Publications
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Masi, M., Mattavelli, S., Fasoli, F., & Brambilla, M. (in press). Multimodal cues to change your mind: The intertwining of faces, voices, and behaviors in impression updating. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Brambilla, M., Mattavelli, S., & Masi, M. (in press). Face–context integration and trustworthiness evaluation. European Review of Social Psychology.
Epstude, K., Peters, K., & Brambilla, M. (in press). Continuity and change. European Journal of Social Psychology (Editorial).
Mattavelli, S., Bianchi, C., Brambilla, M., & Motterlini, M. (2024). True and moral by repetition: Unveiling the impact of exposure on positive stereotypes perception. International Review of Social Psychology, 37, 1-10.
Rusconi, P., Sacchi, S., & Brambilla, M. (2024). Al cuore della formazione di impressioni: Asimmetrie nelle relazioni tratto-comportamento [At the core of impression formation: Asymmetries in trait-behavior relations]. Sistemi Intelligenti, 36, 391-417.
Vazquez, A., Lopez-Rodriguez, L., & Brambilla, M. (2024). Acknowledging that men are moral and harmed by gender stereotypes increases men’s willingness to engage in collective action on behalf of women. Sex Roles, 90, 417-443.
Hepper, E.G., Sedikides, C., Wildschut, T., … Brambilla, M., … Zatsepin, A.S., & Zengel, B. (2024). Pancultural nostalgia in action: Prevalence, triggers, and psychological functions of nostalgia across cultures. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153, 754-778.
Valmori, A., Meral, E.O., Hale, M.L., Rusconi, P., & Brambilla, M. (2023). On the influence of implicit race attitudes on explicit trustworthiness judgments: An investigation of the perceivers and targets’ race and gender intersection. Visual Cognition, 31, 584-598.
Pacilli, M.G., Giovannelli, I., Spaccatini, F., Pagliaro, S., Brambilla, M., Barreto, M., & Sacchi, S. (2023). Heroes or traitors? Perception of whistleblowers depends on the self-relevance of the group being reported. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 26, 1478-1498
Mattavelli, S., Fiamberti G.C., Masi, M., & Brambilla, M. (2023). The “Happy Face Killer” in the eyes of the beholder: Relational encoding of facial emotions in context influences trustworthiness attributions. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 109, 104517.
Brambilla, M., & Sacchi, S. (2023). The intragroup level: Moral character in group perception. In N. Ellemers, S. Pagliaro, & F. Van Nunspeet (Eds), The Routledge International Handbook of the Psychology of Morality (pp. 109-117). London: Routledge (Book chapter).
Frisanco, A., Biella, M., Brambilla, M., & Kret, M.E. (2023). All that meets the eye: The contribution of reward processing and pupil mimicry on pupillary reactions to facial trustworthiness. Current Psychology, 42, 11685-11692
Borras Guevara, M.L., West, K., Brambilla, M., & Bruckmüller, S. (2023). Fragile heterosexuality: A cross-cultural study between Germany and Italy. Sexuality & Culture, 27, 1044-1063.
Cuadrado, I., Lopez-Rodriguez, L., Brambilla, M., & Ordóñez Carrasco, J.L. (2023). Active and passive facilitation tendencies at work towards sexy and professional women: The role of stereotypes and emotions. Psychological Reports, 126, 812-834.
Masi, M., Mattavelli, S., Fasoli, F., & Brambilla, M. (2023). When faces and voices come together: Face width-to-height ratio and voice pitch contribute independently to social perception. European Journal of Social Psychology, 53, 323-335.
Delgado, N., Mattavelli, S., Brambilla, M., Rodríguez-Gómez, L., & Harris, L.T. (2023). Humanity at first sight: Exploring the relationship between others’ pupil size and ascriptions of humanity. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 106, 104455.
Mattavelli, S., Masi, M., & Brambilla, M. (2023). Not just about faces in context: Face-context relation moderates the impact of contextual threat on facial trustworthiness. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 49, 376-390.
Mattavelli, S., Masi, M., & Brambilla, M. (2022). Untrusted under threat: On the superior bond between trustworthiness and threat in face-context integration. Cognition and Emotion, 36, 1273-1286.
Kotzur, P.F., Friehs, M.T., Kraus, C., … Brambilla, M., … Yahiiaiev, I., & Yzerbyt, V. (2022). Warmth and competence perceptions of key protagonists are associated with containment measures during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from 35 countries. Scientific Reports, 12, 21277.
Masi, M., Mattavelli, S., Fasoli, F., & Brambilla, M. (2022). Cross-modal impression updating: Dynamic impression updating from face to voice and the other way around. British Journal of Social Psychology, 61, 808-825.
Cuadrado, I., Lopez-Rodriguez, L., & Brambilla, M. (2022). Awareness of the psychological bias of naïve realism as a subtle strategy for improving stereotypes towards Moroccan women in Spain. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 88, 77-82.
Brambilla, M., & Sacchi, S. (Eds) (2022). Psicologia sociale del pregiudizio [Social Psychology of Prejudice]. Milano: Raffaello Cortina Editore. (Book)
Mattavelli, S., Brambilla, M., & Kret, M.E. (2022). It is written in the eyes: Inferences from pupil size and gaze orientation shape interpersonal liking. Social Cognition, 40, 88-106.
Luttrell, A., Sacchi, S., & Brambilla, M. (2022). Changing impressions in competence-oriented domains: The primacy of morality endures. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 98, 104246.
Vazquez, A., Lopez-Rodriguez, L., Gomez, A., & Brambilla, M. (2022). Verification of ingroup morality promotes willingness to participate in collective action for immigrants’ rights. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 25, 174-192
Simić, A., Sacchi, S., Pagliaro, S., Pacilli, M.P. & Brambilla, M. (2022). Bringing us closer together: The influence of national identity and political orientation on COVID19-related behavioral intentions. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 795654
Rodriguez-Perez, A., Brambilla, M., Betancor, V., Delgado, N., & Rodriguez-Gomez, L. (2021). Stereotypes and dehumanization: The relationship between the dual models of dehumanization and stereotype content. Social Psychology, 52, 265-274
Cuadrado, I., Brambilla, M., & Lopez-Rodriguez, L. (2021). Unpacking negative attitudes towards Moroccans: The interactive effect of ethnicity and gender on perceived morality. International Journal of Psychology, 56, 961-966
Cuadrado, I., Ordoñez-Carrasco, J.L., Lopez-Rodriguez, L., Vazquez, A., & Brambilla, M. (2021). Tolerance towards difference: Adaptation and psychometric properties of the Spanish version of a new measure of tolerance and sex-moderated relations with prejudice. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 84, 220-232.
Brambilla, M., Sacchi, S., Rusconi, P., Goodwin, G. (2021). The primacy of morality in impression development: Theory, research, and future directions. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 64, 187-262
Brambilla, M., Masi, M., Mattavelli, S., & Biella, M. (2021). Faces and sounds becoming one: Cross-modal integration of facial and auditory cues in judging trustworthiness. Social Cognition, 39, 315-327
Sacchi, S., Brambilla, M., & Graupmann, V. (2021). Basking in detected vice: Outgroup immorality enhances self-view. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 24, 371-387
Pagliaro, S., Sacchi, S., Pacilli, M.G., Brambilla, M., Lionetti, F., Bettache, K. et al. (2021). Trust predicts COVID-19 prescribed and discretionary behavioral intentions in 23 countries. Plos One, 16, e0248334.
Sacchi, S., Brambilla, M., Spaccatini, F., Giovannelli, I., Pacilli, M.P., & Pagliaro, S. (2021). “If I am straight you are askew”: Labelling heterosexuals as straight worsens gay men’s perception. The Journal of Sex Research, 58, 97-105.
Menegatti, M., Moscatelli, S., Brambilla, M., & Sacchi, S. (2020). The honest mirror: Morality as a moderator of spontaneous behavioral mimicry. European Journal of Social Psychology, 50, 1394-1405.
Vezzali, L., Di Bernardo, G.A., Birtel, M.D., Stathi, S., & Brambilla, M. (2020). Outgroup morality perceptions mediate secondary transfer effects from direct and extended contact: Evidence from majority and minority group members. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 23, 1066-1084.
Lopez-Rodriguez, L., Vazquez, A., Cuadrado, I., Brambilla, M., Rodrigo, M., & Dovidio, J.F. (2020). Immigration: An invasion or an opportunity to the country. The effect of real news frames of immigration on ethnic attitudes. Revista de Psicologia Social, 35, 452-491.
Pacilli, M.G., Sant, G., Giovannelli, I., Pagliaro, S., Sacchi, S., Brambilla, M., & Spaccatini, F. (2020). La denuncia delle condotte illecite in ambito organizzativo: una rassegna sul fenomeno del whistleblowing [Reporting wrongdoings in the organizational settings: A review of the whistleblowing phenomenon]. Psicologia Sociale, 15, 359-370.
Rusconi, P., Sacchi, S., Brambilla, M., Capellini, R., & Cherubini, P. (2020). Being honest and acting consistently: Boundary conditions of the negativity effect in the attribution of morality. Social Cognition, 38, 146-178.
Vergallito, A., Lo Gerfo, E., Varoli, E., Brambilla, M., Sacchi, S., Anzani, S., & Romero Lauro, L.J. (2019). Positive self-perception and corticospinal excitability: Recalling positive behavior expands peripersonal space boundaries. Neuropsychologia, 135: 107224
Pagliaro, S., Brambilla, M., Di Prinzio, F., & Teresi, M. (2019). Observing schadenfreude: Expressing pleasure at others’ misfortune predicts avoidance. Psicologia Sociale, 14, 427-440.
Brambilla, M., Biella, M., & Kret, M.E. (2019). The power of pupils in predicting conforming behavior. Social Influence, 14, 40-49.
Brambilla, M., Carraro, L., Castelli, L., & Sacchi, S. (2019). Changing impressions: Moral character dominates impression updating. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 82, 64-73.
Brambilla, M., Biella, M., & Kret, M.E. (2019). Looking into your eyes: Observed pupil size influences approach-avoidance responses. Cognition and Emotion, 33, 616-622.
Brambilla, M., Biella, M., & Freeman, J.B. (2018). The influence of visual context on the evaluation of facial trustworthiness. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 78, 34-42.
Pacilli, M.G., Pagliaro, S., Spaccatini, F., Giovanelli, I., Sacchi, S., & Brambilla, M. (2018). Straight to heaven: Rectitude as spatial representation of morality. European Journal of Social Psychology, 48, 663-672.
Prunas, A., Sacchi, S., & Brambilla, M. (2018). The insidious effects of sexual stereotypes in clinical practice. The Journal of Sex Research, 55, 642-653.
Brambilla, M., & Riva, P. (2017). Self-image and schadenfreude: Pleasure at others’ misfortune enhances satisfaction of basic human needs. European Journal of Social Psychology, 47, 399-411.
Rusconi, P., Sacchi, S., Capellini, R., Brambilla, M., & Cherubini, P. (2017). You are fair, but I expect you to also behave unfairly: Positive asymmetry in trait-behavior relations for moderate morality information. Plos One, 12: e0180686.
Vezzali, L., Brambilla, M., Giovannini, D., & Colucci, F.P. (2017). Strengthening purity: Moral purity as a mediator of direct and extended cross-group friendships on sexual prejudice. Journal of Homosexuality, 46, 716-730.
Brambilla, M., & Riva, P. (2017). Predicting pleasure at others’ misfortune: Morality trumps sociability and competence in driving deservingness and schadenfreude. Motivation and Emotion, 41, 243-253.
Brambilla, M., Sacchi, S., Menegatti, M., & Moscatelli, S. (2016). Honesty and dishonesty don’t move together: Trait content information influences behavioral synchrony. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 40, 171-186.
Riva, P., Brambilla, M., & Vaes, J. (2016). Bad guys suffer less (social pain): Moral status influences judgments of others’ social suffering. British Journal of Social Psychology, 55, 88-108.
Sharvit, K., Brambilla, M., Babush, M., & Colucci F.P. (2015). To feel or not to feel when my group harms others? The regulation of collective guilt as motivated reasoning. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41, 1223-1235.
Riva, P., Sacchi, S., Brambilla, M. (2015). Humanizing machines: Anthropomorphization of slot machines increases gambling. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 21, 313-325.
Rule, N.O., Tskhay, K.O., Brambilla, M., Riva, P., Andrzejewski, S.A., & Krendl, A.C. (2015). The relationship between anti-gay prejudice and the categorization of sexual orientation. Personality and Individual Differences, 77, 74-80.
Brambilla, M., & Leach, C.W. (2014). On the importance of being moral: The distinctive role of morality in social judgment. Social Cognition, 32, 397-408.
Sacchi, S., & Brambilla, M. (2014). Psicologia della moralità. Processi cognitivi, affettivi e motivazionali [Moral Psychology: Cognitive, affective, and motivational processes]. Roma: Carocci Editore. (Book)
Sacchi, S., Riva, P., Brambilla, M., & Grasso, M. (2014). Moral reasoning and climate change mitigation: The deontological reaction towards the market-based approach. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 38, 252-261.
Carnaghi, A., Piccoli, V., Brambilla, M., & Bianchi, M. (2014). Gender hierarchy in the space: The role of social status in shaping the spatial agency bias. Journal of Social Psychology, 154, 105-114.
Sacchi, S., & Brambilla, M. (2014). Dottor Jekyll o signor Hyde? Il ruolo della moralità nella percezione sociale [Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde? Morality and social perception]. In-Mind, 7.
Sacchi, S., Brambilla, M., Pagliaro, S., & Barrilà, L. (2013). “La legge morale sopra di me”: Norme morali e identificazione con il gruppo sovraordinato. [“The moral law above me”: Moral norms and identification with the superordinate category]. Psicologia Sociale, 8, 359-370.
Pagliaro, S., Brambilla, M., Sacchi, S., D’Angelo, M., & Ellemers, N. (2013). Initial impressions determine behaviours: Morality predicts the willingness to help newcomers. Journal of Business Ethics, 117, 37-44.
Brambilla, M., & Butz, D.A. (2013). Intergroup threat and outgroup attitudes: Macro-level symbolic threat increases prejudice against gay men. Social Psychology, 44, 311-319.
Brambilla, M., Sacchi, S., Pagliaro, S., & Ellemers, N. (2013). Morality and intergroup relations: Threats to safety and group image predict the desire to interact with outgroup and ingroup members. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49, 811-821.
Brambilla, M., Hewstone, M., & Colucci F.P. (2013). Enhancing moral virtues: Increased perceived outgroup morality as a mediator of intergroup contact effects. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 16, 648-657.
Sacchi, S., Riva, P., & Brambilla, M. (2013). When Mother Earth rises up: Anthropomorphizing nature reduces support for natural disaster victims. Social Psychology, 44, 271-277.
Brambilla, M., Riva P., & Rule, N. (2013). Familiarity increases the accuracy of categorizing male sexual orientation. Personality and Individual Differences, 55, 193-195.
Lopez-Rodriguez, L., Byrd Willis, G., Brambilla, M., & Rodriguez-Bailon, R. (2013). Percepción de justicia y actitudes hacia inmigrantes [Justice perception and attitudes toward immigrants]. Revista de Psicologia Social, 28, 5-18.
Brambilla, M., Ravenna, M., & Hewstone, M. (2012). Changing stereotype content through mental Imagery: Imagining intergroup contact promotes stereotype change. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 15, 305-315.
Brambilla, M., Sacchi, S., Rusconi, P., & Cherubini, P., & Yzerbyt, V.Y. (2012). You want to give a good impression? Be honest! Moral traits dominate group impression formation. British Journal of Social Psychology, 51, 149-166.
Brambilla, M., Rusconi, P., Sacchi, S., & Cherubini, P. (2011). Looking for honesty: The primary role of morality (vs. sociability and competence) in information gathering. European Journal of Social Psychology, 41, 135-143.
Brambilla, M., Carnaghi, A., & Ravenna, M. (2011). Status and cooperation shape lesbian stereotypes: Testing predictions from the Stereotype Content Model. Social Psychology, 42, 101-110.
Brambilla, M., Carnaghi, A., & Ravenna, M. (2011). Subgrouping e omosessualità: Rappresentazione cognitiva e contenuto degli stereotipi di uomini gay. [Subgrouping and homosexuality: Content and structure of gay men subgroups]. Psicologia Sociale, 6, 71-88.
Ravenna, M., & Brambilla, M. (2011). Rappresentazione di Israele nella stampa italiana: Analisi di profili lessicali [The representation of Israel in the italian press: A lexical profile analysis]. Rassegna di Psicologia , 28, 63-79.
Brambilla, M., Sacchi, S., Castellini, F., & Riva, P. (2010). The effects of status on perceived warmth and competence: Malleability of the relationship between status and stereotype content. Social Psychology, 41, 82-87.
Ravenna, M., Brambilla, M., & Roncarati, A. (2010). Percezione sociale di gruppi nazionali: credenze ed emozioni verso gli israeliani [International images: Beliefs and emotions toward Israelis]. Ricerche di Psicologia, 3, 395-411.