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Full Professor of Social Psychology at the Surgical, Medical and Dental Department of Morphological Sciences related to Transplant, Oncology and Regenerative Medicine, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (from January 2020). He was already Associate Professor at the Department of Education and Humanities, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (from November 2014 to January 2020), and Assistant Professor at the Department of Education and Humanities, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (from 1st September 2011 to 31th October 2014). Interested in: intergroup contact and prejudice reduction strategies; acculturation processes; implicit social evaluations and stereotypes; intergroup theories.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Loris Vezzali

Citation names

  • Vezzali, Loris

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
A61E-ECA9-2ECA
ORCID iD
0000-0001-7536-9994

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Psychology
Education
Degree Classification
2008/03
Concluded
 Social and Personality Psychology (Doutoramento)
Università degli Studi di Padova Scuola di Psicologia, Italy
"Contact hypothesis: Testing models with different paradigms" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2010/01 - 2010/12 Postdoc (Research) Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
2008/04 - 2009/04 Postdoc (Research) Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/01 - Current Full Professor (University Teacher) Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia Dipartimento Chirurgico Medico Odontoiatrico e di Scienze Morfologiche con Interesse Trapiantologico, Italy
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
2014/11 - 2020/01 Associate Professor (University Teacher) Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia Dipartimento di Educazione e Scienze Umane, Italy
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia Dipartimento di Educazione e Scienze Umane, Italy
2011/09/11 - 2014/10/31 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia Dipartimento di Educazione e Scienze Umane, Italy
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia Dipartimento di Educazione e Scienze Umane, Italy
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2019/09 - 2020/09 Di pari passo-Opportunità anche nello sport [Going on together: Opportunities in sport also]
Di pari passo
Researcher
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
 La Regione Lombardia
Ongoing
2017/09/01 - 2020/08/31 UPPER - Systemic Upscaling of Peace Education Practices
UPPER
Researcher
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
 European Commission
Ongoing
2017/09/01 - 2020/08/31 TILL – A European qualification of teacher competences for lifelong learning
TILL
Researcher
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
 European Commission
Concluded
2017/09/01 - 2020/02/29 Soundwords: Graphic Story Telling
SOUNDWORDS
Researcher
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
 European Commission
Concluded
2016 - 2016 Ubiquitous objective measures of intergroup nonverbal behaviors
FAR Project 2016
Researcher
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
 Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Concluded
2015 - 2015 Cross-race accuracy bias in lie detection
FAR Project 2015
Researcher
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
 Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Concluded
2014 - 2014 Goal integration: Innovative strategies for reducing interethnic prejudice in educational contexts
FAR Project 2014
Principal investigator
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
 Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Pagliaro, S.; Sacchi, S.; Vezzali, Loris. Psicologia sociale. Teorie sui processi psicologici, intraindividuali, interpersonali e intergruppi [Social psychology. Theories on intraindividual, interpersonal, intergroup psychological processes]. Italy: SAGE. 2019.
    Published
  2. Vezzali, Loris; Stathi, Sofia. Intergroup contact theory: Recent developments and future directions. United Kingdom: Routledge. 2017.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Vezzali, Loris; Stathi, Sofia. "The extended intergroup contact hypothesis: State of the art and future developments". In Intergroup contact theory: Recent developments and future directions, 114-130. United Kingdom: Routledge, 2017.
    Published
  2. Vezzali, Loris; Stathi, Sofia. "The present and the future of the contact hypothesis, and the need for integrating research fields". In Intergroup contact theory: Recent developments and future directions, 1-7. United Kingdom: Routledge, 2017.
    Accepted
  3. Vezzali, Loris; Andrighetto, Luca; Drury, John; Di Bernardo, Gian Antonio; Cadamuro, Alessia. "In the Aftermath of Natural Disasters: Fostering Helping Towards Outgroup Victims". In Intergroup Helping, 305-330. Springer International Publishing, 2017.
    10.1007/978-3-319-53026-0_15
Conference paper
  1. Palazzi, Andrea; Calderara, Simone; Bicocchi, Nicola; Vezzali, Loris; di Bernardo, Gian Antonio; Zambonelli, Franco; Cucchiara, Rita. "Spotting prejudice with nonverbal behaviours". 2016.
    10.1145/2971648.2971703
Journal article
  1. Stathi, Sofia; Pavetich, Melissa; Di Bernardo, Gian Antonio; Cadamuro, Alessia; Cocco, Veronica Margherita; Vezzali, Loris. "Intergroup fears and concerns among minority and majority groups: Implications for contact and attitudes". Journal of Community Psychology 48 3 (2020): 1010-1027. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22322.
    10.1002/jcop.22322
  2. Wang, Changcheng; Huang, Fei; Stathi, Sofia; Vezzali, Loris. "Positive and negative intergroup contact and willingness to engage in intergroup interactions among majority (Han) and minority (Uyghur) group members in China: The moderating role of social dominance orientation". International Journal of Intercultural Relations 75 (2020): 132-140. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2018.09.002.
    10.1016/j.ijintrel.2018.09.002
  3. Stathi, Sofia; Di Bernardo, Gian Antonio; Vezzali, Loris; Pendleton, Samantha; Tropp, Linda R.. "Do they want contact with us? The role of intergroup contact meta-perceptions on positive contact and attitudes". Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/casp.2452.
    10.1002/casp.2452
  4. Bagci, C.; Stathi, Sofia; Vezzali, Loris; Turnuklu, A.; Piyale, Z.. "I (dis)like the way you (dis)like them: The role of extended contact on social distance and attitudes towards the ingroup". British Journal of Social Psychology (2020):
    In press
  5. Mancini, T.; Caricati, L.; Di Bernardo, G. A.; Vezzali, Loris. "Support for rejection and reception policies toward asylum seekers in Italy: The role of conservative ideologies and legitimizing myths". Journal of Social Psychology (2020):
    In press
  6. Vezzali, Loris. "Making the school smart: The interactive whiteboard against disparities in children stemming from low metacognitive skills". Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society (2020):
    In press
  7. Di Bernardo, Gian Antonio; Vezzali, Loris; Stathi, Sofia; McKeown Jones, Shelley; Cocco, Veronica Margherita; Saguy, Tamar; Dixon, John. "Fostering social change among advantaged and disadvantaged group members: Integrating intergroup contact and social identity perspectives on collective action". Group Processes & Intergroup Relations (2019): 136843021988913. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1368430219889134.
    10.1177/1368430219889134
  8. Vezzali, Loris; Di Bernardo, Gian Antonio; Birtel, Michèle D.; Stathi, Sofia; Brambilla, Marco. "Outgroup morality perceptions mediate secondary transfer effects from direct and extended contact: Evidence from majority and minority group members". Group Processes & Intergroup Relations (2019): 136843021987922. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1368430219879223.
    10.1177/1368430219879223
  9. Vezzali, Loris; Birtel, Michèle D.; Di Bernardo, Gian Antonio; Stathi, Sofia; Crisp, Richard John; Cadamuro, Alessia; Visintin, Emilio Paolo. "Don’t hurt my outgroup friend: A multifaceted form of imagined contact promotes intentions to counteract bullying". Group Processes & Intergroup Relations (2019): 136843021985240. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1368430219852404.
    10.1177/1368430219852404
  10. Stathi, Sofia; Vezzali, Loris; Waldzus, Sven; Hantzi, Alexandra. "The mobilizing and protective role of national identification in normative and non-normative collective action". Journal of Applied Social Psychology 49 9 (2019): 596-608. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12619.
    10.1111/jasp.12619
  11. Stathi, Sofia; Guerra, Rita; Di Bernardo, Gian Antonio; Vezzali, Loris. "Spontaneous imagined contact and intergroup relations: Quality matters". European Journal of Social Psychology 50 1 (2019): 124-142. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2600.
    10.1002/ejsp.2600
  12. Wang, Changcheng; Huang, Fei; Vezzali, Loris. "A test of positive and negative extended intergroup contact in a Chinese minority with perceived group norms and intergroup anxiety as mediators". Journal of Applied Social Psychology (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12532.
    10.1111/jasp.12532
  13. Birtel, Michèle D.; Di Bernardo, Gian Antonio; Stathi, Sofia; Crisp, Richard J.; Cadamuro, Alessia; Vezzali, Loris. "Imagining contact reduces prejudice in preschool children". Social Development 28 4 (2019): 1054-1073. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sode.12374.
    10.1111/sode.12374
  14. Trifiletti, E.; Cocco, V. M; Pecini, C.; Di Bernardo, Gian Antonio; Cadamuro, A.; Vezzali, Loris; Turner, R. N.. "A longitudinal test of the bi-directional relationships between intergroup contact, prejudice, dispositional empathy and social dominance orientation". testing (2019):
    Published
  15. Cadamuro, Alessia; Bisagno, E.; Pecini, C.; Vezzali, Loris. "Reflecting…“A bit”. What relationship between metacognition and ICT?". Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society 15 (2019): 183-195.
    Published
  16. Vezzali, Loris; Di Bernardo, Gian Antonio; Stathi, Sofia; Visintin, Emilio Paolo; Hewstone, Miles. "Using intercultural videos of direct contact to implement vicarious contact: A school-based intervention that improves intergroup attitudes". Group Processes & Intergroup Relations 22 7 (2018): 1059-1076. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1368430218809885.
    10.1177/1368430218809885
  17. Vezzali, Loris; Di Bernardo, Gian Antonio; Stathi, Sofia; Cadamuro, Alessia; Lášticová, Barbara; Andrašciková, Simona. "Secondary transfer effect among children: The role of social dominance orientation and outgroup attitudes". British Journal of Social Psychology 57 3 (2018): 547-566. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12248.
    10.1111/bjso.12248
  18. Birtel, M. D.; Vezzali, Loris; Stathi, Sofia. "Extended contact and affective factors: A review and suggestions for future research". Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology 25 (2018): 213-238.
    Published
  19. Vezzali, Loris; Turner, Rhiannon; Capozza, Dora; Trifiletti, Elena. "Does intergroup contact affect personality? A longitudinal study on the bidirectional relationship between intergroup contact and personality traits". European Journal of Social Psychology 48 2 (2017): 159-173. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2313.
    10.1002/ejsp.2313
  20. Vezzali, Loris; Andrighetto, Luca; Capozza, Dora; Di Bernardo, Gian Antonio; Saguy, Tamar. "Discussing differences between groups: The content of intergroup encounters and motivation for social change among members of advantaged groups". Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology 1 2 (2017): 52-59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jts5.12.
    10.1002/jts5.12
  21. Ferrari, Laura; Vezzali, Loris; Rosnati, Rosa. "The role of adoptive parents’ intergroup contact in fostering the well-being of adoptees: The “extended intragroup contact effect”". International Journal of Intercultural Relations 59 (2017): 43-52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2017.04.014.
    10.1016/j.ijintrel.2017.04.014
  22. Chernikova, Marina; Kruglanski, Arie; Giovannini, Dino; Vezzali, Loris; Su, Junjie. "Need for closure and reactions to innovation". Journal of Applied Social Psychology 47 9 (2017): 473-481. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12451.
    10.1111/jasp.12451
  23. Di Bernardo, Gian Antonio; Vezzali, Loris; Stathi, Sofia; Cadamuro, Alessia. "Vicarious, extended and imagined intergroup contact: A review of interventions based on indirect contact strategies applied in educational settings". Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology 24 (2017): 3-21.
    Accepted
  24. Vezzali, Loris; Versari, Annalisa; Cadamuro, Alessia; Trifiletti, Elena; Di Bernardo, Gian Antonio. "Out-group threats and distress as antecedents of common in-group identity among majority and minority group members in the aftermath of a natural disaster". International Journal of Psychology 53 6 (2016): 417-425. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12406.
    10.1002/ijop.12406
  25. Vezzali, Loris; Hewstone, Miles; Capozza, Dora; Trifiletti, Elena; Bernardo, Gian Antonio Di. "Improving Intergroup Relations with Extended Contact among Young Children: Mediation by Intergroup Empathy and Moderation by Direct Intergroup Contact". Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology 27 1 (2016): 35-49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/casp.2292.
    10.1002/casp.2292
  26. Vezzali, Loris; Goclowska, Malgorzata A.; Crisp, Richard J.; Stathi, Sofia. "On the relationship between cultural diversity and creativity in education: The moderating role of communal versus divisional mindset". Thinking Skills and Creativity 21 (2016): 152-157. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2016.07.001.
    10.1016/j.tsc.2016.07.001
  27. Andrighetto, Luca; Vezzali, Loris; Bergamini, Giulia; Nadi, Chaima; Giovannini, Dino. "Inside the earthquake: Perceived disaster exposure and helping intentions among Italian and immigrant victims of the 2012 Italian earthquakes". Group Processes & Intergroup Relations 19 6 (2016): 753-768. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1368430215591040.
    10.1177/1368430215591040
  28. Vezzali, Loris. "Valence matters: Positive meta-stereotypes and interethnic interactions". The Journal of Social Psychology 157 2 (2016): 247-261. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2016.1208140.
    10.1080/00224545.2016.1208140
  29. Vezzali, Loris; Brambilla, Marco; Giovannini, Dino; Paolo Colucci, Francesco. "Strengthening Purity: Moral Purity as a Mediator of Direct and Extended Cross-Group Friendships on Sexual Prejudice". Journal of Homosexuality 64 6 (2016): 716-730. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2016.1196998.
    10.1080/00918369.2016.1196998
  30. Vezzali, Loris; Andrighetto, Luca; Di Bernardo, Gian Antonio; Nadi, Chaima; Bergamini, Giulia. "Negative intergroup contact and support for social policies toward the minority outgroup in the aftermath of a natural disaster". The Journal of Social Psychology 157 4 (2016): 407-415. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2016.1184126.
    10.1080/00224545.2016.1184126
  31. Vezzali, Loris; Stathi, Sofia; Crisp, Richard J.; Capozza, Dora. "Comparing direct and imagined intergroup contact among children: Effects on outgroup stereotypes and helping intentions". International Journal of Intercultural Relations 49 (2015): 46-53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2015.06.009.
    10.1016/j.ijintrel.2015.06.009
  32. Vezzali, Loris; Stathi, Sofia; Crisp, Richard J.; Giovannini, Dino; Capozza, Dora; Gaertner, Samuel L.. "Imagined Intergroup Contact and Common Ingroup Identity". Social Psychology 46 5 (2015): 265-276. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000242.
    10.1027/1864-9335/a000242
  33. Vezzali, Loris; Drury, John; Versari, Annalisa; Cadamuro, Alessia. "Sharing distress increases helping and contact intentions via social identification and inclusion of the other in the self: Children’s prosocial behaviour after an earthquake". Group Processes & Intergroup Relations 19 3 (2015): 314-327. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1368430215590492.
    10.1177/1368430215590492
  34. Cadamuro, Alessia; Versari, Annalisa; Vezzali, Loris; Trifiletti, Elena. "Preventing the detrimental effect of posttraumatic stress in young children: The role of theory of mind in the aftermath of a natural disaster". European Journal of Developmental Psychology 13 1 (2015): 52-66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2015.1055240.
    10.1080/17405629.2015.1055240
  35. Vezzali, Loris; Stathi, Sofia; Giovannini, Dino; Capozza, Dora; Visintin, Emilio Paolo. "‘And the best essay is…’: Extended contact and cross-group friendships at school". British Journal of Social Psychology 54 4 (2015): 601-615. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12110.
    10.1111/bjso.12110
  36. Vezzali, Loris; Cadamuro, Alessia; Versari, Annalisa; Giovannini, Dino; Trifiletti, Elena. "Feeling like a group after a natural disaster: Common ingroup identity and relations with outgroup victims among majority and minority young children". British Journal of Social Psychology 54 3 (2014): 519-538. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12091.
    10.1111/bjso.12091
  37. Vezzali, Loris; Stathi, Sofia; Giovannini, Dino; Capozza, Dora; Trifiletti, Elena. "The greatest magic of Harry Potter: Reducing prejudice". Journal of Applied Social Psychology 45 2 (2014): 105-121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12279.
    10.1111/jasp.12279
  38. Cadamuro, Alessia; Versari, Annalisa; Vezzali, Loris; Giovannini, Dino; Trifiletti, Elena. "Cognitive Performance in the Aftermath of a Natural Disaster: The Role of Coping Strategies, Theory of Mind and Peer Social Support". Child & Youth Care Forum 44 1 (2014): 93-113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10566-014-9272-z.
    10.1007/s10566-014-9272-z
  39. Vezzali, Loris; Crisp, Richard J.; Stathi, Sofia; Giovannini, Dino. "Imagined intergroup contact facilitates intercultural communication for college students on academic exchange programs". Group Processes & Intergroup Relations 18 1 (2014): 66-75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1368430214527853.
    10.1177/1368430214527853
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2018/01/19 Fostering intergroup tolerance in schools Relation presented within the Project Wise Choices
Collaboration with the University of Helsinki (Finland) and the Centre for continuing education and the discipline social psychology of the University of Helsinki (Helsinki, Finland)
2016/11/04 Fighting prejudice within schools: Is that possible? Psychological strategies for creating more harmonious relations between groups in educational contexts Relation presented at the University of Helsinki (Finland) within the research area of cultural and social diversities and intergroup relations of the doctoral program in social sciences
University of Helsinki (Helsinki, Finland)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2018/10/01 - 2020/03/01 UPPER – systeming UPscaling of Peace Education pRactices
Supervisor of Eleonora Crapolicchio
 Post-doc student (Scientific initiation)
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
2019/03/01 - 2019/11/30 SOUNDWORDS
Supervisor of Gian Antonio Di Bernardo
 Post-doc student (Scientific initiation)
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
2017/10/01 - 2018/02/28 UBINVB – Ubiquitous objective measures of intergroup nonverbal behaviors
Supervisor of Gian Antonio Di Bernardo
 Post-doc student (Scientific initiation)
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
2015/10/01 - 2016/09/30 Aim integration: innovative strategies for interethnic reducing prejudice within educational contexts
Supervisor of Gian Antonio di Bernardo
 Post-doc student (Scientific initiation)
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Distinctions

Award

2008 Best doctoral thesis in Social Psychology
Italian Psychological Association, Section of Social Psychology., Italy