“…Two interdependent processes are at play in the genesis of social representations: (i) objectification, which allows individuals to simplify information, via the materialization of ideas and/or concepts into something concrete, making reality more tangible; and (ii) anchoring, a process by which the unfamiliar is classified and accommodated within a system of more familiar categories (Moscovici, 2012;Sammut et al, 2015;Vala & Castro, 2013). Studies that focused on the analysis of sociogenesis have contributed to the debate on numerous psychosocial processes, such as the role of metaphors in the justification of social practices (Castro & Castro, 2018), the processes of discrimination and ontologization of ethnic minorities (Pérez et al, 2007), the personification or figuration of social objects such as suicide (Ordaz & Vala, 1997), the naturalization of history and collective memories (Hakoköngäs & Sakki, 2016), or even the relationship between iconic dimension and affective field in the identity context (Bonomo & Souza, 2010).…”