The Department welcomes Giorgio Arcara
as Associate Professor from April 2025
The Department welcomes Fabio Masina
as RTDA from February 2025
The Department welcomes Carola Dell'Acqua
as RTDA from February 2025
The Department welcomes Veronika Knedlíková Wanková
as RTDA from February 2025
The Department welcomes Stefano Noventa
as RTT from February 2025
The Department welcomes Marco Marino
as RTT from January 2025
DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY
NEWS AND EVENTS
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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
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The impact of auditory distraction on visual memory encoding in older adults
In everyday life, we are constantly required to manage multiple tasks at once. Stimulus-rich environments force us to process diverse streams of information in parallel, putting our cognitive resources to the test. However, the natural cognitive decline associated with aging can reduce the ability t
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Should we worry about how we measure worry? Insights from an updated version of the Italian Penn State Worry Questionnaire
Worry, when it takes on pathological features, represents one of the main factors involved in the development and maintenance of anxiety-related psychopathologies. For this reason, worry constitutes a crucial target for cognitive-behavioural psychological interventions, both in preventive contexts a
