Publications

Journal Articles

(* corresponding author; ° joint first authorship)

Tassinari, M.*°, Marinucci, M.°, Hasler, B°. (2026). Immersive Technologies and Intergroup Relations: A Critical Review. Computers in Human Behavior. Advanced Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2026.108908

Marinucci, M.*, Schaefer, C., Dupont, P., Manley, D., Taylor, L. K., & McKeown, S. (2026). Desegregating spaces: The interplay between ecological intergroup contact and GPS-traced spatial segregation among youth in two UK cities. British Journal of Social Psychology, 65, e70043. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.70043

Riva, P.*, Marinucci, M., Telari, A., & Pancani, L. (2025). Updating the Temporal Need-Threat Model of Ostracism: Challenges and Future Directions. The Journal of Social Psychology. Advanced Online Publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2025.2572648

Traversa, T.*, Marinucci, M., Tortù, I., Riva, P., & Pancani, L. (2025). Stronger Together: How Social Interactions With Colleagues Promote Prison Officers' Well-Being Through Social Identity. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 35(5), e70162. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.70162

Marinucci, M.*, Tortù, I., Traversa, T., Pancani, L., & Riva, P. (2025). Transforming prison culture: Supportive norms enhance prison officers’ well-being and prosociality toward detained people. Journal of Criminal Psychology. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1108/JCP-12-2024-0145

Traversa, T.*, Marinucci, M., Riva, P., & Pancani, L. (2025). Understanding imprisonment through the lens of social exclusion: a novel integrative theoretical model. Basic and Applied Social Psychology. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/01973533.2025.2475336

Owuamalam, C. K.*, Caricati, L., Tan, C. M., Matos, A., Bonetti, C., Rubin, M., Spears, R., & Marinucci, M. (2025). Re-examining Büchel et al.’s (2021) Test of the Status Legitimacy Hypothesis. European Journal of Social Psychology. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3173

De Cristofaro, V.*, Cervone, C., Filippi, S., Marinucci, M., Scatolon, A., Valtorta, R., Vezzoli, M., & Pellegrini, V. (2025). National identity and economic inequality: new insights from disadvantaged and advantaged groups. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.70068

Chichua, M.*, Filipponi, C., Mazzoni, D., Marinucci, M., Masiero, M., & Pravettoni, G. (2025) The dual role of empathy in clinical trial decisions. Frontiers in Psychology. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1397581

Marinucci, M.*, Pagliaro, S., Teresi, M., Ballone, C., & Riva, P. (2025). How low can you go? Observing an Ostracized Robot Is Sufficient to Hurt Humans’ Feelings. Group Process & Intergroup Relations. Advanced online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302241309578

Marinucci, M.*, & Riva, P. (2025). Homelessness in virtual reality: experiencing social exclusion improves attitudes and behaviors toward unhoused people. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 28(1), 65-71. https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2024.0027

Lenzi, M., Gaboardi, M.*, Curiale, C., Tubertini, E., Marinucci, M., & Riva, P. (2024). Making choices: Increased choice opportunities are linked with better-perceived health among people experiencing homelessness. Community Psychology in Global Perspective, 10(2), 148-155. https://doi.org/10.1285/i24212113v10i2-2p148

Büttner, C. M.*, Jauch, M., Marinucci, M., Williams, K. D., Greifeneder, R., Riva, P., & Rudert, S. C. (2024). It will (never) stop hurting: Does chronic social exclusion lead to hyper- or hypo-sensitive psychological responses? Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 27(2), 256-277. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302221140002

Burrai, F.*, Ortu, S., Marinucci, M., De Marinis, M. G., & Piredda, M. (2023). Effectiveness of immersive virtual reality in people with cancer undergoing antiblastic therapy: A randomized controlled trial. Seminars in Oncology Nursing, 39(4). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soncn.2023.151470

Marinucci, M.*, Riva, P., Lenzi, M., Lasagna, C., Waldeck, D., Tyndall, I., & Volpato, C. (2023). On the lowest rung of the ladder: How social exclusion, perceived economic inequality and stigma increase homeless people’s resignation. British Journal of Social Psychology, 62, 1817–1838. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12657

Owuamalam, K. C.*, Caricati, L., Spears, R., Rubin, M., Marinucci, M., & Ferrari, A. (2023). Further evidence that system justification amongst the disadvantaged is positively related to superordinate group identification. Acta Psychologica, 232, 103813. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2022.103813

Marinucci, M.*, Mazzoni, D., Aureli, N., De Cristofaro, V., Shamloo, S. E., Guarino, A., & Tzankova, I. I. (2022). Together to welcome, together to exclude. Intergroup contact as an antecedent of collective and interpersonal behaviors pro and against migrants. Social Psychology, 53(4), 244-256. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000497

Marinucci, M.*, Pancani, L., & Riva, P. (2022). Exploring the peer-status prototypes: A large-scale latent profile analysis on high-school students from four European countries. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 64(1), 40-52. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.12863

Marinucci, M.*, Mazzoni, D., Pancani, L., & Riva, P. (2022). To whom should I turn? Intergroup social connections moderate social exclusion’s short- and long-term psychological impact on immigrants. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 99, 104275. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104275

Marinucci, M.*, Pancani, L., Aureli, N., & Riva, P. (2022). Online social connections as surrogates of face-to-face interactions: a longitudinal study under Covid-19 isolation. Computers in Human Behavior, 128, 107102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.107102

Mazzoni, D.*, Marinucci, M., Monzani, D., & Pravettoni, G. (2021). The Social Exclusion Bench Tool (SEBT): a visual way of assessing interpersonal social exclusion. MethodsX, 8, 101495. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2021.101495

Monzani, D.*, Marinucci, M., Pancani, L., Rusconi, P., Mazzoni, D., & Pravettoni, G. (2021). Thinking of future as an older individual increases perceived risks for age-related diseases but not for COVID-19. International Journal of Psychology. 57(1), 96-106. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12789

Pancani, L.*, Marinucci, M., Aureli, N., & Riva, P. (2021). Forced social isolation and mental health. A study on 1006 Italians under COVID-19 lockdown. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.663799

Marinucci, M.* & Riva, P. (2021). How intergroup social connections shape immigrants’ responses to social exclusion. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations. 24(3), 411-435. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430219894620

Marinucci, M.* & Riva, P. (2021). Surrendering to social emptiness. Chronic social exclusion longitudinally predicts resignations in asylum-seekers. British Journal of Social Psychology, 40, 429-447. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12410

Marinucci, M.°, Maunder, R.°, Sanchez, K.°, Thai, M.°, McKeown, S.*, Turner, R., N., Stevenson, C. (2021). Intimate intergroup contact across the life-span. Journal of Social Issues, 77(1), 64-85. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12399

Aureli, N., Marinucci, M.*, & Riva, P. (2020). Can the chronic exclusion-resignation link be broken? An analysis of support group in prisons. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 50(2), 638-650. https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12701  

Mazzoni, D.*, Pancani, L., Marinucci, M., & Riva, P. (2020). The dual path of the rejection (dis)identification model: A study on adolescents with a migrant background. European Journal of Social Psychology, 50, 799–809. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2672

Book Chapters

Riva, P.*, Telari, A., & Marinucci, M. (in press). Social influence in digital environments. In D. Giles & J. Johnston (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Social Psychology and Media. New York, NY: Routledge.

Riva, P.*, Telari, A., & Marinucci, M. (in press). Influenze sociali negli ambienti digitali [Social influence in digital environments]. In A. Gabbiadini & L. Pancani (Eds.), Cyberpsicologia. Roma-Bari: Laterza.

Marinucci, M.*, & Riva, P. (2024). Chronic Social Exclusion, Radicalization, and Extremism. In M. Pfundmair, A. H. Hales, & K. D. Williams (Eds.) Exclusion and Extremism: A Psychological Perspective (pp. 263-286). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009408165.013