The Department welcomes Valentina Simonetti
as RTDA from October 2025
The Department welcomes Fabio Masina
as RTDA from February 2025
The Department welcomes Stefano Noventa
as RTT from February 2025
The Department welcomes Carola Dell'Acqua
as RTDA from February 2025
The Department welcomes Giorgio Arcara
as Associate Professor from April 2025
DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY
NEWS AND EVENTS
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Flickering lenses enhance reading performance through placebo effect
A new study conducted by researchers from the Department of General Psychology at the University of Padua and the University of Bergamo, published in “Psychological Research”, demonstrated that the placebo effect—induced by inactive “flickering” glasses—significantly improves reading abilities in ch
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Artificial intelligence can emulate human normative judgments on emotional visual scenes
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is learning more than just words—it’s picking up on our feelings, too. In this study, multimodal large language models were tested to see if they could match human emotional reactions to a variety of visual scenes. The AI ratings correlated surprisingly well with the hum
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Sizing up competition with strigolactones: the case of pea plants
Plants, often perceived as static and passive organisms, are in fact capable of movement, communication, and complex social interactions. The Mind(the)Plant laboratory, based at the Department of General Psychology at the University of Padua, investigates precisely these phenomena, with a particular
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European Mathematical Psychology Group Meeting (EMPG) 2025
You have time until May 22, 2025 to submit your abstract for the European Mathematical Psychology Group Meeting (EMPG) 2025, which will be held at the University of Padua from September 3 to 5, 2025.
The EMPG is an annual event that brings together researchers working in mathematical modeling of beha
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Attentional load affects multisensory integration, but not spatial processing
Can we accurately process what happens in the space around us, even when our mind is overloaded? In a recent study carried out by Maria Silvia Saccani and collaborators, more than 180 participants took part in two online experiments to address this question. Since potential asymmetries in spatial pr
