Stefano Passini
Biographic Data
| ID | 3655111 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefano Passini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefano |
| FAMILY NAME | Passini |
| SIGNATURE | PASSINI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bologna |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
War and Terrorism Perceptions a Decade Later: Target Distinction or Ethnic-Cultural Bias
Recent events involving war and terrorism have rekindled the debate about the meaning of such concepts and how people define those actions. Previous research from the perspective of social psychology has suggested that the main criterion for distinguishing acts of war from terrorist actions is the differentiation between military and civilian targets. However, a secondary criterion related to the ethnic-cultural identity of the aggressor has also…
A virtuous cycle: Self-respect and tolerant attitudes toward dissenting others
Past research on tolerance has often focused on tolerance toward specific political or social groups. In the present research, we introduce a general tolerant attitude measure tapping tolerant attitudes toward dissenting others which can be used in wide variety of contexts. Moreover, we investigated for which individuals it is easier to have a tolerant attitude and compared different entitlement beliefs (the perception of having the same (i.e. se…
Student perceptions of interpersonal justice, engagement, agency and anger: A longitudinal study for reciprocal effects
Based on the premise that classroom interactions unfold through a complex series of circular influences between teacher and students, the aim of this longitudinal study was to test a reciprocal effects model connecting students’ perceptions of interpersonal justice, on the one hand, and student engagement, agency and anger, on the other. Self-report measures of interpersonal justice, student engagement, agency and anger were collected from 454 Ye…
Sos Venezuela: An analysis of the anti-Maduro protest movements using Twitter
In this study, we analyze the evolution of the protests after the election of the Venezuelan Constitutional Assembly in 2017. We adopt the idea of a social conflict over diverging opinions about how the world should be. Sharing similar opinion is one basis for a sense of collective identity that facilitates participation in action to bring about desired changes in the world. We approach social conflict as an interaction between different opinion-…
Agency and responsibility in adolescent students: A challenge for the societies of tomorrow
BackgroundThe literature in educational psychology converges on the idea that students should take an active and accountable position in their learning processes. Nevertheless, there is still a lack of research that has systematically put the constructs of agency and responsibility at the core of their interests.AimsIn this study, we explore whether good experiences at school - here conceptualized as the general level of basic needs fulfilment an…
Different Ways of Being Authoritarian: The Distinct Effects of Authoritarian Dimensions on Values and Prejudice
The traditional and still dominant approach to authoritarianism measures it as a unidimensional construct. However, in the past few years some studies have assessed the three hypothesized authoritarianism components (i.e., authoritarian submission, authoritarian aggression, and conventionalism) separately. The aims of this study are to verify that the three‐correlated‐factor structure fits the data better than the one‐factor model and to analyze …
Everyday Life in Social Psychology
In the field of psychology, the topic of everyday life as a specific subject of inquiry has been afforded little attention. Indeed, everyday life has recently been analyzed mainly in psychological studies that examine people's ways of behaving and thinking when they act in situations termed as mundane and ordinary. These studies are mainly carried out in two fields of social psychology which we refer to in general terms as Social Cognition and So…
Time perspective in adolescents and young adults: Enjoying the present and trusting in a better future
Time perspective is crucial in adolescence and youth, when individuals make important decisions related to their present and future. The focus of this research was to use the six-factor short version Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (S-ZTPI) scale in a sample of adolescents and young adults, and to analyse its associations with decision-making, relational styles and engagement. A structural equation model of the effects of S-ZTPI on these vari…
Value-oriented citizenship index: New extensions of Kelman and Hamilton’s theory to prevent autocracy
Adolescents' Commonsense Understanding of Rights and Duties: The Effect of the Individualization of Rights on a Rights Dilemma
During adolescence, individuals start to develop a civic identity that contributes toward defining their civic participation later on in adulthood. In developing their civic identity, adolescents start to reason with the topics of rights, duties, and responsibilities. The aim of this study is to analyze how some Italian adolescents ( N = 134) conceive the concepts of rights and duties. Moreover, as some scholars-in reference to so-called individu…
Rights, democracy and values: A comparison between the representations of obedience and disobedience in Italian and Finnish students
Avoiding minorities: Social invisibility
Three experiments examined how self‐consciousness has an impact on the visual exploration of a social field. The main hypothesis was that merely a photograph of people can trigger a dynamic process of social visual interaction such that minority images are avoided when people are in a state of self‐reflective consciousness. In all three experiments, pairs of pictures—one with characters of social minorities and one with characters of social major…
The facebook and Twitter revolutions: Active participation in the 21st century
In the past few years, a wave of protest has spread across the world. The particularity of these uprisings lies in the way the Internet is used to support them. Scholars have analyzed these movements as being closely related to a generation that relies on the Internet as a means of organizing themselves as a force of social change. That is, the Internet is seen as a way of promoting the active participation of young people in political issues. Pu…
Individual responsibilities and moral inclusion in an age of rights
In reference to Western cultures, some scholars (see Finkel & Moghaddam, 2005) have pointed out that we live in an ‘‘age of rights.’’ That is, people attach priority to their individual rights within a narrow-minded, individualistic worldview and de-emphasize duties. Such self-centred individualism focuses on the rights of individuals, forgetting to consider that rights can be effective only in relation to corresponding duties. In this article, a…
New Perspectives on the Study of the Authority Relationship: Integrating Individual and Societal Level Research
The concept of authority crosses many social sciences, but there is a lack of common taxonomy and definitions on this topic. The aims of this review are: (1) to define the basic characteristics of the authority relationship, reaching a definition suitable for the different domains of social psychology and social sciences; (2) to bridge the gap between individual and societal levels of explanation concerning the authority relationship, by proposin…
Moral Reasoning in a Multicultural Society: Moral Inclusion and Moral Exclusion
Disobeying an Illegitimate Request in a Democratic or Authoritarian System: Disobeying an Illegitimate Request
Crimes of obedience in the form of illegal or immoral acts committed in response to orders from authority occur in many contexts. In particular, under some circumstances of threats, people can easily accept restrictions upon democratic procedures. Recent studies have underlined the role of legitimacy in understanding the authority relationship and the importance of evaluating the legitimacy of the request rather than the legitimacy of the authori…
Different Ways of Being Authoritarian: The Distinct Effects of Authoritarian Dimensions on Values and Prejudice
The traditional and still dominant approach to authoritarianism measures it as a unidimensional construct. However, in the past few years some studies have assessed the three hypothesized authoritarianism components (i.e., authoritarian submission, authoritarian aggression, and conventionalism) separately. The aims of this study are to verify that the three‐correlated‐factor structure fits the data better than the one‐factor model and to analyze …
Moral Reasoning in a Multicultural Society: Moral Inclusion and Moral Exclusion
New Perspectives on the Study of the Authority Relationship: Integrating Individual and Societal Level Research
The concept of authority crosses many social sciences, but there is a lack of common taxonomy and definitions on this topic. The aims of this review are: (1) to define the basic characteristics of the authority relationship, reaching a definition suitable for the different domains of social psychology and social sciences; (2) to bridge the gap between individual and societal levels of explanation concerning the authority relationship, by proposin…
Disobeying an Illegitimate Request in a Democratic or Authoritarian System: Disobeying an Illegitimate Request
Crimes of obedience in the form of illegal or immoral acts committed in response to orders from authority occur in many contexts. In particular, under some circumstances of threats, people can easily accept restrictions upon democratic procedures. Recent studies have underlined the role of legitimacy in understanding the authority relationship and the importance of evaluating the legitimacy of the request rather than the legitimacy of the authori…
Sos Venezuela: An analysis of the anti-Maduro protest movements using Twitter
In this study, we analyze the evolution of the protests after the election of the Venezuelan Constitutional Assembly in 2017. We adopt the idea of a social conflict over diverging opinions about how the world should be. Sharing similar opinion is one basis for a sense of collective identity that facilitates participation in action to bring about desired changes in the world. We approach social conflict as an interaction between different opinion-…
Everyday Life in Social Psychology
In the field of psychology, the topic of everyday life as a specific subject of inquiry has been afforded little attention. Indeed, everyday life has recently been analyzed mainly in psychological studies that examine people's ways of behaving and thinking when they act in situations termed as mundane and ordinary. These studies are mainly carried out in two fields of social psychology which we refer to in general terms as Social Cognition and So…
The facebook and Twitter revolutions: Active participation in the 21st century
In the past few years, a wave of protest has spread across the world. The particularity of these uprisings lies in the way the Internet is used to support them. Scholars have analyzed these movements as being closely related to a generation that relies on the Internet as a means of organizing themselves as a force of social change. That is, the Internet is seen as a way of promoting the active participation of young people in political issues. Pu…
Time perspective in adolescents and young adults: Enjoying the present and trusting in a better future
Time perspective is crucial in adolescence and youth, when individuals make important decisions related to their present and future. The focus of this research was to use the six-factor short version Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (S-ZTPI) scale in a sample of adolescents and young adults, and to analyse its associations with decision-making, relational styles and engagement. A structural equation model of the effects of S-ZTPI on these vari…
Agency and responsibility in adolescent students: A challenge for the societies of tomorrow
BackgroundThe literature in educational psychology converges on the idea that students should take an active and accountable position in their learning processes. Nevertheless, there is still a lack of research that has systematically put the constructs of agency and responsibility at the core of their interests.AimsIn this study, we explore whether good experiences at school - here conceptualized as the general level of basic needs fulfilment an…
Value-oriented citizenship index: New extensions of Kelman and Hamilton’s theory to prevent autocracy
Moral Reasoning in a Multicultural Society: Moral Inclusion and Moral Exclusion
Disobeying an Illegitimate Request in a Democratic or Authoritarian System: Disobeying an Illegitimate Request
Crimes of obedience in the form of illegal or immoral acts committed in response to orders from authority occur in many contexts. In particular, under some circumstances of threats, people can easily accept restrictions upon democratic procedures. Recent studies have underlined the role of legitimacy in understanding the authority relationship and the importance of evaluating the legitimacy of the request rather than the legitimacy of the authori…
Individual responsibilities and moral inclusion in an age of rights
In reference to Western cultures, some scholars (see Finkel & Moghaddam, 2005) have pointed out that we live in an ‘‘age of rights.’’ That is, people attach priority to their individual rights within a narrow-minded, individualistic worldview and de-emphasize duties. Such self-centred individualism focuses on the rights of individuals, forgetting to consider that rights can be effective only in relation to corresponding duties. In this article, a…
New Perspectives on the Study of the Authority Relationship: Integrating Individual and Societal Level Research
The concept of authority crosses many social sciences, but there is a lack of common taxonomy and definitions on this topic. The aims of this review are: (1) to define the basic characteristics of the authority relationship, reaching a definition suitable for the different domains of social psychology and social sciences; (2) to bridge the gap between individual and societal levels of explanation concerning the authority relationship, by proposin…
Rights, democracy and values: A comparison between the representations of obedience and disobedience in Italian and Finnish students
Avoiding minorities: Social invisibility
Three experiments examined how self‐consciousness has an impact on the visual exploration of a social field. The main hypothesis was that merely a photograph of people can trigger a dynamic process of social visual interaction such that minority images are avoided when people are in a state of self‐reflective consciousness. In all three experiments, pairs of pictures—one with characters of social minorities and one with characters of social major…
The facebook and Twitter revolutions: Active participation in the 21st century
In the past few years, a wave of protest has spread across the world. The particularity of these uprisings lies in the way the Internet is used to support them. Scholars have analyzed these movements as being closely related to a generation that relies on the Internet as a means of organizing themselves as a force of social change. That is, the Internet is seen as a way of promoting the active participation of young people in political issues. Pu…
Adolescents' Commonsense Understanding of Rights and Duties: The Effect of the Individualization of Rights on a Rights Dilemma
During adolescence, individuals start to develop a civic identity that contributes toward defining their civic participation later on in adulthood. In developing their civic identity, adolescents start to reason with the topics of rights, duties, and responsibilities. The aim of this study is to analyze how some Italian adolescents ( N = 134) conceive the concepts of rights and duties. Moreover, as some scholars-in reference to so-called individu…
Value-oriented citizenship index: New extensions of Kelman and Hamilton’s theory to prevent autocracy
Everyday Life in Social Psychology
In the field of psychology, the topic of everyday life as a specific subject of inquiry has been afforded little attention. Indeed, everyday life has recently been analyzed mainly in psychological studies that examine people's ways of behaving and thinking when they act in situations termed as mundane and ordinary. These studies are mainly carried out in two fields of social psychology which we refer to in general terms as Social Cognition and So…
Time perspective in adolescents and young adults: Enjoying the present and trusting in a better future
Time perspective is crucial in adolescence and youth, when individuals make important decisions related to their present and future. The focus of this research was to use the six-factor short version Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (S-ZTPI) scale in a sample of adolescents and young adults, and to analyse its associations with decision-making, relational styles and engagement. A structural equation model of the effects of S-ZTPI on these vari…
Different Ways of Being Authoritarian: The Distinct Effects of Authoritarian Dimensions on Values and Prejudice
The traditional and still dominant approach to authoritarianism measures it as a unidimensional construct. However, in the past few years some studies have assessed the three hypothesized authoritarianism components (i.e., authoritarian submission, authoritarian aggression, and conventionalism) separately. The aims of this study are to verify that the three‐correlated‐factor structure fits the data better than the one‐factor model and to analyze …
Agency and responsibility in adolescent students: A challenge for the societies of tomorrow
BackgroundThe literature in educational psychology converges on the idea that students should take an active and accountable position in their learning processes. Nevertheless, there is still a lack of research that has systematically put the constructs of agency and responsibility at the core of their interests.AimsIn this study, we explore whether good experiences at school - here conceptualized as the general level of basic needs fulfilment an…
Sos Venezuela: An analysis of the anti-Maduro protest movements using Twitter
In this study, we analyze the evolution of the protests after the election of the Venezuelan Constitutional Assembly in 2017. We adopt the idea of a social conflict over diverging opinions about how the world should be. Sharing similar opinion is one basis for a sense of collective identity that facilitates participation in action to bring about desired changes in the world. We approach social conflict as an interaction between different opinion-…
Student perceptions of interpersonal justice, engagement, agency and anger: A longitudinal study for reciprocal effects
Based on the premise that classroom interactions unfold through a complex series of circular influences between teacher and students, the aim of this longitudinal study was to test a reciprocal effects model connecting students’ perceptions of interpersonal justice, on the one hand, and student engagement, agency and anger, on the other. Self-report measures of interpersonal justice, student engagement, agency and anger were collected from 454 Ye…
War and Terrorism Perceptions a Decade Later: Target Distinction or Ethnic-Cultural Bias
Recent events involving war and terrorism have rekindled the debate about the meaning of such concepts and how people define those actions. Previous research from the perspective of social psychology has suggested that the main criterion for distinguishing acts of war from terrorist actions is the differentiation between military and civilian targets. However, a secondary criterion related to the ethnic-cultural identity of the aggressor has also…
A virtuous cycle: Self-respect and tolerant attitudes toward dissenting others
Past research on tolerance has often focused on tolerance toward specific political or social groups. In the present research, we introduce a general tolerant attitude measure tapping tolerant attitudes toward dissenting others which can be used in wide variety of contexts. Moreover, we investigated for which individuals it is easier to have a tolerant attitude and compared different entitlement beliefs (the perception of having the same (i.e. se…
Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Cultural Differences and Values (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Democracy (5 works)