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Emotion Regulation, Hope, and Optimism During the Third Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Age and Personality

The present study, recently published by PlosOne, confirmed that older adults were more able than younger adults to cope with the emotional and psychological experience of the COVID-19 pandemic also during the third wave of contagions. Moreover, personality traits, and in particular emotional

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Luca Menghini

 I am a work and organizational psychologist, and I got my PhD in applied psychophysiology at the University of Padova, with a project on work stress assessment through wearable and mobile technologies. Since I was a student, I have been mainly interested in how psychology can be applied to improve

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Prolonged neural encoding of visual information in autism

The present study represents the first attempt to use multivariate pattern analysis of EEG data in order to make inferences about the flow of visual information processing under different attentional conditions in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Such innovative approach allowed us to describe how

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Profiles of intolerance of uncertainty, separation anxiety, and negative affectivity in emerging adulthood: A person-centered approach

The present study aimed to define the psychological profiles based on intolerance of uncertainty, separation anxiety symptoms, and negative affectivity levels in a nonclinical group of 868 young adults, both university students and workers, aged 18-26 years. A Latent Profile Analysis (LPA) was

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Action Video Games Training in Children with Developmental Dyslexia: A Meta-Analysis

Longitudinal research and meta-analyses have revealed a causal relationship between attentional dysfunctions and developmental dyslexia (DD). We conducted a meta-analysis to assess the effects of action video game (AVG) training on visual attention in children with DD. Pubmed, Cochrane, Science

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