Our team
Émilie Gagnon-St-Pierre
Co-founder, Editor & Speaker
Émilie Gagnon-St-Pierre holds a Ph.D. in clinical and cognitive psychology and is currently completing a postdoctoral fellowship on interventions aimed at reducing cognitive biases. Her work focuses on reasoning, particularly in contexts where biases influence personal and intergroup relationships. She is a co-founder of RACCOURCIS, teaches, and provides consulting services. Her passion for research is punctuated by slightly unreasonable obsessions with crochet, walking, and reading.
Cloé Gratton
Co-founder, Editor and Coordinator
Cloé Gratton is a doctoral candidate in psychology at the University of Quebec at Montreal and teaches philosophy at Maisonneuve College. Her dissertation focuses on the repetition effect and the tendency to believe falsehoods. In addition to her passion for all the strange and complex questions of this world, she keeps herself busy by reading very weird books and knitting a lot.
Alice Livadaru
Speaker & Marketing Specialist
Alice Livadaru is a PhD student in education. After completing a law degree and a master’s in philosophy, she worked for six years for the government of Québec in project coordination, crisis management, and strategic advising to senior leadership. Since returning to academia in 2023, her research has focused on the conditions that help people make the best use of their reasoning, to foster better critical thinking. Her side quests include facilitating philosophy for children workshops, teaching, and growing very hot peppers along with an assortment of stubborn wild plants.
Eric Muszynski
Speaker & Editor
Eric Muszynski, PhD, is a college teacher in philosophy, and holds a Masters in cognitive science. His research focuses on explanations of behaviour in humans, animals, and plants, and the ways in which multiple approaches can interact to enrich scientific explanations. His work with Shortcuts has given him the chance to talk about cognitive biases to teachers, decision-makers and judges across the world. He has a passion for exploring difficult questions and hard-to-reach places.
our mission
Accessible language
Make scientific research accessible to anyone interested in it, by simplifying scientific language
Research tool
Bring together research agendas and literature into a practical guide to stimulate research on cognitive biases
Diagnostic
Provide the knowledge to identify biases, to be able to talk about them, and to develop ways to work around them
Interdisciplinary panorama
Provide an overview of the biases that cut across research in psychology, philosophy, economics, neuroscience and more
Critical Thinking
Promote critical thinking and accountability by proposing concrete ways to manage cognitive biases
Scientific Literacy
Make the general public aware of the scientific method by clearly explaining how research on cognitive biases is conducted
the authors
Nicolaï Abramovich, PhD, Political philosophy and Ethics, Sorbonne University
Gaëtan Béghin, PhD candidate in psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal
Anne-Sophie Blouin, Undergraduate student in psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal
Janie Brisson, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pedagogy and Educational Sciences Department, Université du Québec à Montréal
Laurence Chouinard-Gaouette, PhD candidate in psychology, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
Camille Comeau, Undergraduate student in psychology, Université de Montréal
Caroline Coupal, Undergraduate student in psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal
Pier-Luc de Chantal, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal
Gabriella Decoste, PhD candidate in psychology, Université de Montréal
Catherine Desautels, PhD candidate in psychology, Université de Montréal
Marina M. Doucerain, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal
Ben Dyson, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Alberta
Frédérick Deschênes, Master's student in philosophy, Université du Québec à Montréal
Émilie Gagnon-St-Pierre, PhD candidate in psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal
Sara Germain, Master's student in Communications, Université du Québec à Montréal
Louis-Nascan Gill, PhD candidate in psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal
Cloé Gratton, PhD candidate in psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal
Louison Gros, BA Psychology, Université Savoie-Mont-Blanc
Fatima Imsirovic, PhD candidate in clinical psychology, Université de Montréal
Alaric Kohler, PhD, Lecturer, Haute école pédagogique BEJUNE
Alanah Lam, B.A. Psychology, Simon Fraser University
Olivier Lépine, PhD candidate in psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal
Myles Maillet, PhD candidate in psychology, University of Victoria
Coralie Niquay, Undergraduate student in cognitive neuroscience, Université de Montréal
Amy-Lee Normandin, PhD candidate in psychology, Université de Montréal
Julien Ouellette-Michaud, PhD candidate in philosophy, McGill University, philosophy teacher, Maisonneuve college
Maxime Paquel, PhD in work and organizational psychology, Université de Montréal
Gabriel Piuze-Bourgeois, BA Psychology, Université de Sherbrooke
Christina Popescu, PhD candidate in psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal
Trisha Rani Saha, Undergraduate student in cognitive neuroscience, Université de Montréal
Charlotte Remy, PhD candidate in medical physics, Université de Montréal
Evelyn Rosset, PhD, Lecturer, Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge
Éliane Simard-Desjardins, Undergraduate student in psychology, Université de Montréal
Marie Taillefer, Undergraduate student in psychology, Université de Montréal
Fabrice Valcourt, Master's student in philosophy, Université du Québec à Montréal
Andréanne Veillette, PhD candidate in Ethics and Public affairs, Carleton University
Magali Vigneault, Undergraduate student in cognitive neuroscience, Université de Montréal
Sophie-Andrée Vinet, BSc Cognitive Neuroscience, Université de Montréal
collaborators
Sarah Maille
Translation
Sarah Maillé obtained her bachelor's degree in communication from UQAM in 2017, where she is now back as a student doing a specialization thesis in psychology.
Kathie McClintock
Translation
Kathie McClintock used to be a lecturer at McGill University, and now she is happily retired and trying reduce her carbon footprint.
Susan D. Renaud
Translation
Susan Renaud is a trainer in teaching English (TESOL) and French-English translator for RACCOURCIS.
Louise Heibing
Revision
Louise Heibing is a psychologist. She likes to read Icelandic thrillers with recurring fallen heroes.
our logo
The SHORTCUTS logo was created by Christian Tiffet. Christian Tiffet lives and works in Quebec. After having been artistic director of Éditions Québec Amérique and the Montreal newspaper Le Devoir, with which he still collaborates, he now devotes his time to illustration and graphic design as an independent artist.
Shortcuts in the media
Ampuy, E. (2021, January 22). Interview - Émilie Gagnon-St-Pierre, co-founder of Raccourcis. CISM 89.3. Online.
Gauvreau, C. (2021, January 11). Reconnaître les biais cognitifs. Actualités UQAM. Online .
Gril, Emmanuelle. (2022, 21 novembre). Article. Série biais cognitifs: Démystifier les biais cognitifs en milieu de travail. Revue Gestion du HEC Montréal. En ligne.
Hébert-Bernier, F. (2021, January 20). Quand notre cerveau prend des raccourcis. Quartier Libre. Online.
Monette, G. (2021, 6 février). Podcast. Épisode 51 : Émilie Gagnon-St-Pierre et Cloé Gratton sur les biais cognitifs. Éthique en pandémie. Online.
Muszynski, E. (2021, spring). Communiqué. A practical guide to cognitive biases. Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science no. 103. Online.
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