Francesca D’errico
Biographic Data
| ID | 3934908 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francesca D’errico |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francesca |
| FAMILY NAME | D’errico |
| SIGNATURE | D’ERRICO F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bari Aldo Moro |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8957-665X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Counter-speech elaboration matters: Using conversational technology to challenge ethnic stereotypes and moral disengagement in adolescents
Rolling minds: A conversational media to promote intergroup contact by countering racial misinformation through socioanalytic processing in adolescence
Within the field of misinformation, the study focuses on the overlooked phenomenon of racial hoaxes (RHs), defined as misleading news in which the protagonist is negatively described in relation to his/her ethnicity. This work aims to investigate the role of socioanalytic processing through the use of a conversational web app (Rolling Minds) designed to promote awareness among adolescents about the risk associated with anti-immigrant RHs. The soc…
Heuristic or analytical pathway? A multimodal analysis of communicative features in Southern Italian Renewable Energy Communities (RECs)
Introduction Renewable Energy Communities (RECs) represent a multifaceted phenomenon at the intersection of technical, social, and economic dimensions. Despite their potential to foster sustainable transitions, RECs remain relatively unfamiliar and abstract to the broader public. Methods This study addresses this gap by examining how persuasive communication strategies are employed in public informative videos aimed at raising awareness and encou…
The communicative processes in the renewable energy communities (REC): A systematic review
Renewable Energy Communities (RECs) represent an important resource for promoting the energy transition through participative forms of governance. Focusing on communicative processes is crucial for the success of RECs, since effective communication can promote citizens’ engagement and participation in these projects. This systematic review aims to investigate communication within the RECs, exploring the main communicative strategies and channels,…
Racial Disinformation, Populism and Associated Stereotypes across Three European Countries during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Within the realm of disinformation, across all media platforms, a crucial subject of interest seems to be immigration, which produces the so-called ‘racial hoaxes’. Racial hoaxes are closely linked to the spread of populist ideologies and ethnic stereotypes, both of which are psychosocial processes that, during health crises, could acquire particular features based on cultural differences. This study analysed the main contents of 239 racial hoaxe…
Online Mothering: The Empowering Nature of a Hashtag Movement Founded on Social Sharing and Stereotype Deconstruction
Online mothering is an arising and multifaceted phenomenon as the online world offers unique opportunities and risks in a particularly challenging period. The overall aim of this work is to investigate the features of the hashtag movement #itcouldbeme, which was born after a terrible news event concerning a newborn’s death, specifically concerning (a) the e-activation levels; (b) the emotional arousal; (c) the potential presence of deconstruction…
Profiling adolescents' vulnerability to racial misinformation: An hybrid intervention aimed at promoting mediated intergroup contact
This study addresses the issue of adolescents' susceptibility to racial misinformation, testing a socio‐analytical intervention within an educational community through the inducement of analytical processing of misleading news on one side, and mediated contact on the other. Rolling Minds web app has been designed to implement a hybrid schools intervention thanks to which classmates engage with conversational agents, guiding them in deconstructing…
Let's Make the Difference!” Promoting Hate Counter‐Speech in Adolescence Through Empathy and Digital Intergroup Contact
Intergroup contact interventions have been mostly used to foster empathy, promote positive relations, and reduce prejudice and discrimination. However, less is known about the potential of intergroup contact, especially digital, in interventions designed to hinder hate speech and promote counter‐speech. Counter‐speech can be defined as a direct response to hate speech, aimed at refuting or undermining it. This study argues that the quality of int…
Health Communication in the Time of Covid-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Analysis of Italian Advertisements
In the climate of great uncertainty characterizing the COVID-19 pandemic, health communication played a significant role: several communicative strategies and channels were used to inform, educate and alert. Entropy-related risks were soon translated into the "infodemic", a wide-spread phenomenon with psychosocial and cultural roots. Therefore, new challenges for public institutions occurred: public health communication, especially expressed thro…
Decolonising Reactions to Material Traces of the European Past: The Case of an Italian Colonial Food
European capital cities are replete with material traces of colonial times, not only institutional reminders but also ephemeral objects, created to glorify colonial domination. Reactions of descendants of former colonisers to these traces suggest that colonial tropes are still present in their contemporary imaginary about the past. A comprehensive effort of decolonisation, therefore, needs to aim not only at including previously despised minoriti…
Preventing Prejudice Emerging from Misleading News among Adolescents: The Role of Implicit Activation and Regulatory Self-Efficacy in Dealing with Online Misinformation
This paper explores the possibility of preventing prejudice among adolescents by promoting the analytical processing of social media content emerging from racial misinformation. Specifically, we propose, at this aim, an intervention that centers on recognizing stereotypical beliefs and other media biases about a group of people in misleading news. To better understand the variables that contribute to improving socio-analytical performance in the …
Addressing racial misinformation at school: A psycho-social intervention aimed at reducing ethnic moral disengagement in adolescents
The present study aims to examine whether by promoting the socio-analytic thinking it is possible to intervene in the reliance on ethnic moral disengagement as a negative consequence of racial misleading news, that can seriously contribute to the diffusion of ethnic prejudice. We focus on the neglected phenomenon of racial hoaxes, which can be defined as misleading news stories dealing with health or safety threats, in which the protagonist is de…
Immigrants, hell on board’
Social media platforms provide direct access to an unprecedented amount of content and can amplify rumours and questionable information. Moreover, when polarisation is high, misinformation can easily spread. Some studies have indicated that fake news and false information can spread faster and furtherthan fact-based news, as it may be based on more stereotypical and less complex content. This research aims to examine racial misinformation. ‘Racia…
Online sexist meme and its effects on moral and emotional processes in social media
The conductor’s intensity gestures
This work is aimed at outlining a repertoire of conductors’ gestures. In this perspective, it presents two studies that investigate a specific subset of the body signals of orchestra and choir conductors, namely, the gestures for musical intensity. First, an observational qualitative study, based on a systematic coding of a corpus of fragments from orchestra concerts and rehearsals, singled out 21 gestures, in which either the gesture as a whole …
Affective Detection of ‘Brain Drain’ Through Video-Narrative Interview
The present study aims at monitoring the emotional side of the so-called “brain drain” by means of emotional expressions automatically detected during a narrative interview. Skilled people or people with higher education to reach another Country, generally following a job offer with better conditions of reward or life, theorize the brain drain phenomenon as the abandonment of a Nation. This definition, albeit complete, does not seize the complexi…
PeppeRecycle: Improving Children’s Attitude Toward Recycling by Playing with a Social Robot
In this paper, we investigate the use of a social robot as an engaging interface of a serious game intended to make children more aware and well disposed towards waste recycle. The game has been designed as a competition between the robot Pepper and a child. During the game, the robot simultaneously challenges and teaches the child how to recycle waste materials. To endow the robot with the capability to play as a game opponent in a real-world co…
Online moral struggles in hosting immigrant’s discourses: The underlying role of expressed anger and socio-cognitive processes
The present study aims to help better understand the cognitive and affective processes at work in ‘moral struggles’ concerning discussions about hosting immigrants. In particular, it will focus on the prosocial aspect of the debate on hosting of immigrants since previous studies have stressed mainly its racist nature. To this end, a total of 12,583 comments were extracted from the Facebook page of an Italian singer, divided into prosocial and pro…
Too humble and sad: The effect of humility and emotional display when a politician talks about a moral issue
Humble leadership can be defined as a positive psychological feature that allows for admitting one's own limitations, being open to new ideas and giving a voice to, and recognizing the merits of, others. Humility has been associated with positive emotions, like gratitude and elevation, however it has been neglected in the political domain, seen on the contrary as the management of power. The present experimental study was aimed at exploring the p…
Online moral disengagement and hostile emotions in discussions on hosting immigrants
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the “dark nuances” of social media by identifying moral disengagement (MD) mechanisms and hostile emotions in people discussing the hosting of immigrants and examining the relationship between MD mechanisms and hostile emotions expressed online (annoyance, irritation and contempt). Design/methodology/approach The method was based on a psycho-lexicographical approach that analysed the in vivo real wo…
Imagine” – Participative strategies of two online minorities within Italian context
Within the field of political psychology studies, the main goal of the present study is to investigate in depth the role played by two different forms – E-Tactics vs E-Movement – of social media activism on the quality of discourses and their possible level of acquired empowerment. Two Italian cases of e-minorities (Teatro Valle Occupato and Roars) will be analysed in terms of argumentative moves following a pragma-dialectic perspective in order …
Conflict and Multimodal Communication: Social Research and Machine Intelligence
Online moral disengagement and hostile emotions in discussions on hosting immigrants
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the “dark nuances” of social media by identifying moral disengagement (MD) mechanisms and hostile emotions in people discussing the hosting of immigrants and examining the relationship between MD mechanisms and hostile emotions expressed online (annoyance, irritation and contempt). Design/methodology/approach The method was based on a psycho-lexicographical approach that analysed the in vivo real wo…
Addressing racial misinformation at school: A psycho-social intervention aimed at reducing ethnic moral disengagement in adolescents
The present study aims to examine whether by promoting the socio-analytic thinking it is possible to intervene in the reliance on ethnic moral disengagement as a negative consequence of racial misleading news, that can seriously contribute to the diffusion of ethnic prejudice. We focus on the neglected phenomenon of racial hoaxes, which can be defined as misleading news stories dealing with health or safety threats, in which the protagonist is de…
Imagine” – Participative strategies of two online minorities within Italian context
Within the field of political psychology studies, the main goal of the present study is to investigate in depth the role played by two different forms – E-Tactics vs E-Movement – of social media activism on the quality of discourses and their possible level of acquired empowerment. Two Italian cases of e-minorities (Teatro Valle Occupato and Roars) will be analysed in terms of argumentative moves following a pragma-dialectic perspective in order …
Conflict and Multimodal Communication: Social Research and Machine Intelligence
Imagine” – Participative strategies of two online minorities within Italian context
Within the field of political psychology studies, the main goal of the present study is to investigate in depth the role played by two different forms – E-Tactics vs E-Movement – of social media activism on the quality of discourses and their possible level of acquired empowerment. Two Italian cases of e-minorities (Teatro Valle Occupato and Roars) will be analysed in terms of argumentative moves following a pragma-dialectic perspective in order …
Online moral disengagement and hostile emotions in discussions on hosting immigrants
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the “dark nuances” of social media by identifying moral disengagement (MD) mechanisms and hostile emotions in people discussing the hosting of immigrants and examining the relationship between MD mechanisms and hostile emotions expressed online (annoyance, irritation and contempt). Design/methodology/approach The method was based on a psycho-lexicographical approach that analysed the in vivo real wo…
Online moral struggles in hosting immigrant’s discourses: The underlying role of expressed anger and socio-cognitive processes
The present study aims to help better understand the cognitive and affective processes at work in ‘moral struggles’ concerning discussions about hosting immigrants. In particular, it will focus on the prosocial aspect of the debate on hosting of immigrants since previous studies have stressed mainly its racist nature. To this end, a total of 12,583 comments were extracted from the Facebook page of an Italian singer, divided into prosocial and pro…
Too humble and sad: The effect of humility and emotional display when a politician talks about a moral issue
Humble leadership can be defined as a positive psychological feature that allows for admitting one's own limitations, being open to new ideas and giving a voice to, and recognizing the merits of, others. Humility has been associated with positive emotions, like gratitude and elevation, however it has been neglected in the political domain, seen on the contrary as the management of power. The present experimental study was aimed at exploring the p…
Online sexist meme and its effects on moral and emotional processes in social media
The conductor’s intensity gestures
This work is aimed at outlining a repertoire of conductors’ gestures. In this perspective, it presents two studies that investigate a specific subset of the body signals of orchestra and choir conductors, namely, the gestures for musical intensity. First, an observational qualitative study, based on a systematic coding of a corpus of fragments from orchestra concerts and rehearsals, singled out 21 gestures, in which either the gesture as a whole …
Affective Detection of ‘Brain Drain’ Through Video-Narrative Interview
The present study aims at monitoring the emotional side of the so-called “brain drain” by means of emotional expressions automatically detected during a narrative interview. Skilled people or people with higher education to reach another Country, generally following a job offer with better conditions of reward or life, theorize the brain drain phenomenon as the abandonment of a Nation. This definition, albeit complete, does not seize the complexi…
PeppeRecycle: Improving Children’s Attitude Toward Recycling by Playing with a Social Robot
In this paper, we investigate the use of a social robot as an engaging interface of a serious game intended to make children more aware and well disposed towards waste recycle. The game has been designed as a competition between the robot Pepper and a child. During the game, the robot simultaneously challenges and teaches the child how to recycle waste materials. To endow the robot with the capability to play as a game opponent in a real-world co…
Immigrants, hell on board’
Social media platforms provide direct access to an unprecedented amount of content and can amplify rumours and questionable information. Moreover, when polarisation is high, misinformation can easily spread. Some studies have indicated that fake news and false information can spread faster and furtherthan fact-based news, as it may be based on more stereotypical and less complex content. This research aims to examine racial misinformation. ‘Racia…
Health Communication in the Time of Covid-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Analysis of Italian Advertisements
In the climate of great uncertainty characterizing the COVID-19 pandemic, health communication played a significant role: several communicative strategies and channels were used to inform, educate and alert. Entropy-related risks were soon translated into the "infodemic", a wide-spread phenomenon with psychosocial and cultural roots. Therefore, new challenges for public institutions occurred: public health communication, especially expressed thro…
Decolonising Reactions to Material Traces of the European Past: The Case of an Italian Colonial Food
European capital cities are replete with material traces of colonial times, not only institutional reminders but also ephemeral objects, created to glorify colonial domination. Reactions of descendants of former colonisers to these traces suggest that colonial tropes are still present in their contemporary imaginary about the past. A comprehensive effort of decolonisation, therefore, needs to aim not only at including previously despised minoriti…
Preventing Prejudice Emerging from Misleading News among Adolescents: The Role of Implicit Activation and Regulatory Self-Efficacy in Dealing with Online Misinformation
This paper explores the possibility of preventing prejudice among adolescents by promoting the analytical processing of social media content emerging from racial misinformation. Specifically, we propose, at this aim, an intervention that centers on recognizing stereotypical beliefs and other media biases about a group of people in misleading news. To better understand the variables that contribute to improving socio-analytical performance in the …
Addressing racial misinformation at school: A psycho-social intervention aimed at reducing ethnic moral disengagement in adolescents
The present study aims to examine whether by promoting the socio-analytic thinking it is possible to intervene in the reliance on ethnic moral disengagement as a negative consequence of racial misleading news, that can seriously contribute to the diffusion of ethnic prejudice. We focus on the neglected phenomenon of racial hoaxes, which can be defined as misleading news stories dealing with health or safety threats, in which the protagonist is de…
Racial Disinformation, Populism and Associated Stereotypes across Three European Countries during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Within the realm of disinformation, across all media platforms, a crucial subject of interest seems to be immigration, which produces the so-called ‘racial hoaxes’. Racial hoaxes are closely linked to the spread of populist ideologies and ethnic stereotypes, both of which are psychosocial processes that, during health crises, could acquire particular features based on cultural differences. This study analysed the main contents of 239 racial hoaxe…
Online Mothering: The Empowering Nature of a Hashtag Movement Founded on Social Sharing and Stereotype Deconstruction
Online mothering is an arising and multifaceted phenomenon as the online world offers unique opportunities and risks in a particularly challenging period. The overall aim of this work is to investigate the features of the hashtag movement #itcouldbeme, which was born after a terrible news event concerning a newborn’s death, specifically concerning (a) the e-activation levels; (b) the emotional arousal; (c) the potential presence of deconstruction…
Profiling adolescents' vulnerability to racial misinformation: An hybrid intervention aimed at promoting mediated intergroup contact
This study addresses the issue of adolescents' susceptibility to racial misinformation, testing a socio‐analytical intervention within an educational community through the inducement of analytical processing of misleading news on one side, and mediated contact on the other. Rolling Minds web app has been designed to implement a hybrid schools intervention thanks to which classmates engage with conversational agents, guiding them in deconstructing…
Let's Make the Difference!” Promoting Hate Counter‐Speech in Adolescence Through Empathy and Digital Intergroup Contact
Intergroup contact interventions have been mostly used to foster empathy, promote positive relations, and reduce prejudice and discrimination. However, less is known about the potential of intergroup contact, especially digital, in interventions designed to hinder hate speech and promote counter‐speech. Counter‐speech can be defined as a direct response to hate speech, aimed at refuting or undermining it. This study argues that the quality of int…
Rolling minds: A conversational media to promote intergroup contact by countering racial misinformation through socioanalytic processing in adolescence
Within the field of misinformation, the study focuses on the overlooked phenomenon of racial hoaxes (RHs), defined as misleading news in which the protagonist is negatively described in relation to his/her ethnicity. This work aims to investigate the role of socioanalytic processing through the use of a conversational web app (Rolling Minds) designed to promote awareness among adolescents about the risk associated with anti-immigrant RHs. The soc…
Heuristic or analytical pathway? A multimodal analysis of communicative features in Southern Italian Renewable Energy Communities (RECs)
Introduction Renewable Energy Communities (RECs) represent a multifaceted phenomenon at the intersection of technical, social, and economic dimensions. Despite their potential to foster sustainable transitions, RECs remain relatively unfamiliar and abstract to the broader public. Methods This study addresses this gap by examining how persuasive communication strategies are employed in public informative videos aimed at raising awareness and encou…
The communicative processes in the renewable energy communities (REC): A systematic review
Renewable Energy Communities (RECs) represent an important resource for promoting the energy transition through participative forms of governance. Focusing on communicative processes is crucial for the success of RECs, since effective communication can promote citizens’ engagement and participation in these projects. This systematic review aims to investigate communication within the RECs, exploring the main communicative strategies and channels,…
Counter-speech elaboration matters: Using conversational technology to challenge ethnic stereotypes and moral disengagement in adolescents
Psychology (18 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (8 works) · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection (7 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (6 works) · Social Media and Politics (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works)