Current Position
Lecturer of Social Psychology at the Faculty of
Psychology, University of Bologna , SSD M-PSI/05.
Academic Career
2010
Research fellow on the project titled “The language of school and
professional evaluation”, supervisor prof. Monica Rubini,
University of Bologna.
2007 – 2009 Post-doctoral research
fellow scholarship on the project titled “When the language makes
the difference: the role of language abstraction in evaluation”,
University of Bologna, supervisor prof. Augusto Palmonari.
2006 – 2007 Research fellow on the
project titled “The language of academic comparative evaluations”
University of Bologna.
2006
PhD in Social, Developmental and Organisational Psychology.
Dissertation title: The strategic language use in the context of
political communication. Department of Education University of
Bologna, Italy. Supevisor: prof. Monica Rubini,
2003– 2005 Post graduate
Research Grant of the Department of Education, University of
Bologna, Italy
2004
Borsa di studio nell'ambito del Programma Marco Polo
dell'Università di Bologna per un soggiorno di 3 mesi presso
l'University of Maryland, Department of Psychology, College Park,
MD, USA.
2001
Degree (equivalent to M.A.) in Psychology, University of Bologna,
Italy. Dissertation title: Abstraction and implicit quantifiers:
language tools useful to convince. Supervisor: prof. Monica
Rubini.
Awards
2010
Journal of Language and Social Psychology Best Paper Award
2008-2009
2006
Best Italian PhD Dissertation in Social Psychology (Italian
Association of Psychology).
Research Activity
2012-2017 Member of the FIRB project "The importance of being hones. Morality as the fundamental dimension of social relationships", financed by the Italian Ministry for University and Research
2008 –
Member
of the Laboratory for the Study of Social Prejudice, University of
Bologna.
2005 – 2010 Research activity in the
projects co-financed by the Italian Ministry for University and
Research on the topics: Moderating factors of social prejudice
(2008), and Social, affective and relational factors in the genesis
of intergroup prejudice: articulating different levels of
analysis(2005).
2009
Research activity on a project co-financed by the Italian Ministry
for University and Research titled “Moderating factors of
social prejudice”. Principal Investigator prof. Augusto
Palmonari.
2007
Member of the organizing committee of the 8th Meeting of the
Italian Association of Psuchology (AIP), Social Psychology
Section.
2006
EAESP Summer School; workshop “Language, Cognition and Culture”,
supervisors: professors Gun Semin and Anne Maass. Faculty of
Psychology, University of Padova.
2003
Visiting PhD student, University of Maryland, Department of
Psychology, College Park, MD, USA. Supervisor professor Harold
Sigall.
2000
Visiting undergraduate student, Free University of Amsterdam,
Department of Social Psychology, Supervisor professor Gun
Semin.
Teaching
2016-2018
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY - Bacelor degree in Psychological Science, School of Psychology and Science of Education.
RESEARCH AND MASTER THESIS (Research Skills), Master degree in Work, organizational and personnel psychology, School of Psychology and Science of Education.
2014 - 2016
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY - Bacelor courses in Psychological Science, School of Psychology and Science of Education.
RESEARCH METHODS AND INSTRUMENTS - Master courses in Work Organizational and Personnel Psychology (14 ore), School of Psychology and Science of Education.
2012-2014
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY - Bacelor courses in Psychological Science, School of Psychology and Science of Education.
HOW TO WRITE A RESEARCH PAPER - Bacelor courses in Psychological Science, School of Psychology and Science of Education.
RESEARCH METHODS AND INSTRUMENTS - Master courses in Work Organizational and Personnel Psychology (14 ore), School of Psychology and Science of Education.
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY - Bacelor courses in Sociology and Social Services, School of Political Sciences
2010-2012
HOW TO WRITE A RESEARCH PAPER - Bacelor courses in Psychological Science, School of Psychology and Science of Education.
RESEARCH METHODS AND INSTRUMENTS - Master courses in Work Organizational and Personnel Psychology (14 ore), School of Psychology and Science of Education.
2009 – 2010
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY - Bacelor courses in Sociology and Social Services, School of Political Sciences
2007 – 2009
HOW TO WRITE A RESEARCH PAPER - Bacelor courses in Psychological Science, School of Psychology and Science of Education.
RESEARCH METHODS AND INSTRUMENTS - Master courses in Work Organizational and Personnel Psychology (14 ore), School of Psychology and Science of Education.
Memberships
European Association of Social Psychology
(EASP)
Italian Association of Psychology (AIP) - Social
Psychology Section
Ad Hoc reviewer for:
Journal of Language and Social Psychology, European Journal of Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Political Psychology, Social Influence, Psicologia Sociale
.
