A5001184038- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Emotional Intelligence and Performance
- Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
- Technology Adoption and User Behaviour
- SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
- Respiratory viral infections research
- Deception detection and forensic psychology
- Psychology of Social Influence
University of Pisa
2024
University of Geneva
2017-2023
University of Padua
2023
Emotions and values are fundamentally connected. They both psychological markers of subjective relevance thought to be deeply functionally intertwined: According appraisal theories emotion, emotions arise when value concerns at stake; according value, a that is threatened or supported gets infused with feelings. Surprisingly, while these assumptions considered well established by researchers in the respective domains, up now, empirical research has not provided much evidence supporting link...
Abstract Emotions are powerful drivers of human behavior that may make people aware the urgency to act mitigate climate change and provide a motivational basis engage in sustainable action. However, attempts leverage emotions via communications have yielded unsatisfactory results, with many interventions failing produce desired behaviors. It is important understand underlying affective mechanisms when designing communications, rather than treating as simple behavioral levers directly impact...
People's engagement in altruistic behaviors depends on the relative importance given to values of humanistic altruism (HA) and biospheric (BA). Specifically, while HA is considered value base for prosocial behavior, BA pro-environmental behavior. Despite clear conceptual distinction, two often similarly correlate with outcome variables such as attitudes or choices lead ambiguous findings common versus unique impact behaviors. Here, we propose that types result behavioral outcomes when they...
We studied the emotional processes that allow people to balance two competing desires: benefitting from dishonesty and keeping a positive self-image. recorded physiological arousal (skin conductance heart rate) during computer card game in which participants could cheat fail report certain when presented on screen avoid losing their money. found higher skin corresponded lower cheating rates. Importantly, intelligence regulated this effect; with high were less affected by reactions than those...
While literature in environmental psychology has generally treated values and emotions as separate constructs, research pointed out that value endorsement emotional experience are profoundly interconnected processes. Recent studies have shown the of predicted intensity people experienced towards nature climate change. Building on these findings, this study investigates whether may a role not only determining intensity, but also differentiating quality environmentally-relevant situations....
This pre-registered work tests the replicability of seven studies covering most important effects associated with mental accounting across 5,589 participants from 21 countries. Findings support robustness original time and culture, confirming role as a critical driver human decision-making.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) showed great potential as an early warning system and could complement human clinical surveillance. This study aimed to highlight added value of WBS for respiratory infections alongside different systems. Sewage collected at entry four Wastewater Treatment Plants in Northern Tuscany (Italy) were analyzed SARS-CoV-2, Human Adenovirus (HAdV), Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Influenza (IV), over two years. Clinical data...
We studied the emotional processes that allow people to balance two competing desires: Benefitting from dishonesty and keeping a positive self-image. recorded physiological arousal (heart rate skin conductance) during computer card game in which participants could cheat fail report certain when presented on screen avoid losing their money. Overall, higher corresponded lower likelihood cheat. Importantly, intelligence regulated this effect: Participants with high were less affected by...
Emotions are powerful drivers of human behavior that may make people aware the urgency to act mitigate climate change and provide a motivational basis engage in sustainable action. However, attempts leverage emotions via communications have yielded unsatisfactory results, with many interventions failing produce desired behaviors. Considering as simple behavioral levers without considering differences underlying affective mechanisms not optimally exploit their potential promote Across two...