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Claudia Mazzuca (she/her) @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Importantly, this study included Sub-Saharian socio-cultural groups, often missing from cross-cultural psychology studies (see e.g., Kryss et al., 2025)

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Claudia Mazzuca (she/her) @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

This suggest that the very construct of abstractness~concreteness can vary as a function of culture

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Claudia Mazzuca (she/her) @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Our data show that both West African groups rated words as consistently more abstract compared to their French counterparts

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Claudia Mazzuca (she/her) @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Yesterday at the conference of the International Ass. of Cognitive Semiotics I presented preliminary results from an exciting interdisciplinary project comparing #concreteness across 3 French-speaking communities (France, Niger & Côte d’Ivoire)

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Claudia Mazzuca (she/her) @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Find the full preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Claudia Mazzuca (she/her) @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

We found that features related to familiarity and fluency along with their relation with affective components contribute to shaping Italian speakers’ attitudes towards gender-inclusive desinences, an aspect often overlooked.

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Claudia Mazzuca (she/her) @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Here we tackled Italians’ speakers dispositions towards gender-inclusive language using psycholinguistic dimensions rather than explicit questionnaires.

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Claudia Mazzuca (she/her) @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Today’s poster session at #PiF Pavia with our study describing GIRN-I, the first Italian database for gender-inclusive role nouns. @annaborghi.bsky.social @chiaradelivio.bsky.social

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Body Action Language Lab @ballabrome.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Thanks @jamiereilly.bsky.social for such an exciting talk @ISTC-CNR, full of promising insights on the relation between concreteness and aging. Cherry on top: an #opensource R's package for analysing conversation alignment through different semantic dimensions.

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Claudia Mazzuca (she/her) @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

👶Thanks @jennysaffran.bsky.social for a fantastic talk—rich with insights into how early experience shapes learning and what it reveals about the foundations of language.👶

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Claudia Mazzuca (she/her) @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

We discuss our findings in light of theories of linguistic fluency, underscoring the importance of taking into account underlying cognitive processes when dealing with gendered language, besides socio-cultural components.

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Claudia Mazzuca (she/her) @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

We did, however, find some interesting differences between feminine and masculine role nouns—suggesting that despite general awareness, gender biases are still present in the Italian context.

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Claudia Mazzuca (she/her) @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

We found no clear preference for either of the two gender-inclusive desinences, both of which are judged as being less familiar and pleasant than their gendered counterparts.

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Claudia Mazzuca (she/her) @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

🏳️‍🌈 Excited to share the #preprint of the first Italian database of gender-inclusive role nouns (GIRN-I), featuring ratings on 9 semantic dimensions for nouns with gendered (feminine/masculine) and gender-inclusive (asterisk/schwa) desinences. 🏳️‍🌈 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Claudia Mazzuca (she/her) @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Great to see this brilliant work led by @ileniafalcinelli.bsky.social finally published and #OA. Our results add further layers to the study of conceptual abstractness, showing differences in the representation of technological&ecological concepts across two age cohorts (65yo+ and younger adults)👵

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Body Action Language Lab @ballabrome.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

If you are interested, you can read more about the study on ecological concepts led by @ileniafalcinelli.bsky.social at osf.io/preprints/os...; for details about the conversations study led by @chiarafini.bsky.social please get in touch with her!

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Claudia Mazzuca (she/her) @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Truly honoured to have been given the chance to present my work in my first keynote talk as the 2024 winner of Best Young Researcher from the Italian Association of Cognitive Science at #AISC2025 in the wonderful IMT of Lucca

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anna borghi @annaborghi.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Wonderful talk by @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social at AISC, Italian Association of Cognitive Science, in Lucca, IMT, on "the worlds within words" - on the importance of considering diversity in language/culture, gender, age, and expertise in research on cognition. @ballabrome.bsky.social

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Claudia Mazzuca (she/her) @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

To conclude, I would like to add an anecdotal piece of evidence collected a few days ago that attests what it is like to live with a chemist. I encourage you to find out which is the only item I have not added to the list.

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Claudia Mazzuca (she/her) @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

All in all, these data suggest expertise affects conceptual representations showing that more essentialist patterns of thinking might also emerge as a result of prolonged life experiences.

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Claudia Mazzuca (she/her) @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Finally, we also found that chemists judge the concept of H2O as being significantly more concrete compared to laypeople.

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Claudia Mazzuca (she/her) @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

A sentence acceptability task suggested chemists might hold a stricter representation of what counts as water, with some water examples (e.g., ocean water) considered to be mixtures of water rather than pure water.

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Claudia Mazzuca (she/her) @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

We found chemists incorporate more than laypeople H2O as a constituent element of the concept of water; we also show the conceptual organisation of the domain exhibits qualitative differences across the two groups;

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Claudia Mazzuca (she/her) @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

In five experiments—four of which replicate Barbara Malt’s 1994 study—we compared experienced chemists and laypeople’s conceptual representation of water. @annaborghi.bsky.social @chiarafini.bsky.social @ileniafalcinelli.bsky.social & Marta Arcovito

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Body Action Language Lab @ballabrome.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Join the conference tomorrow! 🗓 February 25 | 3:15–6:00 PM CET 💡 Gender & Ecological Concepts: (un)consciousness, cognition, and politics www.youtube.com/live/QDTBFWc... w/ @Emma Renström @annalisa-setti.bsky.social @glupyan.bsky.social Be part of the conversation—participate & spread the word!

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Claudia Mazzuca (she/her) @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

🗣️New paper out and #openaccess in Cognition w/@abstractionerc.bsky.social on conversation dynamics afforded by abstract vs concrete sentences. Some insights on interactive repairs too and their relation with abstractness. Thanks to all the people that collaborated to this exciting project! 🗣️

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