ALESSANDRO SANTIROCCHI

PhD Graduate

PhD program:: XXXIV



Thesis title: Psycho-cognitive predictors of risk perception, social distancing and vaccination intention during COVID-19 outbreak: the case of Italy

The current dissertation was developed during the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. The central theme of the present work focuses on the belief that, during this time of extreme difficulty for the world's population, COVID-19 pandemic can be brought under control mainly by massive and rapid behaviour change. One way to achieve this goal is to systematically monitor and understand how different individuals perceive risk and adhere to protective behaviours. The main aim of the present work is to understand whether there exist cognitive, social and psychological predictors of protective behaviours against COVID- 19. In particular, the dissertation takes into consideration three main topics: risk perception, social distancing and vaccine intention in the Italian population. It comprises a detailed letterature review on these topics and three experimental works addressing each aspect. The general suggestion of the present work is that behavioral insights concerning the pandemic are of most importance for governments and the world's population for developing strategies to deal with COVID-19 and other possible pandemics in the future.

Research products

11573/1723520 - 2024 - The role of personality traits and emotional intelligence in the evaluation of the benefits and costs of social distancing during a pandemic outbreak
Santirocchi, A.; Spataro, P.; Rossi-Arnaud, Clelia.; Esposito, A.; Costanzi, M.; Alessi, F.; Cestari, V. - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS (London: Springer Nature London: Nature Publishing Group) pp. - - issn: 2045-2322 - wos: (0) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85206279244 (0)

11573/1723464 - 2024 - The Attentional Boost Effect in Older Adults: Examining the Vulnerable Boost Hypothesis
Spataro, P.; Prull, M. W.; Santirocchi, A.; Rossi Arnaud, C. - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: EXPERIMENTAL AGING RESEARCH (London ; New York : Taylor & Francis Group) pp. - - issn: 1096-4657 - wos: WOS:001269794200001 (0) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85198078240 (0)

11573/1679250 - 2023 - The binding of negative emotional stimuli with spatial information in working memory: A possible role for the episodic buffer
Cianfanelli, Beatrice; Esposito, Antonino; Spataro, Pietro; Santirocchi, Alessandro; Cestari, Vincenzo; Clelia, Rossi-Arnaud; Costanzi, Marco - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE (Lausanne : EPFL : Frontiers Research Foundation, 2007-) pp. - - issn: 1662-453X - wos: WOS:000962752300001 (1) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85152520080 (1)

11573/1676203 - 2023 - COVID-19: parental vaccine hesitancy and misinformation in Italy
Clelia, Rossi-Arnaud; Santirocchi, Alessandro; Pesola, Maria Chiara; Spataro, Pietro; Alessi, Federica; Cestari, Vincenzo - 04f Poster
conference: ICPS 23 (International Convention of Psychological Science)
book: ICPS 2023 - ()

11573/1688727 - 2023 - Positive and negative effects of collaboration on suggestibility and false memory in online groups
Rossi Arnaud, C.; Spataro, P.; Santirocchi, A.; Pesola, M. C.; Costantini, L.; Cestari, V. - 04f Poster
conference: ESCoP2023 (Porto)
book: ESCoP2023 - ()

11573/1692618 - 2023 - Autobiographical memory in contact tracing: evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic
Rossi-Arnaud, Clelia; Mastroberardino, Serena; Spataro, Pietro; Santirocchi, Alessandro; Alessi, Federica; Naser, Aicia; Pesola, Maria Chiara; Cestari, Vincenzo - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY (Lausanne: Frontiers Editorial) pp. - - issn: 1664-1078 - wos: WOS:001115681400001 (0) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85178927305 (0)

11573/1680673 - 2023 - Positive and negative effects of collaboration on suggestibility and false memory in online groups
Rossi-Arnaud, Clelia; Spataro, Pietro; Santirocchi, Alessandro; Pesola, Maria Chiara; Costantini, Laura; Cestari, Vincenzo - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY (Transaction Publishers:Transaction Distribution Center, 390 Campus Drive:Somerset, NJ 08873:(888)999-6778, (732)445-1245, EMAIL: journals@transactionpub.com, INTERNET: http://www.transactionpub.com, Fax: (732)748-9801) pp. - - issn: 1046-1310 - wos: WOS:000994071600001 (3) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85160258500 (4)

11573/1680712 - 2023 - Trust in science and belief in misinformation mediate the effects of political orientation on vaccine hesitancy and intention to be vaccinated
Santirocchi, Alessandro; Spataro, Pietro; Alessi, Federica; Rossi-Arnaud, Clelia; Cestari, Vincenzo - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: ACTA PSYCHOLOGICA (Amsterdam Netherlands: Elsevier BV) pp. 103945- - issn: 0001-6918 - wos: WOS:001012059300001 (10) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85159588607 (11)

11573/1648084 - 2022 - Incidentally Learned Emotional Valence Affects Spatial Working Memory
Cestari, Vincenzo; Clelia, Rossi-Arnaud; Cianfanelli, Beatrice; Saraulli, Daniele; Lasaponara, Stefano; Doricchi, Fabrizio; Santirocchi, Alessandro; Marco Costanzi, And - 04d Abstract in atti di convegno
conference: 8th CERE Conference (Granada)
book: CERE Conference - ()

11573/1613070 - 2022 - Predictors of COVID-19 risk perception, worry and anxiety in Italy at the end of the 2020 national lockdown
Paolo Martelletti, Corrado; Santirocchi, Alessandro; Spataro, Pietro; Rossi-Arnaud, Clelia; Lofstedt, Ragnar E.; Cestari, Vincenzo - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: JOURNAL OF RISK RESEARCH (-London, United Kingdom : Routledge. 1998- -Basingstokel,United Kingdom: Carfax Publishing Limited) pp. 1306-1320 - issn: 1366-9877 - wos: WOS:000753784400001 (2) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85125152915 (3)

11573/1652983 - 2022 - Perception of risk and intention for vaccination in times of Covid-19 emergency in an Indian sample
Santirocchi, Alessandro; Bhaita, Dyvia; Gupta, Rakhi; Spataro, Pietro; Clelia, Rossi-Arnaud; Cestari, Vincenzo - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
conference: 44th Annual Conference of Cognitive Science Society (CogSci22) (Toronto)
book: Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive ScienceSociety - ()

11573/1660531 - 2022 - The psychological and cognitive predictors of adherence to social distancing behavior: data from an Italian sample
Santirocchi, Alessandro; Esposito, Antonino; Spataro, Pietro; Cestari, Vincenzo; Clelia, Rossi-Arnaud - 04f Poster
conference: Psychonomic Society 63rd Annual Meeting (Boston (online))
book: Psychonomic Society - ()

11573/1603885 - 2022 - Predictors of the intention to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in a sample of Italian respondents at the start of the immunization campaign
Santirocchi, Alessandro; Spataro, Pietro; Costanzi, Marco; Doricchi, Fabrizio; Clelia, Rossi-Arnaud; Cestari, Vincenzo - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: JOURNAL OF PERSONALIZED MEDICINE (Basel: MDPI AG, 2011-) pp. - - issn: 2075-4426 - wos: WOS:000746246800001 (13) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85123213315 (15)

11573/1652650 - 2022 - The determinants of working memory: past proposals and new findings
Shimi, Andria; Forsberg, Alicia; Fitamen, Christophe; Santirocchi, Alessandro; Valentini, Beatrice - 04d Abstract in atti di convegno
conference: ESCOP22 (Lille)
book: 22nd meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology - ()

11573/1557093 - 2022 - The attentional boost effect enhances the item-specific, but not the relational, encoding of verbal material: Evidence from multiple recall tests with related and unrelated lists
Spataro, Pietro; Mulligan, Neil W.; Cestari, Vincenzo; Santirocchi, Alessandro; Saraulli, Daniele; Rossi-Arnaud, Clelia - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY ([Washington D.C.] : American Psychological Association) pp. - - issn: 1939-1285 - wos: WOS:000733276200001 (3) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85138443584 (5)

11573/1531517 - 2021 - The Attentional Boost Effect in Young and Adult Euthymic Bipolar Patients and Healthy Controls
Bechi Gabrielli, Giulia; Rossi-Arnaud, Clelia; Spataro, Pietro; Doricchi, Fabrizio; Costanzi, Marco; Santirocchi, Alessandro; Angeletti, Gloria; Sani, Gabriele; Cestari, Vincenzo - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: JOURNAL OF PERSONALIZED MEDICINE (Basel: MDPI AG, 2011-) pp. 1-13 - issn: 2075-4426 - wos: WOS:000633783100001 (6) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85103066035 (6)

11573/1570954 - 2021 - Emotional Valence and Working Memory Performance: Effect of Concurrent Interference in a Spatial Object-Location Task
Cianfanelli, Beatrice; Esposito, Antonino; Santirocchi, Alessandro; Cestari, Vincenzo; Clelia, Rossi-Arnaud; Costanzi, Marco - 04f Poster
conference: European Workshop on Imagery and Cognition (online)
book: EWIC 21 - ()

11573/1557073 - 2021 - Forgetting unwanted memories: active forgetting and implications for the development of psychological disorders
Costanzi, M.; Cianfanelli, B.; Santirocchi, A.; Lasaponara, S.; Spataro, P.; Rossi Arnaud, C.; Cestari, V. - 01g Articolo di rassegna (Review)
paper: JOURNAL OF PERSONALIZED MEDICINE (Basel: MDPI AG, 2011-) pp. 1-28 - issn: 2075-4426 - wos: WOS:000643105900001 (17) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85103895126 (18)

11573/1569986 - 2021 - The effects of brain concussions on memory in combat and contact sports
Santirocchi, Alessandro; Spataro, Pietro; Clelia, Rossi-Arnaud; Cianfanelli, Beatrice; Costanzi, Marco; Cestari, Vincenzo - 04f Poster
conference: European Workshop on Imagery and Cognition (Online)
book: EWIC 2021 - ()

11573/1465845 - 2020 - The attentional boost effect enhances the recognition of bound features in short-term memory
Spataro, P.; Saraulli, D.; Cestari, V.; Mulligan, N. W.; Santirocchi, A.; Borowiecki, O.; Rossi Arnaud, C. - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: MEMORY (Psychology Press:27 Palmeira Mns, Church Road, Hove BN3 2FA United Kingdom:011 44 1273 207411) pp. 926-937 - issn: 0965-8211 - wos: WOS:000553359800001 (8) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85088834595 (10)

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