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

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

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

Roberto CUBELLI

• Cognitive psychology
• Psycholinguistics
• Cognitive Neuropsychology- Learning disabilities

• Oral e written language

• Grammatica gender

• Dyslexia and dysgraphia

• Unilateral Spatial neglect

• Memory and amnesia

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

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

Patrizia GHISLANDI

• Media, eLearning and Learning Communities in Educational Processes
• Qualitative Research Methodology in Education

• eLearning
• Quality of higher education
• MOOC
• Open Data
• Qualitative research methodologies in Education

• 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

Remo JOB

• Cognitive Process
• Psycholinguistics
• Bilingualism
• Neuropsychology of Language

• Lexical access, semantics, sentence processing

• Bilingualism and L2 learning

• Dyslexia, aphasia, semantic memory imparments

• Relationship between emotion and cognition

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

• 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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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

• 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

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

• 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

• 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