The Department welcomes Giulio Contemori as RTDA from August 2024
"We see the world not as it is, but as we are." (Edmund Husserl). The phenomenal world does not correspond to the physical world but results from a series of physical, physiological, and psychological mediations.
The Department welcomes Giovanni Bruno as RTDA from August 2024
My university and academic journey began and developed at the Department of General Psychology, where I arrived in 2013 as an undergraduate student and then continued step by step as a master's student, post-graduate intern, research fellow, PhD student and post-doc researcher
The Department welcomes Tommaso Feraco as RTDA from August 2024
I am a passionate psychologist and researcher, primarily focused on individual differences. My research career began with a project in collaboration with a start-up, which sparked my interest in soft skills, their measurement, and development, especially in secondary school students
The Department welcomes Bianca Bonato as RTDA from July 2024
I have always been fascinated by the study of other living organisms, their evolution and their incredibly abilities of adaptation. In fact, my research interest focuses precisely on the study of living organisms that are both different from us and other animals, which have followed different evolutionary trajectories from us, but are a surprising example of adaptation: plants! More specifically, my research interests focus on the study of the plant world, and its way of interacting and communicating to each other.
DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY
NEWS AND EVENTS
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GPS Use and Navigation Ability: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Is the use of GPS (Global Positioning System) changing our ability to orient and navigate in the environment?
GPS localization systems support us in both familiar and unfamiliar environments and, undoubtedly, allow us to quickly reach our desired destination. Although this technology is widely used,
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Human brain imaging with high‐density electroencephalography: Techniques and applications
Electroencephalography (EEG) is a technique for non-invasively measuring neuronal activity in the human brain using electrodes placed on the participant's scalp. With the advancement of digital technologies, EEG analysis has evolved from the qualitative analysis of amplitude and frequency modulation
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Pulling the lever in a hurry: the influence of impulsivity and sensitivity to reward on moral decision-making under time pressure
Making timely moral decisions can be crucial. Just think of physicians and health care professionals, who are often called upon to make quick decisions about the lives of their patients. Nevertheless, experimental studies that have investigated the effects of time pressure on moral decisions (i.e.,
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The Benefits of Playing Action-Like Video Games on Salience Processing
Franceschini, S., Puccio, G., Bertoni, S., Gori, S., Mascheretti, S., Fusina, F., Angrilli, A., Facoetti, A. (2024). The Benefits of Playing Action-Like Video Games on Salience Processing. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2024.2346693
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How do we construct emotions?
How do we construct emotions? In this Chapter of the Routledge Handbook of Embodied Cognition, 2nd ed., Fiorella Del Popolo Cristaldi, Suzanne Oosterwijk, and Lisa Feldman Barrett show how our emotion concepts arise from predictive processes. Within a collection of chapters dedicated to presenting a
