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ALBERTO VOCI

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Position

Professore Ordinario

Address

VIA VENEZIA, 14 - PADOVA

Telephone

0498276645

He obtained a degree in Psychology and a Ph.D. in Social and Personality Psychology from the University of Padua. He is a Full Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Padua. He teaches the following courses: Strategies of Prejudice Reduction; Contemplative Psychology and Promotion of Individual and Social Well-being; Psychosocial Processes in Groups. He has spent periods abroad at the School of Psychology at the University of Wales (Cardiff) and the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, as well as the Department of Psychology at Ohio State University (Columbus, USA). He served as associate editor of the European Journal of Social Psychology and was a member of the editorial board of the European Review of Social Psychology and Social Psychology Quarterly. In 2009, in collaboration with Rhiannon Turner and Miles Hewstone, he received the "Robert B. Cialdini award" from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. His main research areas include: reducing prejudice through intergroup contact, perspective-taking and empathy; the influence of awareness and self-perceptions on well-being and prosociality; the psychosocial correlates of spirituality and religiosity.

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Office hours

  • Thursday from 9:30 to 11:30
    at Il ricevimento si terrà in presenza, previa mail da inviare a: alberto.voci@unipd.it
    Ufficio al quinto piano di Psico 3, via Venezia 14

Research Area

- Self-perceptions, awareness, contemplation, well-being and prosociality. The relationships between individual variables related to self-perception and awareness, such as self-compassion, mindfulness, decentering and non-attachment, and constructs related to openness towards others and psychological well-being are investigated, as well as their relationship with contemplative practices.
- Techniques for reducing prejudice. The ways in which intergroup contact can reduce prejudice are analyzed. In particular, the importance of emotional factors, such as anxiety and empathy, and the salience of category memberships are studied; the secondary transfer effect of contact; the processes of cognitive and cultural liberalization promoted by intergroup contact.
- The psychosocial correlates of religiosity and spirituality. Different ways of experiencing religiosity and spirituality and their relationship with the various dimensions of individual and social well-being are considered.

Thesis proposals

- Different types of awareness and well-being
- Different types of awareness and prosociality
- Intergroup contact and prejudice reduction
- Psychosocial correlates of religiosity and spirituality