Antonio Aiello

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Mode of office hours: RICEVIMENTO STUDENTI – AVVISO (a.a. 2025/26) Per i ricevimenti è consigliato contattare il docente via e-mail circa una settimana prima della data prevista. La richiesta va inviata dall’indirizzo istituzionale @studenti.unipi.it. Il Prof. Aiello risponderà indicando appuntamento e modalità, insieme a eventuali ulteriori dettagli. Ogni ricevimento avrà una durata di circa 30 minuti, pertanto si suggerisce di preparare in anticipo appunti e richieste, così da rendere l’incontro più efficace. Grazie per la collaborazione. OFFICE HOURS – NOTICE (a.y. 2025/26) Students are kindly invited to contact the professor by email about one week in advance. Requests should be sent from the institutional address @studenti.unipi.it. A reply will follow with the appointment and further information. Each meeting will last approximately 30 minutes. Please, prepare your notes in advance to organise your questions. For updates, please consult: https://people.unipi.it/antonio_aiello/ricevimento-office-hours/ Thanks for your cooperation.

Location: Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche, Via Serafini 3, Pisa; Palazzo Bianchi Monzon “palazzina interna”, primo piano, studio n. 7.

Time: Mercoledì 13-15 in presenza (previo appuntamento da richiedere via mail al Docente almeno 7 giorni lavorativi prima). Consultare per ulteriori informazioni: https://people.unipi.it/antonio_aiello/

Research interests

Ideological Beliefs, Basic Motivations, and Psychosocial Well-being
Social Psychology, Political Psychology, Work and Organizational Psychology
This research investigates the influence of sociopolitical belief systems and basic psychological motivations (e.g., the need for certainty, coherence, and social recognition) on subjective well-being and the perception of fit or misfit within academic and organizational settings.
 
Social Norms, Uncertainty, and Discriminatory Behavior
Political Psychology, Community Psychology, Environmental Psychology
This line of research examines how sociocultural norms and uncertainty—particularly during acute crises affecting communities—impact both explicit and passive discriminatory attitudes and behaviors toward minority groups.
 
Social Psychology for Social Work and “Anti-Oppressive Social Work”
Social Psychology, Social Psychology for Social Work
Study of psychosocial processes shaping decision-making and practice in social services—social norms, representations, core motivations, and evaluative criteria affecting inclusion and exclusion. Examination of how institutional constraints, managerialism, and accountability reshape professional discretion, definitions of vulnerability, and distributive justice within welfare systems. Grounding in Anti-Oppressive Practice and connection with social work sciences (policy, organizations, evaluation, education, and practice) to understand and reduce institutional bias, stigma, and inequalities, promoting reflexivity, equity, and rights-based services.
 
Values, Ideology, and University Dropout Risk
Social Psychology, Social Psychology for Social Work, Educational Psychology
This area aims to explore the role of cognitive coherence (or incoherence) between personal values, ideological orientations, and institutional norms in academic motivation and the risk of university dropout, especially among vulnerable student populations.
 
Indifference, Intergroup Relations, and Organizational Well-being
Social Psychology, Social Psychology for Social Work
This research focuses on indifference toward marginalised groups as a form of passive discrimination and investigates its effects on relational dynamics and well-being within organizational contexts, with particular attention to helping professions and the field of Social Work.
 
Norms, Motivation, and Inclusion in Contexts Transformed by Technological (Artificial Intelligence and cooperative Robotics) and Environmental Innovations
Work and Organizational Psychology, Environmental Psychology, Artificial Intelligence
This area analyses the role of social norms and fundamental motivations in fostering inclusive and prosocial behavior in response to environmental and technological changes, specifically focusing on the psychosocial impact of artificial intelligence and collaborative robotics in the ecological transition of work environments.

Publications

• Disentangling Students’ Dropout Intentions: The Role of Person-Environment Fit and Academic Motivation (Tesi, Alessio; Di Santo, Daniela; Aiello, Antonio - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
• Deepening the Relationship Between the Need for Epistemic Certainty and People’s Compliance with Social Power: The Moderating Role of Work Unit Tightness (Di Santo, Daniela; Tesi, Alessio; Aiello, Antonio; Pierro, Antonio - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
• The job can kill you or make you stronger: The role of passion in job demands, work motivational imbalance, and work-life conflict (Di Santo, Daniela; Tesi, Alessio; Aiello, Antonio; Pierro, Antonio - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
• Trait authenticity as an “enzyme” for personal resources and work engagement: A study among teachers within the framework of the job demands-resources model (Tesi, Alessio; Baroncelli, Andrea; Ciucci, Enrica; Facci, Carolina; Aiello, Antonio - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
• Academic Motivation of Students Experiencing Person-Environment Misfit in Social Work Educational Settings: The Role of Social Dominance Orientation (Tesi, Alessio; Di Santo, Daniela; Aiello, Antonio - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
• The Pathway between Social Dominance Orientation and Drop out from Hierarchy-Attenuating Contexts: The Role of Moral Foundations and Person-Environment Misfit (Tesi, Alessio; Di Santo, Daniela; Aiello, Antonio - 2023 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
• "Does this setting really fit with me?”: How support for group-based social hierarchies predicts a higher perceived misfit in hierarchy-attenuating settings. (Aiello, Antonio; Tesi, Alessio - 2023 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
• How people higher on social dominance orientation deal with hierarchy-attenuating institutions: the person-environment [mis]fit perspective in the grammar of hierarchies (Tesi, Alessio; Aiello, Antonio; Pratto, Felicia - 2023 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
• From Social Dominance Orientation to Political Engagement: The Role of Group Status and Shared Beliefs in Politics Across Multiple Contexts (Prati, F.; Pratto, F.; Bou Zeineddine, F.; Sweetman, J.; Aiello, A.; Petrovic, N.; Rubini, M. - 2022 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
• La valutazione del benessere organizzativo: lo “Strumento Integrato per la Valutazione del Benessere Organizzativo [SIVBO]” nel framework teorico del modello “Job Demands-Resources” [The assessment of organizational well-being: the “Integrated tool of organizational well-being [SIVBO]” into the framework of the “Job Demands-Resources” model]. (Tesi, Alessio; Aiello, Antonio - 2021 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)

All publications by Antonio Aiello on ARPI, the Research Archive of the University of Pisa