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This project investigates the choice to vote as a choice that involves a series of psychological factors: cognitive, value-based, motivational, and psychosocial factors. Thanks to the analysis of data on large and representative samples of the population, we evaluate the weight that the various factors have on the vote, comparing the choice of different categories of voters.
The project has been funded by the Catholic University of Milan and is developed in collaboration with the ITANES (Italian National Election Studies) group
Media
Political Psychology: From electoral campaign to regional elections
Webinar with Patrizia Catellani, professor of Political Psychology at the Catholic University of Milan, organized by ReDiPsi. Introduction by Gabriella Scaduto, President of ReDiPsi. Webinar moderated by Riccardo Bettiga, psychologist and psychotherapist
Political leaders as the new influencers.
In this article published in the journal La Gazzetta di Cremona - Mondo Business, Professor Patrizia Catellani tells us about the crisis in the relationship between citizens and politics
«The relationship between citizens and politics is in crisis. An important part of voters choose to vote not on the basis of content and proposals, but based on the characteristics of the candidate who is also followed on social media.» 
Who won, who lost.
Live from Fondazione G. Feltrinelli, "Who Won, Who Lost"
The evening's analysis of the vote together with experts and protagonists with: Donatella Campus, University of Bergamo, Giovanni Boccia Artieri, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Patrizia Catellani, Catholic University of the Sacred Hearth of Milan, Angela Mauro, Huffington Post, Nancy Holman, London School of Economics, Steven Forti, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Salvatore Palidda, University of Genoa and Mediapart, Mario Del Pero, Sciences Po. Cristina Carpinelli, Centro Studi Problemi Internazionali. Moderated by Jacopo Tondelli, Gli Stati Generali.
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Publications
Think different? Populist attitudes, their antecedents and consequences on vote behaviour and outcome evaluation in the 2016 and 2020 Italian constitutional referenda.
Bertolotti, M., Leone, C. & Catellani, P. (under review).
Hindsight bias and electoral outcomes: Satisfaction counts more than winner-loser status
Bertolotti, M. & Catellani, P. (2021). Social Cognition, 39, 201–224.
Il senno di poi degli elettori: illusioni, delusioni, sorprese.
Bertolotti, M. e Catellani, P. (2018). In ITANES (a cura di), Vox populi. Il voto ad alta voce del 2018, Il Mulino, Bologna, pp. 225-238.
