Luciane Carraro
Biographic Data
| ID | 1652631 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luciane Carraro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luciane |
| FAMILY NAME | Carraro |
| SIGNATURE | CARRARO L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Padua |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8100-4609 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 85 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Economic Inequality is Masculine
Gender discrimination remains a major obstacle to workplace equality. While various factors contribute to this issue, organizational structures that reinforce hierarchical, male-dominated cultures may indicate that gender discrimination is widespread and normative. This research examines how vertical pay gaps—the wage gap between top earners and other employees—are used by employees as cues for organizational norms, which in turn shape perception…
Understanding political differences in meat reduction and replacement intentions
Extensive evidence shows that high meat consumption is associated with negative environmental and health consequences. Yet right-wing and conservative individuals consistently report higher meat consumption and lower willingness to reduce it. While ideological differences in dietary choices are well documented, less is known about the psychological mechanisms underlying these differences. We propose that political differences in meat-reduction in…
Uncertainty Avoidance, Conspiracy Mentality and Populist Attitudes in Italy
This study investigates the role of some psychological variables associated with populist attitudes, specifically focusing on Conspiracy Mentality (CM) and Uncertainty Avoidance (UA). This approach allows for the examination of both belief‐system orientations and cognitive predispositions in explaining the psychological underpinnings of populism. Although CM has been previously linked to populism, our research reveals new insights into the intera…
The Words of Morality
The present study provides an Italian-adapted version of the Moral Foundations Dictionary (MFD) 2.0, namely Italian version of the MFD (it-MFD), for use in the Linguistic Inquiry Word Count software. The MFD 2.0 was translated and adapted from English into Italian following a multistep process. Subsequently, the reviewers compared the output with the original text to identify semantic discrepancies. Independent judges then evaluated the relevance…
The impact of mortality salience on environmental concerns and diet intentions
Implicit and explicit self-construals in Chinese-heritage and Italian nonimmigrant early adolescents
The current study examined levels of implicit and explicit independent and interdependent self-construals (SCs) in early adolescents with and without a migration background in Italy and assessed whether SCs were linked to youths' positive adjustment in terms of self-esteem and prosocial behavior. Chinese early adolescents of immigrant background ( n = 123) and Italian mainstreamers ( n = 187) aged between 11 and 13 years participated in the Seman…
Changing impressions
Validation of the revised Food Neophobia Scale (FNS-R) in the Italian context
Morality stereotyping as a basis of women’s in-group favoritism
Four studies used three different implicit methods (the Brief IAT, Affect Misattribution Procedure, and Lexical Decision Task) to measure women’s gender stereotypes of violence, strength, competence, trustworthiness, and sociability. Analyses of response latencies in Study 1 ( N = 100) showed that these stereotypes were based more in in-group favoritism than out-group derogation. Consistent with recent evidence that morality is central to the pos…
Just ignore or counterattack? On the effects of different strategies for dealing with political attacks
During political races, candidates have to decide how to deal with the negative remarks from opposing candidates: just ignore or counterattack? In two studies, we investigated some of the consequences of this choice. In Study 1, participants were presented with a political candidate who systematically attacked his opponent and with the reactions of the attacked candidate: across conditions, the attacked candidate only focused on his political pro…
Ideology is related to basic cognitive processes involved in attitude formation
Ideological orientation shapes the perception of the social world and conservatism is associated to an increased weighting of negative over positive information. In the present work we explored how this ideology-based difference is also related to basic cognitive processes involved in attitude formation. In particular, we hypothesized that conservatives, as compared to liberals, would show stronger illusory correlation effects when negative infor…
Striving for difference
Previous research demonstrated that individuals spontaneously prefer ingroup members who display ingroup favoritism rather than egalitarian behaviors (Castelli, Tomelleri, & Zogmaister, 2008). In the current work, we explored what specific strategies toward ingroup favoritism are spontaneously preferred. Results from four studies showed that ingroup members who made it possible for the ingroup to achieve a positive intergroup differentiation were…
The Implicit and Explicit Effects of Negative Political Campaigns
Despite the widespread use of negative campaigns, research has not yet provided unambiguous conclusions about their effects. So far studies, however, have mainly focused on very explicit measures. The main goal of the present work was to explore the effects of different types of negative campaigns on both implicit and explicit attitudes, as well as in relation to two basic dimensions of social perception, namely competence and warmth.\nAcross a s…
On the determinants of implicit evaluations
The effects of perceived competence and sociability on electoral outcomes
As crianças e o conceito de morte
A maioria das pesquisas que estuda como as crianças elaboram o conceito de morte relacionam-no com o desenvolvimento cognitivo. No entanto, as experiências individuais da criança (Fávero e Salim, 1995) bem como a cultura, que coloca a sua disposição os aspectos formais que representam os eventos de cada sociedade (Bruner, 1990) e, portanto, também o evento da morte, têm sido reconhecidas como influências importantes na elaboração deste conceito. …
Changing impressions
The Implicit and Explicit Effects of Negative Political Campaigns
Despite the widespread use of negative campaigns, research has not yet provided unambiguous conclusions about their effects. So far studies, however, have mainly focused on very explicit measures. The main goal of the present work was to explore the effects of different types of negative campaigns on both implicit and explicit attitudes, as well as in relation to two basic dimensions of social perception, namely competence and warmth.\nAcross a s…
The effects of perceived competence and sociability on electoral outcomes
Ideology is related to basic cognitive processes involved in attitude formation
Ideological orientation shapes the perception of the social world and conservatism is associated to an increased weighting of negative over positive information. In the present work we explored how this ideology-based difference is also related to basic cognitive processes involved in attitude formation. In particular, we hypothesized that conservatives, as compared to liberals, would show stronger illusory correlation effects when negative infor…
Morality stereotyping as a basis of women’s in-group favoritism
Four studies used three different implicit methods (the Brief IAT, Affect Misattribution Procedure, and Lexical Decision Task) to measure women’s gender stereotypes of violence, strength, competence, trustworthiness, and sociability. Analyses of response latencies in Study 1 ( N = 100) showed that these stereotypes were based more in in-group favoritism than out-group derogation. Consistent with recent evidence that morality is central to the pos…
Just ignore or counterattack? On the effects of different strategies for dealing with political attacks
During political races, candidates have to decide how to deal with the negative remarks from opposing candidates: just ignore or counterattack? In two studies, we investigated some of the consequences of this choice. In Study 1, participants were presented with a political candidate who systematically attacked his opponent and with the reactions of the attacked candidate: across conditions, the attacked candidate only focused on his political pro…
Validation of the revised Food Neophobia Scale (FNS-R) in the Italian context
On the determinants of implicit evaluations
Implicit and explicit self-construals in Chinese-heritage and Italian nonimmigrant early adolescents
The current study examined levels of implicit and explicit independent and interdependent self-construals (SCs) in early adolescents with and without a migration background in Italy and assessed whether SCs were linked to youths' positive adjustment in terms of self-esteem and prosocial behavior. Chinese early adolescents of immigrant background ( n = 123) and Italian mainstreamers ( n = 187) aged between 11 and 13 years participated in the Seman…
Striving for difference
Previous research demonstrated that individuals spontaneously prefer ingroup members who display ingroup favoritism rather than egalitarian behaviors (Castelli, Tomelleri, & Zogmaister, 2008). In the current work, we explored what specific strategies toward ingroup favoritism are spontaneously preferred. Results from four studies showed that ingroup members who made it possible for the ingroup to achieve a positive intergroup differentiation were…
As crianças e o conceito de morte
A maioria das pesquisas que estuda como as crianças elaboram o conceito de morte relacionam-no com o desenvolvimento cognitivo. No entanto, as experiências individuais da criança (Fávero e Salim, 1995) bem como a cultura, que coloca a sua disposição os aspectos formais que representam os eventos de cada sociedade (Bruner, 1990) e, portanto, também o evento da morte, têm sido reconhecidas como influências importantes na elaboração deste conceito. …
On the determinants of implicit evaluations
The effects of perceived competence and sociability on electoral outcomes
Striving for difference
Previous research demonstrated that individuals spontaneously prefer ingroup members who display ingroup favoritism rather than egalitarian behaviors (Castelli, Tomelleri, & Zogmaister, 2008). In the current work, we explored what specific strategies toward ingroup favoritism are spontaneously preferred. Results from four studies showed that ingroup members who made it possible for the ingroup to achieve a positive intergroup differentiation were…
The Implicit and Explicit Effects of Negative Political Campaigns
Despite the widespread use of negative campaigns, research has not yet provided unambiguous conclusions about their effects. So far studies, however, have mainly focused on very explicit measures. The main goal of the present work was to explore the effects of different types of negative campaigns on both implicit and explicit attitudes, as well as in relation to two basic dimensions of social perception, namely competence and warmth.\nAcross a s…
Ideology is related to basic cognitive processes involved in attitude formation
Ideological orientation shapes the perception of the social world and conservatism is associated to an increased weighting of negative over positive information. In the present work we explored how this ideology-based difference is also related to basic cognitive processes involved in attitude formation. In particular, we hypothesized that conservatives, as compared to liberals, would show stronger illusory correlation effects when negative infor…
Just ignore or counterattack? On the effects of different strategies for dealing with political attacks
During political races, candidates have to decide how to deal with the negative remarks from opposing candidates: just ignore or counterattack? In two studies, we investigated some of the consequences of this choice. In Study 1, participants were presented with a political candidate who systematically attacked his opponent and with the reactions of the attacked candidate: across conditions, the attacked candidate only focused on his political pro…
Morality stereotyping as a basis of women’s in-group favoritism
Four studies used three different implicit methods (the Brief IAT, Affect Misattribution Procedure, and Lexical Decision Task) to measure women’s gender stereotypes of violence, strength, competence, trustworthiness, and sociability. Analyses of response latencies in Study 1 ( N = 100) showed that these stereotypes were based more in in-group favoritism than out-group derogation. Consistent with recent evidence that morality is central to the pos…
Validation of the revised Food Neophobia Scale (FNS-R) in the Italian context
Changing impressions
Implicit and explicit self-construals in Chinese-heritage and Italian nonimmigrant early adolescents
The current study examined levels of implicit and explicit independent and interdependent self-construals (SCs) in early adolescents with and without a migration background in Italy and assessed whether SCs were linked to youths' positive adjustment in terms of self-esteem and prosocial behavior. Chinese early adolescents of immigrant background ( n = 123) and Italian mainstreamers ( n = 187) aged between 11 and 13 years participated in the Seman…
The impact of mortality salience on environmental concerns and diet intentions
The Words of Morality
The present study provides an Italian-adapted version of the Moral Foundations Dictionary (MFD) 2.0, namely Italian version of the MFD (it-MFD), for use in the Linguistic Inquiry Word Count software. The MFD 2.0 was translated and adapted from English into Italian following a multistep process. Subsequently, the reviewers compared the output with the original text to identify semantic discrepancies. Independent judges then evaluated the relevance…
Economic Inequality is Masculine
Gender discrimination remains a major obstacle to workplace equality. While various factors contribute to this issue, organizational structures that reinforce hierarchical, male-dominated cultures may indicate that gender discrimination is widespread and normative. This research examines how vertical pay gaps—the wage gap between top earners and other employees—are used by employees as cues for organizational norms, which in turn shape perception…
Understanding political differences in meat reduction and replacement intentions
Extensive evidence shows that high meat consumption is associated with negative environmental and health consequences. Yet right-wing and conservative individuals consistently report higher meat consumption and lower willingness to reduce it. While ideological differences in dietary choices are well documented, less is known about the psychological mechanisms underlying these differences. We propose that political differences in meat-reduction in…
Uncertainty Avoidance, Conspiracy Mentality and Populist Attitudes in Italy
This study investigates the role of some psychological variables associated with populist attitudes, specifically focusing on Conspiracy Mentality (CM) and Uncertainty Avoidance (UA). This approach allows for the examination of both belief‐system orientations and cognitive predispositions in explaining the psychological underpinnings of populism. Although CM has been previously linked to populism, our research reveals new insights into the intera…
Psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (9 works) · Politics (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (5 works) · Perception (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Biology and political orientation (4 works) · Cognition (4 works)