Stefano Livi
Biographic Data
| ID | 230780 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefano Livi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefano |
| FAMILY NAME | Livi |
| SIGNATURE | LIVI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sapienza University of Rome |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5656-0267 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Students’ achievement goals: Examining the impact of parental influences and perfectionism
Grounded in the 2 × 2 framework of Achievement Goal Theory and recent refinements of perfectionism theory, the present study examined how perceived parental goals (mastery and performance) and perceived parental criticism/expectations shape adolescents’ achievement goals (mastery-approach, mastery-avoidance, performance-approach, performance-avoidance), through the mediating role of perfectionism. Specifically, a mediation model was tested, with …
School and its educational value: The role of parental influences in shaping adolescents’ values, academic beliefs, and expectations
Parents play a fundamental role in the development of young people’s self-perceptions. In the context of education, psychological research has revealed that parental involvement (PI) is significantly related to students’ attitudes, beliefs, motivation, expectations, and academic outcomes. However, few studies have focused on a specific aspect of PI known as academic socialization, which refers to the importance that parents attribute to school an…
Italian adaptation and psychometric analysis of the moral foundations questionnaire 2
Within the framework of Moral Foundations Theory (MFT; Haidt & Graham, Social Justice Research , 20 (1), 98–116, 2007; Haidt & Joseph, Daedalus , 133 (4), 55–66, 2004), the aim of the present study is to adapt and discuss the psychometric features of the Moral Foundations Questionnaire 2 (MFQ-2; Atari et al., Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , 2023) in the Italian context. Utilizing a sample of 947 Italian adults, a Confirmatory Facto…
Italian Adaptation of the Revised Multicultural Ideology Scale ( MCI‐r )
The rise of migrants from different cultural backgrounds in Italy highlights the need to promote harmonious coexistence between them and the local population. A key factor in addressing this challenge is the level of acceptance in society of a multicultural ideology. An instrument to measure this concept has recently been revised into the Revised Multicultural Ideology Scale (MCI‐r). Despite the urgency of adopting this broader ideology in Italy,…
A contextualized emotion perception assessment relates to personal and social well-being
To-date, empirical support for the relationship between Emotion Recognition Accuracy and well-being has been very limited. • A Contextualized assessment of ERA −the Assessment of Contextualized Emotion (ACE)- was found to be a consistent predictor of personal and social well-being. • ACE’s influence on well-being was partially mediated by the quality of social interactions. • These findings deepen our understanding of ERA’s role in social functio…
The role of organisational ethical climate in shaping students’ class identification and their educational outcomes
The present study extends the concept of Organisational Ethical Climate (OEC) to the school context, addressing a gap in the literature that has predominantly investigated this construct in workplace settings. We investigated how shared ethical norms within school shape students’ class identification and, in turn, key educational outcomes such as wellbeing, academic performance, and dropout intentions. Specifically, we investigated how the OEC (o…
Sensitive minds, supportive environments: A gateway to marginality and dropout intentions, moderated by teacher-student relationships
Fostering the Organisational Socialisation Process to Reduce Self‐Objectification: A Social Psychological Perspective for Studying Workplace Well‐Being
Research on self‐objectification at work has increased significantly over the last decade. However, much remains to be done. In particular, we do not know enough about the role of organisational‐level factors in reducing self‐objectification. For these reasons, the present study aimed to examine the role of organisational socialisation as a predictor of employees' adjustment. Specifically, we examined the relationship between organisational socia…
Perceived class cohesion as a protection strategy against cyber‐bullying in vulnerable students: A study of secondary school students
Cyber‐bullying represents a form of verbal or psychological aggression, carried out intentionally and repeatedly, and perpetuated using digital devices that has negative consequences on the health and well‐being of adolescents. This phenomenon is prevented by contextual and dispositional factors. For this reason, our study investigated both these factors, specifically, the role of the perceived class cohesion in presence of vulnerability factors,…
Exploring the influence of need for closure on anti-immigrants collective actions: The mediating role of binding moral foundations and desired cultural tightness
Secondary Transfer Effect and Natives' Acculturation Behaviours: The Role of Natives' Perceived Moral Distance and Multicultural Ideology
The increase in migration and cultural diversity across various Western regions has highlighted the need to promote harmonious coexistence between those who migrate from other countries and the native populations. Promoting social harmony is the primary objective in both acculturation and intergroup contact research. Particularly relevant to this aim is the secondary transfer effect (STE), consisting in the spreading of the effects of contact wit…
Omertà in intragroup cheating: The role of ingroup identity in dishonesty and whistleblowing
Why are people willing to denounce or, contrarily, to keep silent on others’ misconduct? We hypothesized that people would be more likely to cheat, and consequently less likely to blow the whistle, when among an ingroup (vs. outgroup). In two experiments, participants witnessed a same nationality or a different nationality group member cheating during a group task. Participants either had the opportunity to cheat themselves before witnessing this…
My partner looks, swims, and quacks like a duck: The need for cognitive closure in the interpersonal perception of romantic engagement in close relationships
Individuals are motivated to have a reassuring vision of their partners' characteristics that are central to the relationship such as romantic engagement. This can be particularly true for individuals with high levels of need for closure (NFC). In order to preserve a comforting and stable view of the relationship, they might be motivated by greater assumed similarity and lesser accuracy in perceiving partners' romantic engagement. Three‐hundred‐f…
Motivated team innovation: Impact of need for closure and epistemic authority
New members are important sources of innovative perspectives in groups. However, it can be very difficult for newcomers’ ideas to be heard. It is likely that group members with high (vs. low) levels of need for closure (NFC) are more resistant to newcomers’ innovative ideas. Moreover, when group epistemic authority (EA) is high, members should “freeze” on the group’s ideas, regardless of the newcomer’s EA. In contrast, when group EA is low, membe…
Explaining immigrant threat perceptions and pro‐immigrant collective action intentions through issue‐specific moral conviction and general need for closure: The case of the US–Mexico border wall
This research aimed at explaining immigrant threat perceptions and pro‐immigrant collective action intentions through moral conviction regarding the construction of the US–Mexico border wall and general need for closure (NFC). Among independent samples of Democrats and Republicans, we found that NFC (measured in Study 1, manipulated in Study 2) was negatively related to pro‐immigrant collective action intentions through enhanced immigrant threat …
Undergraduates’ academic socialization. A cross‐time analysis
BACKGROUND: Socialization practices support undergraduates' transitional processes when beginning their academic careers and afterwards. Anyhow, the absence of specific socialization measures for academic contexts does not allow Universities to assess it. AIMS: The present study aimed to contribute to the socialization literature by proposing a reliable measure (USQ, Undergraduate Socialization Questionnaire) specific for the academic context, th…
When motivation is not enough: Effects of prosociality and organizational socialization in volunteers’ intention to continue volunteering
Retention of volunteers is a main issue for no‐profit organizations. In the present study, using a cross‐sectional design, determinants of volunteers’ intentions to continue their service were investigated in a sample of 116 volunteers at different Italian organizations (M age = 42.32, SD age = 15.91). Guided by the conceptual model of the volunteer process, we hypothesized that organizational socialization should mediate the link between prosoci…
Emotion regulation and satisfaction in long-term marital relationships: The role of emotional contagion
How couples regulate their emotions and how they converge emotionally with one another can critically affect relationship quality. We examined individual differences in two different classes of interaction-relevant processes-emotion regulation (ER) and emotional contagion (EC), the tendency to catch and converge with the emotions of others-in long-term marital relationships. Results from the actor-partner interdependence model analyses indicated …
In the name of truth: People’s reactions to ingroup and outgroup members who self-disclose a severe error
Usually people consider morality traits to be highly valuable, both in themselves and in others. Moreover, they tend to select moral groups and are often motivated to protect the positive identity of their groups by derogating immoral ingroup members. However, sometimes even moral ingroup members could represent a threat to the group and therefore be negatively evaluated, such as in the case of people who report another person’s wrongdoing (whist…
Preprint_The rocky road to prosocial behavior: The role of positivity and organizational socialization in preventing interpersonal strain
Among relevant consequences of organizational socialization, a key factor is the promotion of organizational citizenship behaviors toward individuals (i.e. OCBI). However, the relation between organizational socialization and OCBI has received little attention. This study tests the validity of a moderated mediation model in which we examine the mediating effect of a decreased interpersonal strain on the relationship between organizational sociali…
Time Heals All (Shallow) Wounds: A Lesson on Forgiveness of Ingroup Transgressors Learned by the Feyenoord Vandal Fans
This paper examines how a social threat posed by a deviant behavior affects second-hand forgiveness over time toward ingroup and outgroup transgressors. In Study 1, using real news reports, we investigated intergroup rivalries between soccer fans in order to understand the role of group membership in predicting the intention to forgive transgressors. Results suggested that transgressors were less likely to be forgiven by ingroup members rather th…
Political involvement moderates the impact of worldviews and values on SDO and RWA
The Dual Process Model (DPM) of social attitudes and prejudice proposes that Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) and Right Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) reflect two distinct motivational processes. In two studies, we investigated how political involvement moderates the impact of social worldviews and value‐based dimensions on SDO and RWA. We proposed that political involvement constrains SDO, RWA and their antecedents into a tighter left–right ideol…
Motivational Underpinnings of Intergenerational Transmission: The Role of Need for Cognitive Closure on Salience of Perceived Norms
This commentary discusses Tam’s contributions concerning the perceived norms perspective on the study of intergenerational cultural transmission; its aim is to provide insights into the impact of human cognition on the emergence of a culture and the normative structure of society. To that end, we elaborate the implications of parents’ goals for interaction between perceived norms, personal orientation, and intergenerational cultural transmission.…
Forming impressions of in-group and out-group members under self-esteem threat: The moderating role of the need for cognitive closure and prejudice
Recycling: Planned and self-expressive behaviour
The statistical analysis of data from small groups
The authors elaborate the complications and the opportunities inherent in the statistical analysis of small-group data. They begin by discussing nonindependence of group members' scores and then consider standard methods for the analysis of small-group data and determine that these methods do not take into account this nonindependence. A new method is proposed that uses multilevel modeling and allows for negative nonindependence and mutual influe…
Emotion regulation and satisfaction in long-term marital relationships: The role of emotional contagion
How couples regulate their emotions and how they converge emotionally with one another can critically affect relationship quality. We examined individual differences in two different classes of interaction-relevant processes-emotion regulation (ER) and emotional contagion (EC), the tendency to catch and converge with the emotions of others-in long-term marital relationships. Results from the actor-partner interdependence model analyses indicated …
Forming impressions of in-group and out-group members under self-esteem threat: The moderating role of the need for cognitive closure and prejudice
When motivation is not enough: Effects of prosociality and organizational socialization in volunteers’ intention to continue volunteering
Retention of volunteers is a main issue for no‐profit organizations. In the present study, using a cross‐sectional design, determinants of volunteers’ intentions to continue their service were investigated in a sample of 116 volunteers at different Italian organizations (M age = 42.32, SD age = 15.91). Guided by the conceptual model of the volunteer process, we hypothesized that organizational socialization should mediate the link between prosoci…
In the name of truth: People’s reactions to ingroup and outgroup members who self-disclose a severe error
Usually people consider morality traits to be highly valuable, both in themselves and in others. Moreover, they tend to select moral groups and are often motivated to protect the positive identity of their groups by derogating immoral ingroup members. However, sometimes even moral ingroup members could represent a threat to the group and therefore be negatively evaluated, such as in the case of people who report another person’s wrongdoing (whist…
Motivational Underpinnings of Intergenerational Transmission: The Role of Need for Cognitive Closure on Salience of Perceived Norms
This commentary discusses Tam’s contributions concerning the perceived norms perspective on the study of intergenerational cultural transmission; its aim is to provide insights into the impact of human cognition on the emergence of a culture and the normative structure of society. To that end, we elaborate the implications of parents’ goals for interaction between perceived norms, personal orientation, and intergenerational cultural transmission.…
Explaining immigrant threat perceptions and pro‐immigrant collective action intentions through issue‐specific moral conviction and general need for closure: The case of the US–Mexico border wall
This research aimed at explaining immigrant threat perceptions and pro‐immigrant collective action intentions through moral conviction regarding the construction of the US–Mexico border wall and general need for closure (NFC). Among independent samples of Democrats and Republicans, we found that NFC (measured in Study 1, manipulated in Study 2) was negatively related to pro‐immigrant collective action intentions through enhanced immigrant threat …
The statistical analysis of data from small groups
The authors elaborate the complications and the opportunities inherent in the statistical analysis of small-group data. They begin by discussing nonindependence of group members' scores and then consider standard methods for the analysis of small-group data and determine that these methods do not take into account this nonindependence. A new method is proposed that uses multilevel modeling and allows for negative nonindependence and mutual influe…
Self-Identity and the Theory of Planned Behavior in the Prediction of Health Behavior and Leisure Activity
To compare the predictive power of an expanded model of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) with that of the original TPB, two studies were conducted in which, in addition to the classical variables of the TPB model (such as attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control), variables concerning self-identity were also taken into account. Two independent samples of Italian subjects (N 1 =288, N 2 =188) were recruited to study behavi…
Recycling: Planned and self-expressive behaviour
Forming impressions of in-group and out-group members under self-esteem threat: The moderating role of the need for cognitive closure and prejudice
Motivational Underpinnings of Intergenerational Transmission: The Role of Need for Cognitive Closure on Salience of Perceived Norms
This commentary discusses Tam’s contributions concerning the perceived norms perspective on the study of intergenerational cultural transmission; its aim is to provide insights into the impact of human cognition on the emergence of a culture and the normative structure of society. To that end, we elaborate the implications of parents’ goals for interaction between perceived norms, personal orientation, and intergenerational cultural transmission.…
Political involvement moderates the impact of worldviews and values on SDO and RWA
The Dual Process Model (DPM) of social attitudes and prejudice proposes that Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) and Right Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) reflect two distinct motivational processes. In two studies, we investigated how political involvement moderates the impact of social worldviews and value‐based dimensions on SDO and RWA. We proposed that political involvement constrains SDO, RWA and their antecedents into a tighter left–right ideol…
Preprint_The rocky road to prosocial behavior: The role of positivity and organizational socialization in preventing interpersonal strain
Among relevant consequences of organizational socialization, a key factor is the promotion of organizational citizenship behaviors toward individuals (i.e. OCBI). However, the relation between organizational socialization and OCBI has received little attention. This study tests the validity of a moderated mediation model in which we examine the mediating effect of a decreased interpersonal strain on the relationship between organizational sociali…
Time Heals All (Shallow) Wounds: A Lesson on Forgiveness of Ingroup Transgressors Learned by the Feyenoord Vandal Fans
This paper examines how a social threat posed by a deviant behavior affects second-hand forgiveness over time toward ingroup and outgroup transgressors. In Study 1, using real news reports, we investigated intergroup rivalries between soccer fans in order to understand the role of group membership in predicting the intention to forgive transgressors. Results suggested that transgressors were less likely to be forgiven by ingroup members rather th…
In the name of truth: People’s reactions to ingroup and outgroup members who self-disclose a severe error
Usually people consider morality traits to be highly valuable, both in themselves and in others. Moreover, they tend to select moral groups and are often motivated to protect the positive identity of their groups by derogating immoral ingroup members. However, sometimes even moral ingroup members could represent a threat to the group and therefore be negatively evaluated, such as in the case of people who report another person’s wrongdoing (whist…
When motivation is not enough: Effects of prosociality and organizational socialization in volunteers’ intention to continue volunteering
Retention of volunteers is a main issue for no‐profit organizations. In the present study, using a cross‐sectional design, determinants of volunteers’ intentions to continue their service were investigated in a sample of 116 volunteers at different Italian organizations (M age = 42.32, SD age = 15.91). Guided by the conceptual model of the volunteer process, we hypothesized that organizational socialization should mediate the link between prosoci…
Emotion regulation and satisfaction in long-term marital relationships: The role of emotional contagion
How couples regulate their emotions and how they converge emotionally with one another can critically affect relationship quality. We examined individual differences in two different classes of interaction-relevant processes-emotion regulation (ER) and emotional contagion (EC), the tendency to catch and converge with the emotions of others-in long-term marital relationships. Results from the actor-partner interdependence model analyses indicated …
My partner looks, swims, and quacks like a duck: The need for cognitive closure in the interpersonal perception of romantic engagement in close relationships
Individuals are motivated to have a reassuring vision of their partners' characteristics that are central to the relationship such as romantic engagement. This can be particularly true for individuals with high levels of need for closure (NFC). In order to preserve a comforting and stable view of the relationship, they might be motivated by greater assumed similarity and lesser accuracy in perceiving partners' romantic engagement. Three‐hundred‐f…
Motivated team innovation: Impact of need for closure and epistemic authority
New members are important sources of innovative perspectives in groups. However, it can be very difficult for newcomers’ ideas to be heard. It is likely that group members with high (vs. low) levels of need for closure (NFC) are more resistant to newcomers’ innovative ideas. Moreover, when group epistemic authority (EA) is high, members should “freeze” on the group’s ideas, regardless of the newcomer’s EA. In contrast, when group EA is low, membe…
Explaining immigrant threat perceptions and pro‐immigrant collective action intentions through issue‐specific moral conviction and general need for closure: The case of the US–Mexico border wall
This research aimed at explaining immigrant threat perceptions and pro‐immigrant collective action intentions through moral conviction regarding the construction of the US–Mexico border wall and general need for closure (NFC). Among independent samples of Democrats and Republicans, we found that NFC (measured in Study 1, manipulated in Study 2) was negatively related to pro‐immigrant collective action intentions through enhanced immigrant threat …
Undergraduates’ academic socialization. A cross‐time analysis
BACKGROUND: Socialization practices support undergraduates' transitional processes when beginning their academic careers and afterwards. Anyhow, the absence of specific socialization measures for academic contexts does not allow Universities to assess it. AIMS: The present study aimed to contribute to the socialization literature by proposing a reliable measure (USQ, Undergraduate Socialization Questionnaire) specific for the academic context, th…
Omertà in intragroup cheating: The role of ingroup identity in dishonesty and whistleblowing
Why are people willing to denounce or, contrarily, to keep silent on others’ misconduct? We hypothesized that people would be more likely to cheat, and consequently less likely to blow the whistle, when among an ingroup (vs. outgroup). In two experiments, participants witnessed a same nationality or a different nationality group member cheating during a group task. Participants either had the opportunity to cheat themselves before witnessing this…
Perceived class cohesion as a protection strategy against cyber‐bullying in vulnerable students: A study of secondary school students
Cyber‐bullying represents a form of verbal or psychological aggression, carried out intentionally and repeatedly, and perpetuated using digital devices that has negative consequences on the health and well‐being of adolescents. This phenomenon is prevented by contextual and dispositional factors. For this reason, our study investigated both these factors, specifically, the role of the perceived class cohesion in presence of vulnerability factors,…
Exploring the influence of need for closure on anti-immigrants collective actions: The mediating role of binding moral foundations and desired cultural tightness
Secondary Transfer Effect and Natives' Acculturation Behaviours: The Role of Natives' Perceived Moral Distance and Multicultural Ideology
The increase in migration and cultural diversity across various Western regions has highlighted the need to promote harmonious coexistence between those who migrate from other countries and the native populations. Promoting social harmony is the primary objective in both acculturation and intergroup contact research. Particularly relevant to this aim is the secondary transfer effect (STE), consisting in the spreading of the effects of contact wit…
Italian adaptation and psychometric analysis of the moral foundations questionnaire 2
Within the framework of Moral Foundations Theory (MFT; Haidt & Graham, Social Justice Research , 20 (1), 98–116, 2007; Haidt & Joseph, Daedalus , 133 (4), 55–66, 2004), the aim of the present study is to adapt and discuss the psychometric features of the Moral Foundations Questionnaire 2 (MFQ-2; Atari et al., Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , 2023) in the Italian context. Utilizing a sample of 947 Italian adults, a Confirmatory Facto…
Italian Adaptation of the Revised Multicultural Ideology Scale ( MCI‐r )
The rise of migrants from different cultural backgrounds in Italy highlights the need to promote harmonious coexistence between them and the local population. A key factor in addressing this challenge is the level of acceptance in society of a multicultural ideology. An instrument to measure this concept has recently been revised into the Revised Multicultural Ideology Scale (MCI‐r). Despite the urgency of adopting this broader ideology in Italy,…
A contextualized emotion perception assessment relates to personal and social well-being
To-date, empirical support for the relationship between Emotion Recognition Accuracy and well-being has been very limited. • A Contextualized assessment of ERA −the Assessment of Contextualized Emotion (ACE)- was found to be a consistent predictor of personal and social well-being. • ACE’s influence on well-being was partially mediated by the quality of social interactions. • These findings deepen our understanding of ERA’s role in social functio…
The role of organisational ethical climate in shaping students’ class identification and their educational outcomes
The present study extends the concept of Organisational Ethical Climate (OEC) to the school context, addressing a gap in the literature that has predominantly investigated this construct in workplace settings. We investigated how shared ethical norms within school shape students’ class identification and, in turn, key educational outcomes such as wellbeing, academic performance, and dropout intentions. Specifically, we investigated how the OEC (o…
Sensitive minds, supportive environments: A gateway to marginality and dropout intentions, moderated by teacher-student relationships
Fostering the Organisational Socialisation Process to Reduce Self‐Objectification: A Social Psychological Perspective for Studying Workplace Well‐Being
Research on self‐objectification at work has increased significantly over the last decade. However, much remains to be done. In particular, we do not know enough about the role of organisational‐level factors in reducing self‐objectification. For these reasons, the present study aimed to examine the role of organisational socialisation as a predictor of employees' adjustment. Specifically, we examined the relationship between organisational socia…
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