MARI SILVIA

Role
Associate professor  
Academic disciplines
Social Psychology (PSIC-03/A)
Scientific-Disciplinary Group:
SOCIAL, WORK AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY (11/PSIC-03)
Office phone
Room:
  • U06, Floor: 4, Room: 4081
Reception hours

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Research

  • Psychology of intergroup relationships: collective victimhood and structural inequalities; historical memories and collective emotions; acculturation processes and prejudice reduction
  • Attitude Psychology: social psychological processes of conspiracy theories; shared intentions and social action; attitude-behavior relationship
  • Psychology of media: digital influence and conspiracy theories; scientific disinformation; identity processes in virtual domains; media and sexual objectification
  • Marketing and organizational psychology: emotional and political identity processes and consumer behavior; organizational commitment

Publications

  • Bagozzi, R., Xie, C., Mari, S. (2026). Benefit Mediates the Gratitude-Morality Link and Political Ideology Moderates the Effect. JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY & APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, 36(2 (March/April 2026)) [10.1002/casp.70229]. Detail

  • Zogmaister, C., Fedeli, F., Corinna Bading, K., Vezzoli, M., Anna Rinaldi, M., Mari, S., et al. (2025). I like it if peers eat it: Social evaluative learning toward insect food. Intervento presentato a: PHAIR Conference 2025 - July 2–5, 2025, Edinburgh. Detail

  • Zogmaister, C., Fedeli, F., Bading, K., Vezzoli, M., Rinaldi, M., Mari, S., et al. (2025). Promuovere diete sostenibili: Il ruolo dell’apprendimento sociale nell’aumentare l’accettazione degli alimenti a base di insetti. Intervento presentato a: Promuovere Diete Sane e Sostenibili - Dal 18 settembre 2025 al 19 settembre 2025, Milan, Italy. Detail

  • Zogmaister, C., Fedeli, F., Mari, S., Alparone, F., Talò, C., Aquino, A., et al. (2025). Measuring Implicit Attitudes & Behavioural Tendencies Toward Insect-Based Food. Intervento presentato a: Biennial Conference of the Asian Association of Social Psychology - July 10-12, Sunbay City, Malaysia. Detail

  • Demasi, V., Imhoff, R., Mari, S. (2025). The role of conspiracy beliefs and populist attitudes in shaping policy support within the economic context. Intervento presentato a: The 48th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) "Social Identity, Political Conflict, and the Future of Democracy" - 3 - 6 July 2025, Prague, Czech Republic. Detail

Research projects

Biodivercity: una strategia per al tutela della biodiversità a Milano
Year: 2020
Call: Bando 57
Grantors: FONDAZIONE DI COMUNITA' DI MILANO CITTA', SUD EST, SUD OVEST E ADDA MARTESANA
Drivers of public responses toward Coronavirus outbreak and implications of social dynamics (COSD)
Year: 2020
Grantors: THE RESEARCH COUNCIL OF NORWAY (RCN)
Approccio etnografico e dei behavioural nudges per la definizione dei fattori che inducono il consumatore ad attuare comportamenti corretti durante la manipolazione domestica degli alimenti e relativo sviluppo di un’efficace strategia di comunicazione del rischio
Year: 2018
Grantors: MINISTERO DELLA SALUTE
The Psychology of Economic Inequality
Year: 2017
Call: PRIN 2017
Grantors: M.I.U.R. - MINISTERO DELL'ISTRUZIONE, DELL'UNIVERSITA' E DELLA RICERCA

Awards

Awards

  • 2019 International Travel Awards 2019 SPSSI, (Society for the Psychological Studies of Social Issues, 2019
  • Teacher/Scholar Travel Award - Society for Personality and Social Psychology 2018, Society for Personality and Social Psychology http://www.spsp.org/, 2018
  • European Association of Social Psychology - Full Member Travel Grant, European Association of Social Psychology, 2018
  • Premio S.I.P.CO, S.I.P.CO (Società Italiana di Psicologia di Comunità), 2012
  • Premio Miglior Poster Associazione Italiana di Psicologia - Sezione di Psicologia Sociale, Associazione Italiana di Psicologia - Sezione di Psicologia Sociale, 2007
  • Premio miglior tesi di dottorato - Associazione Italiana di Psicologia (sezione di psicologia sociale), AIP - Associazione Italiana di Psicologia, 2006

Scientific fellowships

  • Componente del Consiglio/Comitato Direttivo - International Society for Political Psychology, 2024
  • Socio effettivo o corrispondente - Asian Association of Social Psychology, 2013
  • Socio effettivo o corrispondente - Society for Psychological Studies of Social Issues, 2012
  • Socio effettivo o corrispondente - European Association of Social Psychology, 2005
  • Socio effettivo o corrispondente - International Society of Political Psychology, 2005
  • Socio effettivo o corrispondente - Society for Personality and Social Psychology, 2005
  • Socio effettivo o corrispondente - Associazione Italiana di Psicologia - Sezione di Psicologia Sociale, 2004

Editorial boards

  • Membro del Comitato Editoriale - REVISTA DE PSICOLOGÍA SOCIAL, 2025
  • Associate Editor di rivista o collana editoriale - BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, 2024 - 2026
  • Membro del Comitato Editoriale - BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, 2023 - 2025
  • Associate Editor di rivista o collana editoriale - JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 2019 - 2022
  • Guest Editor di rivista o collana editoriale - EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, 2016
  • Membro del Comitato Editoriale - REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE PSYCHOLOGIE SOCIALE, 2016 - 2026
  • Guest Editor di rivista o collana editoriale - REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE PSYCHOLOGIE SOCIALE, 2015
  • Membro del Comitato Editoriale - JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY, 2012 - 2022

Research and teaching assignments

  • Visiting Researcher - Visiting Scholar in collaboration with Prof. R.P. Bagozzi at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management, Rice University, Houston (TX) - Rice University, 2005
  • Attivita' didattica - Erasmus+ teaching experience - Panteion University, 2017
  • Visiting Researcher - Research projects' implementation in cultural neurosciences - University of Michigan, 2010
  • Attivita' didattica - Erasmus - University of Cyprus, 2020
  • Attivita' didattica - Erasmus+ - Teaching mobility - Keele University, 2019

Congresses/Conferences

  • Program committee - EASP General Meeting Krakow(Polonia), 2023
  • Program committee - XIV European Congress of Psychology(Italia), 2015
  • Program chair - European Association of Social Psychology - Small Group Meeting on Psychological perspectives on collective victimhood and its consequences for intergroup relations - Co-President(Italia), 2014