A5036469588- Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Social Media and Politics
- Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Personality Traits and Psychology
- Communication in Education and Healthcare
- Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Educational and Social Studies
- Deception detection and forensic psychology
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Digital Communication and Language
- Hand Gesture Recognition Systems
- Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Jury Decision Making Processes
- Media Studies and Communication
- Italian Social Issues and Migration
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Linguistic research and analysis
- Cognitive Abilities and Testing
- Action Observation and Synchronization
University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"
2015-2024
University of Southern Denmark
2014
University of Naples Federico II
2004-2013
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli
2011
Sapienza University of Rome
1999
Abstract The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, has had devastating effects the Ukrainian population and global economy, environment, political order. However, little is known about psychological states surrounding outbreak war, particularly mental well-being individuals outside Ukraine. Here, we present a longitudinal experience-sampling study convenience sample from 17 European countries (total participants = 1,341, total assessments 44,894, with >100 5) that allows us to...
Abstract Hand gestures have a close link with speech and social perception persuasion processes, however to date no one has experimentally investigated the role of hand alone in persuasive speech. An experiment undergraduates was conducted using 5 video-messages which only speaker were manipulated along five types. ANOVAs reveal effect gesture type on receivers' evaluation message persuasiveness, communication style effectiveness, speaker's composure competence. A control study (Experiment...
A sequential analysis of classroom discourse is needed to investigate the conditions under which triadic initiation-response-feedback (IRF) pattern may host different teaching orientations.The purpose study twofold: first, describe characteristics and, second, identify and explore interactive sequences that can be captured with a statistical analysis.Twelve whole-class activities were video recorded in three Italian primary schools. We observed interaction as it occurs naturally on an...
The HEXACO Personality Inventory–Revised (HEXACO–PI–R) has become one of the most heavily applied measurement tools for assessment basic personality traits. Correspondingly, inventory been translated to many languages use in cross-cultural research. However, formal tests examining whether different language versions HEXACO–PI–R provide equivalent measures 6 dimensions are missing. We a large-scale test invariance 100-item version across 16 spoken European and Asian countries (N = 30,484)....
The aim of the present experiment was to examine what extent participants experience attempted control, cognitive load and arousal when they lie tell truth under lower-stakes higher-stakes conditions. We expected both differences similarities between tellers liars. that would these processes a higher degree lied compared told (differences), but we also liars be keen make convincing impression; raising stakes affect in similar way (similarities). A total 128 during an interview (lying telling...
Objectives: The nine-item Problematic Internet Use Questionnaire (PIUQ-9) is a brief self-report screening instrument for problematic internet use. main objective of the present study was to explore psychometric properties PIUQ-9 among nine different language-based samples European users (Italian, German, French, Polish, Turkish, Hungarian, English, and Greek). Methods: total sample comprised 5593 (38.1% men), aged between 18 87 years (M = 25.81; SD 8.61). Via online recruitment,...
Objective This contribution aimed at investigating the moderating role of risk (e.g., negative influence COVID-19 on mental health) and protective post-traumatic growth) factors relationship between concern for war stress anxiety/depression levels among Italian people. Methods A questionnaire that included sociodemographic characteristics, Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-4), Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-4), Brief Resilience (BRS), Post-Traumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI), questions formulated...
The aim of this research is to show the fruitfulness a sequential analysis approach applied study dynamic and character accommodation strategies proposed by communication theory (CAT). It was convergence, divergence, maintenance, control undertaken in courtroom during 47 hostile examinations from single criminal case. Each 1,850 question–answer exchanges classified for content aspects (types questions answers) modalities turn taking (interrupting, latching, pausing) both lawyer witness....
Abstract The impact of Veracity, Suspicion (weak or strong) and Strategy (making up a story using past experiences) on Reality Monitoring (RM) scores was examined. A total 158 undergraduate students were interviewed twice about the possession an object. In one interview they asked to lie, in other tell truth (Veracity factor). both conditions, suspicion raised second half interview: Participants accused lying by interviewer repeat their account (Raised At end participants whether lies...
The broad aim of this research is to show the usefulness sequential analytic methods when studying courtroom interaction within a communication accommodation theory (CAT) framework. Mutual influences between lawyers and witnesses during examinations were studied. A previous study examined associations content lawyers' questions witnesses' answers. In contrast, present examines turn taking length, each in relation other both interlocutor's turn. Using log-linear techniques, analyzes 1850...
This contribution conducts a critical review of the many features traditional regression approach to domestic violence that implies target variable (intimate partner femicide) and multiple predictors. Based on conceptual, theoretical, methodological statistical considerations, this analysis, first, addresses issue how risk factors can be properly organized; second, it claims what are currently regarded as independent variables might have numerous different explanatory roles, making reference...
In this paper, we aimed at developing and validating a novel instrument to evaluate personality in 10-14 years old adolescents with six basic traits, two dedicated studies. Study 1, generated large pool of items (384 items) from three sources, which administered 714 Italian adolescents. Using principal component analysis (PCA) extension factor analysis, selected the best eight for each facet, so 32 factor, except Unconventionality facet Openness Experience (O) items. This resulted total 190...
This research can be regarded as a “natural experiment” on political equivocation in which the language of five well-known politicians, taken from television interviews, is compared with different politicians speaking courtroom setting. Videotapes both contexts were transcribed and then systematically analyzed by means reliable category systems questions answers based literature. Italian employ elaboration their preferred answer, interviews examinations. Differences exist between legal...