She has a degree in Modern Languages and Literature, a PhD in Anglo-American Literature, and a degree in Psychology. Within her Project “The sense of diversity and its psychological implications” she carried out research in the following fields: children’s and adolescents’ attitudes toward multiculturalism; the perception of threat in cross-cultural relations; the role of hate and resentment in racist attitudes; empathy in cross-cultural relations; children’s and adolescents’ relationships with animals with special reference to empathy and violence; the relation between animal abuse and interhuman violence in both their socially acceptable and unacceptable forms; the identification of the basic constituents of the human-animal bond.