Jesús López Megías

Biografía

Soy Catedrático de Psicología en la Universidad de Granada. Imparto docencia en el Grado en Psicología, en el Máster en Psicología de la Intervención Social y en el Máster de Secundaria. En los primeros años de mi carrera investigadora me centré en el estudio de procesos de aprendizaje asociativo y en el ámbito de las relaciones emoción-cognición. Pero lo que realmente caracteriza mi dedicación investigadora es sin duda el estudio de la violencia de género y el sexismo.

He realizado estancias de investigación en la University of Cambridge (Reino Unido), University of Bielefeld (Alemania) y la Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador (El Salvador).

Principales intereses

  • Mitos sobre la violencia sexual y la violencia de pareja contra las mujeres
  • Sexismo en la percepción social de la violencia de género
  • Discriminación y violencia contra las mujeres en distintos contextos
  • Atención psicológica a mujeres en situación de violencia
  • Aprendizaje, emoción y cognición

Contacto

Formación y trayectoria profesional

2017

Catedrático de Universidad

Universidad de Granada

1996

Profesor Titular de Universidad

Universidad de Granada

1994

Profesor Asociado (T3)

Universidad de Granada

1992

Profesor Ayudante

Universidad de Granada

1992

Doctor en Psicología

Universidad de Granada

1988

Licenciado en Psicología

Universidad de Granada

Publicaciones

2024

Fernández-López, R., Andreasen, K., Ankerstjerne, L., Martín-de-las-Heras, S., Rasch, V., Megías, J. L., Linde, D. S., de-León-de-León, S., Schei, B., Wu, C., Oviedo-Gutiérrez, A., & Zapata-Calvente, A. L. (2024). Prevalence and associated factors of intimate partner violence against pregnant women who attend antenatal care in Denmark and Spain: A digital screening approach. Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica. https://doi.org/10.1111/aogs.15000

Megías, J.L., Thon, P., R., Siebler, F., & Bohner, G. (2024). Attitudes Toward Prostitution in Norway, Spain, and Germany: Association With the Legal Context and Susceptibility to Persuasion. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/sjop.13082

Sánchez-Rodríguez, Á., & Megías, J.L. (2024). How Do Men Evaluate and Blame Victims of Mobbing? Depending on the Victims’ Identification as Feminist or Egalitarian. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 39(21-22), 4464–4488.

Zapata-Calvente, A., Moya, M., & Megías, J. L. (2024). Unveiling the gender symmetry debate: exploring consequences, instructions, and forms of violence in intimate partner violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605241289477

Bustos-Ortega, M., Romero-Sánchez, M., Megías, J. L., & Carretero-Dios, H. (2024). Gaming with a Feminist: Sexism and Perception of Sexist Incidents in Online Video Games. Sex Roles, 90, 1200–1217. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-024-01506-w

Vizcaíno-Cuenca, R., Riquelme, A. R., Romero-Sánchez, M., Megías, J. L., & Carretero-Dios, H. (2023). Exposure to Feminist Humor and the Proclivity to Collective Action for Gender Equality: The Role of Message Format and Feminist Identification. Sex Roles, 90, 186–201. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-023-01430-5

Estevan-Reina, L., de Lemus, S., Megías, J. L., Radke, H. R. M., Becker, J. C., & McGarty, C. (2024). How do disadvantaged groups perceive allies? Women’s perceptions of men who confront sexism in an egalitarian or paternalistic way. European Journal of Social Psychology, 119. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3059

Martínez-Sánchez, C. A., Romero-Sánchez, M., & Megías, J. L. (2024). Analysis of the cognitive function of myths about gender violence: the case of Rocío Carrasco/Análisis de la función cognitiva de los mitos sobre la violencia de género: el caso de Rocío Carrasco. International Journal of Social Psychology39(1), 27–58. https://doi.org/10.1177/02134748231218168 

2023

Andreasen, K., Zapata-Calvente, A. L., Martin-de-Las-Heras, S., Bueno-Cavanillas, A., Schei, B., Dokkedahl, S., … & Linde, D. S. (2023). Video consultations and safety app targeting pregnant women exposed to intimate partner violence in Denmark and Spain: Nested Cohort Intervention Study (STOP Study). JMIR formative research7, e38563. https://doi.org/10.2196/38563 

Bustos-Ortega, M., Carretero-Dios, H., Megías, J. L., & Romero-Sánchez, M. (2023). Sexist Attitudes in Online Video Gaming: Development and Validation of the Sexism Against Women Gamers Scale (SAWGS) in Spanish and English. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 47(3), 320–342. https://doi.org/10.1177/03616843231162837

2022

Moya-Garófano, A., Moya, M., Megías, J. L., & Rodríguez-Bailón, R. (2022). Ambivalent sexism and women’s reactions to stranger harassment: The case of piropos in Spain. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 46(4), 454-467. http://doi.10.1177/03616843221115339

Fernández López, R., de-León-de-León, S., Martin-de-Las-Heras, S., Torres Cantero, J. C., Megías, J. L., & Zapata-Calvente, A. L. (2022). Women survivors of intimate partner violence talk about using e-health during pregnancy: a focus group study. BMC women’s health22(1), 98. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-022-01669-2

Zapata-Calvente, A. L., Megías, J. L., Casilda Velasco, A., Khalid S. K., Rubio, L., Martín-de-las-Heras, S. (2022). Screening for intimate partner violence during pregnancy: a test accuracy study. European Journal of Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckac009

2021

Riquelme, A. R., Carretero-Dios, H., Megías, J. L., & Romero-Sánchez, M. (2021). Joking for gender equality: Subversive humor against sexism motivates collective action in men and women with weaker feminist identity. Sex Roles, 84, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-020-01154-w

Riquelme, A. R., Carretero-Dios, H., Megías, J. L., & Romero-Sánchez, M. (2021). Individual differences in the appreciation and interpretation of subversive humor against sexism versus sexist humor: The role of feminist identity and hostile sexism. Personality and Individual Differences, 177, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110794

Romero-Sánchez, M., Megías, J. L., & Carretero-Dios, H. (2021). Sexist Humor and Sexual Aggression Against Women: When Sexist Men Act According to Their Own Values or Social Pressures. Journal of Interpersonal Violence36(21–22), 11322–11348. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260519888518

Romero-Sánchez, M., Skowronski, M., Bohner, G., & Megías, J. L. (2021). Talking about ‘victims’, ‘survivors’ and ‘battered women’: how labels affect the perception of women who have experienced intimate partner violence (‘Víctimas’,‘supervivientes’y ‘mujeres maltratadas’: cómo influyen las etiquetas en la percepción de las mujeres que han sufrido violencia por parte de sus parejas). International Journal of Social Psychology36(1), 30-60. https://doi.org/10.1080/02134748.2020.1840232

Estevan-Reina, L., de Lemus, S., Megías, J. L., Kutlaca, M., Belmonte-García, M., & Becker, J. (2021). Allies Against Sexism: The Impact of Men’s Egalitarian Versus Paternalistic Confrontation on Women’s Empowerment and Well-Being. Sex Roles, 84(9–10), 536–553. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-020-01184-4

Moya-Garófano, A., Rodríguez-Bailón, R., Moya, M., & Megías, J.L., (2021). Stranger harassment («piropo») and women’s self-objectification: the role of anger, happiness and empowerment. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36, 2306–2326. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260518760258

Navarro-Mantas, L., de Lemus, S., & Megías, J. L. (2021). Mental Health Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in El Salvador. Violence Against Women, 27(15–16), 2927–2944. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801220978803

Navarro-Mantas, L., Velasquez, M. J., de Lemus, S., & Megías, J. L. (2021). Prevalence and Sociodemographic Predictors of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women in El Salvador. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(7–8), 3547–3573. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260518779065

2020

Estevan-Reina, L., de Lemus, S., & Megías, J. L. (2020). Feminist or Paternalistic: Understanding Men’s Motivations to Confront Sexism. Frontiers in Psychology, 10. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02988

Moya-Garófano, A., Moya, M., Megías, J.L. & Rodríguez-Bailón, R. (2020). Social perceptions of Spanish women according to their reactions to a stranger harassment situation (piropo). Sex Roles, 83, 163–178. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-019-01103-2

2019

Riquelme A. R., Carretero-Dios, H., Megías, J. L., & Romero-Sánchez, M. (2019). Subversive humor against sexism: Conceptualization and first evidence on its empirical nature. Current Psychology, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-019-00331-9

Zapata-Calvente, A. L., Megías, J. L., Moya, M., & Schoebi, D. (2019). Gender-Related Ideological and Structural Macrosocial Factors Associated With Intimate Partner Violence Against European Women. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 43(3), 317–334. https://doi.org/10.1177/0361684319839367

Zapata-Calvente, A. L., Moya, M., Bohner, G., & Megías, J. L. (2019). Automatic associations and conscious attitudes predict different aspects of men’s intimate partner violence and sexual harassment proclivities. Sex Roles, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-019-1006-0

2018

Megías, J.L., Toro-García, V., y Carretero-Dios, H. (2018). The Acceptance of Myths About Intimate Partner Violence Against Women (AMIVAW) Scale: Development and Validation in Spanish and English. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 42, 44-61. https://doi.org/10.1177/0361684317742638 

Romero-Sánchez, M., Megías, J. L. Moya, M. & Krahé, B. (2018). Alcohol-related victim behaviour and rape myth acceptance as predictors of victim blame in sexual assault cases. Violence Against Women, 24(9) 1052–1069. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801217727372

2017

Zapata-Calvente, A. L., & Megías, J. L. (2017). Social perception of intimate partner violence according to the motivations and sex of the aggressor and the ideology and sex of the observers/Percepción social de la violencia de pareja en función de las motivaciones y sexo del/a agresor/ay de la ideología y sexo de los/as observadores/as. Revista de Psicología Social32(2), 301-332. https://doi.org/10.1080/02134748.2017.1297355

Romero-Sánchez, M., Toro-García, V., Horvath, M. A., & Megías, J. L. (2017). More than a magazine: Exploring the links between lads’ mags, rape myth acceptance, and rape proclivity. Journal of interpersonal violence32(4), 515-534. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260515586366

Moya-Garófano, A., Megías, J.L., Rodríguez-Bailón, R., & Moya, M. (2017). Spanish version of the Objectified Body Consciousness Scale (OBCS): results from two samples of female university students / Versión española de la Objectified Body Consciousness Scale (OBCS): resultados correspondientes a dos muestras de estudiantes universitarias. Revista de Psicología Social, 32(2), 362-394. https://doi.org/10.1080/02134748.2017.1292700

2016

Romero-Sánchez, M., Carretero-Dios, H., Megías, J. L. Moya, M. & Ford, T. E. (2016). Sexist humor and rape proclivity: the moderating role of joke-teller gender and degree of physical violence. Violence Against Women, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801216654017

2015

Montañés, P., Megías, J. L., De Lemus, S., & Moya, M. (2015). Influence of early romantic relationships on adolescents’ sexism. Revista de Psicología Social, 30(2), 219–240. https://doi.org/10.1080/21711976.2015.1016756 

2013

del Rio, E., López Megías, J., & Expósito (2013). Gender-based violence against women with visual and physical disabilities. Psicothema, 25(1), 67-72. https://doi.org/10.7334/psicothema2012.83

2012

Montañés, P., de Lemus, S., Bohner, G. Megías, J. L., Moya, M. & Garcia-Retamero, R. (2012). Intergenerational transmission of benevolent sexism from mothers to daughters and its relation to daughters’ academic performance and goals. Sex Roles, 66(7-8), 468-478. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-011-0116-0

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