Giannella Valeria Amata
Ricercatore
Giannella Valeria Amata
Ricercatore
She holds a PhD in Business and Behavioral Sciences from the “G. d'Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara, with a thesis on moral leadership and social identity.
Her research focuses on gender stereotypes, financial behavior, entrepreneurship, and moral leadership. She has participated in national and international research projects (PRIN, CARIPLO, EU Horizon) and published in leading journals such as The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, and Frontiers in Psychology.
Dr. Giannella's teaching activities range from social and organizational psychology to leadership and behavioral finance at various Italian universities. She is an active member of international research networks, including the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) and the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP).
Carriera
PhD: Business and Behavioural Sciences
Ricerca
Her research focuses on the analysis of the psychological and social processes that influence individual and collective behaviors within organizational and economic contexts. In particular, she studies gender stereotypes and roles, with special attention to their implications for women’s work, entrepreneurship, and financial choices, as well as financial behavior and attitudes toward money, examining how social, cultural, and linguistic factors contribute to the gender gap in finance.
Recently, her work has also focused on the intersection between gender and entrepreneurship, and gender and participation in European research projects, exploring the psychological and social factors that facilitate or hinder women’s involvement in entrepreneurship or in male-dominated research environments.
Her foundational research examines leadership and morality, analyzing the role of ethical dimensions and social identity in leader perception and evaluation. Overall, her studies integrate experimental, implicit, and qualitative methodologies.
Pubblicazioni Selezionate
Giannella, V.A., Manzi, C., Donato, S., & Li, J. (2025). Women Entrepreneurship of Necessity: A Literature Review for the Analysis of Push and Pull Factors. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 35(5), e70166.
Giannella, V.A., Manzi, C., Crapolicchio, E. Prast, H, (2025). "Beat the market!" or "Take care of your savings": Can language in bank advertisements influence women's attitudes towards finance? An experimental comparison of different - inclusive - languages to counter the gender gap in finance. Journal of Behavioural and Experimental Economics, 117
Giannella, V. A., Pagliaro, S., & Barreto, M. (2022). Leader’s morality, prototypicality, and followers’ reactions. The Leadership Quarterly, 101596.
Teresi, M., Pietroni, D.D., Barattucci, M., Giannella, V.A., & Pagliaro, S. (2019). Ethical climate(s), organizational identification, and employees' behavior, Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 1356.
Pagliaro, S., Lo Presti, A., Barattucci, M., Giannella, V.A., & Barreto, M. (2018). On the Effects of Ethical Climate(s) on Employees’ Behavior: A Social Identity Approach, Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 960.
Premi e riconoscimenti
Best Doctoral Thesis Award 2019/2020, Social Psychology section of the Italian Psychological Association (AIP)
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