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Dolores Fernández Pérez

@doloresfernandez.bsky.social

Psychologist | Assistant Professor (PhD) in Criminology at UCLM (Spain)| Criminology Research Center 🎓🔍 | Research Group on Victimology and Psychopathology of Childhood and Adolescence | Passionate about human behavior, plot twists & dark minds 🎬🕵️‍♀️

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If Hollywood helped reduce smoking by changing portrayals, maybe it can do the same with guns. Culture matters.

29.09.2025 04:57 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Firearm Violence in Entertainment Media as a Contributor to the Youth Firearm Health Crisis in the United States The United States is unique among wealthy countries for its increasing rates of mortality in young people. Firearm injuries are a major source of this disparity. Here we examined the potential imitati...

New study shows gun violence in movies rose sharply from 2000–2021, closely tracking firearm homicides among U.S. youth. Media portrayals may normalize guns, echoing how smoking was once glamorized onscreen.
www.jahonline.org/article/S105...
#criminology #crime #research #media #violence

29.09.2025 04:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Why You Should Indulge Your Morbid Curiosity An interview with psychologist and author Coltan Scrivner.

Why should we indulge our morbid curiosity? According to Psychology Today, exploring the dark — like true crime — lets us confront fear safely, grow resilient, and learn useful survival cues. And no, it doesn’t mean we lack empathy.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brai...
#psychology #criminology

25.09.2025 05:33 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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🎉 ¡Nace G-VIPIA!
Hoy damos un paso importante en nuestro compromiso con la infancia y la adolescencia. La Línea de Investigación en Victimología (@LiVUCLM) del Centro de Investigación en Criminología de la Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha evoluciona y se transforma en G-VIPIA

17.09.2025 20:03 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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“What an invasion, an immense invasion”: Examining the adverse effects of true crime media on co-victims - Kelli S. Boling, Danielle C. Slakoff, 2025 Through in-depth qualitative interviews with 20 people who identify as co-victims (friends/family members of missing people, victims, and/or perpetrators) spotl...

New in Crime, Media, Culture: in-depth interviews with co-victims reveal how true-crime fandom + algorithms can retraumatize families (rumors, doxxing, speculation). More rigor, less spectacle.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#criminology #truecrime #crime #psychology #research

18.09.2025 05:42 — 👍 11    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

Can understanding the Dark Tetrad help us show compassion… or just protect ourselves?

13.09.2025 05:41 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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When Cruelty Feels Good: The Power of the Dark Tetrad Research finds that sadism predicts everyday cruelty such as online trolling and bullying, making it a crucial addition to the Dark Triad model.

Why does cruelty feel good to some people? The Dark Tetrad: narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy + sadism. Sadism adds the “pleasure of harming” (e.g., trolling) — and changes the game. Spotting it early protects relationships and teams. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mode...
#Psychology

13.09.2025 05:39 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Between whispers, fear, and comfort: what does this crossover tell us about how we inhabit violence in digital culture? 🕯️👂📱

10.09.2025 13:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Whispered crime: ASMR storytelling and the digital domestication of violence - Dolores Fernández-Pérez, 2025 This article examines the emerging fusion between the true crime genre and the ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) phenomenon, in which real-life crimes...

Out today 📝
“Whispered crime: ASMR storytelling and the digital domestication of violence.”
On how whispered true crime tames fear and aestheticizes pain within the attention economy.
doi.org/10.1177/1741...
#TrueCrime #ASMR #DigitalCulture #MediaStudies #Ethics #Psychology #Criminology #Research

10.09.2025 13:29 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks for the suggestion; it’s really interesting and I’ll keep it in mind ☺️

06.09.2025 06:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Proud to be at EUROCRIM 25 presenting our poster: “Can Autobiographical Memories of Events Perceived as Threatening Shape Fear of Crime?—Preliminary Results.” We examine phenomenology of threatening memories, gender differences, and links with fear of crime and avoidance.
#Eurocrim2025 #Criminology

05.09.2025 05:46 — 👍 19    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

📌 Jueves, 4 de septiembre – 18:45 h
🔹 Can Autobiographical Memories of Events Perceived as Threatening, Shape Fear of Crime? A Cross-Sectional Study – Preliminary Results
Autores: @doloresfernandez.bsky.social, Beatriz Ortega & @verojimeno.bsky.social

02.09.2025 15:50 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Our study suggests EI and resilience buffer stress in preadolescents (10–12), and creativity thrives alongside both. How can schools build these skills without piling on workload/testing? What practices actually stick? #Education #EmotionalIntelligence #Resilience #Creativity #Preadolescence

01.09.2025 16:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Daily Stress and Creativity in Pre-Adolescents: Relationships with Emotional Intelligence and Resilience | Electronic Journal of Research in Education Psychology

Our study (n=180, age 10–12): stress low–moderate; EI & resilience high. EI (clarity/repair) + resilience predicted less stress. Creativity linked to EI/resilience, not stress. ojs.ual.es/ojs/index.ph...
#Education #EmotionalIntelligence #Resilience #Creativity #Psychology #Research

01.09.2025 16:29 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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If psychopathic traits shape recall—more detail, less emotion—what should matter more when interpreting memories: accuracy or emotional depth? #Psychopathy #Memory #Psychology #Criminology

29.08.2025 11:36 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gender differences and the association between the phenomenological characteristics of autobiographical memories and psychopathic traits in a university student sample | Request PDF Request PDF | Gender differences and the association between the phenomenological characteristics of autobiographical memories and psychopathic traits in a university student sample | The study aimed ...

In one of our studies, psychopathic traits predict how we remember: meanness → higher precision & coherence; disinhibition → lower emotional intensity.
🔗 www.researchgate.net/publication/...
#Psychology #Memory #Research

29.08.2025 11:33 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

If the key issue is the narrative, not the tech, does true crime help the public understand justice—or reinforce myths and false perceptions?
#Discussion #TrueCrime #Criminology #CriminalJustice

25.08.2025 21:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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True crime is more than shock value. This study explores its expansion, the psychology behind its appeal, and the “CSI effect.” It argues the key challenge isn’t technology but how stories are framed for audiences.
🔗 doi.org/10.1515/zfrs...
#TrueCrime #CriminalJustice #Research #Psychology

25.08.2025 21:18 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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Sometimes, the world feels like a wall of thorns.
Pain, fear, silence… and the weight of believing there’s no way through.
But even in the darkest moments, there’s always a path — if we dare to see it. 🌱
#Psychology #Reflection #peace
Art: 4amshower

22.08.2025 16:00 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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(PDF) Association between trait rumination and co-rumination in instant messaging and its possible relationship to depressive symptomatology PDF | This study explores the relationship between trait rumination (concrete and abstract), face-to-face co-rumination and co-rumination on instant... | Find, read and cite all the research you need ...

Our June study 📄
Exploring how rumination and co-rumination in instant messaging relate to depressive symptoms.
Read here 👉 researchgate.net/publication/391863654
#MentalHealth #PsychResearch #DigitalBehavior #Depression #OnlineCommunication #Wellbeing

21.08.2025 21:18 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Do psychopathic traits change depending on social and occupational context?
🤔 Or are they just expressed differently — e.g., impulsivity vs. overt antisocial behavior?

#MentalHealth #Behavior #Society #Psychopathy #Psychology #Research #criminology

20.08.2025 13:01 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🔎 A community study found that the Lifestyle facet of psychopathy (impulsivity, irresponsibility, and behavioral indicators of antisocial behavior) scored the highest.
👉 Higher socioeconomic status was linked to fewer psychopathic traits.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#Psychopathy #Psychology

20.08.2025 13:00 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

"A meta-analysis reveals that psychopathy and Machiavellianism are consistently linked to higher depressive symptoms" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
What does this tell us about the darker sides of personality are they more emotionally fragile than we assume?
#Psychology #DarkTriad #Personality

17.08.2025 11:04 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dark traits and depression: Study finds psychopathy and Machiavellianism linked to more depressive symptoms People with manipulative or impulsive personality traits may be more prone to depression, a new study finds. Narcissism, however, appears unrelated—unless measured in certain ways.

Dark traits and depression: Study finds psychopathy and Machiavellianism linked to more depressive symptoms

25.03.2025 20:03 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I found the classification of fear of crime into affective, behavioral, and cognitive dimensions interesting, and how CCTV seems to have a more notable (though weak and inconclusive) impact on affective fear. Which of the three dimensions do you consider most relevant for public safety policies?

15.08.2025 12:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

If 25 hours a week rewires the brain… imagine what it does to our empathy. Do we become better at spotting danger—or just numb?

14.08.2025 12:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🌡️ Research links rising temps in Australia to 72,000 more crimes yearly—up to 1.64 M by century’s end if warming continues. (Crime, Weather and Climate Change in Australia)
With Spain in a heatwave, could higher temps also raise aggression here?

#ClimateChange #CrimeScience #Heatwave #Psychology

13.08.2025 00:54 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Maquillaje y sonidos relajantes para narrar el ‘true crime’: ¿dónde están los límites del morbo? A medida que el ‘true crime’ crece como género, crecen también los riesgos de trivializar la violencia.

¿Hasta dónde llega el #TrueCrime cuando se mezcla con el #ASMR?
Una reflexión sobre los límites del #Morbo y el consumo de violencia en redes.
🔗 theconversation.com/maquillaje-y...
#CrimenReal #CulturaDigital #Podcast #YouTube #Reflexión

13.08.2025 00:36 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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Hablar en bucle por WhatsApp afecta a la salud mental La investigadora de la UCLM, Dolores Fernández Pérez, ha llevado a cabo un estudio titulado: 'Asociación entre la rumiación como rasgo y la corumiación en la mensajería instantánea y su posible relac...

www.latribunadealbacete.es/noticia/z033...

10.06.2025 16:15 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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In progress... se avecinan cambios

07.06.2025 12:35 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

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