Education and work experience
Trainings
Ph. D. in Social Psychology
Italie
B.A. in Education
Italie
Work experience
Senior Researcher (Maitre-assistant), University of Lausanne
Laboratory for Life-Course Studies (LaboPavie), University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Key responsibilities:
- Analysis of the effects of exposure to collective war-victimization in Former-Yugoslavia in the Transition to Adulthood and Collective Experience Survey
(TRACES)
- Analysis of cross-cultural datasets on human values and trust in authority institutions.
- Dissemination of project findings in publications and at international conferences
2009
- 2011
Suisse
Lecturer
Key responsibilities:
- Teaching in life-course approach and quantitative methods.
- Member of the scientific team of the project Vulnerability processes in adult life: Cumulative disadvantages, critical events, and socio-psychosocial resources.
- Member of the scientific team of the project Vulnerability and growth: Developmental dynamics and differential effects of the loss of an intimate partner in the second life half, coordinated by Prof. Pasqualina Perrig-Chiello.
- Questionnaire design for surveys being conducted in the context of the NCCR LIVES project, including a long-standing collaboration with the Swiss Household Panel managed by the Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences FORS.
- Line management of junior research assistants and co-supervising doctoral students.
- Analysing data, and preparing scientific reports and manuscripts for publication in international journals (based on the NCCR LIVES project, as well as own personal research interests and activities).
2013
Suisse
Lecturer, University of Bologna
Courses on on group dynamics
2007
- 2008
Italie
Senior Researcher
Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research LIVES - Overcoming vulnerability: life course perspectives, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Key responsibilities:
Collaboration with in the day-to-day coordination of the lead project Vulnerability processes in adult life: Cumulative disadvantages, critical events, and socio-psychosocial resources.
Member of the scientific team of the project Vulnerability and growth: Developmental dynamics and differential effects of the loss of an intimate partner in the second life half, coordinated by Prof. Pasqualina Perrig-Chiello.
Coordination of 14 research projects developed at the NCCR LIVES and responsibility for liaising with international partners and the Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences FORS .
Sample design and questionnaire design for surveys being conducted in the context of the NCCR LIVES project.
Design and testing of a self-administered biographical questionnaire (life history calendar) for the Swiss Household Panel.
Line management of junior research assistants and co-supervising doctoral students.
Member of the NCCR LIVES Scientific Committee.
Analysing data, and preparing scientific reports and manuscripts for publication in international journals (based on the NCCR LIVES project, as well as own personal research interests and activities).
2011
- 2013
Suisse
Educator and Project coordinator, Centro Studi e Analisi di Psicologia e Sociologia Applicate [Center for the Study of Applied Sociology and Psychology]
Facilitator and coordinator in educational projects for adolescents at risk of social deviance and drug addiction. Projects were directed to informal groups of adolescents, aiming to prevention and risk reduction.
2003
- 2009
Italie
Junior Researcher, University of Bologna
Research assistant on a cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary project on bullying and cyberbulling, funded by EU DAPHNE II program. I was involved in the construction of the questionnaire, taking care of the contextual aspects of the research, and I was responsible for the qualitative part of the project, based on focus groups.
2008
- 2008
Italie
Lecturer
Lecturer and course coordinator in professional courses for mental disabled and psychiatric diseased students at high schools "E. Mattei", San Lazzaro di Savena (BO) and "Manfredi-Tanari", Bologna, Italy.
2003
- 2006
Software developer, Anastasis soc. Coop arl., Bologna, Italy
Developer of multimedia and didactic software for mental and motion disabled individuals.
1997
- 2002
Italie
Others activities
Professional Affiliations
Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)
International Society for Political Psychology (ISPP)
European Survey Research Association (ESRA)
Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies (SLLS)
Standing Group on Forms of Participation of The European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)
Social Psychology Network (SPN)
Global Organisation for Humanitarian Work Psychology (GO-HWP)
Reviewe
Editor-in-Chief of LIVES Working Paper Series
2012
Competences
Individual-authority relationship
My research is mainly concerned with individual-authority relationship, intergroup relations, and contextual effects. My early work was focused on obedience and disobedience dynamics vis-à-vis the authority. Together with Dr. Stefano Passini, I developed the concept of prosocial disobedience as a social resource. The basic idea is that people is that, whereas people may disobey the authority with analogous behaviours, there may be different psychological underpinning to disobedience which may lead to very different aims and results. In particular prosocial disobedience is defined as a type of disobedience addressed to accomplishing social change, and such a change does not represent a benefit for only one or few social groups, but it is addressed to society as a whole, without excluding any outgroup. Several studies I conducted showed that psychological processes of inclusion (e.g., moral inclusion and inclusive self categorization) are associated with and predictive of prosocial disobedience. I also showed as such type of disobedience is linked to the enhancement of democracy at the individual and societal levels.
Contextual effects
More recently, I turned to the issue of contextual factors influencing individual perception and attitudes. Here the focus is on collective experience and the idea that people is influence by the context were they live. This approach is complementary to the previous one, where we investigated the way individual may influence the social context. In the framework of the contextual effects, I studied reaction to collective vulnerability experiences, such as civil conflicts and collective economic deprivation. The hypothesis here is that when risks are shared «equally» within a given community or context, the existence of a collective vulnerability (common destiny), leads the member of community to reinforce social norms and social resources.
Statistical methods
Another interest of mine is statistics and methods. The research conducted so far focuses on several aspects of multilevel modelling, such as multilevel structural equation modelling, multilevel mixture models, multilevel longitudinal models. Far from being a pure methodologist, I believe in the interdisciplinary approach, which translate also in the use of statistical models applied in other human science(e.g., political science, economics and econometrics, sociology) and natural science (e.g., geography, biology).
