Martin Aranguren

Martin Aranguren studied sociology, philosophy, political science, and anthropology in Argentina, France, Germany, Senegal, Venezuela, India, and the United States. After completing his PhD at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in 2014, he was recruited at CNRS in 2015, initially joining the research unit URMIS, then the CRIS in 2021.
Martin’s research seeks to explain macro-social inequalities on the basis of micro-social mechanisms operating at the level of face-to-face interaction. For his empirical work, he uses a diverse palette of methods (all uniquely good for something, none good for everything): archival search, semi-structured interviews, participant observation, analysis of survey/administrative data, and field experiments.
His dissertation proposed an original approach for studying the dynamics of emotional encounters in the context of interpersonal relations. Based on field experiments, his more recent work investigates everyday discrimination in urban public places. His HDR (Habilitation à diriger des recherches) thesis, defended in 2024, puts forward an original research program for investigating the contribution of discrimination to inequalities in mental health.

• 2021-2022, "Reducing Risk Compensation (GERICO)",  ANR, Call Résilience Covid-19. 
  GERICO cherche à expliquer pourquoi les individus relâchent une mesure préventive (maintenir une distance minimale d'un mètre) lorsqu'ils en adoptent une autre (porter un masque) dans le contexte de la pandémie de Covid-19. 
• 2018-2021, "Misrecognitive discrimination" (MIDI), Momentum grant, Mission pour les Initiatives Transverses et Interdisciplinaires, CNRS. 
  En utilisant des expériences de terrain, MIDI étudie les formes subtiles de discrimination dans le contexte des interactions en face-à-face dans les lieux publics.

• 2023, Research design and introductory statistics (Quantitative Methods I), Sociology Master’s, Sciences Po.
• 2022, Data analysis using regression (Quantitative Methods II), Sociology Master’s, Sciences Po.

Member of the editorial board of Appartenances & Altérités

Peer reviewing: Annals of Behavioral Medicine, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, PLOS Global Public Health, PLOS ONE, Scientific Reports, Social Psychology Quarterly, Social Science and Medecine

• Martin Aranguren, Alice Cartaud, Ibrahima Cissé, Yann Coello. People interact closer when a face mask is worn but risk compensation is at best partial. European Journal of Public Health, 2023, 33 (6), pp.1177-1182. ⟨10.1093/eurpub/ckad161⟩. ⟨hal-05025300⟩
• Martin Aranguren. Racial discrimination in helping situations depends on the cost of help: A large field experiment in the streets of Paris. The British Journal of Sociology, 2024, ⟨10.1111/1468-4446.13156⟩. ⟨hal-04770417⟩
• Martin Aranguren, Carlo Barone, Mirna Safi. Les enjeux de régulation éthique dans les expérimentations de terrain en sciences humaines et sociale. L'Année Sociologique, 2024, 74 (2024/2), pp.475-494. ⟨10.3917/anso.242.0475⟩. ⟨hal-04770410⟩
• Martin Aranguren. Adding experiments to the classical survey-interview mix: A three-method design for supporting micro-to-macro explanations in sociology. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 2024, 91, pp.100933. ⟨10.1016/j.rssm.2024.100933⟩. ⟨hal-04574069⟩
• Samy Cohen, Nonna Mayer, Martin Aranguren, Morgane Laouénan, Achim Edelmann, et al.. Measuring racial discrimination: field experiments in the streets of Paris. 2024, 11 p. ⟨hal-04722092⟩
• Martin Aranguren. Experimental Thinking: A Primer on Social Science Experiments. Contemporary Sociology, 2024, 53 (2), pp.131-133. ⟨10.1177/00943061241227106h⟩. ⟨hal-04917293⟩
• Samy Cohen, Nonna Mayer, Pazit Ben-Nun Bloom, Martin Aranguren, Juliette Galonnier. The Political Impact of Minority-Religion Symbols in the Public Space. 2023, 13 p. ⟨hal-04722153⟩
• Martin Aranguren. Sketch of a research program on the contribution of discrimination to mental health inequalities: a critical review of evidence, models and methods. Appartenances & Altérités, 2023, 3, ⟨10.4000/alterites.484⟩. ⟨hal-04413562⟩
• Martin Aranguren. Introduction. Prévalence, mécanismes et conséquences des discriminations en raison de l’origine : un état des lieux des travaux en économie, en psychologie et en sociologie. Appartenances & Altérités, 2023, 3, ⟨10.4000/alterites.464⟩. ⟨hal-04413557⟩
• Alban Lemasson, Manon Toutain, Francesco Madrisotti, Martin Aranguren. Anxious voice and avoidant language in interaction with a woman wearing an Islamic headscarf: field-experimental evidence from the Paris metro. 2022. ⟨hal-03140246v5⟩
• Martin Aranguren. Hijab-wearing women face interactional discrimination in everyday encounters: two field experiments. 2021. ⟨hal-03094580v3⟩
• Martin Aranguren. Interactional discrimination partly explains why Muslim women are more depressed than average: integrating survey data with field experiments in the study of minority stress. 2021. ⟨hal-03815399⟩
• Martin Aranguren. Face mask use conditionally decreases compliance with physical distancing rules against Covid-19: gender differences in risk compensation pattern. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, In press. ⟨hal-03285820⟩
• Martin Aranguren, Francesco Madrisotti, Eser Durmaz-Martins. Anti-Muslim behavior in everyday interaction: evidence from a field experiment in Paris. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, In press, ⟨10.1080/1369183X.2021.1953378⟩. ⟨hal-03285818⟩
• Martin Aranguren, Francesco Madrisotti, Eser Durmaz-Martins, Gernot Gerger, Lena Wittmann, et al.. Responses to the islamic headscarf in everyday interactions depend on sex and locale: a field experiment in the metros of Brussels, Paris, and Vienna on helping and involvement behaviors. PLoS ONE, In press. ⟨hal-03107103v3⟩
• Martin Aranguren. Reconstructing the social constructionist view of emotions: from language to culture, including nonhuman culture. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 2017, 47 (2), pp.244 - 260. ⟨10.1111/jtsb.12132⟩. ⟨hal-01633965⟩
• Martin Aranguren. Exploring the nonverbal facet of ethnic discrimination: A field experiment on anti-Roma racism in the Paris métro. Social Influence, 2017, ⟨10.1080/15534510.2017.1387173⟩. ⟨hal-01633974⟩
• Martin Aranguren. Emotional mechanisms of social (re)production. Social Science Information, 2015, 54 (4), pp.543-563. ⟨10.1177/0539018415598403⟩. ⟨hal-01335831⟩
• Martin Aranguren. Interrogative looks and play-faces in the management of interpersonal distance. Interaction Studies, 2015, 16 (3), pp.526-552. ⟨10.1075/is.16.3.08ara⟩. ⟨hal-01335817⟩
• Martin Aranguren, Stéphane Tonnelat. Emotional Transactions in the Paris Subway. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 2014, 38 (4), pp.495-521. ⟨10.1007/s10919-014-0193-1⟩. ⟨halshs-01335651⟩
• Martin Aranguren. Le travail émotionnel du client. Social Science Information, 2014, 53 (3), ⟨10.1177/0539018414523520⟩. ⟨hal-01335789⟩
• Martin Tironi, Martin Aranguren. Le succès d'une innovation est la manifestation de ses affordances. La résolution de problèmes dans le déploiement du Vélib' et du 3000+. Séminaire Réseo, OrangeLab, 2012, Paris, France. ⟨hal-00824601⟩
• Stéphane Tonnelat, Martin Aranguren. La force des émotions faibles, contacts et émotions dans le métro de Paris. [Rapport de recherche] 170, RATP. 2012, pp.175. ⟨hal-01640828⟩