Ricerc@Sapienza

Starting from the second half of the Nineteenth century, the Catholic doctrine was confronted with the practices of birth control and biopolitical intervention on the reproduction. In this perspective, the Congregation of the Holy Office – the guardian of the orthodoxy of the Catholic discourse – discussed questions such as therapeutic abortion, obstetrical practices, contraception, and artificial insemination. The inquisitors acquired knowledge on the practices of controlling human reproduction, and defined norms had power of law for Catholic discourse.

The temptation to deceive others compares to a moral dilemma: it involves a conflict between the temptation to obtain some benefit and the desire to conform to personal and social moral norms or avoid aversive social consequences. Thus, people might feel different levels of emotional and moral conflict depending on the target of the deception. Here we explored, in a morally relevant setting, how social judgements based on two fundamental dimensions of human social cognition – ‘warmth’ and ‘competence’ – impact on the decision to deceive others.

En la publicidad se aprecia representaciones de género estereotipadas y polarizada entre los roles masculinos y femeninos. Se intenta analizar si existe una escisión moral entre el modo que los profesionales perciben la realidad social sobre el género y sus propuestas creativas. Metodología. Se ha realizado 40 entrevistas en profundidad a publicistas sobre el tema propuesto. Los resultados manifiestan una inercial cultura que determina los patrones en la construcción de género, por encima de otros factores.