Alberta Contarello
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 174334 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Alberta Contarello |
| PRENOMES | Alberta |
| SOBRENOME | Contarello |
| ASSINATURA | CONTARELLO A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Padua |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9046-4789 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1986 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Appreciative Inquiry in the Anti-Trafficking System. Generating future-oriented Narratives to Counteract Victimhood
This study explores the potential of generative inquiry in the context of Italy’s anti-trafficking system, framed through a social constructionist perspective. The research involved four focus groups with professionals working in protected anti-trafficking communities. Guided by the principles of Appreciative Inquiry, the study shifts the focus toward identifying strengths, resources, and potentials, aiming to generate new meanings and possibilit…
Beyond Victimhood, Expanding Narratives
This study is a generative inquiry with survivors of trafficking from a social constructionist perspective. Inspired by the principles of Appreciative Inquiry, its focus is collaboration between researchers and trafficking survivors with a view to shaping and understanding their trafficking experiences together, expanding understanding of the topic and co-constructing a relational space in which counter-narratives on victimhood can be generated. …
"Stemming the "ageism pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic added to collective concerns, making health risks salient especially for the older population. The health emergency exacerbated an already widespread negative representation of aging, and phenomena such as ageism. With the present qualitative inquiry, 21 episodic interviews were collected with the aim of understanding the experience of older adults in residential care facilities, exploring their ideas of aging and the viewpo…
Social Representations of Political Polarization through Traditional Media
Brazil has recently been experiencing a phenomenon of political polarization: a conflict involving political views and social identities. Considering the extent to which this socially constructed conflict has been partially fueled by the media, we propose to use the Social Representations Theory. The present study explores how discourses in the mainstream media construct the political polarization taking place in Brazil. The topics covered in 82 …
Migrations in postcolonial Italian literature
Published studies on social representations of migration in the media offer two pictures that have become crystallized over time. On the one hand, migration is constructed as a social threat for hosting countries; on the other, victimization of migrants is emphasized. This study aims to investigate how literary texts written by the protagonists of migratory experiences contribute to creating a possible alternative view of migrants. The results hi…
Self-positions and narratives facilitating or hindering posttraumatic growth
When addressing traumatic experiences, taking into account the polyphony of the individuals narrating them, and identifying which of their narratives can facilitate or hinder their PTG can be a useful resource in therapeutic and social work with survivors of trafficking. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
Resisting ageism through lifelong learning. Mature students' counter-narratives to the construction of aging as decline
Redefining agency in late life
In light of an increased ageing population, policy makers are faced with the urgent problem of planning programmes that reflect active ageing or, in other words, the promotion of activities that help individuals to remain active in a societal context. The construct of agency, defined as the capacity to make decisions and to address situations depending on the individual's future plans, reflects a specific normative criterion: individuals are expe…
Probing the history of social psychology, exploring diversity and views of the social
The European Journal of Social Psychology ( EJSP ), as the voice of the European Association of Social Psychology, aims to promote diversity and a distinctively ‘European’, more ‘social’, social psychology ( SP ). However, whether and how these objectives have been accomplished over time remains controversial. This article enters this debate, tracing the history of SP as depicted by EJSP publications, via two types of lexicometric analyses of all…
“I'm too Old for …” looking into a self-Sabotage rhetoric and its counter-narratives in an Italian setting
Pain as social representation
Pain is a complex issue with many different aspects concerning both sensorial and emotional experience. In recent years, the Health Promoting Hospitals (HPH) network has been encouraging a new vision in health structures, with the aim of reducing any form of pain wherever possible. Following the social representation approach, we explore the concept of 'pain' as it is continuously redefined, constructed and shared among health professionals invol…
An evaluation of the impact of the European Association of Social Psychology
Sandra Schruijer’s wrote a commendable and fascinating attempt to evaluate the impact of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology: ‘Whatever happened to the ‘‘European’’ in European social psychology? A study of the ambitions in founding the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology’. We submit that, notwithstanding the merits of her article, she has of necessity used a limited research design, but has aggravated th…
The Chiampo River 30 Years Later
With the aim of addressing environmental concerns from an applied social psychological perspective, this study explores how regulations aimed at reducing industrial pollution contribute to short‐term and long‐term changes in social representations. The local river in a Valley characterised by strong interactions between industries and communities was the focus of concern. Three features of the representations were examined: images, emotional expe…
Italian students' social representation on aging
In various countries there are studies aimed at characterizing social representations on aging, but little is known about their relations with other representations. The present study proposes to characterize those relations through the notion of representational systems. An exploratory survey has been conducted with 151 Italian undergraduate students. They have completed evocation tasks about seven social objects linked to aging and also rated t…
Rappresentazioni sociali dell'invecchiamento tra psicologia sociale e letteratura
Scopo del presente lavoro è proporre l'analisi di testi letterari per lo studio delle rappresentazioni sociali dell'invecchiamento. Dopo un'introduzione al tema, con cenni ai recenti sviluppi in termini di invecchiamento positivo e all'utilità di un maggiore interscambio tra psicologia sociale e letteratura, vengono presentati i risultati di analisi quali-quantitative e qualitative di due recenti opere italiane. Sia l'analisi delle corrispondenze…
Social Thinking and the Mobile Phone
One evening, you are sitting at home watching a repeat of a series produced in the late 1980s, with that particular atmosphere and the fashions of the day. One of the characters, let's say an execu
Tokens in the Tower
We tested Kanter’s (1977a, 1977b) theory concerning the effects of group proportions (sex ratios) on visibility, polarization and assimilation, using natural groups of women and men in academia. Study 1 compared male-skewed and male-tilted settings and found evidence of greater polarization by minority women than majority men. The only effect of group proportions occurred for perceived dispersion as a measure of assimilation; replicating Brown an…
Peace, War and Conflict
The article suggests the use of social representations theory to provide a positive approach to peace research and a theoretical framework for understanding peace movements. Studying peace, war and conflict in this perspective enables exploration of these concepts as objects socially constructed, elaborated and shared by different groups. Four groups of activists are compared with people not belonging to any association, in order to investigate t…
Towards a social psychology of extreme situations
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…
Relations personnelles et culture
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
Images of Friendship
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…
Self-Reported Expression of Embarrassment in Five European Cultures
Self-report data on the physiological/behavioral response associated with embarrassment were collected by questionnaire in Greece, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and West Germany. Blushing/increased temperature and smiling/grinning were reported consistently across nations, although blushing, as indexed by temperature change, was reported with twice the frequency in the U.K. sample as in the other European samples; gaze aversion and face touch…
Self-reported verbal and non-verbal strategies for coping with embarrassment in five European cultures
Cross‐cultural Variations in Relationship Rules
A British study of the informal rules of 22 social relationships was replicated among Japanese, Hong Kong and Italian samples. Subjects were asked to rate the importance of 33 common and varying numbers of relationship‐specific rules to each of these relationships on a 9‐point bipolar scale. Multivariate analyses showed each culture has a structure of highly endorsed rules, although a number of cross‐cultural differences emerged in the nature of …
The Chiampo River 30 Years Later
With the aim of addressing environmental concerns from an applied social psychological perspective, this study explores how regulations aimed at reducing industrial pollution contribute to short‐term and long‐term changes in social representations. The local river in a Valley characterised by strong interactions between industries and communities was the focus of concern. Three features of the representations were examined: images, emotional expe…
Resisting ageism through lifelong learning. Mature students' counter-narratives to the construction of aging as decline
Social Thinking and the Mobile Phone
One evening, you are sitting at home watching a repeat of a series produced in the late 1980s, with that particular atmosphere and the fashions of the day. One of the characters, let's say an execu
Self-Reported Expression of Embarrassment in Five European Cultures
Self-report data on the physiological/behavioral response associated with embarrassment were collected by questionnaire in Greece, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and West Germany. Blushing/increased temperature and smiling/grinning were reported consistently across nations, although blushing, as indexed by temperature change, was reported with twice the frequency in the U.K. sample as in the other European samples; gaze aversion and face touch…
"Stemming the "ageism pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic added to collective concerns, making health risks salient especially for the older population. The health emergency exacerbated an already widespread negative representation of aging, and phenomena such as ageism. With the present qualitative inquiry, 21 episodic interviews were collected with the aim of understanding the experience of older adults in residential care facilities, exploring their ideas of aging and the viewpo…
Redefining agency in late life
In light of an increased ageing population, policy makers are faced with the urgent problem of planning programmes that reflect active ageing or, in other words, the promotion of activities that help individuals to remain active in a societal context. The construct of agency, defined as the capacity to make decisions and to address situations depending on the individual's future plans, reflects a specific normative criterion: individuals are expe…
Italian students' social representation on aging
In various countries there are studies aimed at characterizing social representations on aging, but little is known about their relations with other representations. The present study proposes to characterize those relations through the notion of representational systems. An exploratory survey has been conducted with 151 Italian undergraduate students. They have completed evocation tasks about seven social objects linked to aging and also rated t…
Tokens in the Tower
We tested Kanter’s (1977a, 1977b) theory concerning the effects of group proportions (sex ratios) on visibility, polarization and assimilation, using natural groups of women and men in academia. Study 1 compared male-skewed and male-tilted settings and found evidence of greater polarization by minority women than majority men. The only effect of group proportions occurred for perceived dispersion as a measure of assimilation; replicating Brown an…
Peace, War and Conflict
The article suggests the use of social representations theory to provide a positive approach to peace research and a theoretical framework for understanding peace movements. Studying peace, war and conflict in this perspective enables exploration of these concepts as objects socially constructed, elaborated and shared by different groups. Four groups of activists are compared with people not belonging to any association, in order to investigate t…
Images of Friendship
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…
Social Representations of Political Polarization through Traditional Media
Brazil has recently been experiencing a phenomenon of political polarization: a conflict involving political views and social identities. Considering the extent to which this socially constructed conflict has been partially fueled by the media, we propose to use the Social Representations Theory. The present study explores how discourses in the mainstream media construct the political polarization taking place in Brazil. The topics covered in 82 …
Migrations in postcolonial Italian literature
Published studies on social representations of migration in the media offer two pictures that have become crystallized over time. On the one hand, migration is constructed as a social threat for hosting countries; on the other, victimization of migrants is emphasized. This study aims to investigate how literary texts written by the protagonists of migratory experiences contribute to creating a possible alternative view of migrants. The results hi…
Probing the history of social psychology, exploring diversity and views of the social
The European Journal of Social Psychology ( EJSP ), as the voice of the European Association of Social Psychology, aims to promote diversity and a distinctively ‘European’, more ‘social’, social psychology ( SP ). However, whether and how these objectives have been accomplished over time remains controversial. This article enters this debate, tracing the history of SP as depicted by EJSP publications, via two types of lexicometric analyses of all…
An evaluation of the impact of the European Association of Social Psychology
Sandra Schruijer’s wrote a commendable and fascinating attempt to evaluate the impact of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology: ‘Whatever happened to the ‘‘European’’ in European social psychology? A study of the ambitions in founding the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology’. We submit that, notwithstanding the merits of her article, she has of necessity used a limited research design, but has aggravated th…
Rappresentazioni sociali dell'invecchiamento tra psicologia sociale e letteratura
Scopo del presente lavoro è proporre l'analisi di testi letterari per lo studio delle rappresentazioni sociali dell'invecchiamento. Dopo un'introduzione al tema, con cenni ai recenti sviluppi in termini di invecchiamento positivo e all'utilità di un maggiore interscambio tra psicologia sociale e letteratura, vengono presentati i risultati di analisi quali-quantitative e qualitative di due recenti opere italiane. Sia l'analisi delle corrispondenze…
Relations personnelles et culture
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
Cross‐cultural Variations in Relationship Rules
A British study of the informal rules of 22 social relationships was replicated among Japanese, Hong Kong and Italian samples. Subjects were asked to rate the importance of 33 common and varying numbers of relationship‐specific rules to each of these relationships on a 9‐point bipolar scale. Multivariate analyses showed each culture has a structure of highly endorsed rules, although a number of cross‐cultural differences emerged in the nature of …
Self-reported verbal and non-verbal strategies for coping with embarrassment in five European cultures
Self-Reported Expression of Embarrassment in Five European Cultures
Self-report data on the physiological/behavioral response associated with embarrassment were collected by questionnaire in Greece, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, and West Germany. Blushing/increased temperature and smiling/grinning were reported consistently across nations, although blushing, as indexed by temperature change, was reported with twice the frequency in the U.K. sample as in the other European samples; gaze aversion and face touch…
Images of Friendship
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
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
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…
Peace, War and Conflict
The article suggests the use of social representations theory to provide a positive approach to peace research and a theoretical framework for understanding peace movements. Studying peace, war and conflict in this perspective enables exploration of these concepts as objects socially constructed, elaborated and shared by different groups. Four groups of activists are compared with people not belonging to any association, in order to investigate t…
Tokens in the Tower
We tested Kanter’s (1977a, 1977b) theory concerning the effects of group proportions (sex ratios) on visibility, polarization and assimilation, using natural groups of women and men in academia. Study 1 compared male-skewed and male-tilted settings and found evidence of greater polarization by minority women than majority men. The only effect of group proportions occurred for perceived dispersion as a measure of assimilation; replicating Brown an…
Social Thinking and the Mobile Phone
One evening, you are sitting at home watching a repeat of a series produced in the late 1980s, with that particular atmosphere and the fashions of the day. One of the characters, let's say an execu
The Chiampo River 30 Years Later
With the aim of addressing environmental concerns from an applied social psychological perspective, this study explores how regulations aimed at reducing industrial pollution contribute to short‐term and long‐term changes in social representations. The local river in a Valley characterised by strong interactions between industries and communities was the focus of concern. Three features of the representations were examined: images, emotional expe…
Italian students' social representation on aging
In various countries there are studies aimed at characterizing social representations on aging, but little is known about their relations with other representations. The present study proposes to characterize those relations through the notion of representational systems. An exploratory survey has been conducted with 151 Italian undergraduate students. They have completed evocation tasks about seven social objects linked to aging and also rated t…
Rappresentazioni sociali dell'invecchiamento tra psicologia sociale e letteratura
Scopo del presente lavoro è proporre l'analisi di testi letterari per lo studio delle rappresentazioni sociali dell'invecchiamento. Dopo un'introduzione al tema, con cenni ai recenti sviluppi in termini di invecchiamento positivo e all'utilità di un maggiore interscambio tra psicologia sociale e letteratura, vengono presentati i risultati di analisi quali-quantitative e qualitative di due recenti opere italiane. Sia l'analisi delle corrispondenze…
An evaluation of the impact of the European Association of Social Psychology
Sandra Schruijer’s wrote a commendable and fascinating attempt to evaluate the impact of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology: ‘Whatever happened to the ‘‘European’’ in European social psychology? A study of the ambitions in founding the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology’. We submit that, notwithstanding the merits of her article, she has of necessity used a limited research design, but has aggravated th…
Pain as social representation
Pain is a complex issue with many different aspects concerning both sensorial and emotional experience. In recent years, the Health Promoting Hospitals (HPH) network has been encouraging a new vision in health structures, with the aim of reducing any form of pain wherever possible. Following the social representation approach, we explore the concept of 'pain' as it is continuously redefined, constructed and shared among health professionals invol…
“I'm too Old for …” looking into a self-Sabotage rhetoric and its counter-narratives in an Italian setting
Redefining agency in late life
In light of an increased ageing population, policy makers are faced with the urgent problem of planning programmes that reflect active ageing or, in other words, the promotion of activities that help individuals to remain active in a societal context. The construct of agency, defined as the capacity to make decisions and to address situations depending on the individual's future plans, reflects a specific normative criterion: individuals are expe…
Probing the history of social psychology, exploring diversity and views of the social
The European Journal of Social Psychology ( EJSP ), as the voice of the European Association of Social Psychology, aims to promote diversity and a distinctively ‘European’, more ‘social’, social psychology ( SP ). However, whether and how these objectives have been accomplished over time remains controversial. This article enters this debate, tracing the history of SP as depicted by EJSP publications, via two types of lexicometric analyses of all…
Resisting ageism through lifelong learning. Mature students' counter-narratives to the construction of aging as decline
Self-positions and narratives facilitating or hindering posttraumatic growth
When addressing traumatic experiences, taking into account the polyphony of the individuals narrating them, and identifying which of their narratives can facilitate or hinder their PTG can be a useful resource in therapeutic and social work with survivors of trafficking. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
Social Representations of Political Polarization through Traditional Media
Brazil has recently been experiencing a phenomenon of political polarization: a conflict involving political views and social identities. Considering the extent to which this socially constructed conflict has been partially fueled by the media, we propose to use the Social Representations Theory. The present study explores how discourses in the mainstream media construct the political polarization taking place in Brazil. The topics covered in 82 …
Migrations in postcolonial Italian literature
Published studies on social representations of migration in the media offer two pictures that have become crystallized over time. On the one hand, migration is constructed as a social threat for hosting countries; on the other, victimization of migrants is emphasized. This study aims to investigate how literary texts written by the protagonists of migratory experiences contribute to creating a possible alternative view of migrants. The results hi…
"Stemming the "ageism pandemic
The Covid-19 pandemic added to collective concerns, making health risks salient especially for the older population. The health emergency exacerbated an already widespread negative representation of aging, and phenomena such as ageism. With the present qualitative inquiry, 21 episodic interviews were collected with the aim of understanding the experience of older adults in residential care facilities, exploring their ideas of aging and the viewpo…
Appreciative Inquiry in the Anti-Trafficking System. Generating future-oriented Narratives to Counteract Victimhood
This study explores the potential of generative inquiry in the context of Italy’s anti-trafficking system, framed through a social constructionist perspective. The research involved four focus groups with professionals working in protected anti-trafficking communities. Guided by the principles of Appreciative Inquiry, the study shifts the focus toward identifying strengths, resources, and potentials, aiming to generate new meanings and possibilit…
Beyond Victimhood, Expanding Narratives
This study is a generative inquiry with survivors of trafficking from a social constructionist perspective. Inspired by the principles of Appreciative Inquiry, its focus is collaboration between researchers and trafficking survivors with a view to shaping and understanding their trafficking experiences together, expanding understanding of the topic and co-constructing a relational space in which counter-narratives on victimhood can be generated. …
Psychology (20 obras) · Social Psychology (17 obras) · Sociology (14 obras) · Social science (11 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Social Representations and Identity (9 obras) · Social Psychology (7 obras) · Cultural Differences and Values (6 obras) · Narrative (6 obras) · Epistemology (5 obras)