Saulo Fernández

Saulo Fernández Arregui, Associate Professor at the Department of Social and Organizational Psychology at UNED. My research work covers three fundamental themes: humiliation, social stigma from the perspective of the victims and the role of morality in the perception of others (intergroup morality). Currently, my research interest is focused on the study of what I consider to be the emotion of victims par excellence: humiliation. In this line of work I lead a research project from the Spanish National Research Agency (AEI), whose main objective is to better understand the psychological nature of the emotion of humiliation and of humiliation as a destructive social dynamic. My work on social stigma has focused on studying the experience of stigmatization by victims, especially by people with achondroplasia and other skeletal dysplasias that cause dwarfism. In this area, I have investigated how stigmatization materializes from the point of view of the affected people, what consequences it has for their psychological well-being and, above all, what coping strategies members of these groups use to deal with social stigma and its psychological consequences. To develop this work, I have collaborated closely with the ALPE Achondroplasia Foundation. In relation to the third theme (intergroup morality), I have investigated the moral expectations that members of majority groups develop about victimized groups and the consequences that these expectations have for the victims. My teaching experience concentrates on "social psychology" for the Degree in Psychology, combining it with teaching for the Master's Degree in Psychology of Social Intervention, which I currently coordinate: "Social Psychology Theories in Social Intervention" and "Psychology of Social Intervention for the Prevention of Abuse and Maltreatment".

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6136-1614