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Ricercatore in Psicologia Sociale presso il Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche

PhD in Psicologia Sociale (Dottorato di ricerca in Psicologia Sociale, dello Sviluppo e Ricerca Educativa, Sapienza Università di Roma)

Email: daniela.disanto@unipi.it

Guest Editor dello Special Issue “Motivated social cognition and the implications of sociopolitical beliefs and ideologies on the functioning of contemporary communities” presso il Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. Guest Editors: Antonio Aiello, Daniela Di Santo, Alessio Tesi, Dipartimento di Scienze politiche, Università di Pisa. Open Call for Papers. Sito web: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/10991298/homepage/call-for-papers/si-2024-000361

Didattica

Incarichi di responsabilità didattica di insegnamenti per l’anno accademico 2024/25 presso il Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Università di Pisa

– insegnamento di Teorie, Modelli e Metodi dell’Intervento Psicosociale per Corso di Laurea Magistrale in “Gestione E Innovazione Dei Servizi Sociali, Imprenditorialita’ Sociale E Management Del Terzo Settore”

– insegnamento di Psicologia dei gruppi per Corso di Laurea Magistrale in “Gestione E Innovazione Dei Servizi Sociali, Imprenditorialita’ Sociale E Management Del Terzo Settore”

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Incarichi di responsabilità didattica di insegnamenti per l’anno accademico 2023/24 presso il Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Università di Pisa

Incarichi di co-docenza in moduli/insegnamenti

– insegnamento di Psicologia Politica e di Comunita’ per Corso di Laurea in “Scienze Del Servizio Sociale”

– insegnamento di Psicologia Sociale – Corso A per Corso di Laurea in “Scienze Del Servizio Sociale”

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Incarichi di responsabilità didattica di insegnamenti per l’anno accademico 2022/23 presso il Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Università di Pisa

– insegnamento di Psicologia dei Gruppi per Corso di Laurea Magistrale in “Sociologia E Management Dei Servizi Sociali”

Incarichi di co-docenza in insegnamenti

– insegnamento di Psicologia Politica e di Comunita’ per Corso di Laurea in “Scienze Del Servizio Sociale”

– insegnamento di Psicologia Sociale – Corso A per Corso di Laurea in “Scienze Del Servizio Sociale”

Per ulteriori informazioni riguardanti l’attività didattica, consultare la sezione apposita.

Produzione scientifica

Pubblicazioni in riviste internazionali

2025

Di Santo, D., Tesi, A., Aiello, A., Pierro, A. (2025). Deepening the Relationship Between the Need for Epistemic Certainty and People’s Compliance with Social Power: The Moderating Role of Work Unit Tightness. Social Sciences. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci14010032

2024

Di Santo, D., Tesi, A., Aiello, A., Pierro, A. (2024). The job can kill you or make you stronger: the role of passion in job demands, work motivational imbalance, and work-life conflict. Testing Psychometric Methodology in Applied Psychology. http://doi.org/10.4473/TPM31.4.4

Di Santo, D., Di Santo, D., Pierro, A. (2024). ‘Take Back the Land’: Analysis of the influence of environmental concern, cultural tightness and moral disengagement on pro‐environmental behaviour intentions. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology. [Published online: 10 December 2023] http://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2760

Tesi, A., Di Santo, D., Aiello, A. (2024). Academic Motivation of Students Experiencing Person-Environment Misfit in Social Work Educational Settings: The Role of Social Dominance Orientation. European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education. https://doi.org/10.3390/ejihpe14020018

Abakoumkin, G., Tseliou, E., McCabe, K. O., Lemay Jr, E. P., Stroebe, W., Agostini, M., […] Di Santo, D., […] Leander, N. P. (2024). Conceptual replication and extension of health behavior theories’ predictions in the context of COVID‐19: Evidence across countries and over time. Social and Personality Psychology Compass. https://doi.org/10.1111/spc3.12909

Fisher, A. N., Ryan, M. K., Liao, Y., Mikołajczak, G., Riedijk, L., Leander, N.P., Abakoumkin, G. […], Di Santo, D., [….], Zúñiga, C. (2024). The Precarity of Progress: Implications of a Shifting Gendered Division of Labor for Relationships and Well‑Being as a Function of Country‑Level Gender Equality. Sex Roles. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-024-01453-6

2023

Di Santo, D., Lo Destro, C., Baldner, C., Talamo, A., Cabras, C., & Pierro, A. (2023). The mediating role of narcissism in the effects of regulatory mode on positivity. Current Psychology. [Published online: 26 June 2021] https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02014-w

Contu, F.*, Di Santo, D.*, Baldner, C., Pierro, A. (2023). Examining the Interaction between Perceived Cultural Tightness and Prevention Regulatory Focus on Life Satisfaction in Italy. Sustainability. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15031865 *Shared first authorship

Tesi, A., Di Santo, D., Aiello, A. (2023). The Pathway between Social Dominance Orientation and Drop out from Hierarchy-Attenuating Contexts: The Role of Moral Foundations and Person-Environment Misfit. Behavioral Sciences. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13090712

Enea, V., Eisenbeck, N., Carreno, D. F., Douglas, K. M., Sutton, R. M., Agostini, M., Bélanger, J. J., Gützkow, B., Kreienkamp, J., Abakoumkin, G. […] Di Santo, D., […] Leander, N. P. (2023). Intentions to be Vaccinated Against COVID-19: The Role of Prosociality and Conspiracy Beliefs across 20 Countries. Health Communication. [Published online: 26 Jan 2022] https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2021.2018179

Douglas, K.M., Sutton, R. M., Van Lissa, C.J., Strobe, W., Kreienkamp, J., Agostini, M., […] Di Santo, D. […] Leander, N.P. (2023). Identifying Important Individual-and Country-Level Predictors of Conspiracy Theorizing: A Machine Learning Analysis. European Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2968

Westgate, E. C., Buttrick, N. R., Lin, Y., El Helou, G., Agostini, M., Bélanger, J. J., […] Di Santo, D., […] Leander, N. P. (2023). Pandemic boredom: Little evidence that lockdown-related boredom affects risky public health behaviors across 116 countries. Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001118

Han, Q., Zheng, B., Cristea, M., Agostini, M., Bélanger, J. J., Gützkow, B., Kreienkamp, J., […] Di Santo, D., […] Leander, N. P (2023). Trust in government regarding COVID-19 and its associations with preventive health behaviour and prosocial behaviour during the pandemic: a cross-sectional and longitudinal study. Psychological Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291721001306 [Published online: 26 March 2021]

2022

Di Santo, D., Pierro, A., Ellenberg, M., Baldner, C., & Kruglanski, A. W. (2022) By all means necessary: Closed mindedness, ingroup morality, and weapon ownership. European Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2857

Di Santo, D., Gelfand, M. J., Baldner, C., & Pierro, A. (2022). The Moral Foundations of Desired Cultural Tightness. Frontiers in psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.739579

Baldner, C., Di Santo, D., Viola, M., Pierro, A. (2022). Perceived COVID-19 Threat and Reactions to Noncompliant Health-Protective Behaviors: The Mediating Role of Desired Cultural Tightness and the Moderating Role of Age. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19042364

Mula, S., Di Santo, D., Resta, E., Bakhtiari, F., Baldner, C., Molinario, E., Pierro, A., Gelfand, M. J., et al. (2022). Concern with COVID-19 Pandemic Threat and Attitudes Towards Immigrants: The Mediating Effect of the Desire for Tightness. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2021.100028

Baldner, C., Pierro, A., Di Santo, D., & Cabras, C. (2022). How the mere desire for certainty can lead to a preference for men in authority (particularly among political liberals). Journal of Applied Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12830

Baldner, C., Pierro, A., Di Santo, D., & Kruglanski, A. W. (2022). Men and women who want epistemic certainty are at-risk for hostility towards women leaders. The Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2021.1933371

Resta, E., Mula, S., Baldner, C., Di Santo, D., Agostini, M., Bélanger, J. J., Gützkow, B., Kreienkamp, J., Abakoumkin, G., et al. (2022). ‘We are all in the same boat’: How societal discontent affects intention to help during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2572

Keng, S.-L., Stanton, M.V., Haskins, L., Almenara, C.A., Ickovics, J., Jones, A. Grigsby-Toussaint, D., Agostini, M., Bélanger, J. J., Gützkow, B., […] Di Santo, D., […] Leander, N. P. (2022). COVID-19 Stressors and Health Behaviors: A Multilevel Longitudinal Study across 86 Countries. Preventive Medicine Reports. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmedr.2022.101764

Schumpe, B. M., Van Lissa, C. J., Bélanger, J. J., Ruggeri, K., Mierau, J., Nisa, C. F., Molinario, E., Gelfand, M.J., Stroebe, W., Agostini, M. […] Di Santo, D., […] Leander, N. P. (2022). Predictors of Adherence to Public Health Behaviors for Fighting COVID-19 Derived from Longitudinal Data. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-04703-9

van Breen, J. A., Kutlaca, M., Koç, Y., Jeronimus, B. F., Reitsema, A. M., Jovanovic, V., Agostini, M., Bélanger, J. J., Gützkow, B., Kreienkamp, J., […] Di Santo, D., […] Leander, N. P. (2022). Lockdown Lives: A Longitudinal Study of Inter-Relationships Among Feelings of Loneliness, Social Contacts, and Solidarity During the COVID-19 Lockdown in Early 2020. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672211036602

van Lissa, C. J., Stroebe, W., vanDellen, M. R., Leander, N. P., Agostini, M., Draws, T., Grygoryshyn, A., Gützgow, B., Kreienkamp, J., Vetter, C. S., […] Di Santo, D., […] Bélanger, J. J. (2022). Using Machine Learning to Identify Important Predictors of COVID-19 Infection Prevention Behaviors During the Early Phase of the Pandemic. Patterns. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2022.100482

2021

Di Santo, D., Baldner, C., Aiello, A., Kruglanski, A. W., & Pierro, A. (2021). The hopeful dimension of locomotion orientation: Implications for psychological well-being. The Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2020.1803786

Di Santo, D., Talamo, A., Bonaiuto, F., Cabras, C., & Pierro, A. (2021). A Multilevel Analysis of the Impact of Unit Tightness vs. Looseness Culture on Attitudes and Behaviors in the Workplace. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.652068

Lo Destro, C., Di Santo, D., Pierro, A., Talamo, A., Alessandri, G., Caprara G. V. (2021). How people feel about their job: effects of regulatory mode on positivity and job Satisfaction (¿Cómo se sienten las personas sobre su trabajo?: los efectos del modo regulatorio en la positividad y la satisfacción laboral). Revista de Psicologia Social [International Journal of Social Psychology]. https://doi.org/10.1080/02134748.2021.1940704

Mula, S., Di Santo, D., Gelfand, M. J., Cabras, C., & Pierro, A. (2021). The Mediational Role of Desire for Cultural Tightness on Concern With COVID-19 and Perceived Self-Control. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.713952

Chirico, A., Lucidi, F., Pica, G., Di Santo, D., Galli, F., Alivernini, F., Mallia, L., Zelli, A., Kruglanski, A.W., & Pierro, A. (2021). The Motivational Underpinnings of Intentions to Use Doping in Sport: A Sample of Young Non-Professional Athletes. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105411

Han, Q., Zheng, B., Agostini, M., Bélanger, J. J., Gützkow, B., Kreienkamp, J., Reitsema, A. M., van Breen, J. A., […] Di Santo, D., […] Leander, N. P. (2021). Associations of risk perception of COVID-19 with emotion and mental health during the pandemic. Journal of Affective Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2021.01.049

Jin, S., Balliet, D., Romano, A., Spadaro, G., van Lissa, C. J., Agostini, M., Bélanger, J. J., Gützkow, B., Kreienkamp, J., […], Di Santo, D., […] Leander, N. P. (2021). Intergenerational conflicts of interest and prosocial behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic. Personality and Individual Differences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110535

Nisa, C. F., Bélanger, J. J., Faller, D. G., Buttrick, N. R., Mierau, J. O., Austin, M. M. K., Schumpe, B. M., Sasin, E. M., Agostini, M., Gützkow, B., […] Di Santo, D., […] Leander, N. P. (2021). Lives versus Livelihoods? Perceived economic risk has a stronger association with support for COVID-19 preventive measures than perceived health risk. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-88314-4

Romano, A., Spadaro, G., Balliet, D., Joireman, J., Van Lissa, C., Jin, S., Agostini, M., Bélanger, J. J., Gützkow, B., Kreienkamp, J., […] Di Santo, D., […] Leander, N. P. (2021). Cooperation and Trust Across Societies During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022022120988913

Stroebe, W., vanDellen, M. R., Abakoumkin, G., Lemay Jr., E. P., Schiavone, W. M., Agostini, M., Bélanger, J. J., Gützkow, B., […] Di Santo, D., […] Leander, N. P. (2021). Politicization of COVID-19 health-protective behaviors in the United States: Longitudinal and cross-national evidence. PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256740 This article has been corrected here: Stroebe, W., vanDellen, M. R., Abakoumkin, G., Lemay Jr., E. P., Schiavone, W. M., Agostini, M., Bélanger, J. J., Gützkow, B., Kreienkamp, J., Reitsema, A. M., […] Di Santo, D., […] Leander, N. P. (2022). Correction: Politicization of COVID-19 health-protective behaviors in the United States: Longitudinal and cross-national evidence. PLoS ONE, 17(1): e0263100. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263100

2020

Di Santo, D., Chernikova, M., Kruglanski, A. W., & Pierro, A. (2020). Does inconsistency always lead to negative affect? The influence of need for closure on affective reactions to cognitive inconsistency. International Journal of Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12652

Di Santo, D.*, Tesi, A*., Aiello, A., & Pierro, A. (2020). The relationship between need for closure and compliance to harsh power tactics in high demanding jobs: A study conducted among firefighters and social workers. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12698 *Shared first authorship

Baldner, C., Di Santo, D., Talamo, A., & Pierro, A. (2020). Sympathy as knowledge of the other in need: An investigation into the roles of need for closure and the moral foundations on sympathy towards immigrants. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12654

2018

Di Santo, D., Baldner, C., Pierro, A., & Kruglanski, A. W. (2018). A “bridge” over troubled water: Implications of the effect of locomotion mode on hopelessness. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12557

Kruglanski, A. W., Jasko, K., Milyavsky, M., Chernikova, M., Webber, D., Pierro, A., & Di Santo, D. (2018). Cognitive Consistency Theory in Social Psychology: A Paradigm Reconsidered. Psychological Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2018.1480619

Kruglanski, A. W., Jasko, K., Milyavsky, M., Chernikova, M., Webber, D., Pierro, A., & Di Santo, D. (2018). All About Cognitive Consistency: A Reply to Commentaries. Psychological Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2018.1480656

Pubblicazioni in riviste nazionali

Di Santo, D. (2020). When consistency is a virtue: effect of need for closure on preference for consistency. Psychology Hub. https://doi.org/10.13133/2724-2943/17159

Baldner, C., Di Santo, D. (2018). An investigation into the effects of pro-immigrant and Muslim attitudes on sympathetic reactions towards Syrian immigrants during the Syrian Civil War. Rassegna di Psicologia. https://doi.org/10.13133/1974-4854/16682

Lo Destro, C., Di Santo, D., Pierro, A. (2018). Work-related stress among nurses: the effect of regulatory mode. Rassegna Di Psicologia. https://doi.org/10.13133/1974-4854/16698

Baldner, C., Amato, C., Di Santo, D. (2018). When obtaining support is important. The relationship between optimism, disclosure, and perceived peer support in a sample of young women. Psicologia Della Salute. https://doi.org/10.3280/PDS2018-003006

Di Santo, D., Rullo, M., & Lisi, F. (2015). Lo stato dell’arte sull’intelligenza emotiva. Rassegna di Psicologia. https://doi.org/10.7379/82115

Livi, S., Di Santo, D., Lo Castro, I., & Lupardini, M. (2014). Il ruolo dei modi regolatori nelle strategie di information seeking organizzativo. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia. https://doi.org/10.1421/78500

Pubblicazioni come “PsyCorona Collaboration”

Han, Q., Zheng, B., Leander, N. P., Agostini, M., Gützkow, B., Kreienkamp, J., Kutlaca, M., Lemay, E. P., Stroebe, W., vanDellen, M. R., PsyCorona Collaboration, Bélanger, J. J. (2022). Impact of National Pandemic Lockdowns on Perceived Threat of Immigrants: A Natural Quasi-Experiment Across 23 Countries. Social Psychological and Personality Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506221127487

Lemay Jr., E. P., Kruglanski, A. W., Molinario, E., Agostini, M., Bélanger, J.J., Gützkow, B., Kreienkamp, J., Reitsema, A. M., vanDellen M. R., PsyCorona Collaboration, Leander, N. P. (2021). The role of values in coping with health and economic threats of COVID-19. The Journal of Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2021.1979454

Lucas, T., Manning, M., Strelan, P., Kopetz, C., Agostini, M., Bélanger, J. J., Gützkow, B., Kreienkamp, J., PsyCorona Collaboration, Leander, N. P. (2022). Justice Beliefs and Cultural Values Predict Support for COVID-19 Vaccination and Quarantine Behavioral Mandates: A Multilevel Cross-National Study. Translational Behavioral Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1093/tbm/ibab153