Chiara Volpato
Biographic Data
| ID | 84442 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chiara Volpato |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chiara |
| FAMILY NAME | Volpato |
| SIGNATURE | VOLPATO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Milano-Bicocca |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8511-8662 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 230 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Metaphors matter: The effect of biological dehumanizing language on indirect aggression
Biologization – a form of dehumanization in which others are considered as disease carriers rather than humans – is common in the political debate; however, its effects have been understudied. To fill this gap, we conducted three pre-registered experimental studies in which biological language was manipulated through vignettes. We found that using disease metaphors (vs. negative but non-dehumanizing language) to describe others increased biologiz…
Beyond Neutrality, Normalization, and Complicity at Times of the Genocide: Psychologists for Palestine
We have been witnessing the perpetuation of violent and cruel aggression against the Palestinian people by Israel. At the international level, there have been sparse individual or collective initiatives within the field of psychology to demonstrate solidarity with Palestine and against the genocide in Gaza, yet the question of Palestine remains ambiguous, and the possible stance of psychology as a research field and scientific institution on the …
Covid-19 restrictions and sense of humanness: The role of human needs threat / Las restricciones por la Covid-19 y el sentido de humanidad: el papel de la amenaza a las necesidades humanas
The present study analyses the effects of COVID-19 restrictions on self-perception of humanness through the increased sense of threat to fundamental human needs. Furthermore, in an explorative way, we analysed the possible impact of this pattern on the identification with all humanity, in terms of bond with humanity and concern for all humanity. Through a preregistered experimental study ( N = 278), we showed that participants who were asked to r…
Agency Attribution and Biological Dehumanisation: Preliminary Evidence
Dehumanisation is the perception of someone less than human. Several studies have used innovative approaches to investigate the subtle ways in which humanity can be denied. While most of these models clearly distinguish humans from animals and robots, none adequately capture the huge range of dehumanisation that exists in metaphorical thought, such as disease‐related metaphors (i.e., biologisation). Building on existing theoretical frameworks con…
Does perceived inequality promote abstention and protest voting? A study of the 2022 Italian general election
We focus on the role of perceived economic inequality as a possible antecedent of abstention and protest voting in the 2022 Italian general election. In particular, we hypothesize that citizens' perceived economic inequality (and the perception that it will grow), reinforced by the negative emotions the perception trigger, may undermine citizens' trust in institutions. We also investigate whether the erosion of trust is associated with abstention…
The impacts of Covid-19 on the relationship between perceived economic inequality and political action among socioeconomic classes
Economic inequality qualifies as a structural characteristic leading to political action, albeit this relationship manifests differently across socioeconomic classes. COVID-19 pandemic has amplified existing economic inequalities in ways that increased social tensions and political unrest around the world. This research investigates the effect of COVID-19 personal impacts on the relationship between perceived economic inequality and individuals' …
Gender Stereotypes and Sexualization in Italian Children’s Television Advertisements
The objective of the present study was to examine gender stereotypes and sexualization in Italian television advertisements aimed at children. For this purpose, content analysis method was used to analyze 185 commercials broadcast from 6 pm to 8:30 pm over the three Italian television channels dedicated to children which attract the largest audience share. In order to allow comparison with previous research on gender stereotyping, two raters code…
Investigating the link between biological dehumanization and indirect aggression
The present research aims at expanding the literature on biologization (i.e., a form of dehumanization in which others are perceived as contagious entities) by providing the first empirical evidence of the link between this sociopsychological process and indirect aggression (i.e., behaviours intended to harm someone in a roundabout manner, such as excluding them from a group or society). We first identified the most dehumanized social groups in I…
The longstanding view of workers as objects: Antecedents and consequences of working objectification
Objectification refers to the perception and treatment of human beings as mere objects. Although this dehumanizing process has deeply permeated the domain of work throughout history, social psychology researchers have only recently begun to empirically investigate it. Here, we review the recent literature that analysed working objectification by considering its two main facets: objectification (when workers are objectified by others) and self-obj…
The Acme shop: A paradigm to investigate working (self-) objectification
The paper presents an open usable tool, the ACME shop paradigm, for experimentally studying self-objectification due to objectifying work activities. The paradigm consists of a simulation in which participants are asked to perform an objectifying (repetitive, fragmented, and other directed) vs a non-objectifying work activity. Two studies tested the construct (convergent and discriminant) validity of the paradigm by showing its effectiveness in i…
“You Cannot Get into My Taxi!” Perceptions of a Covid-19-based Rejection Episode Reported in the Newspapers
COVID-19-related incidents of xenophobia have hit the headlines. We asked participants to read about a rejection episode targeting a foreigner and we manipulated whether the rejection was motivated by COVID-19 fears or by no specific reasons. In the COVID-19 condition, the perpetrator was perceived as moral but as experiencing shame and guilt, while the target was seen as experiencing social pain. Helping intentions were predicted by either the p…
Burnout and workplace dehumanization at the supermarket: A field study during the Covid ‐19 outbreak in Italy
This study explores the psychological effects of the COVID-19 emergency on workers employed in the supermarket sector by analysing their levels of burnout and the relationship between the burnout syndrome and employees' workplace experiences. A sample of 422 Italian workers answered a survey addressing the burnout dimensions (i.e., exhaustion, cynicism, and professional inefficacy) along with perceived organizational factors and dehumanizing repr…
Greedy elites and poor lambs: How young Europeans remember the great war
The present study examines current social representations associated with the origins of the Great War, a major event that has profoundly affected Europe. A survey conducted in 20 European countries (N = 1906 students in social sciences) shows a high consensus: The outbreak of the war is attributed to the warring nations’ leaders while the responsibility of the populations is minimized. Building on the concept of social representation of history …
Years After: What is the relation between pacifist attitudes and social representations of the Great War
In this paper we use a social representational perspective to consider the interplay between pacifist attitudes and representations of World War I, on a large sample of European students. WWI gave rise to pacifist movements across the globe. Across 10 European countries (N = 1347 undergraduate students), we invited participants to report the first five words that came to their mind when thinking about this event and measured their level of pacifi…
Shades of Sexualization: When Sexualization Becomes Sexual Objectification
Grand Theft Auto is a “Sandbox” Game, but There are Weapons, Criminals, and Prostitutes in the Sandbox: Response to Ferguson and Donnellan (2017)
A century of victimhood: Antecedents and current impacts of perceived suffering in World War I across Europe
In the article “A century of victimhood: Antecedents and current impacts of perceived suffering in World War I across Europe” (DOI: 100.1002/ejsp.2232) (Bouchat et al.,), published in the European Journal of Social Psychology, 47: 195:208, the affiliations for Silvia Mari, Nebojša Petrovic and Alice Krenn were provided incorrectly. The complete authors' affiliation list is shown below. Pierre Bouchat, Laurent Licata Research Center for Social and…
A century of victimhood: Antecedents and current impacts of perceived suffering in World War I across Europe
The present study addresses antecedents and consequences of collective victimhood in the context of World War I (WWI) across 15 European nations ( N = 2423 social science students). Using multilevel analysis, we find evidence that collective victimhood is still present a hundred years after the onset of the war and can be predicted by WWI‐related objective indicators of victimization at national and family levels. This suggests that collective vi…
(Still) Modern Times: Objectification at work
A great deal of research has investigated gender‐related objectification. In the current work, we aim to extend the empirical research on this phenomenon to the working domain. Consistent with several theoretical assumptions, we expected that factory workers would be objectified as a consequence of their work. In Study 1, we showed that each of the critical features of factory work (i.e., repetitiveness of movements, fragmentation of activities a…
Perceptions of Low‐Status Workers and the Maintenance of the Social Class Status Quo
In this moment of increasing social inequalities after the Great Recession, studying the psychological processes that contribute to maintaining such inequalities is an urgent task for scholars. These processes include specific social‐class‐member perceptions that function to make these disparities seemingly fair. In particular, stereotypes and dehumanizing images of low‐status workers have become powerful means for perpetuating social disparities…
Excluded From All Humanity: Animal Metaphors Exacerbate the Consequences of Social Exclusion
Past research suggested that-from the perspective of perpetrators-animal metaphors are a powerful means to reinforce social exclusion and to foster hostile behaviors against the targets of social exclusion. In the current work, we focus on the consequences of this dehumanizing form of social exclusion from the perspective of victims. In two studies, we manipulated the presence of animal metaphors in a variety of contexts of interpersonal social e…
Dehumanization
The Social Appearance Anxiety Scale in Italian Adolescent Populations: Construct Validation and Group Discrimination in Community and Clinical Eating Disorders Samples
Consensus on media violence effects: Comment on Bushman, Gollwitzer, and Cruz (2015)
We summarize the main findings of Bushman, Gollwitzer, and Cruz (2015), highlight its empirical contributions, and note interesting patterns and implications for future research. The results demonstrate that consensus exists among experts on the reality of harmful media violence effects on children and adolescents. We note likely differences in the makeup of the different samples and how these might have affected the results. This comment also pr…
Male body dissatisfaction and eating disorder symptomatology: Moderating variables among men
Body dissatisfaction is recognized as a robust risk factor for eating disorders. Despite over 80% of college men being body dissatisfied, not all men report several levels of eating disorder symptoms. In this study, we examined poor impulse control, social anxiety and internalization of media ideals as potential moderators. Data collected from 405 college-aged men were analysed, using latent variable structural equation modelling approach. All va…
Bad but Bold: Ambivalent Attitudes Toward Men Predict Gender Inequality in 16 Nations
A 16-nation study involving 8,360 participants revealed that hostile and benevolent attitudes toward men, assessed by the Ambivalence Toward Men Inventory (P. Click & S.T. Fiske, 1999), were (a) reliably measured across cultures, (b) positively correlated (for men and women, within samples and across nations) with each other and with hostile and benevolent sexism toward women (Ambivalent Sexism Inventory, P. Click & S.T. Fiske, 1996), and (c) neg…
Reducing Competitive Victimhood in Kosovo: The Role of Extended Contact and Common Ingroup Identity
During intractable conflicts, “competitive victimhood” refers to the subjective belief that one's own ingroup has suffered more than the outgroup. Although competitive victimhood is considered an important inhibitor of reconciliation processes, no research has attempted to examine ways of reducing it. The present study aims to fill this gap. Kosovar Albanians students (N = 170) were asked to report their perception of ingroup and outgroup victimh…
Is Traditional Gender Ideology Associated with Sex-Typed Mate Preferences? A Test in Nine Nations
Shades of Sexualization: When Sexualization Becomes Sexual Objectification
(Still) Modern Times: Objectification at work
A great deal of research has investigated gender‐related objectification. In the current work, we aim to extend the empirical research on this phenomenon to the working domain. Consistent with several theoretical assumptions, we expected that factory workers would be objectified as a consequence of their work. In Study 1, we showed that each of the critical features of factory work (i.e., repetitiveness of movements, fragmentation of activities a…
Male body dissatisfaction and eating disorder symptomatology: Moderating variables among men
Body dissatisfaction is recognized as a robust risk factor for eating disorders. Despite over 80% of college men being body dissatisfied, not all men report several levels of eating disorder symptoms. In this study, we examined poor impulse control, social anxiety and internalization of media ideals as potential moderators. Data collected from 405 college-aged men were analysed, using latent variable structural equation modelling approach. All va…
Perceptions of Low‐Status Workers and the Maintenance of the Social Class Status Quo
In this moment of increasing social inequalities after the Great Recession, studying the psychological processes that contribute to maintaining such inequalities is an urgent task for scholars. These processes include specific social‐class‐member perceptions that function to make these disparities seemingly fair. In particular, stereotypes and dehumanizing images of low‐status workers have become powerful means for perpetuating social disparities…
Excluded From All Humanity: Animal Metaphors Exacerbate the Consequences of Social Exclusion
Past research suggested that-from the perspective of perpetrators-animal metaphors are a powerful means to reinforce social exclusion and to foster hostile behaviors against the targets of social exclusion. In the current work, we focus on the consequences of this dehumanizing form of social exclusion from the perspective of victims. In two studies, we manipulated the presence of animal metaphors in a variety of contexts of interpersonal social e…
A century of victimhood: Antecedents and current impacts of perceived suffering in World War I across Europe
The present study addresses antecedents and consequences of collective victimhood in the context of World War I (WWI) across 15 European nations ( N = 2423 social science students). Using multilevel analysis, we find evidence that collective victimhood is still present a hundred years after the onset of the war and can be predicted by WWI‐related objective indicators of victimization at national and family levels. This suggests that collective vi…
Social influence: The role of originality
Two experiments investigated the role of message originality vs. conventionality in social influence. It was hypothesized that subjects would generate more original proposals when confronted with a minority advocating an original viewpoint than when confronted with a conventional minority proposal or with an original majority proposal. In the first experiment, subjects exposed to an original minority paired with a conventional majority produced a…
Are the Male Body Dissatisfaction and Drive for Muscularity Scales reliable and valid instruments
The Drive for Muscularity Scale and Male Body Dissatisfaction Scale were developed for use with men and correspond to measures of drive for thinness and body dissatisfaction in women. The psychometric properties of these measures were evaluated in a sample of 655 Italian men, who completed other 11 measures also. Both scales demonstrated excellent internal consistency and temporal stability as well as criterion-related and concurrent validity. Bo…
Minority influence and social categorization
In this article, a theoretical distinction is proposed between representative outgroup minorities (representative of a minority category in the society, e.g. gays) and dissident outgroup minorities (defined as a minority subgroup within a larger outgroup category). Two studies are reported comparing the social influence of dissident outgroup minorities with that of ingroup minorities (belonging to the subject's own social category). It was predic…
Greedy elites and poor lambs: How young Europeans remember the great war
The present study examines current social representations associated with the origins of the Great War, a major event that has profoundly affected Europe. A survey conducted in 20 European countries (N = 1906 students in social sciences) shows a high consensus: The outbreak of the war is attributed to the warring nations’ leaders while the responsibility of the populations is minimized. Building on the concept of social representation of history …
Burnout and workplace dehumanization at the supermarket: A field study during the Covid ‐19 outbreak in Italy
This study explores the psychological effects of the COVID-19 emergency on workers employed in the supermarket sector by analysing their levels of burnout and the relationship between the burnout syndrome and employees' workplace experiences. A sample of 422 Italian workers answered a survey addressing the burnout dimensions (i.e., exhaustion, cynicism, and professional inefficacy) along with perceived organizational factors and dehumanizing repr…
Grand Theft Auto is a “Sandbox” Game, but There are Weapons, Criminals, and Prostitutes in the Sandbox: Response to Ferguson and Donnellan (2017)
Using the stereotype content model to examine group depictions in Fascism: An archival approach
The Stereotype Content Model (SCM) suggests potentially universal intergroup depictions. If universal, they should apply across history in archival data. Bridging this gap, we examined social groups descriptions during Italy's Fascist era. In Study 1, articles published in a Fascist magazine— La Difesa della Razza —were content analyzed, and results submitted to correspondence analysis. Admiration prejudice depicted ingroups; envious and contempt…
Women inside and outside Academia: A Struggle to Access Knowledge, Legitimacy and Influence
English Starting from the observation that women still represent a minority in the higher echelons of universities and scientific institutions, the article discusses a number of strategies used to 'keep them out'. Historically the main strategy was to refuse to admit women. This refusal was accompanied by discourses devaluing women's intellectual capacities, while stressing their domestic and motherly duties, and by the actual burdening of women …
Social Influence and the Power of Minorities: An Analysis of the Communist Manifesto
Images of Friendship: Literary Depictions through the Ages
The present work aims to study friendship in historical literary texts to examine the basic structure and various modalities of this relationship as depicted through the ages. Five masterpieces of European literature chosen for their availability, relevance and popularity - criteria required in comparative studies - were content analysed and then submitted to cluster and correspondence analyses. The works span a wide period, from the end of the t…
The impacts of Covid-19 on the relationship between perceived economic inequality and political action among socioeconomic classes
Economic inequality qualifies as a structural characteristic leading to political action, albeit this relationship manifests differently across socioeconomic classes. COVID-19 pandemic has amplified existing economic inequalities in ways that increased social tensions and political unrest around the world. This research investigates the effect of COVID-19 personal impacts on the relationship between perceived economic inequality and individuals' …
Gender Stereotypes and Sexualization in Italian Children’s Television Advertisements
The objective of the present study was to examine gender stereotypes and sexualization in Italian television advertisements aimed at children. For this purpose, content analysis method was used to analyze 185 commercials broadcast from 6 pm to 8:30 pm over the three Italian television channels dedicated to children which attract the largest audience share. In order to allow comparison with previous research on gender stereotyping, two raters code…
Years After: What is the relation between pacifist attitudes and social representations of the Great War
In this paper we use a social representational perspective to consider the interplay between pacifist attitudes and representations of World War I, on a large sample of European students. WWI gave rise to pacifist movements across the globe. Across 10 European countries (N = 1347 undergraduate students), we invited participants to report the first five words that came to their mind when thinking about this event and measured their level of pacifi…
Relations personnelles et culture: Une Analyse De Textes Littéraires
Les AA. s'efforcent de montrer l'utilite methodologique de l'analyse de textes litteraires en ce qui concerne l'etude des relations interpersonnelles. Ils montrent que ce type de documents permet de rendre intelligible l'action des variables macrostructurelles et psychosociologiques qui interviennent en ce domaine. Ils presentent l'etude de trois œuvres litteraires qui permettent de saisir la vie de differents groupes ethniques en Afrique du Sud
Minority influence and social categorization
In this article, a theoretical distinction is proposed between representative outgroup minorities (representative of a minority category in the society, e.g. gays) and dissident outgroup minorities (defined as a minority subgroup within a larger outgroup category). Two studies are reported comparing the social influence of dissident outgroup minorities with that of ingroup minorities (belonging to the subject's own social category). It was predic…
Social influence: The role of originality
Two experiments investigated the role of message originality vs. conventionality in social influence. It was hypothesized that subjects would generate more original proposals when confronted with a minority advocating an original viewpoint than when confronted with a conventional minority proposal or with an original majority proposal. In the first experiment, subjects exposed to an original minority paired with a conventional majority produced a…
Images of Friendship: Literary Depictions through the Ages
The present work aims to study friendship in historical literary texts to examine the basic structure and various modalities of this relationship as depicted through the ages. Five masterpieces of European literature chosen for their availability, relevance and popularity - criteria required in comparative studies - were content analysed and then submitted to cluster and correspondence analyses. The works span a wide period, from the end of the t…
Relations personnelles et culture: Une Analyse De Textes Littéraires
Les AA. s'efforcent de montrer l'utilite methodologique de l'analyse de textes litteraires en ce qui concerne l'etude des relations interpersonnelles. Ils montrent que ce type de documents permet de rendre intelligible l'action des variables macrostructurelles et psychosociologiques qui interviennent en ce domaine. Ils presentent l'etude de trois œuvres litteraires qui permettent de saisir la vie de differents groupes ethniques en Afrique du Sud
Towards a social psychology of extreme situations: Primo Levi'sIf This is a Man and social identity theory
The present study deals with social relationships in the extreme situation of the concentration camp, using Primo Levi's If This Is a Man written just after the author's release from Auschwitz. This text was chosen because it is one of the most important testimonies of the Holocaust and, at the same time, a work of great artistic value. An analysis of the behaviour described gives us access to otherwise irretrievable data. Three aims have been pu…
Bad but Bold: Ambivalent Attitudes Toward Men Predict Gender Inequality in 16 Nations
A 16-nation study involving 8,360 participants revealed that hostile and benevolent attitudes toward men, assessed by the Ambivalence Toward Men Inventory (P. Click & S.T. Fiske, 1999), were (a) reliably measured across cultures, (b) positively correlated (for men and women, within samples and across nations) with each other and with hostile and benevolent sexism toward women (Ambivalent Sexism Inventory, P. Click & S.T. Fiske, 1996), and (c) neg…
Social Influence and the Power of Minorities: An Analysis of the Communist Manifesto
Women inside and outside Academia: A Struggle to Access Knowledge, Legitimacy and Influence
English Starting from the observation that women still represent a minority in the higher echelons of universities and scientific institutions, the article discusses a number of strategies used to 'keep them out'. Historically the main strategy was to refuse to admit women. This refusal was accompanied by discourses devaluing women's intellectual capacities, while stressing their domestic and motherly duties, and by the actual burdening of women …
Is Traditional Gender Ideology Associated with Sex-Typed Mate Preferences? A Test in Nine Nations
Using the stereotype content model to examine group depictions in Fascism: An archival approach
The Stereotype Content Model (SCM) suggests potentially universal intergroup depictions. If universal, they should apply across history in archival data. Bridging this gap, we examined social groups descriptions during Italy's Fascist era. In Study 1, articles published in a Fascist magazine— La Difesa della Razza —were content analyzed, and results submitted to correspondence analysis. Admiration prejudice depicted ingroups; envious and contempt…
Reducing Competitive Victimhood in Kosovo: The Role of Extended Contact and Common Ingroup Identity
During intractable conflicts, “competitive victimhood” refers to the subjective belief that one's own ingroup has suffered more than the outgroup. Although competitive victimhood is considered an important inhibitor of reconciliation processes, no research has attempted to examine ways of reducing it. The present study aims to fill this gap. Kosovar Albanians students (N = 170) were asked to report their perception of ingroup and outgroup victimh…
Human‐itarian aid? Two forms of dehumanization and willingness to help after natural disasters
The present research explores the distinct effects of animalistic and mechanistic dehumanization on willingness to help natural disaster victims. We examined J apanese and H aitians, two national groups recently struck by earthquakes. We showed that I talian participants differently dehumanized the two outgroups: Japanese were attributed low human nature (dehumanized as automata), whereas Haitians were attributed low human uniqueness (dehumanized…
Interactive Effect of Moral Disengagement and Violent Video Games on Self-Control, Cheating, and Aggression
Violent video games glorify and reward immoral behaviors (e.g., murder, assault, rape, robbery, arson, motor vehicle theft). Based on the moral disengagement theory, we predicted that violent games would increase multiple immoral behaviors (i.e., lack of self-control, cheating, aggression), especially for people high in moral disengagement. High school students ( N = 172) who had completed a measure of moral disengagement were randomly assigned t…
Dehumanization
The Social Appearance Anxiety Scale in Italian Adolescent Populations: Construct Validation and Group Discrimination in Community and Clinical Eating Disorders Samples
Consensus on media violence effects: Comment on Bushman, Gollwitzer, and Cruz (2015)
We summarize the main findings of Bushman, Gollwitzer, and Cruz (2015), highlight its empirical contributions, and note interesting patterns and implications for future research. The results demonstrate that consensus exists among experts on the reality of harmful media violence effects on children and adolescents. We note likely differences in the makeup of the different samples and how these might have affected the results. This comment also pr…
Male body dissatisfaction and eating disorder symptomatology: Moderating variables among men
Body dissatisfaction is recognized as a robust risk factor for eating disorders. Despite over 80% of college men being body dissatisfied, not all men report several levels of eating disorder symptoms. In this study, we examined poor impulse control, social anxiety and internalization of media ideals as potential moderators. Data collected from 405 college-aged men were analysed, using latent variable structural equation modelling approach. All va…
Are the Male Body Dissatisfaction and Drive for Muscularity Scales reliable and valid instruments
The Drive for Muscularity Scale and Male Body Dissatisfaction Scale were developed for use with men and correspond to measures of drive for thinness and body dissatisfaction in women. The psychometric properties of these measures were evaluated in a sample of 655 Italian men, who completed other 11 measures also. Both scales demonstrated excellent internal consistency and temporal stability as well as criterion-related and concurrent validity. Bo…
Excluded From All Humanity: Animal Metaphors Exacerbate the Consequences of Social Exclusion
Past research suggested that-from the perspective of perpetrators-animal metaphors are a powerful means to reinforce social exclusion and to foster hostile behaviors against the targets of social exclusion. In the current work, we focus on the consequences of this dehumanizing form of social exclusion from the perspective of victims. In two studies, we manipulated the presence of animal metaphors in a variety of contexts of interpersonal social e…
Shades of Sexualization: When Sexualization Becomes Sexual Objectification
Grand Theft Auto is a “Sandbox” Game, but There are Weapons, Criminals, and Prostitutes in the Sandbox: Response to Ferguson and Donnellan (2017)
A century of victimhood: Antecedents and current impacts of perceived suffering in World War I across Europe
In the article “A century of victimhood: Antecedents and current impacts of perceived suffering in World War I across Europe” (DOI: 100.1002/ejsp.2232) (Bouchat et al.,), published in the European Journal of Social Psychology, 47: 195:208, the affiliations for Silvia Mari, Nebojša Petrovic and Alice Krenn were provided incorrectly. The complete authors' affiliation list is shown below. Pierre Bouchat, Laurent Licata Research Center for Social and…
A century of victimhood: Antecedents and current impacts of perceived suffering in World War I across Europe
The present study addresses antecedents and consequences of collective victimhood in the context of World War I (WWI) across 15 European nations ( N = 2423 social science students). Using multilevel analysis, we find evidence that collective victimhood is still present a hundred years after the onset of the war and can be predicted by WWI‐related objective indicators of victimization at national and family levels. This suggests that collective vi…
(Still) Modern Times: Objectification at work
A great deal of research has investigated gender‐related objectification. In the current work, we aim to extend the empirical research on this phenomenon to the working domain. Consistent with several theoretical assumptions, we expected that factory workers would be objectified as a consequence of their work. In Study 1, we showed that each of the critical features of factory work (i.e., repetitiveness of movements, fragmentation of activities a…
Perceptions of Low‐Status Workers and the Maintenance of the Social Class Status Quo
In this moment of increasing social inequalities after the Great Recession, studying the psychological processes that contribute to maintaining such inequalities is an urgent task for scholars. These processes include specific social‐class‐member perceptions that function to make these disparities seemingly fair. In particular, stereotypes and dehumanizing images of low‐status workers have become powerful means for perpetuating social disparities…
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