Uncertainty as a constitutive condition of human experience: Paradoxes and complexity of sensemaking in the face of the crisis and uncertainty

RDL Picione, U Lozzi - … and Education: Subject, Action & Society, 2021 - sasjournal.org
The work presents an extensive review on the theme of the crisis of meaning generated by
uncertainty. Generally, uncertainty is considered an affective-cognitive condition of human …

Searching for meaning through conspiracy theories. Considerations on the state of the art of psychological literature and definition of a research agenda from a …

AM De Fortuna, R De Luca Picione - Culture & Psychology, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Why do conspiracy theories abound in critical times? The purpose of this article is to provide
an extensive critical review of research perspectives that focus, in the age of crisis, on the …

The aesthetic and affective matrix of pre-reflective sensemaking at the origins of the relationship between subject and world: A dialogue between Kant's Third Critique …

G Tossici, R De Luca Picione - The International Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The authors discuss the relevance of aesthetic and affective experience at the heart of the
human being's capability to relate to the world and to found relations of sense. Faced with …

Generalized Semiotic Functions of Borders' model: Contributions from cultural psychology, semiotics and psychoanalysis to-wards the understanding of borders in …

RDL Picione, G Marsico, L Tateo… - International Journal of …, 2022 - sasjournal.org
The article is an exploration of the bordering process, its theoretical foundations, its ontology-
dynamics and phenomenology in human experience. The research question is how …

Social environment and attitudes toward COVID-19 anti-contagious measures: an explorative study from Italy

A Gennaro, M Reho, T Marinaci, B Cordella… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Social and cultural aspects (ie, political decision making, discourses in the public sphere,
and people's mindsets) played a crucial role in the ways people responded to the COVID-19 …

The Work-Related Stress and Well-Being of Teachers—An Exploratory Study within Primary Schools in Italy

G Arbia, A Carbone, I Stanzione, G Szpunar - Education Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
This study analyzes the critical aspects of the professional life of primary school teachers in
a southern European context. The social changes of the last two decades have profoundly …

Making sense of the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative longitudinal study investigating the first and second wave in Italy

T Marinaci, C Venuleo, A Gennaro, G Sammut - Heliyon, 2021 - cell.com
The COVID-19 pandemic further highlighted the crucial role of people's compliance for the
success of measures designed to protect public health. Within the frame of Semiotic Cultural …

The otherness in the constitution of the psyche: arguments from psychoanalysis and cultural psychology

R De Luca Picione, MF Freda - New perspectives on inner speech, 2022 - Springer
A long-standing tradition of cultural and psychoanalytical studies has showed that human
psyche is not a monolithic object–namely, a static and not divisible entity; rather, it is a …

[PDF][PDF] The impact of Covid-19 pandemic: Psycho-social perception of the crisis and sense-making processes

R De Luca Picione, E Martini, S Cicchella… - … Psychology in Global …, 2021 - researchgate.net
The COVID-19 pandemic has generated a widespread state of uncertainty and
disorientation regarding daily practices and beliefs, creating multiple sense-making …

The affective regulation of uncertainty: The semiotic dimensionality model (SDM)

S Salvatore, T Mannarini, A Gennaro, G Celia… - Social Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a novel psychological model of the socio-cognitive management of
uncertainty, the semiotic dimensional model (SDM). The SDM claims that uncertainty …