Davide Melita

Biography

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Social and Organizational Psychology at the National University of Distance Education (Spain). Much of my research activity has involved the development of paradigms for the experimental manipulation of the perception of economic inequality and social mobility. I have worked in prevention and intervention in the field of drug dependence and I am a founding member of the association PSICABIS, dedicated to the implementation and evaluation of social intervention projects based on scientific evidence.

Main interests

  • Status anxiety as a consequence of economic inequality.
  • The relationship between ideological orientation, perceived social mobility, and status anxiety.
  • Cross-cultural studies on status anxiety.
  • Perception, interpretation, and tolerance of economic inequality.
  • Class identity and class consciousness.
  • Classism.
  • Antecedents and consequences of social alienation.
  • Identity processes on social media.

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Training and professional career

2024

Postdoctoral Researcher

National University of Distance Education (Spain)

2023

Postdoctoral Researcher

Jagiellonian University (Krakow)

2021

Postdoctoral Researcher

Universidad de Granada

2021

PhD in Psychology

Universidad de Granada

2014

Master's Degree in Psychology of Social Intervention

Universidad de Granada

2012

Degree in Psychology

Universidad de Granada

Publications

2024

Melita, D., Alcañiz‐Colomer, J., Matamoros‐Lima, J., Ríos, S. A., & Moya, M. (2024). Socioeconomic status self‐deception as a way to perpetuate classist societies. Political Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.13051

García-Sánchez, E., Matamoros-Lima, J., Moreno-Bella, E., Melita, D., Sánchez-Rodríguez, A., García-Castro, J. D., Rodríguez-Bailón, R. & Willis, G. (2024). Perceived economic inequality is negatively associated with subjective well-being through status anxiety and social trust. Social Indicators Research, 172, 239-260. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-024-03306-x

2023

Melita, D., Rodríguez-Bailón, R., & Willis, G. B. (2023). Does income inequality increase status anxiety? Not directly, the role of perceived upward and downward mobility. The British journal of social psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12641  

2021

Melita, D., Willis, G. B., & Rodríguez-Bailón, R. (2021). Economic inequality increases status anxiety through perceived contextual competitiveness. Frontiers in psychology, 12, 637365.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.637365

2020

Melita, D., Velandia-Morales, A., Iruela-Toro, D., Willis, G. B., & Rodríguez-Bailón, R. (2020). Spanish version of the Status Anxiety Scale (Versión española de la Escala de Ansiedad por el Estatus). International Journal of Social Psychology, 35(2), 342-369.https://doi.org/10.1080/02134748.2020.1721050

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