Phd in SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATIONAL
RESEARCH

PhD program:: XXXVII
email: federico.contu@uniroma1.it
building: Via dei Marsi, 78, III piano
room: 328

supervisor: Prof. Antonio Pierro
co-supervisor: Prof. Arie Kruglanski

11573/1699756 - 2024 - Epistemic Uncertainty, Social Dominance Orientation, and Prejudices toward Women in Leadership Roles: Mediation and Moderation Analyses

11573/1700125 - 2024 - Motivation to Avoid Uncertainty, Implicit Person Theories about the Malleability of Human Attributes and Attitudes toward Women as Leaders vs. Followers: A Mediational Analysis

11573/1721223 - 2024 - Romantic Relationships as a Source of Significance

11573/1710331 - 2024 - Significance loss brings to extreme self-care related behaviors: the role of interpersonal influence and obsessive (vs. harmonious) passion

11573/1719710 - 2024 - Expecting the Worst: Why Uncertainty is Scary (But Often Isn’t)

11573/1710332 - 2024 - The Impact of Anti‐COVID Face Masks on Romantic Attraction: An Expectancy Violation Perspective

11573/1664207 - 2023 - Addressing the effect of concern with Covid-19 threat on prejudice towards immigrants: The sequential mediating role of need for cognitive closure and desire for cultural tightness.

11573/1687594 - 2023 - At the Roots of Allport’s “Prejudice-Prone Personality”: The Impact of Need for Cognitive Closure on Prejudice towards Different Outgroups and the Mediating Role of Binding Moral Foundations

11573/1688422 - 2023 - Quality of Romantic Relationships and Mortality Salience Predict Parenthood vs. Career-Oriented Intentions: A Terror Management Perspective

11573/1665720 - 2023 - Examining the Interaction between Perceived Cultural Tightness and Prevention Regulatory Focus on Life Satisfaction in Italy

11573/1690142 - 2023 - Need for cognitive closure and desire for cultural tightness mediate the effect of concern about ecological threats on the need for strong leadership

11573/1688414 - 2023 - People act extremely toward their amorous partner when they feel insignificant

11573/1688415 - 2023 - Means substitutability in personal significance restoration

11573/1680159 - 2023 - Restoring Personal Significance through Extremism within Romantic Couples.

11573/1692646 - 2023 - Intergroup Contact Is Associated with Less Negative Attitude toward Women Managers: The Bolstering Effect of Social Dominance Orientation

11573/1688420 - 2023 - Striving for identity goals by self-symbolizing on Instagram

11573/1680155 - 2022 - Sharing important life goals within romantic couples: Relationship satisfaction as a measure of agreement between partners.

11573/1680153 - 2022 - How perceived cultural tightness and prevention focus can affect subjective well-being.

11573/1583042 - 2021 - A strong pro-right political message can reduce uncertainty and fear of Covid-19 contagion among right- and center- but not left-oriented voters

11573/1583046 - 2021 - How increasing numbers of avoidable deaths caused by Covid-19 in Italy affect people’s motivation to justify the Italian Government.

11573/1583053 - 2021 - Paradoxical justification of Government’s mistakes during the Covid-19 pandemic in Italy: Emotion Intensity Theory goes political.

11573/1583069 - 2021 - Quando gli errori commessi dal governo italiano nel gestire la pandemia di COVID-19 motivano le persone a giustificarne l’operato.

11573/1680146 - 2021 - The dissociation between cognitive and emotional prejudiced responses to deterrents

11573/1583015 - 2021 - The dissociation between cognitive and emotional responses to deterrents

11573/1680157 - 2021 - Emozioni e pregiudizio

11573/1583021 - 2021 - Going public on social media: The effects of thousands of instagram followers on users with a high need for social approval

11573/1583058 - 2021 - Identity goals incompleteness causes medical and law students to post more career-related symbols on Instagram

11573/1583076 - 2021 - Autocompletamento sui social media: Gli studenti che si sentono incompleti postano su Instagram più simboli inerenti alla loro futura professione per ristabilire completezza.

11573/1583043 - 2021 - Selfsymbolizing on social media: Incomplete medical students post more medicine-related symbols on Instagram to restore completeness.

11573/1583032 - 2020 - Beyond empathy: When empathy and hostility cause perceptual and cognitive distortions

11573/1583041 - 2020 - Challenged relationships: How the risk of ending a romantic relationship controls the intensity of romantic feelings

11573/1680152 - 2020 - How the manipulated risk of ending a romantic relationship shapes the intensity of romantic feelings.

11573/1583025 - 2019 - Oltre l'empatia: quando empatia e ostilità causano chiusura cognitiva e distorsione percettiva

11573/1583029 - 2019 - Il lato oscuro dell’empatia: Quando entrare in intimità causa chiusura cognitiva e distorsione percettiva

11573/1583028 - 2019 - Siamo in grado di percepire l’inquinamento sociale prodotto dai social network?