Women, not objects: Testing a sensitizing web campaign against female sexual objectification to temper sexual harassment and hostile sexism

F Guizzo, M Cadinu - Media Psychology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
We investigated the novel hypothesis that a sensitizing web campaign against media sexual
objectification would lead to lower male gender-harassing conduct (ie, number of sexist …

The (absence of the) presence–absence distinction in motivation science.

AJ Elliot, ET Higgins, E Nakkawita - Psychological Review, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
A focal stimulus (object, end state, outcome, event, experience, characteristic, possibility,
etc.) may represent a presence, an occurrence, or something, or it may represent an …

From self to ingroup reclaiming of homophobic epithets: A replication and extension of Galinsky et al.'s (2013) model of reappropriation

M Bianchi, A Carnaghi, F Fasoli, P Rusconi… - Journal of Experimental …, 2024 - arts.units.it
Reappropration of derogatory group labels by minority members is a co** strategy against
stigmatisation. The aim of this research is twofold. First, we intend to replicate Galinsky et …

Imagined intergroup physical contact improves attitudes toward immigrants

SE Shamloo, A Carnaghi, V Piccoli, M Grassi… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
In this set of research, we investigated the effects of intergroup physical contact on
intergroup attitudes by relying on indirect contact strategies, namely the imagined contact …

Asymmetric perception of gains versus non‐losses and losses versus non‐gains: The causal role of regulatory focus

S Sacchi, L Stanca - Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Recent studies show that, while losses loom larger than equivalent non‐gains, gains loom
larger than equivalent non‐losses. This finding has been interpreted within the framework of …

The acquisition of SV order in unaccusatives: manipulating the definiteness of the NP argument

M Vernice, MT Guasti - Journal of child language, 2015 - cambridge.org
In two sentence repetition experiments, we investigated whether four-and five-year-olds
master distinct representations for intransitive verb classes by testing two syntactic analyses …

On the descriptive and expressive function of derogatory group labels: An experimental test

M Bianchi, A Carnaghi, V Piccoli… - Journal of Language …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
By using a pseudoword paradigm, we tested whether derogatory labels (eg, pejorative
labels addressing group members) differed from category labels and general slur in their …

The Feature Positive Effect Biases Vaccination Information Processing

L Vandeberg, G Maas, A Eerland - Collabra: Psychology, 2024 - online.ucpress.edu
Evidence-based vaccination communication aims to support people in making informed
decisions regarding vaccination. It is therefore important to learn how vaccination …

Accurate in presence and inefficient in absence: how the presence of criminal evidence affects legal judgements

P Rusconi, S Sacchi - Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
Confirmation bias, whereby individuals hold unwarranted confidence in a focal hypothesis,
might emerge from a combination of errors at the testing and evaluation stages of hypothesis …

[HTML][HTML] Individual Differences in the Susceptibility to the Feature-Positive Effect

E Rassin - Psychological Test Adaptation and Development, 2023 - econtent.hogrefe.com
The feature-positive effect (FPE) is the phenomenon that learning organisms are better at
detecting the association between two present stimuli than between the absence of one …