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.

The central idea

Perception depends on brain and context; understanding its biases helps us judge better.

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.

Sourced historical landmarks

A short reading of the biographical dossier. Every landmark keeps its status and confidence level; later tradition is never presented as certain memory.

1982

Birth

Status : approximate dating Confidence B
Open the source · Albert Moukheiber author and book pages
born in 1982

Beit Mery

Public biographical sources identify Beit Mery as his birthplace. The marker identifies the town, not a private address.

Status : scholarly consensus Confidence B
Open the source · Public biographical record
graduate study, clinical work and public teaching

Paris

His neuroscience training, clinical work and public teaching are documented in Paris institutions.

Status : attested Confidence A
Open the source · Allary Éditions author biography
November 2024

Gif-sur-Yvette

Public science-and-society seminar at the Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Paris-Saclay.

Status : attested Confidence A
Open the source · Université Paris-Saclay C2N seminar page
16 December 2025

Nantes

Public session at Nantes city hall for an Academy of Brittany award.

Status : attested Confidence A
Open the source · Académie de Bretagne et des Pays de la Loire
10 March 2026

Bordeaux

Public lecture on mental health in the University of Bordeaux civic series.

Status : attested Confidence A
Open the source · University of Bordeaux event page

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Major works

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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

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Encounters and contemporaries

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Albert Moukheiber’s life

Possible contemporaries

Chronological overlap makes an encounter possible, but does not establish one.

André Comte-SponvilleCompatible dates, no contact established

Jacques EllulCompatible dates, no contact established

Mo GawdatCompatible dates, no contact established

Paulo CoelhoCompatible dates, no contact established

Pierre HadotCompatible dates, no contact established

Raphaël EnthovenCompatible dates, no contact established

Simone de BeauvoirCompatible dates, no contact established

Private collection

Works in my collection 2

Works by Albert Moukheiber held in the collection, with the PDF cover when available.

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Fear of Blushing in the Social Anxiety Spectrum, a Coauthored Study

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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.

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PDF cover

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.

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Video talks and long-form conversations

A TEDx talk, two long lectures and two in-depth conversations on cognitive bias, perception and neuromyths.

Reconstructed temperament

What the available traces let us suppose about how this thinker listens, reasons and answers.

Overall confidence B 2 observations · 2 sources B means: direct correspondence or strong contemporary evidence

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

Attributed primary text Confidence B

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.

Albert Moukheiber: Neuromania and author biography
Qualified source Confidence B

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.

Gaze behaviour in social blushers

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.

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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

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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.

Source: Albert-moukheiber.jpg

Documented places map

Biographical landmarks and a non-exhaustive selection of conferences, talks and public visits. Every point links to a source; private addresses stay off the map.

5 places

Birth Conference, talk or public visit Lived or travelled

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