Professor Fabio Fasoli - Orador convidado na Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa, 28 de Novembro 2024 - Vocal Cues and Sexual Orientation: Unpacking the 'Gay Voice' Stereotype, Stigma, and Discrimination

[Rui Costa Lopes]

Dear colleagues,

See below for information of an interesting Seminar with Dr. Fabio Fasoli taking place at Faculdade de Psicologia (Anfitatro 1), November, 28th at 14h.

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Rui Costa Lopes

Senior Research Fellow @ICS - University of Lisbon
Guest Lecturer @FP - University of Lisbon

No dia 28 de Novembro, Fábio Fasoli (Senior Lecture in Social Psychology of the School of Psychology (Guilford) of the University of Surrey, United Kingdom) será orador convidado numa sessão com o tema Vocal Cues and Sexual Orientation: Unpacking the 'Gay Voice' Stereotype, Stigma, and Discrimination

A partir das 14h00, no Anfiteatro 1 da Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa.

Vocal Cues and Sexual Orientation: Unpacking the 'Gay Voice' Stereotype, Stigma, and Discrimination

In this lecture, I will begin by exploring how people perceive voice as a cue for sexual orientation and the processes involved in categorising speakers as either gay or straight. I will then examine the consequences of such voice-based categorisation, focusing on stereotyping and discrimination. I will present research that reveals negative biases against individuals perceived as "gay-sounding" and discuss how sexual minorities navigate situations where their voices lead others to assume their sexual orientation. Finally, I will introduce recent studies that tested strategies to reduce these biases.

Bio

Fabio Fasoli is a Senior Lecture in Social Psychology of the School of Psychology (Guilford) of the University of Surrey, United Kingdom, where he specializes in auditory gaydar; Dehumanization; Derogatory language; Sexual prejudice; Social communication; Sexism; Sexual objectification. He earned his PhD in 2011 at University of Trento (Italy). From 2012 to 2013, he was a post-doc fellow first at CITEC (University of Bielefeld, Germany) and then at the University of Padua (Italy). In 2014-2015 he was a post-doc at ISCTE-IUL (Portugal), and a postdoc at the University of Milano-Bicocca in 2015-2016. He moved to Surrey in October 2016 as a Marie Sklodowska Curie fellow under the supervision of Prof Peter Hegarty. Since 2021 he has been the Programme Leader for the Social Psychology MSc and, from December 2023, he is the Chair of the Raninbow Network.