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Giovanni A. Travaglino

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Talis pater, talis filius: the role of discursive strategies, thematic narratives and ideology in Cosa Nostra

2018

The discursive analysis of criminal organizations’ family dynamics and ideological devices may provide important insights into the inner functioning of these groups. In this article, we describe and analyze a specific set of discursive strategies and the thematic narratives emerging from a TV interview with Giuseppe Riina, a member of Cosa Nostra and the son of one of the most important mafia bosses. Our analyses demonstrate the existence of recurring ideological devices such as reductionism, amoralism, familism, verticalism, normalism, victimism and religious relativism. The results are discussed in light of previous research that examines how discursive strategies and narratives may repre…

060201 languages & linguisticsStructure (mathematical logic)Reductionismmedia_common.quotation_subjectGeneral Social Sciences06 humanities and the artsEpistemologyFamily dynamics0602 languages and literatureNarrativeSociologyIdeologySet (psychology)Relativismmedia_commonCritical Discourse Studies
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The Psychological Science Accelerator’s COVID-19 rapid-response dataset

2023

Funder: Amazon Web Services (AWS) Imagine Grant

Statistics and Probability223 participants with varying completion rates. Participants completed the survey from 111 geopolitical regions in 44 unique languages/dialects. The anonymized dataset described here is provided in both raw and processed formats to facilitate re-use and further analyses. The dataset offers secondary analytic opportunities to explore copingBF Psychology230 Affective NeuroscienceHealth Behaviorand demographic information for each participant. Each participant started the study with the same general questions and then was randomized to complete either one longer experiment or two shorter experiments. Data were provided by 73Message framingDiseasesLibrary and Information Sciences:Ciências Sociais::Psicologia [Domínio/Área Científica]geographical and cultural context characterizationHV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. CriminologypandemiatEducationa general questionnaire examining health prevention behaviors and COVID-19 experienceddc:150SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-beingRA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive MedicineSurveys and QuestionnairesAdaptation PsychologicalyleiskartoituksetHumansPendienteHealth behaviorsPandemicsframingBehaviour Change and Well-beingEmotion regulationSelf-determination messagingand self-determination across a diverseCOVID-19kansainvälinen vertailuResearch dataComputer Science Applicationswhich can be merged with other time-sampled or geographic data.cognitive reappraisalsglobal sample obtained at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemicterveyskäyttäytyminenIn response to the COVID-19 pandemic/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/good_health_and_well_beingand autonomy framing manipulations on behavioral intentions and affective measures. The data collected (April to October 2020) included specific measures for each experimental studyStatistics Probability and UncertaintyPeople’s healthtutkimusaineistosurvey-tutkimusDatasetInformation Systemsthe Psychological Science Accelerator coordinated three large-scale psychological studies to examine the effects of loss-gain framing
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Alternative Systems: The Interplay between Criminal Groups’ Influence and Political Trust on Civic Honesty in the Global Context

2023

Individuals’ endorsement of standards of civic honesty is necessary for democracies to flourish. A critical driver of civic honesty is the relationship of trust between individuals and institutions. Research has yet to systematically assess the contextual factors that may moderate this relationship. In the present study, we examined the societal influence of organized criminal groups. Criminal groups operate as alternative systems of authority that erode the reliability of institutions' moral standards. We employed a new indicator that quantifies their societal influence to test the hypothesis that the association between individuals’ political trust and civic honesty would weaken in countr…

civic honesty public goods political trust organized criminal groupsSettore M-PSI/05 - Psicologia Sociale
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Perceived Corruption and Individuals’ Life Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of Institutional Trust

2018

Corruption degrades the quality of institutions, increases economic inequality and limits growth. Recent studies indicate that corruption is also associated with lower satisfaction with life. This research examines a potential explanation for this association and investigates the role of institutional trust in mediating the linkage between perceived corruption and satisfaction with life. Specifically, in two studies, we tested the novel hypothesises that perceived corruption affects life satisfaction indirectly by undermining individuals’ confidence in institutions. Study 1 (N = 251) involved an opportunity sample from the US. Study 2 (N = 9508) analysed data from the World Value Survey and…

Sociology and Political ScienceCorruptionmedia_common.quotation_subjectWell-beingBF050109 social psychologySample (statistics)HMArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)Economic inequality0502 economics and businessDevelopmental and Educational Psychology0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesWorld Values SurveyQuality (business)Trust · Life satisfaction050207 economicsmedia_commonMediation (Marxist theory and media studies)05 social sciencesGeneral Social SciencesLife satisfactionCorruptionWell-beingH1Settore SPS/07 - Sociologia GeneralePsychologySocial psychologySocial Indicators Research
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