Passini
Biographic Data
| ID | 5431 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Passini |
| FAMILY NAME | Passini |
| SIGNATURE | PASSINI |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bologna |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8887-0999 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Ideological Indifference: A Socio‐Psychological Conceptualization and Measurement
Social psychology has classically attributed discrimination towards marginalized groups to explicit forms of bias and blatant ideological orientations. However, discrimination can also manifest in passive forms, such as indifference, which may be equally harmful. This study proposes and validates a new measure of ideological indifference: the Ideological Indifference Scale (IIS). We conceptualize indifference as an ideologically motivated belief …
From internalized equality to tolerance towards others: Self-respect predicts tolerance for minority groups in Serbia and Syria
Prior research has shown that self-respect (i.e., a person’s belief of possessing the same rights as others) predicted concern for others’ rights (in terms of positive attitudes towards human rights) and a generally tolerant attitude towards dissenting others. In this research, we go beyond prior research and investigate whether self-respect is associated with tolerance towards minority groups in countries where socio-political (and religious) te…
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…
Runaway rights: A closer look at different rights visions and entitlement perceptions
We live in an age of rights in which individual rights and freedoms are highly prioritized, often overshadowing duties and responsibilities. This makes it increasingly challenging to discern the balance between one’s own rights and the protection of the fundamental rights of all individuals. Moghaddam and colleagues (2024) introduced a model illustrating how rights evolve from being contested, to becoming normative, and eventually facing a backla…
Countering anti‐democratic policies in democracies: The importance of value‐oriented citizenship
Living in democratic systems may lead the citizens of those countries to be less vigilant of the policies enforced by their governments, with the risk of endorsing anti‐democratic measures. Rights violations can indeed occur even in a democratic country. The aim of the present research is to understand whether people tend to be more accepting of repressive police actions when they occur in a country considered democratic than when they are perpet…
Manemos. The Trigger Situations Inventory. Validation of a Measure Helping Relapse Prevention in the Treatment of Alcohol Use Disorders
Background: Relapse Prevention (RP) is a cognitive-behavioral approach that aims to identify situations at high risk of relapse and to support patients with alcohol use disorders (AUDs) in developing coping strategies for the maintenance of desired behavioral changes. Based on this framework, the present study aims to assess and validate the psychometric properties of the MANEMOS, a 24-item inventory of alcohol relapse triggering situations. Meth…
Accepting controversial measures in times of Covid-19: The democratic delusion paradox
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic led most of the involved countries to take measures to contain the spread of the virus. Among these, the authorities banned gatherings and tough measures, involving also the use of force, were at times adopted to disperse people breaking this rule. The aim of this research was to investigate to what extent harsh measures are considered acceptable to prevent such gatherings. Specifically, in line with politica…
The grasshopper and the ant: Chinese teenagers and their representation of Italian people
The aim of this exploratory study is to provide a better understanding of the representation shared by Chinese teenagers in Italy about Italian people. As research into migrants’ attitudes toward the host culture and society is rare, this study aims to bridge this gap. In 2016, 22 low-income first and second-generation Chinese teenagers living in an Italian city were interviewed. Analysis of their narratives, performed with T-Lab, a text mining s…
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…
Concerns over Covid-19 and prejudice: Pre- and during-pandemic in Italy
While at first the fear of COVID-19 disease spread was limited by the fact that the pandemic appeared to be confined to China, the growing emergency in Italy and the rapid escalation in positive cases and deaths have made the threat of this disease a national as well as global phenomenon. In the present research, a questionnaire was collected both before ( n = 396) and during ( n = 250) the outbreak of the pandemic in Italy. The aim of the resear…
Cleanliness and prejudice in times of pandemic
The COVID‐19 pandemic has led to restrictions in our contact with others and the introduction of social distancing barriers. These rules can enhance the psychological mechanisms resulting from fear of contamination and may lead to exacerbating prejudiced attitudes towards certain social groups seen as possible carriers of infection. Fear of infection and ideas about cleanliness and dirtiness have indeed historically and culturally influenced the …
Coming together to awaken our democracy’: Examining precursors of emergent social identity and collective action among activists and non‐activists in the 2019–2020 ‘ Chile despertó ’ protests
By integrating the insights from social identity research on collective action, this article examines the social‐psychological mechanisms behind the emergence of the 2019–20 ‘ Chile despertó ’ social movement, a major Latin American revolt against the government's price hikes. Using survey data collected among Chilean activists ( N = 549) and non‐activists (i.e., members of broader society, N = 234), we analyse two major explanatory collective ac…
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-…
The relationship between value and ideological orientations using the refined theory of basic values
By considering the theory of basic values, several studies have considered the different underlying value patterns of social dominance orientation (SDO) and right-wing authoritarianism (RWA). Recently, the value theory has been developed into a finer set of conceptually distinct values. Specifically, the same key assumptions have been retained, but 19 instead of 10 motivationally distinct values have been distinguished. The aim of the present res…
Feelings of coldness towards social groups: The revert to materialist values and the role of indifference
Perceptions of economic and security threats have recently led to a change in priorities in the Western world, placing the protection of one’s own group well-being and safety over the importance attached to the defense of individual rights. Moreover, various studies have shown that such a reversal in priorities is associated with the rise of cold attitudes towards immigrants and minorities. The aim of the present research is to analyze the associ…
The Influence of Trait Emotional Intelligence and Gender Interaction on Draw-A-Person Emotional Indicators during Childhood
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…
Backing unequal policies: The complicit role of intergroup indifference
By studying the violent intergroup conflicts that occurred in the last century, some sociopsychological studies have underlined the relevant role of passive bystanders in nonobstructing and in some ways supporting these conflicts. The complicit role of bystanders and indifferent people in supporting human rights restrictions may be recognized in more contemporary societies as well. The aim of the present research is to analyze the effect of indif…
Exclusive and inclusive protest in Europe: Investigating values, support for democracy, and life conditions
Dissatisfaction with the economic situation and perceived governmental inefficacy in regard to the financial crisis has spawned a widespread feeling of political distrust across Europe. This distrust has been translated into protests against institutional authority that aims at either expanding democratic procedures or supporting xenophobic and populist measures. This research uses European Social Survey data to compare exclusive and inclusive pr…
Freedom, democracy, and values: Perception of freedom of choice and readiness to protest
In so-called democracies, although several political measures have recently curbed citizens’ personal freedom (e.g., 2001 US Patriot Act), no major demonstrations have been organized against such restrictions. The main idea underlying this manuscript is that citizens living in democracies often have an overestimated perception of their freedom of choice. This perception may lead to the risk of not recognizing possible restrictions of liberties wi…
Left–Right Orientation and Electoral Choices: Divergences in the Relationships With Authority and Out-Groups
New political parties and movements have recently grown across Europe. These parties often state their distance from the classic left-right juxtaposition, even if their voters still place themselves in the left-right continuum. The aim of the present research was to focus on the Italian political context and to analyze differences between left of center and right of center self-positioned people on attitudes concerning authority-individual and in…
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 …
Construction and Validation of the Moral Inclusion/Exclusion of Other Groups (Mieg) Scale
What can I do with my body? Boys and girls facing body dissatisfaction
The aim of this study is to investigate the role of body dissatisfaction (BD) - conceived here as predicting, predicted and mediating variable - in relation to media influence, body mass index (BMI) and body modification strategies among adolescents, with particular attention to gender differences. Specifically, we investigate, through a multivariated model, the direct and mediated effect of internalization and pressure to conform to aesthetic id…
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
The obedience–disobedience dynamic and the role of responsibility
Obedience has been thoroughly studied in social psychology, both in its positive and negative aspects. Nevertheless, in these empirical studies disobedience has been considered to be the opposite of obedience and indeed its negation. Instead, some recent studies suggest that if obedience to authority is important in ensuring the continuity of social and group life, disobedience is crucial, under some circumstances, in stopping the authority relat…
Construction and Validation of the Moral Inclusion/Exclusion of Other Groups (Mieg) Scale
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…
Avoiding crimes of obedience: A comparative study of the autobiographies of M. K. Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and Martin Luther King, Jr
This research aims to contribute to an understanding of how and why certain people are able to display prosocial disobedience behaviors, overcome unjust situations, and withstand persecutions deployed by authority. This article presents a hermeneutic content analysis of the autobiographical speeches and texts of Gandhi, M. L. King, and Mandela. The results show that the importance given to parents' value orientation, experiences of injustice duri…
Disobedience and support for democracy: Evidences from the World Values Survey
For some time, social movement research and political science have studied protests and activists. However, little empirical research attempts to relate movements to the type of social change they endeavour to achieve. In this paper, we suggest that different psychosocial processes may distinguish between different types of movement and protest. In particular, we cross lines between classical social psychology studies on the individual–authority …
In the name of democracy: Disobedience and value‐oriented citizenship
Recently, some scholars have highlighted a paradoxical phenomenon existing in democratic systems: Those people who show the greatest support for democracy are also those most willing to protest against the authority and to question it. However, if we consider the tasks of contemporary democratic citizenship in a social‐psychological perspective, this apparent paradox becomes understandable. Obedience to authority may ensure the continuity of soci…
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-…
Coming together to awaken our democracy’: Examining precursors of emergent social identity and collective action among activists and non‐activists in the 2019–2020 ‘ Chile despertó ’ protests
By integrating the insights from social identity research on collective action, this article examines the social‐psychological mechanisms behind the emergence of the 2019–20 ‘ Chile despertó ’ social movement, a major Latin American revolt against the government's price hikes. Using survey data collected among Chilean activists ( N = 549) and non‐activists (i.e., members of broader society, N = 234), we analyse two major explanatory collective ac…
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…
Exclusive and inclusive protest in Europe: Investigating values, support for democracy, and life conditions
Dissatisfaction with the economic situation and perceived governmental inefficacy in regard to the financial crisis has spawned a widespread feeling of political distrust across Europe. This distrust has been translated into protests against institutional authority that aims at either expanding democratic procedures or supporting xenophobic and populist measures. This research uses European Social Survey data to compare exclusive and inclusive pr…
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…
The relationship between value and ideological orientations using the refined theory of basic values
By considering the theory of basic values, several studies have considered the different underlying value patterns of social dominance orientation (SDO) and right-wing authoritarianism (RWA). Recently, the value theory has been developed into a finer set of conceptually distinct values. Specifically, the same key assumptions have been retained, but 19 instead of 10 motivationally distinct values have been distinguished. The aim of the present res…
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…
Backing unequal policies: The complicit role of intergroup indifference
By studying the violent intergroup conflicts that occurred in the last century, some sociopsychological studies have underlined the relevant role of passive bystanders in nonobstructing and in some ways supporting these conflicts. The complicit role of bystanders and indifferent people in supporting human rights restrictions may be recognized in more contemporary societies as well. The aim of the present research is to analyze the effect of indif…
Value-oriented citizenship index: New extensions of Kelman and Hamilton’s theory to prevent autocracy
What do I Think of Others in Relation to Myself? Moral Identity and Moral Inclusion in Explaining Prejudice
The aim of this article is to analyze the effect of moral identity on prejudice in conjunction with moral inclusion/exclusion attitudes. In particular, the hypothesis is that even if high moral identity people tend to be less prejudicial than low moral identity people, this result can be explained with reference to moral inclusion/exclusion attitudes. A questionnaire was distributed to 192 Italian subjects. According to the hypothesis, results sh…
The obedience–disobedience dynamic and the role of responsibility
Obedience has been thoroughly studied in social psychology, both in its positive and negative aspects. Nevertheless, in these empirical studies disobedience has been considered to be the opposite of obedience and indeed its negation. Instead, some recent studies suggest that if obedience to authority is important in ensuring the continuity of social and group life, disobedience is crucial, under some circumstances, in stopping the authority relat…
Avoiding crimes of obedience: A comparative study of the autobiographies of M. K. Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and Martin Luther King, Jr
This research aims to contribute to an understanding of how and why certain people are able to display prosocial disobedience behaviors, overcome unjust situations, and withstand persecutions deployed by authority. This article presents a hermeneutic content analysis of the autobiographical speeches and texts of Gandhi, M. L. King, and Mandela. The results show that the importance given to parents' value orientation, experiences of injustice duri…
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…
Beyond European Union enlargement: Albania and human rights in the realm of everyday life
Since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was proclaimed, the issue of the universality of human rights is one of the main debates in the political meetings on the relationships between countries around the world. Indeed, it may be relevant to trace what can be considered as cultural or as universal, as well as the limits of both these notions in protecting a universal individual. This is relevant as concerning European Union enlargement to…
In the name of democracy: Disobedience and value‐oriented citizenship
Recently, some scholars have highlighted a paradoxical phenomenon existing in democratic systems: Those people who show the greatest support for democracy are also those most willing to protest against the authority and to question it. However, if we consider the tasks of contemporary democratic citizenship in a social‐psychological perspective, this apparent paradox becomes understandable. Obedience to authority may ensure the continuity of soci…
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…
What do I Think of Others in Relation to Myself? Moral Identity and Moral Inclusion in Explaining Prejudice
The aim of this article is to analyze the effect of moral identity on prejudice in conjunction with moral inclusion/exclusion attitudes. In particular, the hypothesis is that even if high moral identity people tend to be less prejudicial than low moral identity people, this result can be explained with reference to moral inclusion/exclusion attitudes. A questionnaire was distributed to 192 Italian subjects. According to the hypothesis, results sh…
Disobedience and support for democracy: Evidences from the World Values Survey
For some time, social movement research and political science have studied protests and activists. However, little empirical research attempts to relate movements to the type of social change they endeavour to achieve. In this paper, we suggest that different psychosocial processes may distinguish between different types of movement and protest. In particular, we cross lines between classical social psychology studies on the individual–authority …
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…
A binge-consuming culture: The effect of consumerism on social interactions in western societies
We live in a “binge-consuming” culture. Indeed, a certain compulsion to consume seems to characterize not only the way in which people relate to the object world of luxury goods, but also the way we relate to other people, institutions and society in general. In this sense, the term “binge”—usually associated with addictions—may be also useful in identifying our consuming culture. The aim of this article is to discuss how the same psychological p…
Cleanliness/dirtiness, purity/impurity as social and psychological issues
The issue of cleanliness in its clean/dirty and pure/impure antinomies definitely has a social and cultural dimension. Some daily cleaning practices are indeed quite common actions in every culture and society, even if some differences in the frequency and quality of the practices and in the value attributed to them do exist. In this article, we will discuss how cleaning practices and contamination fears sink their roots in the social context and…
All-in and Bad Beat: Professional Poker Players and Pathological Gambling
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…
A validation of the Questionnaire on Teacher Interaction in Italian secondary school students: The effect of positive relations on motivation and academic achievement
Value-oriented citizenship index: New extensions of Kelman and Hamilton’s theory to prevent autocracy
What can I do with my body? Boys and girls facing body dissatisfaction
The aim of this study is to investigate the role of body dissatisfaction (BD) - conceived here as predicting, predicted and mediating variable - in relation to media influence, body mass index (BMI) and body modification strategies among adolescents, with particular attention to gender differences. Specifically, we investigate, through a multivariated model, the direct and mediated effect of internalization and pressure to conform to aesthetic id…
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…
Freedom, democracy, and values: Perception of freedom of choice and readiness to protest
In so-called democracies, although several political measures have recently curbed citizens’ personal freedom (e.g., 2001 US Patriot Act), no major demonstrations have been organized against such restrictions. The main idea underlying this manuscript is that citizens living in democracies often have an overestimated perception of their freedom of choice. This perception may lead to the risk of not recognizing possible restrictions of liberties wi…
Left–Right Orientation and Electoral Choices: Divergences in the Relationships With Authority and Out-Groups
New political parties and movements have recently grown across Europe. These parties often state their distance from the classic left-right juxtaposition, even if their voters still place themselves in the left-right continuum. The aim of the present research was to focus on the Italian political context and to analyze differences between left of center and right of center self-positioned people on attitudes concerning authority-individual and in…
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 …
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