Social representations of the stock market in financial advisors, investors and media: a field study carried out in Europe and China

The aim of the symposium is to provide an overview of the research environment of the European PhD on Social Representations and Communication Research Centre and Multimedia Lab, as an incubator for new generations of young researchers. Part I of the symposium presents some results from the first empirical research program on “Social representations of the stock market in financial advisors, investors and media”, which investigates this important phenomenon ( from the social mass, group and individual psychology perspective, and from the financial and economic viewpoint) in two cultural contexts where the stock market has been differently anchored: Europe (including three different countries: Italy, UK and France with relatively developed financial institutions) and China (a financial market with tremendous growth and development in the two past decades).