Publications by authors named "Alessandra Sacino"
The present study aimed to expand the understanding of the correlates of sexual harassment myths, a set of beliefs that serve to justify male perpetrators. Data collected among Italian adults (407; 59.5% women) showed that individual levels of precarious manhood beliefs-according to which manhood is a social status that must be proven via public action-were related to greater sexual harassment myths acceptance in male and female respondents.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThrough two experimental studies ( = 150), we investigated proxemic behaviors featuring gay/straight dyadic interactions. In doing so, for the first time, we relied on an IR depth camera and considered the interpersonal volume between the interactants, a novel feature that exhaustively captures interactants' proxemic behaviors. Study 1 revealed that the straight participants' implicit sexual bias - but not the explicit prejudice - significantly predicted their volume while interacting with a study accomplice who was presented as gay (vs.
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- Researchers conducted three experiments with 302 participants to investigate how people perceive humanoid robots—either as human-like or object-like—using an experimental method known as the inversion paradigm.
- The findings showed that full-body humanoid robots elicited a "body-inversion effect," meaning they were processed similarly to human bodies, regardless of how human-like the robots appeared.
- In contrast, only the faces of humanoid robots that resembled humans closely exhibited this inversion effect, suggesting that humans more easily anthropomorphize highly human-like robot faces compared to less human-like ones.
The present study aims to investigate the indirect link between sexual objectification and belief in personal free will. We hypothesized that being subjected to objectifying commentary would lead women to self-objectify and, in turn, to perceive themselves as having less personal free will. In this study, 105 women were asked to sign up a website created for this study by providing a personal description and a photo.
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