VOLPATO CHIARA

Role
Former Full Professor  
Office phone
Room:
  • U06, Floor: 3, Room: 3137
Reception hours

Every Thursday from 15.00 to 17.00. Variations will be posted on this personal page.

Biography

Chiara Volpato is Full Professor in Social Psychology at the University of Milano-Bicocca.

Her main fields of research are: Social identity and intergroup relationships, with a particular focus on social inequality, Prejudice and sexism, video games and violent media exposure and socio-psychological analysis of historical texts.

Recently published books: Deumanizzazione. Come si legittima la violenza (2011) and Psicosociologia del maschilismo (2013)

Research

Social identity and intergroup relationships, with a particular focus on social inequality, Prejudice and sexism, video games and violent media exposure and socio-psychological analysis of historical texts. 

Publications

  • Andrighetto, L., Riva, P., Gabbiadini, A., & Volpato, C. (2016). Excluded From All Humanity: Animal Metaphors Exacerbate the Consequences of Social Exclusion. JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, 35(6), 628-644. Detail
  • Baldissarri, C., Andrighetto, L., Gabbiadini, A., & Volpato, C. (2017). Work and freedom? Working self-objectification and belief in personal free will. BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, 56(2), 250-269. Detail
  • Andrighetto, L., Baldissarri, C., & Volpato, C. (2017). (Still) Modern Times: Evidence of objectification in the working domain. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, 47(1), 25-35. Detail
  • Gabbiadini, A., Riva, P., Andrighetto, L., Volpato, C., & Bushman, B.J. (2016). Acting like a tough guy: Violent-Sexist video games, identification with game characters, masculine beliefs, & empathy for female violence victims. PLOS ONE, 11(4). Detail

Research projects

Dai media alle molestie sessuali: quando la donna diventa oggetto
Year: 2013
Call: 2012-064 - PRIN 2012
Grantors: M.I.U.R. - MINISTERO DELL'ISTRUZIONE, DELL'UNIVERSITA' E DELLA RICERCA
Processi di acculturazione in immigrati e nella comunità di accoglienza
Year: 2005
Call: 2005-006 - PRIN 2005