professor

thematic area

area of research interest

• Psychology of Work, Organizations and Human Resources

• Work addiction (workaholism and overcommitment) and their impact on health
• Organizational identification: positive and negative effects on work behavior and employees well-being
• Human resources management

• Parenting: biology and environmental factors
• Typical and atypical development

• Neurodevelopmental Disorders
• Clinical development psychology
• Characteristics of parental roles

Nicolao BONINI

• Decision, Judgment and Reasoning in the economic, legal and medical domains

• Decision making: behavioral and biological aspects
• Choice in the absence and presence of risk and uncertainty
• Evaluation of environmental-cultural assets and related public policies

• audio and speech processing
• dynamic and efficient neural architectures

Andrea CARIA

• Emotions and emotional regulation
• Learned regulation of brain signals

• Associative and statistical learning
• Socioemotional behavior
• Self-regulation of brain activity
• Neurofeedback
• Brain-Computer Interfaces

• Emotions and emotional regulation
• Judgment, decision-making and reasoning in law, economics and health
• Psychology of Language, Linguistics and Neurolinguistics
• Social cognition and intergroup relations
• (Automatic) Natural language processing
• Quality of education and training process

• Origins and consequences of empathy
• The role of Theory of Mind in judgment and decision making
• The effect of language of fiction on social cognition processes
• The effect of cultural products (fiction, films, art) on social cognition processes
• Quantitative analysis of fiction language
• The effect of reading aloud to children, on their socio-cognitive development

• Psychology and Psychopathology of Addictions

• Substance use among adolescents and young adults
• Opioid and prescription drug dependence
• Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS)
• Doping and substance use in sport
• Problematic Internet use (social media, gaming, gambling)
• Risk and protective factors

Roberto CUBELLI

• Cognitive psychology
• Psycholinguistics
• Cognitive Neuropsychology- Learning disabilities

• Oral e written language
• Grammatica gender
• Dyslexia and dysgraphia
• Unilateral Spatial neglect
• Memory and amnesia

• Emigration
• Ethnography
• Social inclusion
• Research methods
• International migration
• Social research
• Sexuality

Simona DE FALCO

• Typical and atypical Developmental Psychology
• Biological and environmental influences on parenting behaviors

• Parenting and child development in at-risk families
• Social affective development and attachment in children with developmental disorders
• Behavioral and neurobiological correlates of human responsiveness to infant cues. 

• Attention and executive function
• Learned regulation of brain signals
• Cognitive ergonomics and interaction with intelligent systems
• Work, organizational and personnel psychology
• Technology for education

• Ordinary and non-ordinary states of consciousness
• Contemplative practices and mental training
• Executive functions, cognitive control and creativity
• Mental well-being and technologies
• Neuroimaging and computational models

Sara DELLANTONIO

• Philosophy of Psychology and of Cognitive Sciences 
• Philosophy of Mind and Language 
• Applied and Experimental Philosophy

• Concepts and meanings
• Internal perception
• Emotions
• Abstract concepts

• Psychometrics

• Statistical models for latent variables, with particular focus on Item Response Theory (IRT) models
• Rasch-type parameterizations of accuracy and response times in complex data structures
• Use of IRT models for the development of short forms
• Development of procedures and algorithms for constructing short forms in Item Response Theory

Gianluca ESPOSITO

• Biological Basis and Environmental Influences of Parental Behavior: Social Cognition and Intergroup Relations
• Typical and atypical Developmental Psychology 

• Social neuroscience and neuroimaging
• Gene x Environment interactions
• Psychophysiological correlates of Social Interaction (fNIRS, fMRI, EEG, ECG)

Chiara FINOCCHIARO

• Psychology of Language, Linguistics and Neurolinguistics

• Language Production
• Grammatical classes: behavioral and neuroimaging studies
• The impact of poetry on the development of metalinguistic abilities and creative thinking

Franco FRACCAROLI

• Work and organizational psychology

• Organizational well being and quality of working life
• Older worker and transition to retirement
• Work and unemployment

• Developmental psychology

• Emotional development
• Cognitive development (attention, theory of mind, creativity)
• Developmental disorders

• Affective neuroscience, experimental psychopathology, emotions and emotion regulation

• Cerebral bases of emotions and emotion regulation (fMRI, EEG, tDCS)
• Processing of emotions in brain lesioned patients
• Experimental psychopathology (cognitive, affective and cerebral bases of psychological disorders)

Konstantinos HADJICHRISTIDIS

• Decision, Judgment and Reasoning in the economic, legal and medical domains

• Judgment and decision making (subjective probability judgment, moral judgment)
• Inductive inference
• Categorization

• Learned regulation of brain signals
• Typical and atypical development
• Inclusive processes in educational contexts
• Quality of education and training process

• Genetics of brain disorders in childhood
• Physiopathological models of neurological disorders in pediatric age
• Clinical Electroencephalography and Epilepsy
• Sleep disorders

Luigi LOMBARDI

• Psychometrics
• Mathematical psychology
• Cognitive modelling
• Big Data and complex data

• Cognitive modeling
• Bayesian statistics
• Psychometric models of faking​​
• Measurement models of cognitive processes

• Behavior Analysis and Modification
• Technology for education
• Media, eLearning and Learning Communites online in educational processes

• Persuasive Technologies
• Game Design
• Game User Research
• Artificial Intelligence
• Serious Games
• Player Profiling
• Adaptive Gameplay
• Game Analytics
• Human-AI Collaboration
• Education

• Social cognition
• Social psychology
• Emotions
• Cognitive processes

• Behavior Analysis and Modification
• Psycholinguistics

• Relational Frame Theory
• Transfer of stimulus function
• Shaping and behavior modification
• Nudge
• Precision teaching
• Reading and dyslexia
• Control processes
• Concepts, beliefs, and creativity
• Learning strategies
• Tic disorders and other repetitive behavior disorders

Maria Paola PALADINO

• Social cognition and intergroup relations
• Differences and Gender Relationship
• Emotional regulation

• Gender and gender-based discrimination
• Social and educational inequalities
• Robots and technology humanization
• Dehumanization
• Social categorization, stereotyping and prejudice

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• Industrial/organizational Psychology, Human Resource Management
• Personality Psychology
• Psychometrics
• Educational Psychology

• Personality trait change and organizational outcomes
• Instability of individual differences
• Research methods and advanced psychometric techniques applied to Industrial/Organizational Psychology
• Psychosocial resources in educational and work-related contexts

• Psychophysiology and cognitive neuroscience
• Developmental neuropsychology

• Perception, attention, and multisensory integration
• Neural oscillations and awareness
• Reading and developmental dyslexia
• Autism and schizophrenia spectrum disorders

• Neuropsychology
• Cognitive neuroscience
• Cognitive psychology
• Security sciences

• Olfactory cognition
• Visuospatial attention
• Individual differences
• Neurostimulation and neuromodulation
• Neuromarketing
• Cybersecurity

Michele SCALTRITTI

• Psychology of Language, Linguistics and Neurolinguistics

• Neurophysiological interplay between language and motor processes
• Visual word recognition and letter identification
• Neurophysiological indexes of monitoring and semantic access
• Semantic and lexical access in spoken and written language production

• Cognitive ergonomics and interaction with intelligent systems
• Technology for education

• Human-Computer Interaction
• User Interaction with AI-enabled systems
• Interaction design for learning
• Quantitative and qualitative approaches to evaluation of technological artefacts

• Technology for education
• Media, eLearning and Learning Communites online in educational processes
• Quality of education and training process

• Teachers' professional development
• educational design
• assessment and feedback in educational contexts

• Behavioural and neural correlates of size and distance perception
• Behavioural and neural correlates of visual illusions
• Dissociations   between perception and action
• Individual differences in visual processing
• Conscious and unconscious visual processing
• Mechanisms underlying the formation of an afterimage

• Development of psychometric models of cognitive functions
• (Automatic) Natural language processing
• Interaction with Big Data and decision-making
• Quality of education and training process

• Machine psychology and LLMs as complex systems
• Cognitive network science
• Interpretable machine learning for AI psychometrics

Luca SURIAN

• Typical and atypical Developmental Psychology

• Cognitive development
• Theory of mind
• Developmental disorders
• Socio-moral judgment
• Pragmatics
• Bilingualism

• (Automatic) Natural language processing
• Technology for education

• Computational linguistics
• Social media analysis
• Sensory language

• Attention and executive functions
• Cognitive ergonomics and interaction with intelligent systems
• Behavior Analysis and Modification
• Psycholinguistics

• Selection of the response: activation and inhibition processes, stimulus-response compatibility, sequential effects
• Spatial attention 
• Magnitude representation
• Cognitive neuropsychology 
• Human factors
• Joint action
• Implicit processing and consciousness
• Contingency learning; feedback, reinforcement and behavior; relational frame theory

Jeroen VAES

• Social cognition and intergroup relations
• Differences and Gender Relationship

• Social Psychology
• Dehumanization in intergroup relations
• Sexual objectification and the relation between dehumanizing and empathic processes

Paola VENUTI

• Biological Basis and Environmental Influences of Parental Behavior
• Typical and atypical Developmental Psychology
• Quality of Didactics and Training Processes

• Clinical Developmental Psychology
• ​​​​​​​Parenting: behavioral and neuroimaging studies

• Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology

• Stress and well-being in organisations
• Age in the workplace
• Vocational Psychology
• Training and organisational intervention effectiveness

Massimo ZANCANARO

• Cognitive ergonomics and interaction with intelligent systems
• Interaction modes based on embodied CognitioN

• Human-Computer Interaction
• Design and Evaluation of Socio-technical systems
• ​​​​​​​Quantitative and qualitative approaches to evaluation of technological artefacts