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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

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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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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

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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

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