Carmen Cervone

She/Her/Hers

Phd Candidate

Department of Developmental Psychology and SocializationUniversity of Padova

[email protected]

I am a last-year doctoral student in Psychological Sciences at the University of Padova. My main research interests are the psychology of economic inequality and language and social cognition. My doctoral thesis investigates the role of morality and outrage in collective action linked to economic inequality.

Education  
2019 to currentPhD in Psychological SciencesUniversity of Padova
2018MSc in Social PsychologyUniversity of Padova
2016BSc in Psychology of PersonalityUniversity of Padova

Publications

Cervone, C., Suitner, C., Carraro, L., & Maass, A. (2021, October 20). An Impartial Measure of Collective Action: Development and Validation of the Belief-aligned Collective Action Scale. -- PsyArXiv

Cervone, C., Scatolon, A., Lenzi, M., & Maass, A. (2021, June 7). Setting Limits: Ethical Thresholds to the CEO-Worker Pay Gap. -- PsyArXiv

Canale, N., Marino, C., Lenzi, M., Vieno, A., Griffiths, M.D., Gaboardi, M., Cervone, C., Santinello, M. (2021). How communication technology fosters individual and social wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic: Preliminary support for a digital interaction model. Journal of Happiness Studies. -- DOI

Cervone, C., Augoustinos, M., & Maass, A. (2021). The language of derogation and hate: Functions, consequences, and reappropriation. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 40(1), 80–101. -- DOI -- Request fulltext

Suitner, C., Maass A., Navarrete, E., Formanowicz, M., Bratanova, B., Cervone, C., Hakoköngäs, J., E., Kuppens, T., Lipourli, E., Rakić, T., Scatolon, A., Teixeira, C., Wang, Z, Sobral, M. P, & Carrier, A. (2021). Spatial Agency Bias and Word Order Flexibility: A comparison of 14 European languages. Applied Psycholinguistics. -- DOI

Cervone, C., Scatolon, A., Lenzi, M., & Carraro, L. (2020). Consequential support: The effects of inequality awareness on the endorsement of redistributive policies. Psicologia Sociale, 15(2), 255-267. -- DOI -- Request fulltext

Cervone, C., & Scatolon, A. (2019). Fair Enough? The Inequality Paradox, Inequality Awareness, and System Justification. The Inquisitive Mind. -- LINK

Conferences

International Conferences

Cervone, C., Lucarini, A., Salvador Casara, B. G., & Filippi, S. (2022). Stripped of humanity: Sexist slurs elicit self-dehumanization in women. EASP Meeting “20 years of dehumanization: Rethinking dehumanization to confront social discourses that treat people like non-human beings”, Tenerife, 28th – 30th April.Cervone, C., Motta, I., Scatolon, A., Cimmino Picone, V., & Maass, A. (2021). Lady Liberty and Madam Justice: Abstract nouns are grammatically and psychologically feminine. ESCON Webconference, 13th – 15th September.Cervone, C., Motta, I., Scatolon, A., & Maass, A. (2021). Lady Liberty, Lady Justice and Lady Luck: Abstract nouns are grammatically and psychologically feminine. Virtual Summer School “Innovative Tools in the Study of Language”, 17th June.Cervone, C., Maass, A. (2021). Tugging the Gap: Applying the Anchoring Effect to the CEO-Worker Pay Gap Ratio. APS Virtual Convention, 26th – 27th June.Cervone, C., Maass, A. (2020). Abstraction Is Female: How Abstract Nouns Evoke Femininity. 19th General Meeting of the EASP, Krakow, 30th June – 4th July. Cancelled due to Covid-19 outbreak.Scatolon, A., Galdi, S., Cervone, C., Maass, A., Mannetti, L. (2020). (Mis)Perceptions of Economic Inequality: Past and Future Biases and Causal Attribution in an Italian Sample. 19th General Meeting of the EASP, Krakow, 30th June – 4th July. Cancelled due to Covid-19 outbreak.Cervone, C., Scatolon, A., Lenzi, M., Maass, A. (2020). The ethical threshold: setting limits to the wages of CEOs. Social (In)Equality Workshop, Padova, 17th April. Cancelled due to Covid-19 outbreak.Cervone, C., Lenzi, M., Scatolon, A., & Carraro, L. (2019). Consequential Support: The Effects of Inequality Awareness on Support for Redistributive Policies. Social (In)Equality Workshop, Padova, 5th April.Scatolon, A., Maass, A., Cervone, C., Lenzi, M., & Pressman, S. (2019). Middle Class Matters: Increasing personal relevance through coherent information framing. Social (In)Equality Workshop, Padova, 5th April.


National Conferences

Cervone, C., Motta, I., Scatolon, A., Cimmino Picone, V., & Maass, A. (2021). Fortuna, Vittoria e Libertà: Le parole astratte sono grammaticalmente e psicologicamente femminili. XVII Congresso Nazionale della Sezione di Psicologia Sociale dell’AIP, Brescia, 13th – 15th September.Filippi, S., Suitner, C., Maass, A., Cervone, C., Maritan, C. & Tartaglia, A. (2021). Libero arbitrio… fiscale! Come e quando l’esercizio di scelta influenza l’atteggiamento verso le tasse. XVII Congresso Nazionale della Sezione di Psicologia Sociale dell’AIP, Brescia, 13th – 15th September.Filippi, S., Cervone, C., Lucarini, A., & Salvador Casara, B. G. (2021). Parole (dis-)umane: il ruolo degli insulti sessisti nel generare auto-deumanizzazione nelle donne. XXVII Congresso Nazionale Associazione Italiana di Psicologia, Sezione Sperimentale, 9th September.Cervone, C., Maass, A., Suitner, C., & Carraro, L. (2021). Una misura imparziale di collective action: la Belief-aligned Collective Action. III meeting PRIN "La psicologia della disuguaglianza economica", Padova, 11th -12th February.Cervone, C., Suitner, C., Bertelli, R., Toscano, F., Maass, A. (2020). Disuguaglianze economiche e Covid-19: gli effetti di una comunicazione moralizzata. AIP Webconference “La psicologia sociale alla prova dell'emergenza Covid19: ricerche, riflessioni, prospettive”, 14th-15th September.Cervone, C., Maass, A. (2020). Fairness beliefs e disuguaglianza: La redistribuzione come “giusta” compensazione della ricchezza. Workshop “Progettare un clima etico per uno sviluppo sostenibile”, Torino, 6th March. Cancelled due to Covid-19 outbreak.Cervone, C., Maass, A. (2020). Fairness e redistribuzione. II meeting PRIN "La psicologia della disuguaglianza economica", Padova, 23rd -24th January.Cervone, C., Maass, A., Lenzi, M., & Scatolon, A. (2019). CEO-Worker pay gap: Quanto dovrebbero guadagnare dipendenti e dirigenti?. Subire e Contrastare la Disuguaglianza Economica: Il Contributo della Psicologia e della Cognizione Sociale, Caserta, 6th -7th June.Lenzi, M., Galdi, S., Cervone, C., & Scatolon, A. (2019). Disuguaglianza economica percepita e reale e sostegno a politiche redistributive: il ruolo moderatore del Sostegno alla disuguaglianza economica. Subire e Contrastare la Disuguaglianza Economica: Il Contributo della Psicologia e della Cognizione Sociale, Caserta, 6th -7th June.Scatolon, A., Lenzi, M., Cervone, C., & Carraro, L. (2019). Combattere la disuguaglianza economica alla radice: deumanizzazione come strategia legittimante. Subire e Contrastare la Disuguaglianza Economica: Il Contributo della Psicologia e della Cognizione Sociale, Caserta, 6th -7th June.


Posters

Cervone, C., Lucarini, A., Salvador Casara, G., & Filippi, S. (2021). Stripped of humanity: Sexist slurs elicit self-dehumanization in women. Harvard Women in Psychology Trends in Psychology Summit, 12th November.Cervone, C., & Maass, A. (2021). Tax beliefs: Redistribution as a fair compensation for wealth. Junior Research Programme Open Conference, 9th July. -- LinkLucietto, A., Maass, A., & Cervone, C. (2021). Visual perspective taking & taxation. Junior Research Programme Open Conference, 9th July. -- LinkCervone, C., Maass, A., Scatolon, A., & Lenzi, M. (2021). The Inequality Thresholds of the CEO-Worker Pay Gap Ratio. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations Pre-conference.Filippi, S., Suitner, C., Del Ben, A., Cervone, C., Maass, A. (2021). Fighting Economic Inequality: The Role of Psychological Distance and Construal Level in Shaping Support for Redistribution. APS Virtual Convention.