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Mara Cadinu è Professoressa Ordinaria di Psicologia Sociale. Ha ottenuto il PhD in Psicologia Sociale nel 1996 presso la University of Oregon. E’ stata Editor per lo European Journal of Social Psychology (2002-2005) and Membro della Executive Committee della European Association of Social Psychology (2011-2017). Fra i suoi interessi di ricerca vi sono Ineguaglianza economica, Ancoraggio al Sé e Autostereotipizzazione, Minaccia dello stereotipo, Oggettivazione femminile e maschile, sottorappresentazione delle donne in politica.
Luigi Castelli is Full Professor at the University of Padova where he mainly teaches introductory social psychology courses. His main research interests focus on the development of intergroup attitudes in children, the interplay between basic attentional mechanisms and social cognition, and political psychology. He is currently Associate Editor of Social Cognition.
Luciana Carraro is an Associate Professor at University of Padova where she teaches “Communication and Persuasion” and “Political Psychology”. Her research mainly focuses on political psychology, implicit social cognition in general and on the role of morality in impression formation and persuasion.
Caterina Suitner is an Associate Professor at University of Padova where she teaches Persuasion and Social Influence, Work and Organizational Psychology, and Social Network Analysis. Her research focuses on the relation between social cognition and language, with particular attention to the role of para-semantic linguistic features and their role in attitude formation (e.g., trust in vaccines) and belief in fake news, social inequality, and gender issues. She is Editor in Chief of European Journal of Social Psychology.
Francesca Guizzo is an interdepartmental researcher at DPSS and FISPPA at the University of Padova. Her research focuses on understanding the psychological consequences of belonging to low-status groups, with a particular emphasis on women. She is currently working on projects examining the effects of media sexualization and idealization on users’ self-image, as well as the relationship between dehumanization and self-dehumanization processes in stigmatized individuals.
Maria Laura Bettinsoli is an interdepartmental researcher at University of Padova, where she teaches “Intragroup, Intergroup, and System relations” and “Applied Social Psychology”. Her research interests space from language and (social) cognition – with a particular attention to spatial biases and word order – to social perception, dehumanization, and psychology of gender and sexual identities. Her latest research focuses on stereotyping and categorization processes through the lens of intersectionality.
Ricercatori
Her main research interests are the psychology of economic inequality and language and social cognition. Her current thesis investigates the role of morality and outrage in collective action linked to inequality.
Her main research interests are language, bilingualism and social cognition. Her project focuses on language as a cue for social categorization, exploring its role in many cognitive domains.
Their main research interests are framing and moralization of economic redistribution and taxation, intersection between climate change and economic inequality, and non-binary inclusivity.
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Tania Garau is a PhD Candidate in Psychological Sciences. Her main research interests include intergroup and interethnic relations by analyzing both their explicit and implicit components. Specifically, her research project investigates adults’ perceptions of intergroup attitudes in children and the influence of individual variables (e.g., The Parental Care Motivational System). In parallel she also investigates how significant adults may influence the development of stereotypes and prejudices in children, with a focus on verbal and nonverbal behaviours
Matilde Tumino is XXXVI cycle PhD Student in Psychological Sciences. Her research topics are focused on social and political psychology. Specifically, she investigates the effect of a perceived threat both on implicit and explicit attitudes. During her M.Sc in “Psicologia di Comunità”, she had the opportunity to carry out studies on Social Mindfulness and political ideology, in collaboration with the University of Surrey.
Silvia Filippi is a Ph.D. student in Psychological Sciences and research fellow. Her main research interests focus on the influence of work environments in shaping the well-being of workers and their perception of work-life balance, especially concerning economic and power inequalities. Furthermore, within the context of social psychology of economic inequality, Silvia Filippi explores support for wealth redistribution.
Daniela Di Michele is a PhD candidate. She is interested in gender inequality, sexual objectification, masculinity, and feminism. Her current PhD project investigates men’s involvement in feminism and ways to enhance men’s engagement in gender-based collective action.
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Anne Maass is professor of Social Psychology at New York University in Abu Dhabi, Professor Emerita at Padua University, and member of the German Academy of the Sciences. She received the Allport Intergroup Relations Prize (2007), Tajfel Award (2011), Ostrom Award (2020). Her interests concern language and social cognition and the psychology of economic inequality.
Bruno Gabriel Salvador Casara’s research activities deal with conspiracy beliefs, economic and gender inequalities, collective actions, and social media. Currently, his main research interests are related to the antecedents and consequences of conspiracy beliefs, and the use of network analysis in social psychology.
Alice Lucarini is a post-doc researcher at the University of Modena-Reggio Emilia, Italy. Her main research interests are compassion and prosocial behavior. Specifically, her project focuses on compassion experienced toward positively and negatively portrayed targets. She is also interested in ideological and cognitive barriers that promote victim blaming.
Alessia Valmori is a post-doc researcher at the Cattolica University in Milan, Italy. Her research activities deal with political psychology and implicit social cognition. Specifically, her main interest is gender differences related to political orientation in moral behaviors.
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