Michele Roccato
Biographic Data
| ID | 266982 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michele Roccato |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michele |
| FAMILY NAME | Roccato |
| SIGNATURE | ROCCATO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5817-7341 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 309 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Do Emergencies Reward those in Favor of Gender Equality? The Role of Gender Essentialism on Household Workload and Happiness During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly increased the stress of individuals, couples and families in terms of health, sexual functioning, job loss, and lost wages. However, less is known about how it has affected gender inequality in housework and its consequences in terms of psychological well-being. In this article, we aimed to deepen knowledge on this topic by conducting a secondary analysis of data collected as part of the ResPOnsE COVID-19 p…
Support for Technocratic and Authoritarian Governance in Times of Crisis: The Role of Trust and Covid-19 Concerns
There is a dearth of research into the combined effect of political trust and societal concern on preferences for different models of governance. Using a quota sample of the Italian adult population surveyed in October 2021 (N = 1,151), we conducted two moderated regressions to predict the support for technocratic and authoritarian governance as a function of trust in epistemic and nonpartisan institutions, health and economic concerns, and their…
Personal experiences with the national healthcare system and institutional trust in times of Covid ‐19
We conducted two studies to analyze the relations between dissatisfaction with experiences with the national healthcare system and trust in political (political parties and parliament), super partes (judiciary and police), and international (European Union [EU] and United Nations [UN]) institutions via the mediation of trust in the national healthcare system. Study 1 (longitudinal study on a quota sample of the Italian adult population, N = 689, …
Populist votes, orientations, and the Covid‐19 pandemic in Italy: A latent growth study
Objective We aimed to predict the trend of populist orientations and votes in Italy before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Method Using the Consequences of COVID‐19 (COCO) data set (quota sample of the Italian adult population), we conducted a 3.5‐year, seven‐wave longitudinal study, with one wave before the pandemic (June 2019) and six waves during the pandemic (April and October 2020, April and October 2021, and April and October 2022). Resul…
Does perceived inequality promote abstention and protest voting? A study of the 2022 Italian general election
We focus on the role of perceived economic inequality as a possible antecedent of abstention and protest voting in the 2022 Italian general election. In particular, we hypothesize that citizens' perceived economic inequality (and the perception that it will grow), reinforced by the negative emotions the perception trigger, may undermine citizens' trust in institutions. We also investigate whether the erosion of trust is associated with abstention…
Rally 'round the flag effects are not for all: Trajectories of institutional trust among populist and non-populist voters
Using the Consequences of COVID-19 (COCO) dataset (quota sample of the adult Italian population, surveyed seven times by email), we analysed the trend of trust in political (political parties, parliament and local administrations), super partes (president of the Republic, judiciary and police) and international (the European Union and the United Nations) institutions from June 2019 to October 2022. Three latent growth curve models showed that tru…
The Role of Sexual Consent and Past Non-consensual Sexual Experiences on Rape Supportive Attitudes in a Heterosexual Community Sample
The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between (a) sociodemographic variables, past non-consensual experiences and sexual consent and (b) the endorsement of rape supportive attitudes. A sample of 1042 heterosexual adults (42.4% men) was surveyed. A predictive model indicated that the most relevant predictors of rape supportive attitudes were gender (i.e., being male) and most dimensions from sexual consent such as (Lack of) perce…
Desires of technocracy in pandemic times: A multilevel study
Objectives We aimed to predict the favor for a technocratic government in the context of the SARS‐CoV‐2 pandemic. Method We tested a multilevel mediated moderated model on the ResPOnsE COVID‐19 data set (rolling cross‐section design, quota sample of the Italian adult population, N = 8210, data collected from March 17 to June 16, 2021). Results Subjective vulnerability to COVID‐19 showed a positive relationship with trust in science and scientists…
When a woman asks to be voted to a sexist constituency: Was Giorgia Meloni’s gender an advantage, a disadvantage or an irrelevant factor in the 2022 Italian general election
In this study, we investigated whether Giorgia Meloni’s gender was an advantage, a disadvantage or an irrelevant factor in the 2022 Italian general election. Using datasets from two election surveys conducted with two quota samples of the adult Italian population, Ns = 1,572 (ITANES dataset) and 1,150 (COCO dataset), we predicted the vote in the election as a function of participants’ gender, beliefs about gender and their interaction, controllin…
“You Look So Beautiful… But Why Are You So Distressed?”: The Negative Effects of Appearance Compliments on the Psychological Well-being of Individuals in the Workplace
The primacy of beauty for women is frequently conveyed through language and, more particularly, through a particular class of conversational devices, compliments. Although previous research has been conducted on the impact of appearance compliments on individuals’ psychological state, research has yet to examine what happens when a compliment about the appearance clearly conveys a positive evaluation in a domain that is completely unrelated to th…
Masculinity, Perceived Vulnerability to Covid-19, and Adoption of Protective Behaviors
Epidemiological data show that men and women have similar probabilities of contracting COVID-19. However, men with COVID-19 tend to have more severe outcomes than women. We performed two studies to analyze the associations between gender, adherence to traditional masculinity ideology, perceived vulnerability to COVID-19, and the adoption of protective behaviors against COVID-19. In Study 1 (quota sample of the Italian adult population, N = 1,142)…
Relative deprivation, national GDP and right‐wing populism: A multilevel, multinational study
We conducted a secondary analysis of the 2018 (ninth round) European Social Survey dataset ( N = 19,512, nested in 24 countries) to analyse the association between relative deprivation and right‐wing populist voting, moderated by participants' income and their country's GDP. A multilevel moderated model showed that relative deprivation, income and GDP had no association with right‐wing populist votes by themselves. However, income and GDP moderat…
Left and right in the age of populism: Has the populist zeitgeist permeated citizens’ representation of ideological labels
This article explores whether the current populist zeitgeist has changed the social representation of the political labels ‘left’ and ‘right’ in terms of their relevance, understanding and meaning. We merged two post-electoral quota samples of the Italian adult population. The first (N = 1,377) was collected in 2006 by the ITANES research group, the second in 2019 (N = 1,504) for this study. We analysed the relevance of left and right in politics…
Coping with the Covid‐19 pandemic through institutional trust: Rally effects, compensatory control, and emotions
Objective: Exogenous shocks trigger rally effects, leading the public opinion toward increased trust in institutions. Rally effects have an important social function because they help society react to shocks rapidly and efficiently as a single unit and cohesively face the threat. However, little is known about the individual functions that these effects fulfil. In this study, we aimed to analyze the individual functions of the rally effect. Metho…
The Lasting Effects of the Covid‐19 Pandemic on Support for Anti‐Democratic Political Systems: A Six‐Month Longitudinal Study
Objectives We aimed to analyze the enduring effects exerted by COVID‐19 exposure and subjective economic threats on support for anti‐democratic political systems. Method We performed a two‐wave longitudinal study on a quota panel of the Italian adult population ( N = 1,073), surveyed first in April 2020, during the first peak of the pandemic ( T 1 ) and the first lockdown, and second in October 2020, at the onset of the second peak of the pandemi…
Exposure to Sexism Impairs Women’s Writing Skills Even Before Their Evaluation
The Palliative Function of Sexism: Individual Sexism Buffers the Relationship Between Exposure to Workplace Sexism and Psychological Distress
Drivers of farmers’ intention to adopt technological innovations in Italy: The role of information sources, perceived usefulness, and perceived ease of use
Intergroup contact and prejudice toward immigrants: A multinational, multilevel test of the moderating role of individual conservative values and cultural embeddedness
A Democratic Emergency After a Health Emergency? Exposure to Covid‐19, Perceived Economic Threat and Support for Anti‐Democratic Political Systems
An authoritarian personality is not a necessary precondition for individual anti-democracy: when facing severe personal threats, anyone could restore a subjective sense of control over the social world by becoming anti-democratic, independent of their initial predisposition to support anti-democratic political systems
Three Roads to Populism? An Italian Field Study on the 2019 European Election
Objectives We predicted populist orientation and vote for two populist parties, the Five Star Movement (FSM) and the League, in the 2019 European election by focusing on perceived economic threat, perceived cultural threat, dissatisfaction with representative democracy, and on first‐order interactions. Method We surveyed a quota sample of the Italian adult general population ( N = 1,504) and tested a latent moderated structural equations model ai…
Sexualized Victims of Stranger Harassment and Victim Blaming: The Moderating Role of Right-Wing Authoritarianism
An ergonomic approach to sustainable development: The role of information environment and social‐psychological variables in the adoption of agri‐environmental innovations
Sustainability is defined as meeting the human needs of current as well as future generations. This anthropocentric perspective leads to joint objectives between sustainability and ergonomics. In the present study, we adopted a systems ergonomic approach and, based on the Theory of Planned Behavior, we analyzed the paths by which the information environment can affect farmers' adoption of sustainable measures through the mediation of attitudes, s…
Strangers in Their Own Land’: Development and Validation of a Balanced, Unidimensional Scale to Measure the Sense of Threat to Local Traditions
Individuals and communities all over the world are experiencing rapid societal changes due to economic, social, cultural, and political cross-national interconnections. Social scientists agree on the importance of understanding the psychological, social, and cultural implications of this globalization process (Diaz & Zirkel, 2012; Scholte, 2005). These analyses cannot ignore the reaction of people who feel threatened in their consolidated social …
Assessment of Citizens’ Populist Orientations: Development and Validation of the POPulist ORientation (Popor) Scale
Objectives We developed and validated the POPulist ORientation (POPOR) Scale (composed of six five‐category items), operationalizing populist orientation as a unidimensional construct composed of six facets: (1) anti‐economic, financial, and intellectual establishment attitude; (2) anti‐political establishment; (3) conception of the people as a homogeneous and virtuous entity; (4) consideration of the people as legitimated to take part directly i…
Between ideology and social representations: Four theses plus (a new) one on the relevance and the meaning of the political left and right
This study analyses the relevance and the meaning given by Italians to the political labels ‘left’ and ‘right’ between 1975 and 2006. Based on responses to the open‐ended question ‘What do you mean by “left/right” in politics?’, the study compares five alternative hypotheses on the meaning of the left‐right axis and show that, despite the alleged end of ideologies, the relevance of the axis has increased over time. A core of abstract meanings per…
Six Factors Fostering Protest: Predicting Participation in Locally Unwanted Land Uses Movements
In two studies we analyzed the predictors of participation in an Italian Lulu mobilization, rooted in the Susa Valley, a North‐Western Italian valley where a high speed railway (HSR) should be sited. Based on the data of qualitative Study 1, performed interviewing 12 anti‐HSR militants and 12 non anti‐HSR militants, we hypothesized that Klandermans' (1997) model on participation (centered on group identification, sense of injustice, and collectiv…
Predicting the Vote through Implicit and Explicit Attitudes: A Field Research
Using the data collected by Itanes on a sample of the Italian population, representative according to the main sociodemographic variables, we analyzed the relations between voting intention, explicit and implicit political attitudes, and voting behavior. Participants (N = 1,377) were interviewed twice, both before and after the 2006 Italian National Election. The implicit attitudes (measured using the IAT) were substantially as effective as votin…
Drivers of farmers’ intention to adopt technological innovations in Italy: The role of information sources, perceived usefulness, and perceived ease of use
Societal Threat to Safety, Compensatory Control, and Right‐Wing Authoritarianism
We analyzed directly and indirectly the relationships between societal threat to safety, perceived control, and the increase in right‐wing authoritarianism (RWA) in two studies. In Study 1 (national sample of the Italian population, N = 1,169), we performed a longitudinal analysis structured into three waves (January 2003, September 2004, and January 2005). A moderated regression analysis showed that RWA increased from 2003 to 2005 as a function …
Is Fear of Crime Mainly Social and Economic Insecurity in Disguise? A Multilevel Multinational Analysis
Using the 2006 Eurobarometer data (representative sample of the European population, N = 16 306, 27 countries), we performed a multilevel analysis aimed at predicting fear of crime. A significant proportion of the variation in fear of crime was at country level. Of the individual predictors included, being a woman, being poorly educated, being unemployed, and being an urban dweller showed positive relations with fear of crime. Fear was highest am…
From political opponents to enemies? The role of perceived moral distance in the animalistic dehumanization of the political outgroup
In this paper, we analyzed the relationships among political identity, the perception of moral distance between the political ingroup and the political outgroup, and outgroup animalistic dehumanization. One correlational and one experimental study revealed a positive correlation of ingroup identification (Study 1, N = 99) and salience of ingroup membership (Study 2, N = 96) with the degree to which participants dehumanized the outgroup. This rela…
Criminal Victimization and Crime Risk Perception: A Multilevel Longitudinal Study
A predictive model for psychological reactions to crime in Italy: An analysis of fear of crime and concern about crime as a social problem
In this study a model for predicting fear of crime (FC) and concern about crime as a social problem (CC) in Italy has been built, using three sets of independent variables concerning: (a) the sociodemographic and criminal victimization domain; (b) the psychosocial domain; and (c) the mass media. A secondary analysis on data gathered by the Observatory of the North‐West ( N = 3262, a mail panel that is representative of the Italian population over…
How long does victimization foster fear of crime? A longitudinal study
We studied the relationship between victimization and fear of crime longitudinally, analyzing data from the Observatory of the North‐West (Italian national sample, N =1,701, two waves: January 2006 and January 2007). We modeled fear of crime at T 2 using as independent variables: (a) the main sociodemographic variables and fear of crime, as assessed at T 1 ; (b) direct victimization; and (c) indirect victimization. Recent direct victimization was…
The Lasting Effects of the Covid‐19 Pandemic on Support for Anti‐Democratic Political Systems: A Six‐Month Longitudinal Study
Objectives We aimed to analyze the enduring effects exerted by COVID‐19 exposure and subjective economic threats on support for anti‐democratic political systems. Method We performed a two‐wave longitudinal study on a quota panel of the Italian adult population ( N = 1,073), surveyed first in April 2020, during the first peak of the pandemic ( T 1 ) and the first lockdown, and second in October 2020, at the onset of the second peak of the pandemi…
Assessment of Citizens’ Populist Orientations: Development and Validation of the POPulist ORientation (Popor) Scale
Objectives We developed and validated the POPulist ORientation (POPOR) Scale (composed of six five‐category items), operationalizing populist orientation as a unidimensional construct composed of six facets: (1) anti‐economic, financial, and intellectual establishment attitude; (2) anti‐political establishment; (3) conception of the people as a homogeneous and virtuous entity; (4) consideration of the people as legitimated to take part directly i…
Basic Personal Values, the Country's Crime Rate and the Fear of Crime
Lega and Five-star Movement voters: Exploring the role of cultural, economic and political bewilderment
We explore the motivations behind the electoral success of the Lega and the Five-star Movement at the 2018 Italian general election. In most of the literature on populism, the success of the new European populist parties is interpreted as stemming from the process of globalisation, which has produced the so-called ‘modernisation losers’: ‘cultural losers’ (people who are disorientated by changes in values, by new waves of migration and by the los…
Relative deprivation, national GDP and right‐wing populism: A multilevel, multinational study
We conducted a secondary analysis of the 2018 (ninth round) European Social Survey dataset ( N = 19,512, nested in 24 countries) to analyse the association between relative deprivation and right‐wing populist voting, moderated by participants' income and their country's GDP. A multilevel moderated model showed that relative deprivation, income and GDP had no association with right‐wing populist votes by themselves. However, income and GDP moderat…
Coping with the Covid‐19 pandemic through institutional trust: Rally effects, compensatory control, and emotions
Objective: Exogenous shocks trigger rally effects, leading the public opinion toward increased trust in institutions. Rally effects have an important social function because they help society react to shocks rapidly and efficiently as a single unit and cohesively face the threat. However, little is known about the individual functions that these effects fulfil. In this study, we aimed to analyze the individual functions of the rally effect. Metho…
Three Roads to Populism? An Italian Field Study on the 2019 European Election
Objectives We predicted populist orientation and vote for two populist parties, the Five Star Movement (FSM) and the League, in the 2019 European election by focusing on perceived economic threat, perceived cultural threat, dissatisfaction with representative democracy, and on first‐order interactions. Method We surveyed a quota sample of the Italian adult general population ( N = 1,504) and tested a latent moderated structural equations model ai…
Rally 'round the flag effects are not for all: Trajectories of institutional trust among populist and non-populist voters
Using the Consequences of COVID-19 (COCO) dataset (quota sample of the adult Italian population, surveyed seven times by email), we analysed the trend of trust in political (political parties, parliament and local administrations), super partes (president of the Republic, judiciary and police) and international (the European Union and the United Nations) institutions from June 2019 to October 2022. Three latent growth curve models showed that tru…
Intergroup contact and prejudice toward immigrants: A multinational, multilevel test of the moderating role of individual conservative values and cultural embeddedness
An ergonomic approach to sustainable development: The role of information environment and social‐psychological variables in the adoption of agri‐environmental innovations
Sustainability is defined as meeting the human needs of current as well as future generations. This anthropocentric perspective leads to joint objectives between sustainability and ergonomics. In the present study, we adopted a systems ergonomic approach and, based on the Theory of Planned Behavior, we analyzed the paths by which the information environment can affect farmers' adoption of sustainable measures through the mediation of attitudes, s…
Social Capital and Fear of Crime in Adolescence: A Multilevel Study
Hierarchical linear modeling was used to examine the relationships between social capital (at the individual, the neighborhood, and the regional levels) and adolescents' fear of crime, while controlling for the main individual (sociodemographics, television viewing, and bullying victimization), neighborhood (neighborhood size and aggregated victimization), and regional (crime rate and level of urbanization) variables. Data were analyzed using a t…
Predicting Perceived Risk of Crime: A Multilevel Study
With a sample of Italians selected from 71 Italian counties (N = 1,868), we performed two multilevel analyses aimed at predicting the perceived risk of crime at local (i.e., in the participants' county of residence) and at societal (i.e., in the context of Italian society) levels. A significant proportion of the variation in local risk perception was at the county level. The following individual variables predicted higher levels of this variable:…
The Role of Sexual Consent and Past Non-consensual Sexual Experiences on Rape Supportive Attitudes in a Heterosexual Community Sample
The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between (a) sociodemographic variables, past non-consensual experiences and sexual consent and (b) the endorsement of rape supportive attitudes. A sample of 1042 heterosexual adults (42.4% men) was surveyed. A predictive model indicated that the most relevant predictors of rape supportive attitudes were gender (i.e., being male) and most dimensions from sexual consent such as (Lack of) perce…
Desires of technocracy in pandemic times: A multilevel study
Objectives We aimed to predict the favor for a technocratic government in the context of the SARS‐CoV‐2 pandemic. Method We tested a multilevel mediated moderated model on the ResPOnsE COVID‐19 data set (rolling cross‐section design, quota sample of the Italian adult population, N = 8210, data collected from March 17 to June 16, 2021). Results Subjective vulnerability to COVID‐19 showed a positive relationship with trust in science and scientists…
A Democratic Emergency After a Health Emergency? Exposure to Covid‐19, Perceived Economic Threat and Support for Anti‐Democratic Political Systems
An authoritarian personality is not a necessary precondition for individual anti-democracy: when facing severe personal threats, anyone could restore a subjective sense of control over the social world by becoming anti-democratic, independent of their initial predisposition to support anti-democratic political systems
A predictive model for psychological reactions to crime in Italy: An analysis of fear of crime and concern about crime as a social problem
In this study a model for predicting fear of crime (FC) and concern about crime as a social problem (CC) in Italy has been built, using three sets of independent variables concerning: (a) the sociodemographic and criminal victimization domain; (b) the psychosocial domain; and (c) the mass media. A secondary analysis on data gathered by the Observatory of the North‐West ( N = 3262, a mail panel that is representative of the Italian population over…
Not in my name’? The Italians and the war in Iraq
We performed a secondary analysis of data collected on a representative sample of Italians to study the attitudes and behaviours developed by the Italians with regard to war in general and the war in Iraq particularly. Moreover, we built a model predicting the probability of participating in pro‐peace demonstrations. The Italians seem polarized in their attitudes towards war and skeptical concerning the reasons for the attack on Iraq. Our models …
Psychological reactions to crime in Italy: 2002–2004
We performed a secondary analysis of the data collected by the Observatory of the North‐West (a mail panel representative of the Italian population over 18), describing the trends in the distribution of fear of crime (FC) and of concern about crime as a social problem (CC) in Italy between the end of 2002 and the beginning of 2004. After analyzing the main sociodemographic characteristics of the people who became more afraid and more concerned, w…
Six Factors Fostering Protest: Predicting Participation in Locally Unwanted Land Uses Movements
In two studies we analyzed the predictors of participation in an Italian Lulu mobilization, rooted in the Susa Valley, a North‐Western Italian valley where a high speed railway (HSR) should be sited. Based on the data of qualitative Study 1, performed interviewing 12 anti‐HSR militants and 12 non anti‐HSR militants, we hypothesized that Klandermans' (1997) model on participation (centered on group identification, sense of injustice, and collectiv…
Between ideology and social representations: Four theses plus (a new) one on the relevance and the meaning of the political left and right
This study analyses the relevance and the meaning given by Italians to the political labels ‘left’ and ‘right’ between 1975 and 2006. Based on responses to the open‐ended question ‘What do you mean by “left/right” in politics?’, the study compares five alternative hypotheses on the meaning of the left‐right axis and show that, despite the alleged end of ideologies, the relevance of the axis has increased over time. A core of abstract meanings per…
How long does victimization foster fear of crime? A longitudinal study
We studied the relationship between victimization and fear of crime longitudinally, analyzing data from the Observatory of the North‐West (Italian national sample, N =1,701, two waves: January 2006 and January 2007). We modeled fear of crime at T 2 using as independent variables: (a) the main sociodemographic variables and fear of crime, as assessed at T 1 ; (b) direct victimization; and (c) indirect victimization. Recent direct victimization was…
Predicting the Vote through Implicit and Explicit Attitudes: A Field Research
Using the data collected by Itanes on a sample of the Italian population, representative according to the main sociodemographic variables, we analyzed the relations between voting intention, explicit and implicit political attitudes, and voting behavior. Participants (N = 1,377) were interviewed twice, both before and after the 2006 Italian National Election. The implicit attitudes (measured using the IAT) were substantially as effective as votin…
Predicting Perceived Risk of Crime: A Multilevel Study
With a sample of Italians selected from 71 Italian counties (N = 1,868), we performed two multilevel analyses aimed at predicting the perceived risk of crime at local (i.e., in the participants' county of residence) and at societal (i.e., in the context of Italian society) levels. A significant proportion of the variation in local risk perception was at the county level. The following individual variables predicted higher levels of this variable:…
Perceived community disorder moderates the relation between victimization and fear of crime
In a representative sample of the Italian population (N=2,002), surveyed in January 2008, we studied the direct and interactive effects exerted on fear of crime by direct and indirect victimization, on the one hand, and perceived level of disorder of participants' community, on the other hand. Indirect victimization fostered fear of crime among participants reporting high levels of social disorder in their community. However, direct and indirect …
Is Fear of Crime Mainly Social and Economic Insecurity in Disguise? A Multilevel Multinational Analysis
Using the 2006 Eurobarometer data (representative sample of the European population, N = 16 306, 27 countries), we performed a multilevel analysis aimed at predicting fear of crime. A significant proportion of the variation in fear of crime was at country level. Of the individual predictors included, being a woman, being poorly educated, being unemployed, and being an urban dweller showed positive relations with fear of crime. Fear was highest am…
Criminal victimisation fosters conservatism among people living in areas with high unemployment rates: A multilevel longitudinal study
Using a multilevel, longitudinal model, we tested the mugging thesis, which states that ‘a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged’, in a national sample of Italians (N = 457, nested in 54 counties) surveyed four times between October 2002 and January 2007. We predicted participants' increase in conservatism as a function of the cross‐level interactions between criminal victimisation on the one hand and the unemployment and the crime rates …
Criminal Victimization and Crime Risk Perception: A Multilevel Longitudinal Study
Societal Threat to Safety, Compensatory Control, and Right‐Wing Authoritarianism
We analyzed directly and indirectly the relationships between societal threat to safety, perceived control, and the increase in right‐wing authoritarianism (RWA) in two studies. In Study 1 (national sample of the Italian population, N = 1,169), we performed a longitudinal analysis structured into three waves (January 2003, September 2004, and January 2005). A moderated regression analysis showed that RWA increased from 2003 to 2005 as a function …
From political opponents to enemies? The role of perceived moral distance in the animalistic dehumanization of the political outgroup
In this paper, we analyzed the relationships among political identity, the perception of moral distance between the political ingroup and the political outgroup, and outgroup animalistic dehumanization. One correlational and one experimental study revealed a positive correlation of ingroup identification (Study 1, N = 99) and salience of ingroup membership (Study 2, N = 96) with the degree to which participants dehumanized the outgroup. This rela…
Social Capital and Fear of Crime in Adolescence: A Multilevel Study
Hierarchical linear modeling was used to examine the relationships between social capital (at the individual, the neighborhood, and the regional levels) and adolescents' fear of crime, while controlling for the main individual (sociodemographics, television viewing, and bullying victimization), neighborhood (neighborhood size and aggregated victimization), and regional (crime rate and level of urbanization) variables. Data were analyzed using a t…
Basic Personal Values, the Country's Crime Rate and the Fear of Crime
Right‐wing authoritarianism, societal threat to safety, and psychological distress
In two quasi‐experimental vignette studies, we have analyzed how societal threat to safety moderates the relation between right‐wing authoritarianism (RWA) and psychological distress. In Study 1 (Italian community sample, N = 343), we focused on depressive symptoms (measured with the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale and the General Health Questionnaire). Two moderated regressions showed that the relation between RWA and both meas…
Lega and Five-star Movement voters: Exploring the role of cultural, economic and political bewilderment
We explore the motivations behind the electoral success of the Lega and the Five-star Movement at the 2018 Italian general election. In most of the literature on populism, the success of the new European populist parties is interpreted as stemming from the process of globalisation, which has produced the so-called ‘modernisation losers’: ‘cultural losers’ (people who are disorientated by changes in values, by new waves of migration and by the los…
Validation of the revised Food Neophobia Scale (FNS-R) in the Italian context
Sexualized Victims of Stranger Harassment and Victim Blaming: The Moderating Role of Right-Wing Authoritarianism
An ergonomic approach to sustainable development: The role of information environment and social‐psychological variables in the adoption of agri‐environmental innovations
Sustainability is defined as meeting the human needs of current as well as future generations. This anthropocentric perspective leads to joint objectives between sustainability and ergonomics. In the present study, we adopted a systems ergonomic approach and, based on the Theory of Planned Behavior, we analyzed the paths by which the information environment can affect farmers' adoption of sustainable measures through the mediation of attitudes, s…
Strangers in Their Own Land’: Development and Validation of a Balanced, Unidimensional Scale to Measure the Sense of Threat to Local Traditions
Individuals and communities all over the world are experiencing rapid societal changes due to economic, social, cultural, and political cross-national interconnections. Social scientists agree on the importance of understanding the psychological, social, and cultural implications of this globalization process (Diaz & Zirkel, 2012; Scholte, 2005). These analyses cannot ignore the reaction of people who feel threatened in their consolidated social …
Assessment of Citizens’ Populist Orientations: Development and Validation of the POPulist ORientation (Popor) Scale
Objectives We developed and validated the POPulist ORientation (POPOR) Scale (composed of six five‐category items), operationalizing populist orientation as a unidimensional construct composed of six facets: (1) anti‐economic, financial, and intellectual establishment attitude; (2) anti‐political establishment; (3) conception of the people as a homogeneous and virtuous entity; (4) consideration of the people as legitimated to take part directly i…
Exposure to Sexism Impairs Women’s Writing Skills Even Before Their Evaluation
The Palliative Function of Sexism: Individual Sexism Buffers the Relationship Between Exposure to Workplace Sexism and Psychological Distress
Psychology (34 works) · Social Psychology (32 works) · Political science (29 works) · Sociology (29 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (21 works) · Social Psychology (21 works) · Politics (20 works) · Demography (19 works) · Law (17 works) · Economics (16 works)