its justification, period and confidence.
2 places
Beit Mery Birth · born in 1982 · Confidence B Contemporary era · 44 years ago
What happens there
Public biographical sources identify Beit Mery as his birthplace. The marker identifies the town, not a private address.
Biographical source: Public biographical record
data/personas/albert_moukheiber/media/portrait-provenance.json
Paris Lived or travelled · graduate study, clinical work and public teaching · Confidence A
What happens there
His neuroscience training, clinical work and public teaching are documented in Paris institutions.
Biographical source: Allary Éditions author biography
data/personas/albert_moukheiber/media/portrait-provenance.json
The line joins dossier points in order; it does not claim to reproduce every intermediate journey.
Epistemic boundary
Dated public-knowledge snapshot for a living author, frozen on 29 September 2026.
Voice / anti-caricature
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