Publications


Below is a list of my research publications, each linked with its full text and, when available, an accompanying poster.

National identity and economic inequality: New insights from disadvantaged and advantaged groups


Valeria De Cristofaro, Carmen Cervone, Silvia Filippi, Marco Marinucci, Andrea Scatolon, Roberta Rosa Valtorta, Michela Vezzoli, Valerio Pellegrini

Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, vol. 35, 2025, pp. e70068


COVID-19 restrictions and sense of humanness: The role of human needs threat


Cristina Baldissarri, Giuseppe Raguso, Roberta Rosa Valtorta, Luca Andrighetto, Chiara Volpato

International Journal of Social Psychology, vol. 40, 2024, pp. 19-45


Development and validation of the Gender Stereotypes in Sport Scale (GSSS) in an Italian soccer context


Roberta Rosa Valtorta, Marco Morini, Maria Grazia Monaci

International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 2024, Advance online publication


Inequality perception and preferences globally and locally - Correlational evidence from a large-scale cross-country survey


Attila Gáspár, Carmen Cervone, Federica Durante, Anne Maass, Caterina Suitner, Roberta Rosa Valtorta, Michela Vezzoli

The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2024, Advance online publication


Investigating the link between biological dehumanization and indirect aggression


Roberta Rosa Valtorta, Cristina Baldissarri, Chiara Volpato

Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, vol. 34, 2024, pp. e2761


Measuring subjective inequality: Development and validation of the Perceived Economic Inequality Scale (PEIS)


Roberta Rosa Valtorta, Michela Vezzoli, Silvia Mari, Federica Durante, Chiara Volpato

The Spanish Journal of Psychology, vol. 27, 2024, pp. e2


On the indirect link between virus anthropomorphism and health behavior: Evidence from the pandemic


Roberta Rosa Valtorta, Noemi Orabona, Maria Paola Paladino

Acta Psychologica, vol. 243, 2024, p. 104155


Why are some countries rich and others poor? Development and validation of the Attributions for Cross-Country Inequality Scale (ACIS)


Michela Vezzoli, Roberta Rosa Valtorta, Attila Gáspár, Carmen Cervone, Federica Durante, Anne Maass, Caterina Suitner

PloS one, vol. 19, 2024, pp. e0298222


Why might women justify dating violence? The role of men's sexual objectification of their romantic partners within heterosexual relationships


Chiara Pecini, Daniela Ruzzante, Roberta Rosa Valtorta, Eleonora Crapolicchio, Veronica Margherita Cocco, Luca Andrighetto, Gian Antonio Di Bernardo

Journal of Interpersonal Violence, vol. 38, 2024, pp. 10664-10685


A twofold subjective measure of income inequality


Attila Gáspár, Carmen Cervone, Federica Durante, Anne Maass, Caterina Suitner, Roberta Rosa Valtorta, Michela Vezzoli

Social Indicators Research, 168, 25-43, 2023


Effects of objective and subjective indicators of economic inequality on subjective well-being: Underlying mechanisms


Michela Vezzoli, Roberta Rosa Valtorta, Silvia Mari, Federica Durante, Chiara Volpato

Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 53, 85-100, 2023


Gender stereotypes and sexualization in Italian children's television advertisements


Roberta Rosa Valtorta, Cristina Baldissarri, Giuseppe Raguso, Giulia D'Ecclesiis, Chiara Volpato

Sexuality & Culture, 27, 1625-1645, 2023


The impacts of COVID-19 on the relationship between perceived economic inequality and political action among socioeconomic classes


Michela Vezzoli, Silvia Mari, Roberta Rosa Valtorta, Chiara Volpato

Frontiers in Political Science, 5, Article 990847, 2023


When workers feel like objects: A field study on self-objectification and affective organizational commitment


Roberta Rosa Valtorta, Maria Grazia Monaci

Europe's Journal of Psychology, 19, 15-26, 2023


Burnout and workplace dehumanization at the supermarket: A field study during the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy


Roberta Rosa Valtorta, Cristina Baldissarri, Chiara Volpato

Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 32, 767-785, 2022


Intergroup biologization and outgroup prejudice in the time of COVID-19


Roberta Rosa Valtorta, Cristina Baldissarri, Chiara Volpato, Luca Andrighetto

Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 52, 37-50, 2022


Street harassment and its negative psychological outcomes in an Italian university population


Roberta Rosa Valtorta, Chiara Sparascio, Roberto Cornelli, Chiara Volpato

Psicologia Sociale - Social Psychology Theory & Research, 17, 245-276, 2022


Loneliness, escapism and identification with media characters: An exploration of the psychological factors underlying binge-watching tendency


Alessandro Gabbiadini, Cristina Baldissarri, Roberta Rosa Valtorta, Federica Durante, Silvia Mari

Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 785970, 2021


Seeing others as a disease: The impact of physical (but not moral) disgust on biologization


Roberta Rosa Valtorta, Cristina Baldissarri, Luca Andrighetto, Chiara Volpato

International Review of Social Psychology, 34, Article 7, 2021


Together apart: The mitigating role of digital communication technologies on negative affect during the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy


Alessandro Gabbiadini, Cristina Baldissarri, Federica Durante, Roberta Rosa Valtorta, Maria De Rosa, Marcello Gallucci

Frontiers in Psychology, 11, Article 2763, 2020


Dirty jobs and dehumanization of workers


Roberta Rosa Valtorta, Cristina Baldissarri, Luca Andrighetto, Chiara Volpato

British Journal of Social Psychology, 58, 955-970, 2019


Do self-objectified women believe themselves to be free? Sexual objectification and belief in personal free will


Cristina Baldissarri, Luca Andrighetto, Alessandro Gabbiadini, Roberta Rosa Valtorta, Alessandra Sacino, Chiara Volpato

Frontiers in Psychology, 10, Article 1867, 2019


Pictures as weapons: Delegitimization strategies in the visual propaganda of Forza Nuova


Roberta Rosa Valtorta, Giorgio Signorato, Chiara Volpato

Psicologia Sociale - Social Psychology Theory & Research, 2, 259-280, 2019


The dirty side of work: Biologization of physically tainted workers


Roberta Rosa Valtorta, Cristina Baldissarri, Luca Andrighetto, Chiara Volpato

International Review of Social Psychology, 32, Article 3, 2019


Objectified conformity: Working self-objectification increases conforming behavior


Luca Andrighetto, Cristina Baldissarri, Alessandro Gabbiadini, Alessandra Sacino, Roberta Rosa Valtorta, Chiara Volpato

Social Influence, 13, 78-90, 2018


"The body and soul emotion" - The role of disgust in intergroup relations


Roberta Rosa Valtorta, Chiara Volpato

TPM - Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology, 25, 239-252, 2018


Workers as objects: The nature of working objectification and the role of perceived alienation


Cristina Baldissarri, Roberta Rosa Valtorta, Luca Andrighetto, Chiara Volpato

TPM - Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology, 24, 156-166, 2017


The eternal feminine: Gender stereotypes and sexualization in television advertisements


Roberta Rosa Valtorta, Alessandra Sacino, Cristina Baldissarri, Chiara Volpato

Psicologia Sociale - Social Psychology Theory & Research, 2, 159-188, 2016