The talk is titled “Alternative Systems: How Criminal Actors Influence Society”
Professor Giovanni Travaglino (Professor of Social Psychology and Criminology) has been invited to deliver a talk at the Research Institute for the Dynamics of Civilization, Okayama University, Japan.
The talk is titled “Alternative Systems: How Criminal Actors Influence Society”. Prof. Travaglino will discuss preliminary findings and future directions of his research project “Secret Power”, investigating the socio-psychological bases of criminal governance.
He will present evidence from 83 countries demonstrating how cross-national differences in the influence of criminal groups are linked to individuals’ moral orientation towards public goods. The talk will then discuss the complex cognitive representations of organized crime in the US and Italy. Finally, he will present findings from Southern Italy showing how adolescents’ feelings of support towards criminal groups are organized vis-à-vis their ideologies and identities.
The tallk will be held in Okayama on 18th November 2022.
