456 research outputs found
Waves of immigration in Italy, immigrants’ dehumanization and proposal of defensive strategies.
No full textconceive strategies for containing the economical and social consequences of immigration. In addition, we expect that the proposal of defensive strategies (e.g., reduction in monthly expenses for each immigrant; stricter criteria for receiving refugees) is justified by using immigrants‘ dehumanization (see the concept of moral disengagement by Bandura, 1999; see also Castano & Giner-Sorolla, 2006). In the experiment, two conditions were created: in one condition (Salience of immigration), participants saw four images reproducing boats of immigrants or protest behaviors by immigrants; in the other condition (Control), they saw four Escher‘s abstract paintings. Participants were psychology students (N=172). The main measures were: uniquely human and non-uniquely human traits assigned to Italians and immigrants (Capozza, Trifiletti, Vezzali, & Favara, 2013); items assessing the policies which could be used to contain immigration problems. As expected, in the condition in which the constant immigration and protest behaviors were made salient, participants were more willing to reduce the Italian financial commitment for immigrants compared to the control condition. This lower disposition to help immigrants was associated with the perception of immigrants as not-fully human. Interestingly, only in the experimental condition infrahumanization of immigrants was revealed. Practical implications of findings for a stronger acceptance of immigrants will be discussed
La Medea di Pier Paolo Pasolini
No full textIl lavoro intende essere una riflessione complessiva sul mito di Medea, inserito nell’articolato percorso ideologico di Pier Paolo Pasolini. Allegoria della società contemporanea, la Medea pasoliniana, incentrata sull’impossibilità dell’amore tra Medea (Maria Callas) e Giasone (l’atleta Giuseppe Gentile), ossia sull’inconciliabilità di due mondi, quello barbaro, arcaico e religioso, cui appartiene la donna, e quello razionale, moderno e laico, a cui afferisce Giasone, esprime la visione «apocalittica» dell’ultimo Pasolini. L’autore assiste impotente e atterrito all’affermazione di una modernità desacralizzata, che fa dell’edonismo consumistico e della sua inesorabile forza omologante il proprio elemento connotativo e totalizzante. Medea, oltraggiosamente rifiutata, riaffermerà se stessa compiendo, al contempo, il suo annientamento, per cui nel finale, su cui incombe un’assoluta cupezza, non le resterà che gridare: «È inutile. Niente è più possibile, ormai»
Correction to: Case report: Acute clinical presentation and neonatal management of primary hyperparathyroidism due to a novel CaSR mutation (BMC Pediatrics (2018) 18 (340) DOI: 10.1186/s12887-018-1319-0)
No full textIn the published article [1], an error has been noticed in the author group section
Mediterraneo e linguaggi letterario-teatrali, dall'antichità alla contemporaneità, per nuove forme di identità culturale
No full textIl Mediterraneo, sin dalle origini della storia del teatro, si è rivelato spazio di incontro tra culture, che ha fatto dell’interazione tra i popoli processi sinergici, generatori di nuove dimensioni identitarie. Le forme teatrali delle farse fliaciche si affermano nel IV secolo a.C. nelle terre della Magna-Grecia, quali rielaborazione parodica del teatro tragico greco. Le farse fliaciche nascono, quindi, da un rapporto sinergico tra culture appartenenti a terre poste su sponde diverse del Mediterraneo. Il patrimonio delle farse fliaciche confluisce prima nelle Atellanae romane e poi nella Commedia dell’Arte, che costituisce il cuore della storia del teatro in quanto segna l’atto di nascita del teatro moderno. Gran parte del teatro comico contemporaneo si rifà alla Commedia dell’Arte come a un patrimonio ineludibile da cui trarre temi, chiavi, personaggi e tecniche recitativo-gestuali, ogni volta adattabili a nuove dimensioni teatrali. Le farse fliaciche, nate dalla congiunzione di linguaggi letterario-teatrali e giunte sino alla contemporaneità attraverso continue trasformazioni, rivelano come il Mediterraneo abbia in sé una vocazione a unire terre che, in apparenza, divide e a innescare cammini di civiltà. Una vocazione che oggi, in tempi di intensi flussi migratori, appare di assoluta rilevanza per scongiurare pericolose e autarchiche derive
Personal identity and social identity: A comparison between self-categorization theory and the model of egocentric social categorization
No full textIn this study the different hypotheses deriving from self-categorization theory (Turner et al., 1987) and from the model of egocentric social categorization (Simon, 1993) were tested. These hypotheses concern ingroup bias and the outgroup homogeneity effect. Using the paradigm of the minimal groups, three experimental conditions were created. In all of them, participants (n = 74) were informed that both the members of the ingroup and the members of the the outgroup, subjects included, would have to solve problems of a cognitive nature: cultural, linguistic, mathematical. In the first condition, quasi-intergroup, the ingroup was presented as an aggregate and the outgroup as a group; there was, moreover, intragroup competition. In the second, mixed, ingroup and outgroup were both groups; in this condition there was both intragroup competition and intergroup competition. In the third condition, intergroup, the only competition present was that between the two groups. The main factors of the experimental design, between subjects, were: relations (quasi-intergroup, mixed, intergroup) and target (ingroup, outgroup). Before proceeding to the solution of the problems, which were anticipated but never presented, the participants received information, sequentially, on the 50 members of the ingroup or on the 50 members of the outgroup, regarding their IQs. Participants were then submitted to free recall tests; they evaluated the mean IQs of the two groups and judged their homogeneity. Results confirm the principle of functional antagonism between personal and group levels of self-categorization. Moreover, they demonstrate the validity of the hypothesis that ingroup bias is revealed only when the more salient identity is social identity. The results confirm the hypotheses derived from self-categorization theory, not those derived from the model of egocentric social categorization
Emerging hepatotropic viruses in cats: A brief review
No full textThe possible role of viruses in feline liver disease has long remained neglected. However, in 2018, an analogue of human hepatitis B virus was identified in cats. Moreover, antibodies for human hepatitis E have been detected consistently at various prevalence rates in cats. Although the correlation between these viruses and the liver injury in cats must be clarified, hepatotropic viruses might represent an increasing risk for feline and public health
Emerging parvoviruses in domestic cats
No full textParvovirus infections in cats have been well known for around 100 years. Recently, the use of molecular assays and metagenomic approaches for virus discovery and characterization has led to the detection of novel parvovirus lineages and/or species infecting the feline host. However, the involvement of emerging parvoviruses in the onset of gastroenteritis or other feline diseases is still uncertain
Maria Capozza, Roma fra monarchia e decemvirato nell' interpretazione di Eutropio (Università degli studi di Padova, pubblicazioni dell'istituto di storia antica, voi. X), 1973
No full textSaulnier Christiane. Maria Capozza, Roma fra monarchia e decemvirato nell' interpretazione di Eutropio (Università degli studi di Padova, pubblicazioni dell'istituto di storia antica, voi. X), 1973. In: Revue des Études Anciennes. Tome 76, 1974, n°1-2. pp. 171-172
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