Stefano Passini
Stefano Passini is Associate Professor at the Department of Educational Science at the University of Bologna (Italy). His studies are focused on authoritarian attitudes, obedience and disobedience to authority and crimes of obedience, moral inclusion/exclusion processes, and human rights.
Most recently, following up Stanley Milgram's experiments on destructive obedience, he has focused on disobedience to authority. In particular, he has analyzed when disobedience may constitute an advance for democracy and an enlargement of human rights—supporting a social change enacted for the sake of every social group—and when instead it is enacted mainly for achieving specific and restricted rights denying the rights of the others.
Primary Interests:
- Aggression, Conflict, Peace
- Applied Social Psychology
- Attitudes and Beliefs
- Culture and Ethnicity
- Ethics and Morality
- Group Processes
- Intergroup Relations
- Persuasion, Social Influence
- Political Psychology
- Prejudice and Stereotyping
- Research Methods, Assessment
Journal Articles:
- Morselli, D., & Passini, S. (2012). Disobedience and support for democracy: Evidences from the World Values Survey. Social Science Journal, 49, 284-294.
- Morselli, D., & Passini, S. (2012). Rights, democracy and values: A comparison between the representations of obedience and disobedience in Italian and Finnish students. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 36, 682-693.
- Morselli, D., & Passini, S. (2011). New perspectives on the study of the authority relationship: Integrating individual and societal level research. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 41, 291-307.
- Morselli, D., & Passini, S. (2010). Avoiding crimes of obedience: A comparative study of the autobiographies of M. K. Gandhi, N. Mandela and M. L. King. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 16, 295-319.
- Passini, S. (in press). Adolescents’ commonsense understanding of rights and duties: The effect of the individualization of rights on a rights dilemma. Youth & Society.
- Passini, S. (in press). What do I think of others in relation to myself? Moral identity and moral inclusion in explaining prejudice. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology.
- Passini, S. (2012). The Facebook and Twitter revolutions: Active participation in the 21st century. Human Affairs, 22, 301-312.
- Passini, S. (2011). Individual responsibilities and moral inclusion in an age of rights. Culture & Psychology, 17, 281-296.
- Passini, S. (2010). Moral reasoning in a multicultural society: Moral inclusion and moral exclusion. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 40, 435-451.
- Passini, S. (2008). Exploring the multidimensional facets of authoritarianism: Authoritarian aggression and social dominance orientation. Swiss Journal of Psychology, 67, 51-60.
- Passini, S., & Emiliani, F. (2009). Social representations of rights and duties in young Italians and Albanians. Swiss Journal of Psychology, 2, 89-98.
- Passini, S., & Morselli, D. (in press). The triadic legitimacy model: Understanding support to disobedient groups. New Ideas in Psychology.
- Passini, S., & Morselli, D. (2011). In the name of democracy: Disobedience and value-oriented citizenship. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 21, 255-267.
- Passini, S., & Morselli, D. (2010). Disobeying an illegitimate request in a democratic or authoritarian system. Political Psychology, 31, 341-356.
- Passini, S., & Morselli, D. (2010). The obedience-disobedience dynamic and the role of responsibility. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 20, 1-14.
- Passini, S., & Morselli, D. (2009). Authority relationships between obedience and disobedience. New Ideas in Psychology, 27, 96-106.
- Passini, S., Palareti, L., & Battistelli, P. (2009). We vs. them: Terrorism in an intergroup perspective. International Review of Social Psychology, 3-4, 35-64.
- Pérez, J. A., & Passini, S. (2012). Avoiding minorities: Social invisibility. European Journal of Social Psychology, 42, 864-874.
Other Publications:
Courses Taught:
- Psychology of Adolescence
- Psychology of Groups
- Seminar on the Methodology of Psychological Research: Historical and Epistemological Foundations of Social Psychology
- Social Psychology
- Social Psychology of Early Childhood
Stefano Passini
Department of Educational Science - University of Bologna - Via Filippo Re, 6
40126 Bologna
Italy
- Phone: +39 051 2091622