Stefano Occhipinti
Biographic Data
| ID | 96083 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefano Occhipinti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefano |
| FAMILY NAME | Occhipinti |
| SIGNATURE | OCCHIPINTI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2558-0609 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Unraveling the effects of task type and proficiency level on second language learner engagement
This study investigated the impact of task type and proficiency level on second language learners’ task engagement, combing the discourse analytic method with the idiodynamic method. Sixty undergraduate English-as-a-foreign-language learners in China were divided into high- and low-proficiency groups based on their scores on the Oxford Placement Test. The learners were randomly paired with a partner who shared the same proficiency level and compl…
Comfortably Numb: Uncanny Valley Effects are Not Present in Low-Stakes Patient Autonomy Dilemmas in Healthcare
With the rapid progression of artificial intelligence (AI) development, artificial entities are increasingly making decisions in domains with human moral consequence, including in healthcare settings. Thus, it is crucial to understand how people perceive moral decisions made by AI compared to humans in healthcare. People at times perceive robots powered by AI and humans differently when making the same moral decisions, suggesting that people may …
Mental illness stereotype content in a sample of undergraduates from mental health-related fields
Where There's Smoke, There's Stigma? Written Expressions About Individuals with Lung Cancer Reveal Cultural and Language Differences
We investigated how Australians and Hong Kong Chinese respondents describe individuals with lung cancer, examining the impact of culture and language on public discourse and stigma expression. A total of 303 participants ( N Aus = 176; N HK = 127) were recruited from a commercial panel provider to complete an online survey. Participants were presented with a vignette describing a hypothetical lung cancer patient and asked to provide their impress…
Mainland Chinese students’ psychological adaptation to Hong Kong: An intergroup communication perspective
Mainland Chinese students (MCSs) represent the largest non-local student group in Hong Kong and their adaptation experiences require more research attention than exists.This study investigates MCSs' psychological adaptation to Hong Kong with a language and social psychological approach by invoking Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) and Willingness to Communicate in a Second Language (L2 WTC).Survey results were collected from 372 MCSs study…
The role of L2 WTC and accommodative encounters with locals in Mainland Chinese students’ sociocultural adaptation to Hong Kong
202603 bcch
Age-related disgust responses to signs of disease
Previous studies found similarities in adults' disgust responses to benign (e.g. obesity) and actual disease signs (e.g. influenza). However, limited research has compared visual (i.e. benign and actual) to cognitive (i.e. disease label) disease cues in different age groups. The current study investigated disgust responses across middle childhood (7-9 years), late childhood (10-12 years), adolescence (13-17 years), and adulthood (18+ years). Part…
Tipping the analytical scales, investigating the use of frequentist equivalence analyses in psychology: A scoping review
Psychological researchers may be interested in demonstrating that sets of scores are equivalent, as opposed to different. If this is true, use of equivalence analyses (equivalence and non-inferiority testing) are appropriate. However, the use of such tests has been found to be inconsistent and incorrect in other research fields (Lange and Freitag 2005). This study aimed to review the use of equivalence analyses in the psychological literature to …
A Qualitative Study Into the Relative Stigmatization of Mental Illness by Mental Health Professionals
Mental health professionals stigmatize mental illness, which has significant ramifications for public health and policy. Within this domain, there is a lack of comprehensive research on relative stigma, emotions, and behaviors and an absence of literature that can guide research on these topics. The current study sought to address these limitations. Unstructured interviews were conducted with 22 mental health professionals, and data were analyzed…
Factors associated with cessation of smoking in health professionals: A scoping review
BACKGROUND: Offering cessation support to health professionals who smoke to ensure optimal implementation of cessation support for patients is a key recommendation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Article 14 guidelines. However, direct efforts to support this population to quit are limited. Although numerous articles on the topic of tobacco use among health professionals have been published, the factors associated with their own…
The Factorial Structure of Stigma and Its Targets
We aimed to determine (1) the attributes of multiple stigmatized populations, (2) whether Kurzban and Leary’s (2001) functional typology of stigma emerges and identifies the dimensions upon which each stigma type differs, and (3) the emotional responses toward emergent stigma types. Participants ( N = 2,674) were assigned to 1/52 stigma target conditions and their attitudes surveyed. Data were analyzed by multilevel factor analysis with stigma ta…
The role of mindfulness in distress and quality of life for men with advanced prostate cancer
Trial Registration: ACTRN12612000306819
Benefit Finding After Cancer: The Role of Optimism, Intrusive Thinking and Social Environment
Purpose: Benefit finding after cancer is common. The mechanism for this may include cognitive processing of the cancer trauma within a supportive social context. Methods: Cross-sectional survey of 439 cancer patients assessing optimism, intrusion, avoidance, social support and constraints, anxiety, depression, QOL, benefit finding. Results: Benefit finding was predicted by female gender, greater optimism, high intrusive thinking, high social supp…
Food and Immigration: The indigestion trope contests the sophistication narrative
This paper explores the emergence of indigestion metaphors within contemporary Australian discourse on immigration and race. It establishes connections between the indigestion metaphor and the more traditional tropes used to describe immigration-inundation, contamination and disorder. The appearance of the indigestion trope is related to the common perception that one of the indisputable benefits of immigration and multiculturalism has been the i…
Evaluation of a peer support program for women with breast cancer—lessons for practitioners
The present study aimed to describe how a volunteer peer support service assists women with breast cancer, and provides guidelines for practitioners in the development and implementation of such programmes. A two-phase evaluation of a breast cancer peer support program was undertaken to describe important attributes of the peer support intervention, the impact of the volunteer visit on women's self-reports of anxiety, and key indicators of a succ…
Must have been the Chinese I ate ‘: Food poisoning, migration and national indigestion
(1999). ‘Must have been the Chinese I ate ‘: Food poisoning, migration and national indigestion. Continuum: Vol. 13, Postcoloniality and Cultural Studies, pp. 315-323
Cultural Evolution and Divergent Rationalities in Human Reasoning
Reasoning and food and contamination
This article examines strategies that are used to reason about food and contamination. In Experiment 1, Ss refrained from choosing a substance that had been given a "poison" label when the intent of the labeler was ambiguous or malicious but preferred this substance when a rationale was provided that dispelled the implication that there once might have been contaminants present. Experiment 2 was designed to compare the effects of safety on condit…
Benefit Finding After Cancer: The Role of Optimism, Intrusive Thinking and Social Environment
Purpose: Benefit finding after cancer is common. The mechanism for this may include cognitive processing of the cancer trauma within a supportive social context. Methods: Cross-sectional survey of 439 cancer patients assessing optimism, intrusion, avoidance, social support and constraints, anxiety, depression, QOL, benefit finding. Results: Benefit finding was predicted by female gender, greater optimism, high intrusive thinking, high social supp…
Food and Immigration: The indigestion trope contests the sophistication narrative
This paper explores the emergence of indigestion metaphors within contemporary Australian discourse on immigration and race. It establishes connections between the indigestion metaphor and the more traditional tropes used to describe immigration-inundation, contamination and disorder. The appearance of the indigestion trope is related to the common perception that one of the indisputable benefits of immigration and multiculturalism has been the i…
Mainland Chinese students’ psychological adaptation to Hong Kong: An intergroup communication perspective
Mainland Chinese students (MCSs) represent the largest non-local student group in Hong Kong and their adaptation experiences require more research attention than exists.This study investigates MCSs' psychological adaptation to Hong Kong with a language and social psychological approach by invoking Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) and Willingness to Communicate in a Second Language (L2 WTC).Survey results were collected from 372 MCSs study…
Reasoning and food and contamination
This article examines strategies that are used to reason about food and contamination. In Experiment 1, Ss refrained from choosing a substance that had been given a "poison" label when the intent of the labeler was ambiguous or malicious but preferred this substance when a rationale was provided that dispelled the implication that there once might have been contaminants present. Experiment 2 was designed to compare the effects of safety on condit…
Mental illness stereotype content in a sample of undergraduates from mental health-related fields
The role of L2 WTC and accommodative encounters with locals in Mainland Chinese students’ sociocultural adaptation to Hong Kong
202603 bcch
A Qualitative Study Into the Relative Stigmatization of Mental Illness by Mental Health Professionals
Mental health professionals stigmatize mental illness, which has significant ramifications for public health and policy. Within this domain, there is a lack of comprehensive research on relative stigma, emotions, and behaviors and an absence of literature that can guide research on these topics. The current study sought to address these limitations. Unstructured interviews were conducted with 22 mental health professionals, and data were analyzed…
Must have been the Chinese I ate ‘: Food poisoning, migration and national indigestion
(1999). ‘Must have been the Chinese I ate ‘: Food poisoning, migration and national indigestion. Continuum: Vol. 13, Postcoloniality and Cultural Studies, pp. 315-323
Reasoning and food and contamination
This article examines strategies that are used to reason about food and contamination. In Experiment 1, Ss refrained from choosing a substance that had been given a "poison" label when the intent of the labeler was ambiguous or malicious but preferred this substance when a rationale was provided that dispelled the implication that there once might have been contaminants present. Experiment 2 was designed to compare the effects of safety on condit…
Cultural Evolution and Divergent Rationalities in Human Reasoning
Evaluation of a peer support program for women with breast cancer—lessons for practitioners
The present study aimed to describe how a volunteer peer support service assists women with breast cancer, and provides guidelines for practitioners in the development and implementation of such programmes. A two-phase evaluation of a breast cancer peer support program was undertaken to describe important attributes of the peer support intervention, the impact of the volunteer visit on women's self-reports of anxiety, and key indicators of a succ…
Must have been the Chinese I ate ‘: Food poisoning, migration and national indigestion
(1999). ‘Must have been the Chinese I ate ‘: Food poisoning, migration and national indigestion. Continuum: Vol. 13, Postcoloniality and Cultural Studies, pp. 315-323
Food and Immigration: The indigestion trope contests the sophistication narrative
This paper explores the emergence of indigestion metaphors within contemporary Australian discourse on immigration and race. It establishes connections between the indigestion metaphor and the more traditional tropes used to describe immigration-inundation, contamination and disorder. The appearance of the indigestion trope is related to the common perception that one of the indisputable benefits of immigration and multiculturalism has been the i…
Benefit Finding After Cancer: The Role of Optimism, Intrusive Thinking and Social Environment
Purpose: Benefit finding after cancer is common. The mechanism for this may include cognitive processing of the cancer trauma within a supportive social context. Methods: Cross-sectional survey of 439 cancer patients assessing optimism, intrusion, avoidance, social support and constraints, anxiety, depression, QOL, benefit finding. Results: Benefit finding was predicted by female gender, greater optimism, high intrusive thinking, high social supp…
The role of mindfulness in distress and quality of life for men with advanced prostate cancer
Trial Registration: ACTRN12612000306819
The Factorial Structure of Stigma and Its Targets
We aimed to determine (1) the attributes of multiple stigmatized populations, (2) whether Kurzban and Leary’s (2001) functional typology of stigma emerges and identifies the dimensions upon which each stigma type differs, and (3) the emotional responses toward emergent stigma types. Participants ( N = 2,674) were assigned to 1/52 stigma target conditions and their attitudes surveyed. Data were analyzed by multilevel factor analysis with stigma ta…
Factors associated with cessation of smoking in health professionals: A scoping review
BACKGROUND: Offering cessation support to health professionals who smoke to ensure optimal implementation of cessation support for patients is a key recommendation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Article 14 guidelines. However, direct efforts to support this population to quit are limited. Although numerous articles on the topic of tobacco use among health professionals have been published, the factors associated with their own…
Age-related disgust responses to signs of disease
Previous studies found similarities in adults' disgust responses to benign (e.g. obesity) and actual disease signs (e.g. influenza). However, limited research has compared visual (i.e. benign and actual) to cognitive (i.e. disease label) disease cues in different age groups. The current study investigated disgust responses across middle childhood (7-9 years), late childhood (10-12 years), adolescence (13-17 years), and adulthood (18+ years). Part…
Tipping the analytical scales, investigating the use of frequentist equivalence analyses in psychology: A scoping review
Psychological researchers may be interested in demonstrating that sets of scores are equivalent, as opposed to different. If this is true, use of equivalence analyses (equivalence and non-inferiority testing) are appropriate. However, the use of such tests has been found to be inconsistent and incorrect in other research fields (Lange and Freitag 2005). This study aimed to review the use of equivalence analyses in the psychological literature to …
A Qualitative Study Into the Relative Stigmatization of Mental Illness by Mental Health Professionals
Mental health professionals stigmatize mental illness, which has significant ramifications for public health and policy. Within this domain, there is a lack of comprehensive research on relative stigma, emotions, and behaviors and an absence of literature that can guide research on these topics. The current study sought to address these limitations. Unstructured interviews were conducted with 22 mental health professionals, and data were analyzed…
Mental illness stereotype content in a sample of undergraduates from mental health-related fields
Where There's Smoke, There's Stigma? Written Expressions About Individuals with Lung Cancer Reveal Cultural and Language Differences
We investigated how Australians and Hong Kong Chinese respondents describe individuals with lung cancer, examining the impact of culture and language on public discourse and stigma expression. A total of 303 participants ( N Aus = 176; N HK = 127) were recruited from a commercial panel provider to complete an online survey. Participants were presented with a vignette describing a hypothetical lung cancer patient and asked to provide their impress…
Mainland Chinese students’ psychological adaptation to Hong Kong: An intergroup communication perspective
Mainland Chinese students (MCSs) represent the largest non-local student group in Hong Kong and their adaptation experiences require more research attention than exists.This study investigates MCSs' psychological adaptation to Hong Kong with a language and social psychological approach by invoking Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) and Willingness to Communicate in a Second Language (L2 WTC).Survey results were collected from 372 MCSs study…
The role of L2 WTC and accommodative encounters with locals in Mainland Chinese students’ sociocultural adaptation to Hong Kong
202603 bcch
Unraveling the effects of task type and proficiency level on second language learner engagement
This study investigated the impact of task type and proficiency level on second language learners’ task engagement, combing the discourse analytic method with the idiodynamic method. Sixty undergraduate English-as-a-foreign-language learners in China were divided into high- and low-proficiency groups based on their scores on the Oxford Placement Test. The learners were randomly paired with a partner who shared the same proficiency level and compl…
Comfortably Numb: Uncanny Valley Effects are Not Present in Low-Stakes Patient Autonomy Dilemmas in Healthcare
With the rapid progression of artificial intelligence (AI) development, artificial entities are increasingly making decisions in domains with human moral consequence, including in healthcare settings. Thus, it is crucial to understand how people perceive moral decisions made by AI compared to humans in healthcare. People at times perceive robots powered by AI and humans differently when making the same moral decisions, suggesting that people may …
Psychology (12 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Cognition (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works)