seminar
14 December, 2022
Mass media have become an inevitable part of political communication.
Politicians use modern information technologies to promote ideas, views, spread
propaganda, manipulation and hate speech. In online communication, we are interested
in written speech (texts, messages), because they are freely available online and allow us
to analyse the peculiarities of hate speech in specific periods of times.
The research trends that will be presented focus on media communication
analysis and the influence of the mass media on people’s consciousness and behaviour.
The study investigates written speech from a psycholinguistic point of view: we have
identified the methods and techniques used by journalists or politicians to influence the
audience. The seminar presents applications of psycholinguistic texts analysis on
Russian mass media to study indirect and manipulative hate speech and its
consequences. The method was also adapted for analysing the messages of politicians in
the social network Twitter.
The psycholinguistic analysis of the content was based on the analysis of the
linguistic means used in the messages to influence the auditory worldview.
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Pride of Place in Europe and in Africa
14 December 2022
The hybrid seminar aims to present and discuss the results of “PoP – Pride of Place” framework research on the field of people-place bonds in European and African continents. Conducted through different lines of investigation (a doctoral thesis, a European project, and an international cooperation project),
the framework research seeks to identify the antecedents and consequences of pride and shame of place comparing data collected in Italy, Ireland, Portugal and Kenya. A particular focus will be dedicated to the intercultural dimension of the project, valued by the presence of Professors coming from universities in Kenya and Tanzania.
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5 dicembre 2022
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seminar
3 novembre 2022
As virtual reality (VR) technology is increasing in sophistication and accessibility, new research is emerging in multiple disciplines addressing the influence of avatar communication, immersive visual information, and self-perception on social behaviours in VR. For social research, VR systems not only provide rich sensorial experiences, often resembling face-to-face interactions, but they also afford the necessary level of control for lab experimentation. This specific characteristic is of high relevance when creating virtual interventions aiming to reduce prejudice and
improve relations among different social groups. In this seminar I describe how VR technology is used for intergroup contact among different social groups in different contexts, highlighting the relevance of the native features of VR systems and the
social psychological aspects of users for the contact outcomes, and also pointing out some socio-technical challenges for social research in VR.
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seminar
21 Ottobre 2022 -
In this talk, I will examine major findings and concepts in psychological research on hostile aggression and offer an integrative conception whereby violence or the threat
of violence is a primordial means for establishing one’s sense of significance and mattering, thus addressing a fundamental social-psychological need. Our functional portrayal of aggression as a means to significance yields four testable hypotheses: (1)
frustration will elicit hostile aggression proportionately to the extent that the frustrated goal served the individual’s need for significance, (2) the impulse to aggress in response to significance loss will be enhanced in conditions that limit the
individual’s ability to reflect and engage in extensive information processing (that may bring up alternative, socially-condoned means to significance), (3) significancereducing frustration will elicit hostile aggression unless the impulse to aggress is
substituted by a non-aggressive means of significance restoration, (4) apart from significance loss, an opportunity for significance gain should increase the impulse to aggress. These hypotheses are supported by extant data as well as novel research findings in real-life contexts. They have important implications for understanding human aggression and the conditions under which it is likely to be manifested and reduced.
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seminar
20 Ottobre 2022
In this lecture Dr. Joyce Endendijk delves into the social phenomenon of the (hetero)sexual double standard (SDS) in which the same sexual behaviors are evaluated differently in men and women. Traditionally, men/boys are expected to be sexually active, dominant, and the initiator of (hetero)sexual activity,
whereas women/girls are expected to be sexually reactive, submissive, and passive. Men are also granted more sexual freedom than women. Dr. Endendijk will discuss her own and others’ research on the consequences of the SDS for adolescents sexual development. Additionally, she will focus on
the developmental origins of sexual double standard endorsement. She has studied the influence of several socializing agents: mothers, fathers, peers, and the media, to explain development of adolescent’s sexual double standard endorsement and enactment.
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Giovedì 13 ottobre
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21 settembre
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seminar
19 settembre 2022
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seminar
30 giugno 2022
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seminar
16 giugno 2022
Over the past decades, the most increase of subcultural populations have involved Asains and Latinos of which the majority of are not borned in the United States, the latter has surpassed the Black population as the number one minority. The fact calls for more studies on their social determinants in relation to wellbeing. The primary part of this presentation will include two studies focusing on the similar and differential roles of their cultural strength factors in outcomes. Both studies are
based on the national household representative sample, the National Latino and Asian American Study (NLAAS). Todate, the NLAAS remains the only such survey on the mental health in these two rapid growing populations. Despite numerous publications from this data resource, a cultural strengh perspective remains underinvestigated in the literature. The secondary part of this presentation will address a newly developed cross-cultural assessment, the first of its kind: A
three-dimensional Connection of Soul (COS) scale that are aligned with three dominant spiritual worldviews, conceptualizing life after death: secular, Godcentered, and cosmic-spiritual perspectives, rooted in the three origins of the seven
dominant cultural in the world today. This development is a part of a crosscontinental effort by over 40 interdisciplinary scholars on a tool book: Assessing Spirituality in a Diversified World. Springer: Cham, Switzerland (2021).
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Crafting papers for publication: novelty and convention in academic writing
23/05/2022
Despite the conventions about what constitutes a strong/original theoretical contribution, publishing academic research inevitably takes the shape of a craft that authors frequently (and quite often painfully) learn by doing. In this session, we will look at some techniques that authors can use for developing effective arguments, leveraging academic conventions in a constructive fashion, and communicating clear contributions to their audiences (editors, reviewers, and readers at large).
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10 Maggio 2022
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Migration and national identity in Latin America. Historical and contemporary overview
20/04/2022
Through a historical analysis, the seminar aims to identify some characteristics of the problem of Atlantic migration, from and to Latin America. In particular, the issues of migration and national identity in the region will be explored. In this context, the "case study" of migration and identity processes in Argentina will also be presented. The "case study" incorporates the question of the reception of psychoanalysis, during the 20th century, especially in Buenos Aires, as a tool that contributed to the strengthening of a certain exclusionary collective identity that persists to this day in the country's culture.
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20 aprile 2022 - ore 15.00 Aula Ponzo Dipartimento di Psicologia dei processi di sviluppo e socializzazione Facoltà di Medicina e Psicologia Via dei Marsi 78 - 00185 Roma Link a Zoom: https://uniroma1.zoom.us/j/85982967240?pwd=M1pvL3RZVFhwOG9ZYmNiWms1dElHZz09
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Lunedì 4 aprile 2022 10.00 - 17.00 “Introduzione alla SNA e applicazioni” - Martedì 5 aprile 2022 10.00 - 17.00 “Introduzione alla SNA per dati testuali con applicazioni” - Link al seminario on-line: https://meet.google.com/ntd-oshu-czg
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