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Silvia Moscatelli

Associate Professor

Department of Psychology "Renzo Canestrari"

Academic discipline: PSIC-03/A Social Psychology

Director of First Cycle Degree in Psychological Sciences and Techniques

Research

Keywords: Gender bias Tolerance of sexual harassment: antecedents and consequences Relations between host society and immigrants Attitudes towards medical assisted procreation Attitudes towards collective movements (e.g., #MeToo) Allyship between advantaged and minority groups for social change Gender-based violence and femicide

1) Gender bias.

-Investigation of the antecedents of inequalities (in personnel selection, in career advancement, in salaries) between women and men

- "Perfection bias": Do women are required to fulfill higher standards on a wider range of evaluation criteria (competence, relational abilities, morality, ecc.)?

- Predictors of support for collective movement for gender equality in women and men

2) Tolerance of sexual harassment: Antecedents and consequences

- Role of internalized sexualization and sexualized gender stereotypes among women and men

- Predictors of support for collective movements in favor of sexual abus victims: the #MeToo movement

- Participation to online actions and movements against sexual harassment: possible repercussions on offline actions

3) Relations between host society and immigrants

- Consequences of "hate speech" against immigrants

4) Attitudes towards medical-assisted procreation.

- Relationships among religiosity, perceived immorality of medical-assisted procreation, attribution of efficacy on attitudes towards medical treatment of infertility

- Attitudes towards women and men who recur to homologous and heterologous fecondation

5) Attitudes towards collective movements (e.g., Fridays for future, #MeToo)

- Host majority's engagement in collective action in favor of refugees

- Antecedents and moderators of attitudes towards collective movements such as Fridays for future or #MeToo.

- Repercussions of the emergence of collective movements as well as of participation to the movements, through online or offline actions.