The Experience project
What do you think would happen if on social media, in addition to photos, videos and posts, we could share real emotions and maybe “relive” real experiences?
Why Stradivari are preferred sound over other violins
Study published by Carlo Andrea Rozzi, Alessandro Voltini, Fabio Antonacci, Massimo Nucci and Massimo Grassi in "Journal of the Acoustical Society of America"
International Congress of Personal Construct Psychology
Padova | 13th to the 16th of July 2022
Evidence of weight-based representations of gravitational motion
Study published by Vicovaro M., Noventa S., Ghiani A., Mena F., & Battaglini L. in "Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance"
DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY
NEWS AND EVENTS
Research highlights
Olfactory meta-cognition in individuals with depressive and anxiety symptoms: the differential role of common and social odors
by Elisa Dal Bò, Claudio Gentili, Andrea Castellani, Carmen Tripodi, Florian Ph.S Fischmeister, Cinzia Cecchetto Although we are mostly unaware of it, the sense of smell highly influences everyday life, as it plays a major role in food selection, in detecting potential hazards and also in social int
Events
The 8th Visual Properties Driving Visual Preference (VPDVP) workshop
The 8th Visual Properties Driving Visual Preference (VPDVP) workshop will take place on Friday 27th May 2022 at the University of Padua (Italy).
Keynote speakers:
Denis Pelli (New York University) "Some psychophysics of beauty judgement"
Nick Wade (University of Dundee) "Binocular art"
Michael Kubovy (U
Research highlights
Being more educated and earning more increase romantic interest: Data from 1.8 M online daters from 24 nation
Title: Being more educated and earning more increase romantic interest: Data from 1.8 M online daters from 24 nation
Authors: Peter K. Jonason and Andrew G. Thomas
Description: In the largest, most cross-culturally diverse study on mate choice to date, this study examined patterns in how much interest
Seminars
PsychoClub Seminars
It is a pleasure to announce a new series of seminars promoted by the three Departments DPG, DPSS, and FISPPA.
There will be two seminars each month (first and last Wednesday of the month). We meet in room A, PSICO 3 building, via Venezia 14, hour: 4.30 PM.
Each meeting will have one of the following
Seminars
PercUP Seminars
The Perception group at the University of Padova (PercUP) organises regular seminars. The group brings together many researchers within the Department of General Psychology.
The meetings are usually the second Wednesday of the month, starting at 16:30. The language of the seminar is English, and spe
