- Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
University of Messina
2023-2024
The increasing prevalence of violence recorded and shared through smartphones in today’s digital age has raised concerns about the underlying reasons driving such behavior. However, lack experimental studies scientific evidence exploring relationship between smartphone use acts hindered our understanding this phenomenon. To bridge gap, present study aimed to investigate potential link usage perpetration violence, specifically focusing on incidents where violent were publicly. Given...
The present article provides a detailed comparison of two psychological phenomena, the freezing effect and bystander effect, across their neurobiological, cognitive, emotional, behavioral dimensions. This study focuses on identifying analyzing similarities differences between these responses to stressful traumatic events. While is characterized by an involuntary neurobiological response immediate threats, resulting in temporary immobilization or paralysis, describes cognitive social...
Background. An amount of literature has heavy focused on homicidal mothers. Nevertheless, due to the lower frequency these events, yet little is known about paternal filicides.
 Aim. The purpose this study was identify spatio-temporal coordinates, authors and victims characteristics, context in which murders take place, order specific patterns.
 Methods. We analyzed 76 events occurred Italy, between 1996 2012 involving 134 victims. data were collected through a careful thorough...