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Maria Paola Paladino

Maria Paola Paladino

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Psychology

D-Index
33
Citations
7109
World Ranking
10390
National Ranking
238

Overview

Maria Paola Paladino is affiliated with the University of Trento in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with a significant focus on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, and Literature and Literary Theory.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics such as:

  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Media Influence and Health
  • Educational Games and Gamification

Recent notable papers authored or coauthored by Maria Paola Paladino include:

  • "Of precarity and conspiracy: Introducing a socio-functional model of conspiracy beliefs" (2022), published in British Journal of Social Psychology
  • "Trust in scientific information mediates associations between conservatism and coronavirus responses in the U.S., but few other nations" (2022), published in Scientific Reports
  • "Seven Clarifications on the Psychology of Dehumanization" (2020), published in Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "Being liked or not being liked: A study on social-media exclusion in a preadolescent population" (2020), published in Journal of Adolescence
  • "Sharpening of peripersonal space during the COVID-19 pandemic" (2021), published in Current Biology

Frequently, Paladino collaborates with several researchers including Ángel Gómez, Michael J. A. Wohl, Özden Melis Uluğ, Stylianos Syropoulos, and Bernhard Leidner.

Among the venues where Maria Paola Paladino has published work most often are:

  • British Journal of Social Psychology
  • Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
  • Research Square
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Psychological essentialism and the differential attribution of uniquely human emotions to ingroups and outgroups

    Jacques‐Philippe Leyens;Armando Rodriguez‐Perez;Ramon Rodriguez‐Torres;Ruth Gaunt

  • I Belong, therefore, I Exist: Ingroup Identification, Ingroup Entitativity, and Ingroup Bias

    Emanuele Castano;Vincent Yzerbyt;Maria-Paola Paladino;Simona Sacchi

  • Infra-humanization: The wall of group differences

    Jacques-Philippe Leyens;Stéphanie Demoulin;Jeroen Vaes;Ruth Gaunt

  • Emotional prejudice, essentialism, and nationalism - The 2002 Tajfel lecture

    Jacques‐Philippe Leyens;Brezo Cortes;Stéphanie Demoulin;Stéphanie Demoulin;John F. Dovidio

  • Dimensions of "uniquely" and "non-uniquely" human emotions.

    Stéphanie Demoulin;Jacques-Philippe Leyens;Maria-Paola Paladino;Ramon Rodriguez-Torres

  • On the behavioral consequences of infrahumanization: the implicit role of uniquely human emotions in intergroup relations.

    Jeroen Andre' Filip Vaes;M. P. Paladino;Luigi Alessandro Castelli;J. P. H. Leyens

  • Synchronous Multisensory Stimulation Blurs Self-Other Boundaries

    Maria-Paola Paladino;Mara Mazzurega;Francesco Pavani;Thomas W. Schubert

  • Blurring Human–Machine Distinctions: Anthropomorphic Appearance in Social Robots as a Threat to Human Distinctiveness

    Francesco Ferrari;Maria Paola Paladino;Jolanda Jetten

  • Differential Association of Uniquely and Non Uniquely Human Emotions with the Ingroup and the Outgroup

    Maria-Paola Paladino;Jacques-Philippe Leyens;Ramon Rodriguez;Armando Rodriguez

  • The Primacy of the Ingroup: The Interplay of Entitativity and Identification

    Vincent Yzerbyt;Emanuele Castano;Jacques-Philippe Leyens;Maria-Paola Paladino

  • We are human, they are not: Driving forces behind outgroup dehumanisation and the humanisation of the ingroup

    Jeroen Vaes;Jacques-Philippe Leyens;Maria Paola Paladino;Mariana Pires Miranda

  • Protecting the ingroup stereotype: Ingroup identification and the management of deviant ingroup members

    Emanuele Castano;Maria-Paola Paladino;Alastair Coull;Vincent Y. Yzerbyt

  • The role of in-group identification in infra-humanization.

    Stéphanie Demoulin;Brezo P. Cortes;Tendayi G. Viki;Armando P. Rodriguez

  • Emotional prejudice can lead to infra-humanisation

    Stephanie Demoulin;Ramon Rodriguez Torres;Armando Rodriguez Perez;Jeroen Vaes

  • On the Immediate Consequences of Intergroup Categorization: Activation of Approach and Avoidance Motor Behavior Toward Ingroup and Outgroup Members:

    Maria-Paola Paladino;Luigi Castelli

  • The lost e-mail: prosocial reactions induced by uniquely human emotions.

    Jeroen Vaes;Maria-Paola Paladino;Jacques-Philippe Leyens

  • The uniquely human content of stereotypes

    Jeroen Vaes;Maria Paola Paladino

  • Protecting the Ingroup: Motivated Allocation of Cognitive Resources in the Presence of Threatening Ingroup Members:

    Alastair Coull;Vincent Y. Yzerbyt;Emanuele Castano;Maria-Paola Paladino

  • Social perception of others shapes one's own multisensory peripersonal space

    Elisa Pellencin;Maria Paola Paladino;Bruno Herbelin;Andrea Serino;Andrea Serino

  • Gay- and Lesbian-Sounding Auditory Cues Elicit Stereotyping and Discrimination

    Fabio Fasoli;Anne Maass;Maria Paola Paladino;Simone Sulpizio

  • Not “just words”: Exposure to homophobic epithets leads to dehumanizing and physical distancing from gay men

    Fabio Fasoli;Maria Paola Paladino;Andrea Carnaghi;Jolanda Jetten

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacques-Philippe Leyens
Jacques-Philippe Leyens Université Catholique de Louvain
Emanuele Castano
Emanuele Castano University of Trento
Vincent Yzerbyt
Vincent Yzerbyt Université Catholique de Louvain
Jolanda Jetten
Jolanda Jetten University of Queensland
Brock Bastian
Brock Bastian University of Melbourne
Paul G. Bain
Paul G. Bain University of Bath
Ángel Gómez
Ángel Gómez National University of Distance Education
Michael J. A. Wohl
Michael J. A. Wohl Carleton University
Luigi Castelli
Luigi Castelli University of Padua
Thomas W. Schubert
Thomas W. Schubert University of Oslo

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