Ricerc@Sapienza

We examined, in different work organizations, how subordinates high in social dominance orientation (SDO; individual desire to sustain group-based hierarchies) and in need for cognitive closure (NFCC, an individual's epistemic motivation to avoid uncertainty) comply with harsh power tactics as means to sustain asymmetrical intergroup relationships. We studied the interaction between SDO and NFCC in two organizations that differentially endorse hierarchy-attenuating and hierarchy-enhancing legitimizing myths.

As epidemiological studies have shown a significant association between exposure to particles and mortality and
morbidity, depending on their different deposition efficiency in the pulmonary region, size-segregated parti-
culate matter (PM) samples were collected in workplaces where high PM concentrations were expected and
compared with the results from urban and background atmospheres.
We investigated the following workplaces: an analytical chemistry laboratory, a wastewater treatment plant,