Scientific research must have a positive influence on society. I was very happy, therefore, when the two directors Gustav Hofer and Luca Ragazzi contacted me for their investigation on machismo, a subject on which a profound reflection and awareness is needed – not only in the Italian society.

Thus, last year Gustav and Luca came to visit in Bicocca. We chatted about the automatic aspects of sexism and I administered them an IAT that measured the women-family / men-work association, to highlight their automatic reactions. They then continued their round of interviews and shootings throughout Italy.

After the world premiere at Toronto’s Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, last month the documentary was released in Italian cinemas and I could finally see it (it made me quite an effect to see myself projected on the screen in a cinema, while I administered the IAT to the two directors!). The documentary deserves to be seen: It is a honest and balanced description of the machismo that permeates our society.

The link to the first minutes of the documentary: https://www.mymovies.it/film/2019/dicktatorship-fallo-e-basta/news/guarda-linizio-del-film/