Fabio Sani

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Name Fabio Sani		Doctoral advisor Steve Reicher

Fields Social and health psychology Alma mater London School of Economics Books Experimental Design and Statistics for Psychology: A First Course Education London School of Economics and Political Science (1991), University of Florence (1986), University of Exeter
Institutions University of Dundee

Fabio Sani (born 1961) is a professor of social and health psychology at the University of Dundee, in Scotland.

Education

Sani completed his undergraduate degree in Pedagogy at the University of Florence in 1986. Subsequently, he obtained his MSc in social psychology at the London School of Economics in 1991, and his PhD in psychology at the University of Exeter in 1995, with a research project on schisms within social groups supervised by Steve Reicher. After spending one year working as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Surrey, he moved to the University of Dundee in 1996. He has held visiting positions at the Australian National University (2000), the University of Bari (2002), the University of Pittsburgh (2004), and the University of Queensland (2014).

Research

Sani's research mainly concerns group psychology, social identity, and the psycho-social determinants of health and illness. He has explored issues of schisms in religious and political groups, perceptions of historical and cultural continuity among members of ethnic and national groups, and the development of social identity in children and adolescents. In recent years, Sani's research has focused on group identification and health. More specifically, he is investigating the extent to which one's subjective sense of identification with groups such as the family, the community, and the workplace impacts upon mental and physical health. He was the Principal Investigator on the Health in Groups Project, a cross-national and longitudinal study investigating the effects of group life on various health indicators, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) of the UK.

Sani has published numerous scientific articles, and co-authored and edited four books, including a social psychology textbook published by McGraw-Hill. He has been an associate editor of the European Journal of Social Psychology.

Books authored

Myers, D.; Abell, J. & Sani, F. (2014). Social Psychology (2nd Ed.). Boston: McGraw Hill Higher Education. ISBN 0-07-712178-3.

Sani, F.; Todman, J. B. (2006). Experimental Design and Statistics for Psychology: A First Course. Blackwell Publishing Limited. ISBN 1-4051-0024-9. (Greek translation published by Πεδίο, in 2009; Korean translation published by Si Geumapeureseu in 2011).

Books edited

Sani, F. (2008). Self Continuity: Individual and Collective Perspectives. East Sussex: Psychology Press. ISBN 0-8058-5701-X.

Bennett, M.; Sani, F. (2004). The Development of the Social Self. East Sussex: Psychology Press. ISBN 1-84169-294-8.

Journal articles

Some representative articles published by Sani are:

Sani, F.; Madhok, V.; Norbury, M.; Dugard, P.; Wakefield, J. R. H. (2015). "Greater number of group identifications is associated with lower odds of being depressed: Evidence from a Scottish community sample". Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. 50: 1389–1397. doi:10.1007/s00127-015-1076-4.

Miller, K.; Wakefield, J.R.H.; Sani, F. (2015). "Identification with social groups is associated with mental health in adolescents: Evidence from a Scottish community sample". Psychiatry Research. 228: 340–346. doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2015.05.088.

Sani, F.; Herrera, M.; Bowe, M. (2009). "Perceived collective continuity and ingroup identification as defence against death awareness". Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. 45: 242–245. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2008.07.019.

Wakefield, J. R. H.; Bickley, S.; Sani, F. (2013). "The effects of identification with a support group on the mental health of people with multiple sclerosis". Journal of Psychosomatic Research. 74: 420–426. doi:10.1016/j.jpsychores.2013.02.002.

Sani, F.; Bowe, M.; Herrera, M.; Manna, C.; Cossa, T.; Miao, X.; Zhou, Y. (2007). "Perceived collective continuity: Seeing groups as entities that move through time". European Journal of Social Psychology. 37: 1118–1134. doi:10.1002/ejsp.430.

Bennett, M.; Lyons, E.; Sani, F.; Barrett, M. (1998). "Children's subjective identification with the group and in-group favoritism". Developmental Psychology. 34: 902–9. PMID 9779737. doi:10.1037/0012-1649.34.5.902.

References

Fabio Sani Wikipedia

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