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Alberto Voci

Alberto Voci

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Psychology

D-Index
35
Citations
9385
World Ranking
9692
National Ranking
214

Overview

Alberto Voci is affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy. The research focuses primarily on psychology and social sciences, with significant contributions across numerous subfields including social psychology, sociology and political science, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's work covers key topics such as mindfulness and compassion interventions, cultural differences and values, social and intergroup psychology, anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment and cognitive processes, mental health research topics, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, and social and cultural dynamics.

Some of the recent papers authored by Voci include:

  • COVID-19 threat and perceptions of common belonging with outgroups: The roles of prejudice-related individual differences and intergroup contact (2021, Personality and Individual Differences)
  • Deprovincialization as a key correlate of ideology, prejudice, and intergroup contact (2020, Personality and Individual Differences)
  • Close to me: The importance of closeness versus superficiality in explaining the positive-negative contact asymmetry (2020, European Journal of Social Psychology)
  • Deprovincialization: Its Importance for Plural Societies (2022, Social Issues and Policy Review)
  • A deeper look at the relationship between dispositional mindfulness and empathy: Meditation experience as a moderator and dereification processes as mediators (2020, Personality and Individual Differences)

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Giulia Fuochi
  • Jessica Boin
  • Miles Hewstone
  • Alice Lucarini
  • Maykel Verkuyten

Publication venues where Voci's research appears most often are:

  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • Mindfulness
  • Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology
  • European Journal of Social Psychology
  • Social Issues and Policy Review

Best Publications

  • Intergroup Contact and Prejudice Toward Immigrants in Italy: The Mediational Role of Anxiety and the Moderational Role of Group Salience:

    Alberto Voci;Miles Hewstone

  • Reducing explicit and implicit outgroup prejudice via direct and extended contact: The mediating role of self-disclosure and intergroup anxiety.

    Rhiannon N. Turner;Miles Hewstone;Alberto Voci

  • Effects of Direct and Indirect Cross-Group Friendships on Judgments of Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland: The Mediating Role of an Anxiety-Reduction Mechanism

    Stefania Paolini;Miles Hewstone;Ed Cairns;Alberto Voci

  • A test of the extended intergroup contact hypothesis: the mediating role of intergroup anxiety, perceived ingroup and outgroup norms, and inclusion of the outgroup in the self.

    Rhiannon N. Turner;Miles Hewstone;Alberto Voci;Christiana Vonofakou

  • Intergroup Contact, Forgiveness, and Experience of “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland

    Miles Hewstone;Ed Cairns;Alberto Voci;Juergen Hamberger

  • Affective mediators of intergroup contact: a three-wave longitudinal study in South Africa

    Hermann Swart;Miles Hewstone;Oliver Christ;Alberto Voci

  • Grandparent-Grandchild Contact and Attitudes Toward Older Adults: Moderator and Mediator Effects

    Jake Harwood;Miles Hewstone;Stefania Paolini;Alberto Voci

  • The link between identification and in-group favouritism: effects of threat to social identity and trust-related emotions.

    Alberto Voci

  • Reducing prejudice via direct and extended cross-group friendship.

    Rhiannon N. Turner;Miles Hewstone;Alberto Voci;Stefania Paolini

  • Direct Contact as a Moderator of Extended Contact Effects: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Impact on Outgroup Attitudes, Behavioral Intentions, and Attitude Certainty:

    Oliver Christ;Miles Hewstone;Nicole Tausch;Ulrich Wagner

  • Intergroup Contact and Grandparent-Grandchild Communication: The Effects of Self-Disclosure on Implicit and Explicit Biases Against Older People

    Tania Tam;Tania Tam;Miles Hewstone;Jake Harwood;Alberto Voci

  • Intergroup Contact: When Does it Work, and Why?

    Jared B. Kenworthy;Rhiannon N. Turner;Miles Hewstone;Alberto Voci

  • Intergroup Forgiveness and Guilt in Northern Ireland: Social Psychological Dimensions of “The Troubles”

    Miles Hewstone;Ed Cairns;Alberto Voci;Frances McLernon

  • Contact with out-group friends as a predictor of meta-attitudinal strength and accessibility of attitudes toward gay men.

    Christiana Vonofakou;Miles Hewstone;Alberto Voci

  • Intergroup Contact in a Divided Society: Challenging Segregation in Northern Ireland

    Miles Hewstone;Ed Cairns;Alberto Voci;Stefania Paolini

  • Intergroup contact and intergroup conflict.

    Miles Hewstone;Simon Lolliot;Hermann Swart;Elissa Myers

  • Stepping stones to reconciliation in Northern Ireland: Intergroup contact, forgiveness and trust

    Miles Hewstone;Jared B. Kenworthy;Ed Cairns;Nicole Tausch

  • Intergroup contact and the promotion of intergroup harmony: The influence of intergroup emotions

    Stefania Paolini;Miles Hewstone;Alberto Voci;Jake Harwood

  • Direct, extended, and mass-mediated contact with immigrants in Italy: their associations with emotions, prejudice, and humanity perceptions

    Emilio Paolo Visintin;Alberto Voci;Lisa Pagotto;Miles Hewstone

  • The Impact of Crossgroup Friendships in South Africa: Affective Mediators and Multigroup Comparisons

    Hermann Swart;Miles Hewstone;Oliver Christ;Alberto Voci

Frequent Co-Authors

Miles Hewstone
Miles Hewstone University of Oxford
Ed Cairns
Ed Cairns University of Ulster
Rhiannon N. Turner
Rhiannon N. Turner Queen's University Belfast
Nicole Tausch
Nicole Tausch University of St Andrews
Jake Harwood
Jake Harwood University of Arizona
Oliver Christ
Oliver Christ University of Hagen
Richard J. Crisp
Richard J. Crisp Durham University
Ángel Gómez
Ángel Gómez National University of Distance Education
Mark Rubin
Mark Rubin Durham University
Ulrich Wagner
Ulrich Wagner Philipp University of Marburg

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