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G A Travaglino

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ID67016
NAMEG A Travaglino
GIVEN NAMESG A
FAMILY NAMETravaglino
SIGNATURETRAVAGLINO G A
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Kent
ORCID0000-0003-4091-0634
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS43
TOTAL CITATIONS196
AUTHOR COUNT43
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX8
  • When do two wrongs make a right? Schadenfreude and the legitimization of illegal attacks against corrupt national institutions

    G A Travaglino, Alberto Mirisola et al.•ARTICLE•Emotion•2026

    This research investigated the role of schadenfreude-feelings of joy at a target's misfortunes-in people's legitimization of illegal attacks against corrupt institutions with formal authority. Five experiments (Experiment 1 conducted in 2018, the others in 2024-2025; Experiments 2-5 preregistered) in the United Kingdom and Italy ( N total = 1,676) employed realistic scenarios involving cyberattacks and violent intimidation from criminal groups. A…

  • When Confidence in Institutions Backfires

    Open Access•Silvana D’ottone, G A Travaglino et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Psychology•2025

    Confidence in institutions is a key predictor of civic honesty, yet evidence shows that this relationship varies across contexts and individuals. This study examined whether power‐distance orientation (PDO)—the extent to which individuals accept hierarchical power relations—moderates this association. High‐PDO individuals tend to view institutional authorities as entitled to privilege, inclined to engage in patronage relationships and potentially…

  • The Geopolitics of Civic Honesty

    Open Access•G A Travaglino, Alberto Mirisola et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Social Issues•2025•Cited by: 2•References: 57

    Civic honesty—the moral standards that define citizens’ commitment to the public good—serves a fundamental role in societal functioning. Prior research has emphasized the role of vertical trust (trust in institutions) and horizontal trust (trust in fellow citizens) in predicting the endorsement of such standards among citizens. However, this research has mainly focused on the political conditions typical of the Global North while neglecting envir…

  • The association between perceived injustice and political trust

    Open Access•Chanki Moon, G A Travaglino•ARTICLE•Political Psychology•2025•References: 109

    While past research has found an association between perceived political injustice and diminished trust in institutions, the pathways connecting these constructs remain underexplored. In this study, we proposed a sequential indirect‐effect model, from perceived injustice to feelings of disrespect and ultimately lower trust, via the dual pathways of anger against institutions and constructive patriotism. We tested our model using samples from four…

  • Addressing climate change with behavioral science

    Open Access•Madalina Vlasceanu, Kimberly C Doell et al.•ARTICLE•Science Advances•2024

    Effectively reducing climate change requires marked, global behavior change. However, it is unclear which strategies are most likely to motivate people to change their climate beliefs and behaviors. Here, we tested 11 expert-crowdsourced interventions on four climate mitigation outcomes: beliefs, policy support, information sharing intention, and an effortful tree-planting behavioral task. Across 59,440 participants from 63 countries, the interve…

  • Predictors of compliance with Covid-19 guidelines across countries

    Open Access•Anne M Blackburn, Angélique M Blackburn et al.•ARTICLE•Current Psychology•2024

  • Alternative Systems

    Open Access•G A Travaglino, Pascal Burgmer et al.•ARTICLE•Social Psychological and…•2024

    Individuals’ endorsement of standards of civic honesty is necessary for democracies to flourish. A critical driver of civic honesty is the relationship of trust between individuals and institutions. Research has yet to systematically assess the contextual factors that may moderate this relationship. In this study, we examined the societal influence of organized criminal groups. Criminal groups operate as alternative systems of authority that erod…

  • The psychology of criminal authority

    Open Access•G A Travaglino, Alberto Mirisola et al.•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 16

    The state’s monopoly on sovereignty can be challenged by criminal systems capable of gaining legitimacy within communities. Understanding the psychological basis of such legitimacy requires broadening traditional conceptualizations of authority to consider how it operates without legal backing and outside formal channels. This research introduces the Legitimacy of Secret Power (L-SP) Scale, a tool measuring individuals’ appraisal of illegal group…

  • National identification weakens, and territorial identification strengthens, the relationship between masculine honor values and the justification of practices of connivance with the mafia

    Open Access•Alberto Mirisola, G A Travaglino et al.•ARTICLE•Political Psychology•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 39

    Organized crime's governance raises questions about mechanisms facilitating the exercise of illegal authority in society. The present research tested the association between masculine honor ideology and the justification of connivance practices facilitating criminal groups' activities. We examined the novel idea that national identification would attenuate and territorial identification would strengthen such a relationship, reflecting different s…

  • Honor Values as Identity Content

    Open Access•G A Travaglino, Maria-Therese Friehs et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Cross-Cultural…•2024•References: 56

    Reputation refers to the set of judgments a community makes about its members. In cultures of honor, reputation constitutes one of the most pressing concerns of individuals. Reputational concerns are intimately intertwined with people's social identities. However, research has yet to address the question of how honor-related reputational concerns are structured at the within-person level vis-à-vis individuals' identification with relevant group m…

  • Crime as Protest, Protest as Crime

    G A Travaglino, Cristina d’Aniello•ARTICLE•Contention•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 4

    This special issue explores the complex and multifaceted relationship between crime and protest. Crime may in some circumstances be considered a legitimate form of resistance against oppressive authorities. It may also be seen as an unacceptable form of violence or a symptom of social disorganization. Similarly, while protest is a tool for promoting social justice, it may be criminalized and treated as a threat to public order. The articles in th…

  • Secret disclosure and social relationships in groups

    Open Access•G A Travaglino, Joseph M Levine et al.•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2023•References: 17

    Personal secrets are a ubiquitous fact of group life, but the conditions under which they are revealed have not been explored. In five studies, we assessed secret disclosure in groups governed by four models of human sociality (Communal Sharing, Equality Matching, Authority Ranking, Market Pricing; Fiske). In Studies 1a and 1b, participants indicated their willingness to disclose secrets in hypothetical groups governed by the models. In Studies 2…

  • Investigating the social embeddedness of criminal groups

    Open Access•G A Travaglino, Maria-Therese Friehs et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social…•2023•Cited by: 3•References: 48

    The embeddedness of criminal groups within communities accrues from their ability to establish legitimacy, particularly among young people. A prototypical example are mafia claims to political authority in Italy. Intracultural Appropriation Theory proposes that embeddedness is partly derived from criminal groups’ ability to embody cultural ideologies of masculine honour, and to reinforce these ideologies in society through their actions. We teste…

  • The Dependency–Counterdependency Dynamic

    Open Access•G A Travaglino, Chanki Moon•ARTICLE•Political Psychology•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 78

    System Justification Theory posits that individuals are less prone to engage in radical action against a system on which they depend. In the present research, we investigated how the association between system‐justifying tendencies and radical intentions is moderated by individuals' orientation towards power differentials, namely their “power distance.” A stronger power distance orientation implies that individuals perceive power differentials as…

  • The Meaning of Contention

    Benjamin Abrams, G A Travaglino et al.•ARTICLE•Contention•2022•Cited by: 2•References: 27

    Contention is everywhere nowadays, permeating the fabric of society and constituting an important element of many different social relationships. It is also a central topic across a wide range of social scientific disciplines. Following the most contentious decade in over a century, scholarship on the topic of “contention” is booming. Nonetheless, we still lack a conceptual approach to “contention” as a general academic term beyond the bounds of …

  • Author Correction

    Open Access•Ke Wang, Amit Goldenberg et al.•ARTICLE•Nature Human Behaviour•2022

  • Trust predicts Covid-19 prescribed and discretionary behavioral intentions in 23 countries

    Open Access•Stefano Pagliaro, Simona Sacchi et al.•ARTICLE•PLoS ONE•2021

    The worldwide spread of a new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) since December 2019 has posed a severe threat to individuals’ well-being. While the world at large is waiting that the released vaccines immunize most citizens, public health experts suggest that, in the meantime, it is only through behavior change that the spread of COVID-19 can be controlled. Importantly, the required behaviors are aimed not only at safeguarding one’s own health. Instead, i…

  • Examining conspiracy beliefs and Covid-19 in four countries

    Open Access•Chanki Moon, G A Travaglino•ARTICLE•Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology•2021

    Since late 2019, the coronavirus SARS-COV-2 responsible for the COVID-19 disease has continued to spread across different regions of the world. As a result, governments have been implementing measures for controlling the disease which rely on people's cooperation. In this research, we considered predictors and implications of people's beliefs that they “haven’t been told the ‘whole story’ about COVID-19.” Specifically, we examined the role of dis…

  • Intergroup contact and social change

    Open Access•Tabea Hässler, Özden Melis Uluğ et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Social Issues•2021•Cited by: 14•References: 149

    Previous research has shown that positive intergroup contact among disadvantaged group members may predict a so‐called sedative effect according to which positive contact is associated with reduced support for social change. Conversely, positive contact is associated with increased support for social change toward equality among advantaged group members. This raises the important question of under which circumstances intergroup contact can encour…

  • Collective deviance

    Dominic Abrams, G A Travaglino et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 8

    Six experiments examined responses to groups whose attitudes deviated from wider social norms about asylum and immigration (in the United Kingdom), or about taxation levels (in the U.S.). Subjective group dynamics (SGD) theory states that people derogate in-group individuals who deviate from prescriptive in-group norms. This enables members to sustain the subjective validity of those norms and, hence, a positive social identity. Research also sho…

  • A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open Access•Ke Wang, Amit Goldenberg et al.•ARTICLE•Nature Human Behaviour•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 117

  • The Secret Power of Criminal Organizations

    Open Access•G A Travaglino, Lisbeth Drury•BOOK•The Secret Power of Criminal…•2020

  • Power distance orientation as an antecedent of individuals’ intentions to engage in radical political action

    Open Access•G A Travaglino, Chanki Moon•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2020•Cited by: 5•References: 24

    The cultural dimension of power distance refers to individuals’ acceptance of power inequalities in society. Countries characterized by high power distance at the collective level face more domestic extremism. However, research has yet to examine how individual differences in power distance orientation may affect individuals’ intentions to engage in radical and violent political action. In this research, we test the hypothesis that stronger endor…

  • If they don’t listen to us, they deserve it”

    Open Access•Maria S Heering, G A Travaglino et al.•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2020•Cited by: 4•References: 23

    We conducted two studies examining the factors underlying individuals’ legitimization of hackers (digital actors operating on the internet). Drawing on the social banditry framework, and research on political action, we focused on the mediating role of anger in the association between external political efficacy and perceived legitimization of hackers’ actions. Specifically, we manipulated whether the system was responsive to participants’ demand…

  • The dangers of distrustful complacency

    Open Access•Fanny Lalot, Maria S Heering et al.•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2020•Cited by: 14•References: 16

    People comply with governmental restrictions for different motives, notably because they are concerned about the issue at hand or because they trust their government to enact appropriate regulations. The present study focuses on the role of concern and political trust in people’s willingness to comply with governmental restrictions during the Covid-19 pandemic. We conducted a survey amongst Italian and French participants ( N = 372) in March 2020…

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  • Perceived Corruption and Individuals' Life Satisfaction

    Open Access•Marco Ciziceno, G A Travaglino•ARTICLE•Social Indicators Research•2019•Cited by: 19•References: 55

  • A double standard when group members behave badly

    Dominic Abrams, Georgina Randsley De Moura et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2013•Cited by: 18

    This research tested the hypothesis that people forgive serious transgressions by ingroup leaders but not by other group members or outgroup leaders. They apply a double standard in judgments of ingroup leaders. A series of studies (N = 623), using an array of different ingroups and outgroups, tested how group members judged ingroup or outgroup leaders and nonleaders who unexpectedly transgressed or did not transgress in important intergroup scen…

  • Men of Honor Don't Talk

    Open Access•G A Travaglino, Dominic Abrams et al.•ARTICLE•Political Psychology•2016•Cited by: 16•References: 39

    Criminal organizations have a strong influence on social, political, and economic life in Italy and other parts of the world. Nonetheless, local populations display collective passivity against organized crime, a phenomenon known as omertà. Omertà is linked to the concepts of honor and masculinity. That is, in order to fit ideological constructions of manliness, individuals should display indifference toward illegal activities and should not coll…

  • How groups react to disloyalty in the context of intergroup competition

    Open Access•G A Travaglino, Dominic Abrams et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Experimental Social…•2014•Cited by: 15•References: 39

  • Intergroup contact and social change

    Open Access•Tabea Hässler, Özden Melis Uluğ et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Social Issues•2021•Cited by: 14•References: 149

    Previous research has shown that positive intergroup contact among disadvantaged group members may predict a so‐called sedative effect according to which positive contact is associated with reduced support for social change. Conversely, positive contact is associated with increased support for social change toward equality among advantaged group members. This raises the important question of under which circumstances intergroup contact can encour…

  • The dangers of distrustful complacency

    Open Access•Fanny Lalot, Maria S Heering et al.•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2020•Cited by: 14•References: 16

    People comply with governmental restrictions for different motives, notably because they are concerned about the issue at hand or because they trust their government to enact appropriate regulations. The present study focuses on the role of concern and political trust in people’s willingness to comply with governmental restrictions during the Covid-19 pandemic. We conducted a survey amongst Italian and French participants ( N = 372) in March 2020…

  • Talis pater, talis filius

    F I M Poppi, G A Travaglino et al.•ARTICLE•Critical Discourse Studies•2018•Cited by: 14•References: 18

    The discursive analysis of criminal organizations’ family dynamics and ideological devices may provide important insights into the inner functioning of these groups. In this article, we describe and analyze a specific set of discursive strategies and the thematic narratives emerging from a TV interview with Giuseppe Riina, a member of Cosa Nostra and the son of one of the most important mafia bosses. Our analyses demonstrate the existence of recu…

  • Organized crime and group-based ideology

    Open Access•G A Travaglino, Dominic Abrams et al.•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2014•Cited by: 10•References: 17

    What is the role of culture in establishing young people’s pathways into gang membership? Italian criminal organizations (COs) exhibit adherence to codes of honor and masculinity, important values in the context where they originated. Here it is proposed that the embedding of these values at an individual level may lessen young people’s group-based opposition to such organizations, and indirectly, create a space in which such organizations can pe…

  • Aversion amplification in the emerging Covid ‐19 pandemic

    Open Access•Fanny Lalot, Dominic Abrams et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Community & Applied…•2020•Cited by: 8•References: 10

    Health psychology shows that responses to risk and threat depend on perceptions as much as objective factors. The present study focuses on the precursors of perceived threat of COVID‐19. We draw on political and social psychology and use the aversion amplification hypothesis to propose that subjective uncertainty and political trust should interactively impact perceived threat. We conducted a cross‐sectional survey amongst the general population …

  • Support for Anonymous as vicarious dissent

    Open Access•G A Travaglino•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2017•Cited by: 8•References: 19

    This research uses the social banditry framework to propose that voiceless individuals in an unjust context may express their grievances vicariously. Specifically, it holds that individuals who perceive the system as unjust but lack political efficacy, express their anger against the system as support for actors whose behavior disrupts the system’s functioning. These actors are situated outside conventional societal and political structures of po…

  • Deviance Credit

    Open Access•Dominic Abrams, G A Travaglino et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Social Issues•2018•Cited by: 7•References: 33

    Leaders often deviate from group norms or social conventions, sometimes innovating and sometimes engaging in serious transgressions or illegality. We propose that group members are prone to be more permissive toward both forms of deviance in the case of ingroup leaders compared to other ingroup members or outgroup members and leaders. This granting of “deviance credit” is hypothesized to be underpinned by perceptions of an ingroup leader's protot…

  • Dual routes from social identity to collective opposition to criminal organisations

    Open Access•G A Travaglino, Dominic Abrams et al.•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2017•Cited by: 6•References: 16

    Italian criminal organisations (COs) are a serious global threat. Intracultural appropriation theory (ICAT) holds that such groups exploit cultural codes of masculinity and honour to legitimise and lower resistance to their actions. Such codes are an important feature of Southern Italian group membership. A large survey ( N = 1,173) investigated the role of two previously underexamined facets of honour cultures—personal concerns for reputation, a…

  • Power distance orientation as an antecedent of individuals’ intentions to engage in radical political action

    Open Access•G A Travaglino, Chanki Moon•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2020•Cited by: 5•References: 24

    The cultural dimension of power distance refers to individuals’ acceptance of power inequalities in society. Countries characterized by high power distance at the collective level face more domestic extremism. However, research has yet to examine how individual differences in power distance orientation may affect individuals’ intentions to engage in radical and violent political action. In this research, we test the hypothesis that stronger endor…

  • Social sciences and social movements

    G A Travaglino•ARTICLE•Contemporary Social Science•2014•Cited by: 5•References: 41

    This manuscript situates the papers of this special issue within the broader context of social movement research. It discusses the historical and theoretical significance of the four main perspectives in the field of social movement, namely the collective behaviour paradigm, the resource mobilisation approach, the political opportunity model and the cultural turn in social movement studies. Each of these perspectives has highlighted the importanc…

  • Collective deviance

    Dominic Abrams, G A Travaglino et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 8

    Six experiments examined responses to groups whose attitudes deviated from wider social norms about asylum and immigration (in the United Kingdom), or about taxation levels (in the U.S.). Subjective group dynamics (SGD) theory states that people derogate in-group individuals who deviate from prescriptive in-group norms. This enables members to sustain the subjective validity of those norms and, hence, a positive social identity. Research also sho…

  • A multi-country test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open Access•Ke Wang, Amit Goldenberg et al.•ARTICLE•Nature Human Behaviour•2021•Cited by: 4•References: 117

  • If they don’t listen to us, they deserve it”

    Open Access•Maria S Heering, G A Travaglino et al.•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2020•Cited by: 4•References: 23

    We conducted two studies examining the factors underlying individuals’ legitimization of hackers (digital actors operating on the internet). Drawing on the social banditry framework, and research on political action, we focused on the mediating role of anger in the association between external political efficacy and perceived legitimization of hackers’ actions. Specifically, we manipulated whether the system was responsive to participants’ demand…

  • Imagined contact with atypical outgroup members that are anti-normative within their group can reduce prejudice

    Open Access•Orkun Yetkili, Dominic Abrams et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Experimental Social…•2018•Cited by: 4•References: 42

    Can imagining contact with anti-normative outgroup members be an effective tool for improving intergroup relations? Extant theories predict greatest prejudice reduction following contact with typical outgroup members. In contrast, using subjective group dynamics theory, we predicted that imagining contact with anti-normative outgroup members canpromote positive intergroup attitudes because these atypical members potentially reduce intergroup thre…

  • Investigating the social embeddedness of criminal groups

    Open Access•G A Travaglino, Maria-Therese Friehs et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social…•2023•Cited by: 3•References: 48

    The embeddedness of criminal groups within communities accrues from their ability to establish legitimacy, particularly among young people. A prototypical example are mafia claims to political authority in Italy. Intracultural Appropriation Theory proposes that embeddedness is partly derived from criminal groups’ ability to embody cultural ideologies of masculine honour, and to reinforce these ideologies in society through their actions. We teste…

  • Demobilising by legitimising

    Open Access•Lisbeth Drury, G A Travaglino•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2019•Cited by: 3•References: 10

    Italian mafia-type groups exert governance over the community. To do so, they must engage in contact with community members. Previous research indicates that individuals’ endorsement of masculine honour values is associated with more frequent contact with members of criminal organisations (COs). The present research examines the relationship between masculine honour and both positive and negative contact, as well as the potential implications of …

  • That is how we do it around here

    Open Access•G A Travaglino, Dominic Abrams et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social…•2015•Cited by: 3•References: 38

    Masculine honor is an important cultural code in the south of Italy. Italian criminal organizations (COs) manipulate and exploit this code to maintain legitimacy among local populations and exert social control in the territory where they operate. This research tested the hypothesis that different levels of identification—the region and the nation—would have opposite associations with male honor‐related values and, indirectly, with intentions to …

  • A step too far? Leader racism inhibits transgression credit

    Open Access•Dominic Abrams, G A Travaglino et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social…•2014•Cited by: 3•References: 22

    Prior research established that when in‐group leaders commit serious transgressions, such as breaking enforceable rules or engaging in bribery, people treat them leniently compared with similarly transgressive regular group members or out‐group leaders (‘transgression credit’). The present studies test a boundary condition of this phenomenon, specifically the hypothesis that transgression credit will be lost if a leader's action implies racist mo…

  • The Geopolitics of Civic Honesty

    Open Access•G A Travaglino, Alberto Mirisola et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Social Issues•2025•Cited by: 2•References: 57

    Civic honesty—the moral standards that define citizens’ commitment to the public good—serves a fundamental role in societal functioning. Prior research has emphasized the role of vertical trust (trust in institutions) and horizontal trust (trust in fellow citizens) in predicting the endorsement of such standards among citizens. However, this research has mainly focused on the political conditions typical of the Global North while neglecting envir…

  • The Meaning of Contention

    Benjamin Abrams, G A Travaglino et al.•ARTICLE•Contention•2022•Cited by: 2•References: 27

    Contention is everywhere nowadays, permeating the fabric of society and constituting an important element of many different social relationships. It is also a central topic across a wide range of social scientific disciplines. Following the most contentious decade in over a century, scholarship on the topic of “contention” is booming. Nonetheless, we still lack a conceptual approach to “contention” as a general academic term beyond the bounds of …

  • The psychology of criminal authority

    Open Access•G A Travaglino, Alberto Mirisola et al.•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 16

    The state’s monopoly on sovereignty can be challenged by criminal systems capable of gaining legitimacy within communities. Understanding the psychological basis of such legitimacy requires broadening traditional conceptualizations of authority to consider how it operates without legal backing and outside formal channels. This research introduces the Legitimacy of Secret Power (L-SP) Scale, a tool measuring individuals’ appraisal of illegal group…

  • A double standard when group members behave badly

    Dominic Abrams, Georgina Randsley De Moura et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Personality and Social…•2013•Cited by: 18

    This research tested the hypothesis that people forgive serious transgressions by ingroup leaders but not by other group members or outgroup leaders. They apply a double standard in judgments of ingroup leaders. A series of studies (N = 623), using an array of different ingroups and outgroups, tested how group members judged ingroup or outgroup leaders and nonleaders who unexpectedly transgressed or did not transgress in important intergroup scen…

  • Social sciences and social movements

    G A Travaglino•ARTICLE•Contemporary Social Science•2014•Cited by: 5•References: 41

    This manuscript situates the papers of this special issue within the broader context of social movement research. It discusses the historical and theoretical significance of the four main perspectives in the field of social movement, namely the collective behaviour paradigm, the resource mobilisation approach, the political opportunity model and the cultural turn in social movement studies. Each of these perspectives has highlighted the importanc…

  • Organized crime and group-based ideology

    Open Access•G A Travaglino, Dominic Abrams et al.•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2014•Cited by: 10•References: 17

    What is the role of culture in establishing young people’s pathways into gang membership? Italian criminal organizations (COs) exhibit adherence to codes of honor and masculinity, important values in the context where they originated. Here it is proposed that the embedding of these values at an individual level may lessen young people’s group-based opposition to such organizations, and indirectly, create a space in which such organizations can pe…

  • A step too far? Leader racism inhibits transgression credit

    Open Access•Dominic Abrams, G A Travaglino et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social…•2014•Cited by: 3•References: 22

    Prior research established that when in‐group leaders commit serious transgressions, such as breaking enforceable rules or engaging in bribery, people treat them leniently compared with similarly transgressive regular group members or out‐group leaders (‘transgression credit’). The present studies test a boundary condition of this phenomenon, specifically the hypothesis that transgression credit will be lost if a leader's action implies racist mo…

  • How groups react to disloyalty in the context of intergroup competition

    Open Access•G A Travaglino, Dominic Abrams et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Experimental Social…•2014•Cited by: 15•References: 39

  • That is how we do it around here

    Open Access•G A Travaglino, Dominic Abrams et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social…•2015•Cited by: 3•References: 38

    Masculine honor is an important cultural code in the south of Italy. Italian criminal organizations (COs) manipulate and exploit this code to maintain legitimacy among local populations and exert social control in the territory where they operate. This research tested the hypothesis that different levels of identification—the region and the nation—would have opposite associations with male honor‐related values and, indirectly, with intentions to …

  • Men of Honor Don't Talk

    Open Access•G A Travaglino, Dominic Abrams et al.•ARTICLE•Political Psychology•2016•Cited by: 16•References: 39

    Criminal organizations have a strong influence on social, political, and economic life in Italy and other parts of the world. Nonetheless, local populations display collective passivity against organized crime, a phenomenon known as omertà. Omertà is linked to the concepts of honor and masculinity. That is, in order to fit ideological constructions of manliness, individuals should display indifference toward illegal activities and should not coll…

  • Dual routes from social identity to collective opposition to criminal organisations

    Open Access•G A Travaglino, Dominic Abrams et al.•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2017•Cited by: 6•References: 16

    Italian criminal organisations (COs) are a serious global threat. Intracultural appropriation theory (ICAT) holds that such groups exploit cultural codes of masculinity and honour to legitimise and lower resistance to their actions. Such codes are an important feature of Southern Italian group membership. A large survey ( N = 1,173) investigated the role of two previously underexamined facets of honour cultures—personal concerns for reputation, a…

  • Support for Anonymous as vicarious dissent

    Open Access•G A Travaglino•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2017•Cited by: 8•References: 19

    This research uses the social banditry framework to propose that voiceless individuals in an unjust context may express their grievances vicariously. Specifically, it holds that individuals who perceive the system as unjust but lack political efficacy, express their anger against the system as support for actors whose behavior disrupts the system’s functioning. These actors are situated outside conventional societal and political structures of po…

  • Parea non servin

    Open Access•F I M Poppi, G A Travaglino•ARTICLE•Modern Italy•2018

    In this article, we analyse the ideological content of the discursive strategies used by a group of migrant workers subjected to ‘caporalato’, a form of illegal hiring and exploitation of farm day workers through an intermediary. Starting from a series of collective open interviews with farm workers, we examine the way in which the dynamics of both exploitation and resistance are reproduced through linguistic and discursive practices. What emerge…

  • Talis pater, talis filius

    F I M Poppi, G A Travaglino et al.•ARTICLE•Critical Discourse Studies•2018•Cited by: 14•References: 18

    The discursive analysis of criminal organizations’ family dynamics and ideological devices may provide important insights into the inner functioning of these groups. In this article, we describe and analyze a specific set of discursive strategies and the thematic narratives emerging from a TV interview with Giuseppe Riina, a member of Cosa Nostra and the son of one of the most important mafia bosses. Our analyses demonstrate the existence of recu…

  • Deviance Credit

    Open Access•Dominic Abrams, G A Travaglino et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Social Issues•2018•Cited by: 7•References: 33

    Leaders often deviate from group norms or social conventions, sometimes innovating and sometimes engaging in serious transgressions or illegality. We propose that group members are prone to be more permissive toward both forms of deviance in the case of ingroup leaders compared to other ingroup members or outgroup members and leaders. This granting of “deviance credit” is hypothesized to be underpinned by perceptions of an ingroup leader's protot…

  • Imagined contact with atypical outgroup members that are anti-normative within their group can reduce prejudice

    Open Access•Orkun Yetkili, Dominic Abrams et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Experimental Social…•2018•Cited by: 4•References: 42

    Can imagining contact with anti-normative outgroup members be an effective tool for improving intergroup relations? Extant theories predict greatest prejudice reduction following contact with typical outgroup members. In contrast, using subjective group dynamics theory, we predicted that imagining contact with anti-normative outgroup members canpromote positive intergroup attitudes because these atypical members potentially reduce intergroup thre…

  • How criminal organisations exert secret power over communities

    G A Travaglino, Dominic Abrams•ARTICLE•European Review of Social…•2019

    Criminal organisations have the ability to exert secret power – governance over the community and inhibition of opposition (omertà). Traditionally, omertà has been attributed to fear or passivity. Here, a model grounded in different premises, Intracultural Appropriation Theory (ICAT), stresses the central role of culture in sustaining relations of domination between groups. Specifically, ICAT contends that non-state agents achieve legitimacy amon…

  • Demobilising by legitimising

    Open Access•Lisbeth Drury, G A Travaglino•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2019•Cited by: 3•References: 10

    Italian mafia-type groups exert governance over the community. To do so, they must engage in contact with community members. Previous research indicates that individuals’ endorsement of masculine honour values is associated with more frequent contact with members of criminal organisations (COs). The present research examines the relationship between masculine honour and both positive and negative contact, as well as the potential implications of …

  • Connected guys

    Open Access•G A Travaglino, Lisbeth Drury•ARTICLE•European Journal of Social…•2019•Cited by: 1•References: 47

    Italian criminal organisations ( CO s) engage in contact with community members to assert their control over local populations in Southern Italy. According to intracultural appropriation theory, CO s’ presence in these regions is legitimised by values of masculinity and honour. Here, we test the role of these values in drawing people closer to CO s, facilitating more frequent contact with CO s’ members. Study 1 ( N T 1 = 176, N T 2 = 170) used a …

  • Perceived Corruption and Individuals' Life Satisfaction

    Open Access•Marco Ciziceno, G A Travaglino•ARTICLE•Social Indicators Research•2019•Cited by: 19•References: 55

  • The Secret Power of Criminal Organizations

    Open Access•G A Travaglino, Lisbeth Drury•BOOK•The Secret Power of Criminal…•2020

  • Power distance orientation as an antecedent of individuals’ intentions to engage in radical political action

    Open Access•G A Travaglino, Chanki Moon•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2020•Cited by: 5•References: 24

    The cultural dimension of power distance refers to individuals’ acceptance of power inequalities in society. Countries characterized by high power distance at the collective level face more domestic extremism. However, research has yet to examine how individual differences in power distance orientation may affect individuals’ intentions to engage in radical and violent political action. In this research, we test the hypothesis that stronger endor…

  • If they don’t listen to us, they deserve it”

    Open Access•Maria S Heering, G A Travaglino et al.•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2020•Cited by: 4•References: 23

    We conducted two studies examining the factors underlying individuals’ legitimization of hackers (digital actors operating on the internet). Drawing on the social banditry framework, and research on political action, we focused on the mediating role of anger in the association between external political efficacy and perceived legitimization of hackers’ actions. Specifically, we manipulated whether the system was responsive to participants’ demand…

  • The dangers of distrustful complacency

    Open Access•Fanny Lalot, Maria S Heering et al.•ARTICLE•Group Processes & Intergroup…•2020•Cited by: 14•References: 16

    People comply with governmental restrictions for different motives, notably because they are concerned about the issue at hand or because they trust their government to enact appropriate regulations. The present study focuses on the role of concern and political trust in people’s willingness to comply with governmental restrictions during the Covid-19 pandemic. We conducted a survey amongst Italian and French participants ( N = 372) in March 2020…

  • Aversion amplification in the emerging Covid ‐19 pandemic

    Open Access•Fanny Lalot, Dominic Abrams et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Community & Applied…•2020•Cited by: 8•References: 10

    Health psychology shows that responses to risk and threat depend on perceptions as much as objective factors. The present study focuses on the precursors of perceived threat of COVID‐19. We draw on political and social psychology and use the aversion amplification hypothesis to propose that subjective uncertainty and political trust should interactively impact perceived threat. We conducted a cross‐sectional survey amongst the general population …

  • Trust predicts Covid-19 prescribed and discretionary behavioral intentions in 23 countries

    Open Access•Stefano Pagliaro, Simona Sacchi et al.•ARTICLE•PLoS ONE•2021

    The worldwide spread of a new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) since December 2019 has posed a severe threat to individuals’ well-being. While the world at large is waiting that the released vaccines immunize most citizens, public health experts suggest that, in the meantime, it is only through behavior change that the spread of COVID-19 can be controlled. Importantly, the required behaviors are aimed not only at safeguarding one’s own health. Instead, i…

  • Examining conspiracy beliefs and Covid-19 in four countries

    Open Access•Chanki Moon, G A Travaglino•ARTICLE•Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology•2021

    Since late 2019, the coronavirus SARS-COV-2 responsible for the COVID-19 disease has continued to spread across different regions of the world. As a result, governments have been implementing measures for controlling the disease which rely on people's cooperation. In this research, we considered predictors and implications of people's beliefs that they “haven’t been told the ‘whole story’ about COVID-19.” Specifically, we examined the role of dis…

  • Intergroup contact and social change

    Open Access•Tabea Hässler, Özden Melis Uluğ et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Social Issues•2021•Cited by: 14•References: 149

    Previous research has shown that positive intergroup contact among disadvantaged group members may predict a so‐called sedative effect according to which positive contact is associated with reduced support for social change. Conversely, positive contact is associated with increased support for social change toward equality among advantaged group members. This raises the important question of under which circumstances intergroup contact can encour…

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