A5076446798- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
- Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
- Cognitive Science and Mapping
- Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- User Authentication and Security Systems
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Aging and Gerontology Research
- Topic Modeling
University of Messina
2021-2025
University of Surrey
2014-2023
University of Milano-Bicocca
2008-2023
University of Trento
2023
University of Koblenz and Landau
2023
Universität Koblenz
2023
Diego Portales University
2023
University of Copenhagen
2023
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
2023
University of Cape Town
2023
Abstract Research on the two fundamental dimensions of social judgment, namely warmth and competence, has shown that a primary dominant role in information gathering about others. In studies we examined whether sociability morality components play distinct roles such process. Study 1 ( N = 60) investigated which traits were mostly selected when forming impressions The results showed that, regardless task goal, related to differently processed. Furthermore, participants more interested...
Research has shown that warmth and competence are core dimensions on which perceivers judge others a primary role at various phases of impression formation. Three studies explored whether the two components (i.e., sociability morality) have distinct roles in predicting global social groups. In Study 1 (N= 105) 2 112), participants read an immigration scenario depicting unfamiliar group terms high (vs. low) morality, sociability, competence. both studies, were asked to report their group....
Confirmation bias, whereby individuals hold unwarranted confidence in a focal hypothesis, might emerge from combination of errors at the testing and evaluation stages hypothesis development. We focused on one such combination: Positive testing, questions are asked about features that expected to be present feature positive effect, presence outweighs absence when evaluating available evidence. Participants were presented with two criminal scenarios evaluate utility four possible queries...
Abstract Background Despite the established evidence and theoretical advances explaining human judgments under uncertainty, developments of mobile health (mHealth) Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) have not explicitly applied psychology decision making to study user needs. We report on a needs approach develop prototype mHealth CDSS for Parkinson’s disease (PD), which is theoretically grounded in psychological literature about expert judgement uncertainty. Methods A suite studies was...
Hope, gratitude, fear, and disgust may all be key to encouraging preventative action in the context of COVID-19. We pre-registered a longitudinal experiment, which involved monthly data collections from September 2020 2021 six-month follow-up. predicted that hope recall task would reduce negative emotions elicit higher intentions engage COVID-19 behaviours. At first time point, participants were randomly allocated condition (gratitude, hope, or control). each we measured willingness...
Abstract The use of taboo words represents one the most common and arguably universal linguistic behaviors, fulfilling a wide range psychological social functions. However, in scientific literature, language is poorly characterized, how it realized different languages populations remains largely unexplored. Here we provide database words, collected from communities (Study 1, N = 1046), along with their speaker-centered semantic characterization 2, 455 for each six rating dimensions),...
Morality, which refers to characteristics such as trustworthiness and honesty, has a primary role in social perception judgment. A negativity effect characterizes the morality dimension, whereby negative information is weighed more than positive trait attribution impression formation. This article reviews literature on We examine main boundary conditions of by considering relevant moderators, behavior consistency evaluative extremity, level categorization, measurement type well some...
Four studies analyzed how sexual orientation (heterosexual vs. gay) and age categories (young elderly) referring to men are cognitively combined. In Study 1, young gay were judged as more prototypical of than adult or elderly men, while young, adult, heterosexual perceived equally men. 2, stereotyped by rather stereotypical traits, not in terms age. 3, gay-stereotypical orientation. 4, be elderly, gay. Overall, overlooked when processing their constituent categories, “gay” “elderly”...
Evidence evaluation is a crucial process in many human activities, spanning from medical diagnosis to impression formation.The present experiments investigated which, if any, normative model best conforms people's intuition about the value of obtained evidence.Psychologists, epistemologists, and philosophers science have proposed several models account for utility evidence with respect either focal hypothesis or constellation hypotheses.We pitted against each other so called...
Abstract: Health risk behaviors, such as cigarette smoking, may be triggered by failures in thought suppression, a cognitive avoidance strategy associated with rumination. To date, no study has examined the role of personality features performance suppression smokers and nonsmokers. address this gap literature, we aimed to (1) examine whether some stable might related failure independent smoking status (2) investigate have different traits compared nonsmokers that strategies difficulties...
Three experiments examined how people gather information on in‐group and out‐group members. Previous studies have revealed that category‐based expectancies bias the hypothesis‐testing process towards confirmation through use of asymmetric‐confirming questions (which are queries where replies supporting prior more informative than those falsifying them). However, to date there is no empirical investigation such a question‐asking strategy in an intergroup context. In present studies,...
Two experiments investigated whether dealing with a homogeneous subset of syllogisms time-constrained responses encouraged participants to develop and use heuristics for abstract (Experiment 1) thematic 2) syllogisms. An atmosphere-based heuristic accounted most both With syllogisms, weaker effect belief was also observed, mainly where the correct response inconsistent atmosphere premises. Analytic processes appear have played little role in condition, whereas their involvement increased...
This article examines individuals’ expectations in a social hypothesis testing task. Participants selected questions from list to investigate the presence of personality traits target individual. They also identified responses that they expected receive and likelihood responses. The results two studies indicated when people asked inquiring about hypothesized did not entail strong priori beliefs, find evidence confirming under investigation. These were more pronounced for symmetric questions,...
Reappropriation of derogatory group labels by minority members is a coping strategy against stigmatization.The aim this research twofold.First, we intend to replicate Galinsky et al. 's findings (2013), suggesting that selflabelling (i.e., the self-referential use label), compared outgroup-labelling label an outgroup member), enhances self-power and positively reframes label.Second, test whether ingroup-labelling ingroup member towards another likewise self-labelling, effective reclaim or,...
Trait inference in person perception is based on observers' implicit assumptions about the relations between trait adjectives (e.g., fair) and either consistent or inconsistent behaviors having double standards) that an actor can manifest. This article presents new empirical data theoretical interpretations people' behavioral expectations, is, people's perceived trait-behavior along morality (versus competence) dimension. We specifically address issue of moderate levels both traits almost...
This study investigates the influence of verbal and non-verbal cues on people's credibility judgments fake Twitter profiles generated by an information hiding mobile app solely for transmitting secret messages. We tested hypotheses that trustworthiness conveyed profile picture, morality-related trait adjectives included in summary owner's gender would increase those profiles. 24 participants assessed 16 their credibility. They also expressed confidence judgements they answered open-ended...