Giulia Lausi

Discomfort as data: when negative emotions signal that something doesn’t add up

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Is discomfort a problem or a signal? Discover how negative emotions reveal cognitive dissonance, shaping perception, bias recognition, and early recognition of gender-based violence. There are moments when nothing is clearly wrong and yet something does not feel right. Can be a comment in a meeting, a gesture in a relationship or a story that […]

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The stereotypes you don’t know you have and why they matter more than the ones you do

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Meta description: hidden gender biases shape how we see, judge, and respond to others without our awareness. Discover how implicit stereotypes fuel everyday discrimination and what psychology says about changing them. Target keywords: implicit gender stereotypes, unconscious bias gender, gender-based discrimination psychology, implicit bias workplace, hidden sexism, stereotype threat, gender bias perception That meeting where

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Why some victim stories are believed more than others: narrative coherence, bias, and credibility

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When truth isn’t enough and the hidden psychology that decides who gets believed. In an ideal world, credibility would rest entirely on evidence. But in the real world, especially in cases of gender-based violence, what gets perceived as true often has less to do with what actually happened, and more to do with how the

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Violence as a social prediction error: why we don’t always recognize harm when it begins

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Is violence always visible the moment it starts? Science suggests otherwise, and understanding why could change how we prevent it. When we think about gender-based violence, we tend to picture a clear, identifiable moment: a sort of line crossed. But research in cognitive psychology is challenging this assumption in a profound way. Violence, it turns

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Men, vulnerability, and silence: why some emotions remain invisible

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Why do men struggle to express vulnerability? Explore the psychology of masculine norms, emotional invisibility, and the silence surrounding male fragility — and what it means for how we understand gender-based violence. The paradox at the heart of masculine emotion Vulnerability is frequently described as a universal human condition, an experience that, regardless of social

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The myth of objectivity: why seeing is never neutral

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Perception is not passive registration. It is inferential, culturally shaped, and, in contexts of gender-based violence, consequential in ways we rarely acknowledge. There is a seductive simplicity to the idea that the world presents itself to us as it is, that seeing is a form of recording, that facts are self-evident, and that disagreement must

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Selective empathy and victim credibility bias: who deserves to be believed?

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The unequal distribution of belief in gender-based violence, and the psychological mechanisms that drive it. Empathy is widely understood as one of humanity’s most fundamental moral capacities: automatic, responsive, and shaped by a genuine orientation toward the suffering of others. And yet, substantial evidence from social psychology and victimology challenges this reassuring account. Rather than

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The cognitive cost of changing one’s mind: why disconfirming gender stereotypes is so difficult

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Why is it so hard to change our beliefs about gender? Discover the cognitive cost of updating stereotypes, from prediction error to resistance mechanisms rooted in mental economy. It is not ignorance but cognitive economy When individuals continue to hold gender stereotypes in the face of contradictory evidence, the most common interpretation is a straightforward

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When a slap is “not yet” a slap: perceptual thresholds and normalization of violence

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How do we recognize violence before it becomes undeniable, and why does recognition come so late? The Problem of the Invisible Beginning Violence, as a social and psychological phenomenon, rarely announces itself with clarity: it does not typically begin with a visible bruise, a public outburst, or an act that commands immediate moral consensus; more

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Exposed: how toxic silence turns bystanders into accomplices

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Or how our silent predictions make discrimination feel normal I find myself in a situation where I have older colleagues who often make those jokes – precisely because they feel they’re in an all-male environment – those blatantly sexual jokes about female colleagues which, to be honest, sometimes… are told with such naturalness and light-heartedness,

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