عن المؤلف
Sergio Salvatore is Professor of Dynamic Psychology at the Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Salento (Italy)……. His scientific interests are in psychodynamic and semiotic theorization of psychological and social phenomena and the methodology of socio-cultural and mental processes as field dynamics. He also takes an interest in the theory and analysis of psychological intervention in socio-political, community, scholastic, organizational, and clinical fields. He has designed and managed various scientific projects on these issues and published about 250 works as books, chapters, and journal articles. He is co-editor of the Springer book series: Culture in Policy Making: The Symbolic Universes of Social Action, co-editor of the journal
Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science (Springer), and Member of the Editorial/Advisor Board of several scientific journals. He worked as scientific Coordinator of the Re.Cri.Re Project (2015-2018), granted by the EU in the Horizon 2020 framework. He is Member of the Board on Educational Affairs of the European Federation of Psychologists’ Associations (2016-2019), President of the Board of the Professors and Researchers of Dynamic Psychology of the Italian University (2016-), and Vice President of the Associazione Italiana di Psicologia (AIP; Italian Association of Psychology; 2018-).
Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri has a BA in Psychology of Communication from the University of Siena, an MSc in Social Research Methods (Statistics) from the Methodology Institute of the London School of Economics (LSE), and a Ph D in Social Psychology from the LSE. He is Associate Professor of Research Methodology and Cognitive Sociology at the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento. He was Senior Lecturer at University of Leicester and has been a senior scientific fellow at the European Commission JRC Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS) in the unit of Social Innovation and ICT. Before joining the IPTS, he was a research associate at the Institut Jean Nicod (Ecole Normale Supérieure) in Paris. He has published in scientific journals such as Nature, PLOS One, Computers in Human Behavior, Public Understanding of Science, Big Data & Society and others. His latest book is
Digital Social Research (2019, Polity). He has carried out large European studies (H2020, EC framework contracts on behavioural research, etc.) using different methodologies such as surveys, population-based survey experiments online, lab experiments, focus groups, and more.
Terri Mannarini is Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Salento, Lecce, Italy, and editor-in-chief of the international journal
Community Psychology in Global Perspective. Her research interests cover political, social, and community psychology, and focus specifically on community participation and development processes, collective action, acculturation processes, and gender issues.
