Cristina Baldissarri

TL;DR: Reduced empathy explained the effects of both forms of dehumanization on intergroup helping, whereas mechanistic dehumanization decreased willingness to help Japanese, even when controlling for attitudes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether the amount of digital communication technology use for virtual meetings (i.e., voice and video calls, online board games and multiplayer video games, or watching movies in party mode) during the lockdown promoted the perception of social support, which in itself mitigated the psychological effects of the lockdown in Italy.

TL;DR: It is found that objectification resulted in participants seeing themselves as less warm, competent, moral, and lacking in human nature and human uniqueness: as lacking warmth, competence, morality, and humanity.

TL;DR: The authors studied the psychological processes that contribute to maintaining social inequalities and revealed the invariance of these images and their importance in maintaining the social hierarchies through an integrated approach that combines a historical perspective with an illustrative review of the empirical research.

TL;DR: The authors found that factory workers, unlike artisans, were perceived as more instrument-like and less able to experience mental states when participants were asked to focus on the target's manual activities rather than on the person as a person.