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Benjamin Pastorelli @benjaminpastorelli.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

An interesting research idea of how games can help us develop our gender identity. #PsychSciSky #SocialPsych #ResearchSky #AcademicSky #LGBT+ #RPG

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Benjamin Pastorelli @benjaminpastorelli.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

How to measure structural racism? There are so many possibilities! Here's a recent review: buff.ly/PqgdQQ4 #PsychSciSky #SocialPsych #ResearchSky #AcademicSky #systemicracism

Progress toward racial health equity cannot be made if we cannot measure its fundamental driver: structural racism. As in other epidemiologic studies, the first step is to measure the exposure. But how to measure structural racism is an ongoing debate. To characterize the approaches epidemiologists and other health researchers use to quantitatively measure structural racism, highlight methodological innovations, and identify gaps in the literature, we conducted a scoping review of the peer-reviewed and gray literature published during 2019–2021 to accompany the 2018 published work of Groos et al., in which they surveyed the scope of structural racism measurement up to 2017. We identified several themes from the recent literature: the current predominant focus on measuring anti-Black racism; using residential segregation as well as other segregation-driven measures as proxies of structural racism; measuring structural racism as spatial exposures; increasing calls by epidemiologists and other health researchers to measure structural racism as a multidimensional, multilevel determinant of health and related innovations; the development of policy databases; the utility of simulated counterfactual approaches in the understanding of how structural racism drives racial health inequities; and the lack of measures of antiracism and limited work on later life effects. Our findings sketch out several steps to improve the science related to structural racism measurements, which is key to advancing antiracism policies.

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Benjamin Pastorelli @benjaminpastorelli.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

[1/2] Both men and women videogame players tend to endorse a representation of masculinity that includes aggression and the suppression of emotions, according to a 2019 study. This has negative implications for society as a whole, by encouraging toxic behaviour. Source: buff.ly/ytjczQ3

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Video Game Playing and Beliefs about Masculinity Among Male and Female Emerging Adults - Sex Roles

Video games have been soundly critiqued for their depiction of gender, and emerging research has shown that playing can be associated with holding stereotypical or narrow views of gender roles and…

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Benjamin Pastorelli @benjaminpastorelli.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The abstinence cures advocated by certain masculinist circles (NoFap) could have dramatic consequences for men : - strong negative emotions, - suicidal thoughts. The study: scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=f... #SocialPsych #PsychSciSky #ClinicalPsych

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Benjamin Pastorelli @benjaminpastorelli.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

A very interesting review on the links between social class and mental health Currently, the strongest evidence links lower social positions to depression. #SocialPsychology #PsychSciSky #ClinicalPsychology

Highlights
•We meta-review 149 reviews on social class and mental health/wellbeing.
•Evidence across reviews varies for different facets of social stratification.
•There is some, but fairly limited evidence for moderators and mediators.
•There is higher-quality evidence linking lower social positions to depression.
•We require low-bias reviews synthesising high-quality primary studies.

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Benjamin Pastorelli @benjaminpastorelli.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Racism (and all forms of discrimination) has a major impact on health. Williams & Mohammed (2013) proposed an interesting framework for studying these complex phenomena. #socialpsych #healthpsych #psychscisky

A Framework for the Study of Racism and Health

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Benjamin Pastorelli @benjaminpastorelli.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Stereotypically male professions are also perceived as being the most prestigious. This has an impact on children's career plans. #psychscisky #socialpsych Based on Jaoul-Grammare, 2024.

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Benjamin Pastorelli @benjaminpastorelli.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

"Racial trauma is just trauma with racism" It's a bit more complicated! #psychscisky #healthpsych Based on Cénat, 2023.

Theoretical framework of the complex racial trauma.

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Benjamin Pastorelli @benjaminpastorelli.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Even "little racist jokes", "innocent" remarks or snobbish looks have an impact on the health of minorities. These racist microaggressions contribute to depression and can lead to suicide. #socialpsych #psychscisky

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Benjamin Pastorelli @benjaminpastorelli.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

A different perspective on the reaction of parents of LGBT+ children. It provides a better understanding of how their own identity evolves after disclosure. #socialpsychology Figure and source: buff.ly/QHBtiXX

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Benjamin Pastorelli @benjaminpastorelli.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

According to a 2023 study, the identity of white nationalist groups is more fluid than we think. Even if they consider race to be fixed and biological, they frequently debate the boundaries of what is "white" or not. Ironically, their own discussions reaffirm that race is a social construct.

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Benjamin Pastorelli @benjaminpastorelli.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

The far right has an ambivalent relationship with authority: both anti-elitist and authoritarian. Even if these attitudes are contradictory, they both respond to the feeling of insecurity fostered by the rhetoric of the far right. #socialpsychology Figure and ref in: buff.ly/d584Vu9

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Benjamin Pastorelli @benjaminpastorelli.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Imagining yourself in contact with a different group can help to form a shared identity. Perhaps video or role-playing games could be good ways of combating discrimination. #socialpsychology Figure and results from Hu et al. 2025: buff.ly/bNFuqWJ

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Benjamin Pastorelli @benjaminpastorelli.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Incels are often seen as White. Yet some identify as Black or Asian. Incel rhetoric builds on this, using concepts such as ‘racepill’, which mainly push to make one's racial identity invisible (‘just be white’). It raises the question of intersectionality in the incel context. #socialpsychology

Incels worldview is grounded in hostile sexism largely directed at women and shared contempt for mainstream dating standards and feminism. Some incels posit that they can undertake specific racially-defined actions to increase their access to women by appearing more white and, hence, more desirable. Despite these racialized efforts to appear more white, many incels conclude that these efforts to change themselves are largely ineffective in increasing their access to women. Seeing as over half of incels seek counseling and social work services, this research puts forth several implications for social workers supporting incel clients and highlights the importance of understanding the role that race plays in incel clients’ rhetoric—not only in reproducing racism, but also in provoking violence-sustaining affects (e.g., anger, disappointment, resentment) that gen-erate a shared sense of betrayal and reinforce gender-based violence.

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Benjamin Pastorelli @benjaminpastorelli.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

There is consistent evidence that discrimination is associated with poorer sleep. It could be due to stress and worry. This relationship appears to be independent of depression (a disorder that is also often linked to discrimination and sleep). #mentalhealth

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Benjamin Pastorelli @benjaminpastorelli.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Discrimination appears to - increase the risk of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, - increase the severity of symptoms - reduce the quality of recovery. This does not seem to be due to treatment underutilization, according to a 2019 study. #PTSD

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Benjamin Pastorelli @benjaminpastorelli.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Black children are seen as more adult than white children. This is called adultification. It contributes to the perception that the use of force by the police is more justified, threatening the protection of young people. #socialpsychology

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Benjamin Pastorelli @benjaminpastorelli.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Against all expectations (irony), there is no link between immigration and crime. #sociology #economy #immigration #criminality #discrimination

Figure showing that homicide rate decrease over time, while stock of migrants over population increase.

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Benjamin Pastorelli @benjaminpastorelli.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

A burden of poverty (among others). Low socio-economic status is associated with poorer brain and cognitive development. This could be due to increased stress and a less stimulating environment. #psychology #neuroscience #socialscience

Hypothesized mechanisms by which SES operates to influence structural and functional brain development (Brito & Noble, 2014).

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Benjamin Pastorelli @benjaminpastorelli.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Benevolent and hostile #sexism across different domains. It clearly highlights the complexity of discrimination! #equality #discrimination #socialpsychology #psychology

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Benjamin Pastorelli @benjaminpastorelli.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

This diagram illustrates the many areas in which sexism has been studied. By extension, it gives an overview of the many aspects of our lives that are affected by sexism. #SocialPsych #sexism

A bubble diagram showing research domains linked to sexism.

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Benjamin Pastorelli @benjaminpastorelli.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Intersectionality challenges the way we study identity in psychology. Yet it seems to be essential to highlight human complexity. Maybe reinvesting in the field of cross-categorisation would be beneficial too. #SocialPsych #psychology #minority #intersectionnality #identity #diversity

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Benjamin Pastorelli @benjaminpastorelli.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Rediscovering ecological systems theory! I think it may be useful to highlight the complexity of some phenomena, such as discrimination and its systemic part. #SocialPsych #discrimination #racism #sexism #minority #psychology

Ecological systems theory: general schema.

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Benjamin Pastorelli @benjaminpastorelli.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Conscientization of social cryptomnesia may help · to enhance positive attitude toward activist groups, · to reduce hostile behaviours. Social cryptomnesia is certainly one of those concepts that deserves more attention. #SocialPsych #sexism #feminism #minority

TITLE: Conscientization of Social Cryptomnesia Reduces Hostile Sexism and Rejection of Feminists. ABSTRACT: This paper develops a hypothesis concerning the conscientization of social cryptomnesia, claiming that it is possible to reduce the rejection of minorities by reminding the population that a certain value has been promoted by a certain minority. Participants (N = 93) first reported their attitudes toward women’s rights and feminist movements. They were then confronted with their higher appreciation of women’s rights over feminists (social cryptomnesia) and blamed for it (conscientization) in a more versus less threatening manner. Results indicated that conscientization can be effective not only in inducing a more positive attitude toward feminists, but also in decreasing hostile sexism when the threat is lower. Implications for minority influence research are discussed.

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Benjamin Pastorelli @benjaminpastorelli.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Better words for better work. As gender is a complex and moving concept, getting an accurate terminology is essential. Here is an interesting proposition of @floralashes.bsky.social about trans/cis dichotomy. #SocialPsych #gender #LGBTQIA+ #sociology

Trans is my gender modality: a modest terminological proposal, by Florence Ashley

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Benjamin Pastorelli @benjaminpastorelli.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

An interesting study about how intergroup friendship can help majority members to fit emotionally with minority members. doi.org/10.1016/j.ij... #socialpsyc #immigration #interculturality #minority

When people come into contact with members of a new/other culture, their emotions may acculturate. In support of this idea, previous research has found that the emotions of immigrant minorities who have frequent contact with majority culture members, fit the majority emotion norms better than those who have less contact. Little is known about the possibility of majority members’ emotions acculturating towards the emotion norms in the minority culture. To shed light on this question, the current study investigated the emotional patterns and social contact experiences (i.e., self-reported friendships with minority peers) of 916 majority youths in a representative sample of Belgian middle schools. We computed majority members’ emotional fit with immigrant minority culture by relating majority members’ emotional patterns to the average (i.e., normative) emotional pattern of their minority classmates in comparable situations. We also examined the role of clear minority norms for emotions (measured as a high average fit of minority classmates’ emotions with the average emotional pattern of other minority students in the class). Results show that majority members’ emotional fit with the minority norm is high when the minority norm clarity is high. In addition, they show that the emotional fit of majorities is high to the extent that majority members have close friendships with minority peers but only in contexts where there is clarity in the minority emotion norms. We conclude that even though non-symmetrically, majority and minority culture groups can mutually accommodate to the other group’s emotion norms.

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Benjamin Pastorelli @benjaminpastorelli.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Radical-right populism, specifically, is the strongest determinant for the propensity to spread misinformation.

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Benjamin Pastorelli @benjaminpastorelli.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Look at the color of people! Colorblindness is a common way to deal with racism. But this apparent benevolence is detrimental to inclusion and the fight against discrimination. 👇 Sources in comment

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Benjamin Pastorelli @benjaminpastorelli.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Poverty is a burden in so many ways. Poverty can reduce cognitive functioning, possibly because of cognitive load, perpetuating poverty through poorer decision-making. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Poverty Impedes Cognitive Function

Being poor is a state of mind. [Also see Perspective by Vohs]

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Benjamin Pastorelli @benjaminpastorelli.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Is presenting gender neutral? Not really...

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