Professor Stefania Paolini's Outputs (10)

Moral disagreements: Unearthing pathways to constructive and destructive behavioral responses (2025)
Journal Article
Khati, B., Kutlaca, M., McPhetres, J., & Paolini, S. (online). Moral disagreements: Unearthing pathways to constructive and destructive behavioral responses. Political Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.13077

Issues like transgender rights often provoke strong emotional reactions, leading to polarized conflicts. Moral psychology suggests that emotions like anger and disgust drive destructive behaviors, such as avoiding or insulting the opponent. However,... Read More about Moral disagreements: Unearthing pathways to constructive and destructive behavioral responses.

History and Research Methods (2024)
Book Chapter
Ross, P., Vasiljevic, M., & Paolini, S. (2024). History and Research Methods. In S. Paolini, R. N. Turner, M. Vasiljevic, & R. J. Crisp (Eds.), Social Psychology: Foundations, Advances and Applications. (1). SAGE Publications

Social Psychology: Foundations, Advances and Applications (2024)
Book
Paolini, S., Turner, R. N., Vasiljevic, M., & Crisp, R. J. (Eds.). (2024). Social Psychology: Foundations, Advances and Applications. SAGE Publications

Aiming to empower you throughout your undergraduate journey, this textbook covers the entire social psychology curriculum. More importantly, it offers inspiration to help you become an adept social psychologist, ready to unravel the intricacies of hu... Read More about Social Psychology: Foundations, Advances and Applications.

Reaching across social divides deliberately: Theoretical, political, and practical implications of intergroup contact volition for intergroup relations (2024)
Journal Article
Paolini, S., Harwood, J., Rubin, M., Huck, J., Dunn, K., & Dixon, J. (2024). Reaching across social divides deliberately: Theoretical, political, and practical implications of intergroup contact volition for intergroup relations. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 18(8), Article e12988. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12988

The benefits of positive intergroup contact for intergroup attitudes are well‐established. Yet individual and group self‐segregation practices demonstrate that opportunities for intergroup contact are not sufficient for contact uptake; and persistent... Read More about Reaching across social divides deliberately: Theoretical, political, and practical implications of intergroup contact volition for intergroup relations.

Negativity bias in intergroup contact: Meta-analytical evidence that bad is stronger than good, especially when people have the opportunity and motivation to opt out of contact. (2024)
Journal Article
Paolini, S., Gibbs, M., Sales, B., Anderson, D., & McIntyre, K. (2024). Negativity bias in intergroup contact: Meta-analytical evidence that bad is stronger than good, especially when people have the opportunity and motivation to opt out of contact. Psychological Bulletin, 150(8), https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000439

Seventy years of research on intergroup contact, or face-to-face interactions between members of opposing social groups, demonstrates that positive contact typically reduces prejudice and increases social cohesion. Extant syntheses, however, have not... Read More about Negativity bias in intergroup contact: Meta-analytical evidence that bad is stronger than good, especially when people have the opportunity and motivation to opt out of contact..

Psychological well-being in Europe after the outbreak of war in Ukraine (2024)
Journal Article
Scharbert, J., Humberg, S., Kroencke, L., Reiter, T., Sakel, S., ter Horst, J., Utesch, K., Gosling, S. D., Harari, G., Matz, S. C., Schoedel, R., Stachl, C., Aguilar, N. M. A., Amante, D., Aquino, S. D., Bastias, F., Bornamanesh, A., Bracegirdle, C., Campos, L. A. M., Chauvin, B., …Back, M. D. (2024). Psychological well-being in Europe after the outbreak of war in Ukraine. Nature Communications, 15(1), Article 1202. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-44693-6

The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, has had devastating effects on the Ukrainian population and the global economy, environment, and political order. However, little is known about the psychological states surrounding the outbreak o... Read More about Psychological well-being in Europe after the outbreak of war in Ukraine.

Sleep as a mediator of the relationship between social class and health in higher education students (2023)
Journal Article
McGuffog, R., Rubin, M., Boyes, M., Caltabiano, M. L., Collison, J., Lovell, G. P., Muldoon, O., & Paolini, S. (2023). Sleep as a mediator of the relationship between social class and health in higher education students. British Journal of Psychology, 114(3), 710-730. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12645

A substantial body of research indicates that higher education students from lower social class backgrounds tend to have poorer health than those from higher social class backgrounds. To investigate sleep as a potential mediator of this relationship,... Read More about Sleep as a mediator of the relationship between social class and health in higher education students.

Freely chosen positive intergroup imagery causes improved outgroup emotions and encourages increased contact seeking immediately and at follow up (2023)
Journal Article
Husnu, S., Paolini, S., & Berrigan, A. (2024). Freely chosen positive intergroup imagery causes improved outgroup emotions and encourages increased contact seeking immediately and at follow up. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 27(2), 393-413. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302221147000

In two ethnic contexts, we focus on volitional imagined contact as a potential method to increase individuals’ readiness to voluntarily initiate intergroup contact and engage in responses with implications for reconciliation. In Study 1, we used a qu... Read More about Freely chosen positive intergroup imagery causes improved outgroup emotions and encourages increased contact seeking immediately and at follow up.

Seeking Others’ Sounds: Predictors of Voluntary Exposure to Outgroup Music (2022)
Journal Article
Gim, H., Gahler, H., Harwood, J., & Paolini, S. (2023). Seeking Others’ Sounds: Predictors of Voluntary Exposure to Outgroup Music. Media Psychology, 26(1), 54-71. https://doi.org/10.1080/15213269.2022.2097095

Intergroup contact research demonstrates that contact with outgroups (including mediated contact) improves attitudes about those groups. However, people often avoid such contact, including avoiding outgroup media messages. In two studies, we investig... Read More about Seeking Others’ Sounds: Predictors of Voluntary Exposure to Outgroup Music.

Distinct trajectories of psychological distress among resettled refugees: Community acceptance predicts resilience while low ingroup social support predicts clinical distress (2022)
Journal Article
O’Donnell, A. W., Paolini, S., & Stuart, J. (2023). Distinct trajectories of psychological distress among resettled refugees: Community acceptance predicts resilience while low ingroup social support predicts clinical distress. Transcultural Psychiatry, 60(1), 26-38. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634615221098309

Refugees can experience elevated levels of psychological distress upon resettlement, although disparate outcomes over time are expected. The current study modeled trajectories of changes in distress over a 5-year period among resettled refugees and s... Read More about Distinct trajectories of psychological distress among resettled refugees: Community acceptance predicts resilience while low ingroup social support predicts clinical distress.