POSITION Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology
Researcher Unique Identifier: orcid.org/0000-0002-5240-4387
Scopus ID: 12795779400
Researcher ID: P-5079-2016
AFFILIATIONS:
Department of Psychology
Sapienza University of Rome
via dei Marsi 78, 00185 Rome, Italy
http://dippsi.psi.uniroma1.it/users/ottaviani-cristina
Neuroimaging Laboratory
IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation
via Ardeatina 306, 00142 Rome, Italy
EDUCATION
2010-2012 Two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome.
2009-2010 One-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Department of Psychology, University of Bologna.
2005-2008 Ph.D. in Experimental and Clinical Psychology, XXI Cycle, Department of Psychology, University of Bologna. Dissertation (April 2009): The endophenotypical characterization of rumination.
2005 Admission to the List of Psychotherapists.
2003-2004 Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Mentor: David Shapiro.
2001-2005 School of Specialization in Health Psychology (PsyD). Dissertation (November 2005): Hemodynamic profile, compensation deficit, and ambulatory blood pressure (summa cum Laude).
2001 Admission at the List of Psychologists (N°. 2774).
1998-2000 Postgraduate apprenticeship, University of Bologna, Department of Psychology. The apprenticeship focused on developing biofeedback-assisted relaxation therapies for psychophysiological disorders such as hypertension, migraine, tension headache, and irritable bowel syndrome.
1993-1998 B.S. and M.S. in Experimental Psychology, University of Bologna, Department of Psychology. Dissertation (November 1998): Effectiveness of a Jacobson’s relaxation training for borderline hypertensive patients (summa cum Laude).
GRANTS
2019 “Examining daily associations between emotion regulation and psychopathology symptoms in adolescence” 1-year research grant funded by Sapienza University of Rome (RM11916B8904B1F3: € 34.527; Co-Investigator).
2018 “Individual differences in cognitive, affective and physiological (in)flexibility as predictors of non-invasive brain stimulation (tDCS) effects on the ability to suppress intrusive thoughts” 1-year research grant funded by Sapienza University of Rome (RM1181643660189A: € 10.000; Co-Investigator).
2017 “To the heart of the matter: Brain-body pathways to perseverative cognition” 1-year research grant funded by Sapienza University of Rome (RM11715C7F74C683: € 31.750; Principal Investigator).
2014-2017 ‘Brain-Heart Pathways to Essential Hypertension: Is There a Neural Phenotype of Cardiovascular Risk?’ 3-year Young Researcher Grant funded by the Italian Ministry of Health (GR-2011-02348232: € 205.472,00; Principal Investigator).
2012-2015 ‘The Restless Mind: Default Mode Of Operation Or Risk Factor For Health?’ 3-year Young Researcher Grant funded by the Italian Ministry of Health (GR-2010-2312442: € 319.700,00; Principal Investigator).
ACADEMIC ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
2018 Member of the PhD council in Behavioral Neuroscience - XXXIV cycle, Sapienza University of Rome.
2017 Member of the Research Committee of the Department of Psychology Sapienza University of Rome (Prot. n. 887/2017; Rep. 3/2017).
2017 Member of the Research Committee in Clinical Psychology, National Organization of Professors and Researchers in Clinical Psychology.
Member of the PhD defense committee; Igor Marchetti: “Resting state and cognitive vulnerability to depression: A neurocognitive investigation”; Ghent University, May 19 2014. Supervisor: Ernst Koster.
TEACHING APPOINTMENTS FOR THE PRESENT ACADEMIC YEAR
2019-2020
“Clinical Psychology”: 48-hour course addressed to 2nd year students in the international master course in Cognitive Neuroscience, Sapienza University of Rome.
“Clinical Psychology”: 48-hour course addressed to 2rd year undergraduate students in Psychology, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome.
“Psychophysiology of compassion”: 4h lesson addressed to students of the 2nd level University High Specialization in “Compassion: practice, applications and neuroscience”, Sapienza University of Rome.
“Intrusive thoughts as a risk factor for health: empirical findings and psychophysiological correlates”: 6-hour course addressed to students of the 2nd level University Master in “Mindfulness: Practice, Clinical Applications, and Neuroscience”, Sapienza University of Rome.
PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS
1. Makovac, E., Fagioli, S., Rae, C. L., Critchley, H.D., Ottaviani, C. (2020). Can’t get it off my brain: Meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies on perseverative cognition. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 295, 111020.
2. Zingaretti, P., Giovanardi, G., Cruciani, G., Lingiardi, V., Ottaviani, C., Spitoni, G.F. (2019). Heart rate variability in response to the recall of attachment memories. Attachment & Human Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616734.2019.1680712
3. Russo, V., Ottaviani, C., Spitoni, G.F. (2020). Affective Touch: A Meta-Analysis on Sex Differences. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 108, 445-452.
4. Ballesio, A., Ghezzi, V., Vacca, M., Ottaviani, C., Lombardo, C. (2019). Effects of pre-sleep cognitive intrusions on subjective sleep and next-day cognitive performance in insomnia. Behaviour Therapy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2019.09.003
5. Mattarozzi, K., Colonnello, V., Thayer J.F., Ottaviani, C. (2019). Trusting your heart: Long-term memory for bad and good people is influenced by resting vagal tone. Consciousness and Cognition, 75, 102810.
6. Carnevali, L., Pattini, E., Sgoifo, A., Ottaviani, C. (2019). Effects of prefrontal transcranial direct current stimulation on autonomic and neuroendocrine responses to psychosocial stress in healthy humans. Stress. https://doi.org/10.1080/10253890.2019.1625884
7. Makovac, E., Fagioli, S., Watson, D.R., Meeten, F., Smallwood, J., Critchley, H.D., Ottaviani, C. (2019). Response time as a proxy of the ongoing mental state: A combined fMRI and pupillometry study in Generalized Anxiety Disorder. NeuroImage, 191, 380-391.
8. Bailey, T., Shahabi, L., Tarvainen, M., Shapiro, D., Ottaviani, C. (2019). Moderating effects of the valence of social interaction on the dysfunctional consequences of perseverative cognition: An ecological study in major depression and social anxiety disorder. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, 32(2), 179-195.
9. Carnevali, L., Mancini, M., Koenig, J., Makovac, E., Watson, D.R., Meeten, F., Critchley, H.D., Ottaviani, C. (2019). Cortical morphometric predictors of autonomic dysfunction in generalized anxiety disorder. Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical, 217, 41-48.
10. Serra, L., Bruschini, M., Ottaviani, C., Di Domenico, C., Fadda, L., Caltagirone, C., Cercignani, M., Carlesimo, G.A, Bozzali, M. (2019). Thalamo-cortical disconnection affects the somatic marker and social cognition: a case report. Neurocase, 25, 1-9.
11. Carnevali, L., Ottaviani, C., Williams, D., Kapoor, G., Thayer, J., Hill, L.B. (2019). Hemodynamic profile and compensation deficit in African and European Americans during physical and mental stress. Biological Psychology, 141, 17-24.
12. Makovac, E., Mancini, M., Fagioli, S., Watson, D.R., Meeten, F., Rae, C.L., Critchley, H.D., Ottaviani, C. (2018). Network abnormalities in generalized anxiety pervade beyond the amygdala-pre-frontal cortex circuit: Insights from graph theory. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 281, 107-116.
13. Ottaviani, C., Mancini, F., Provenzano, S., Collazzoni, A., D’Olimpio, F. (2018). Deontological morality can be experimentally enhanced by increasing disgust: A transcranial direct current stimulation study. Neuropsychologia, 119, 474-481.
14. Makovac, E., Smallwood, J., Watson, D.R., Meeten, F., Critchley, H.D., Ottaviani, C. (2018). The verbal nature of worry in Generalized Anxiety: Insights from the brain. Neuroimage: Clinical, 17, 882-892.
15. Desideri, L., Ottaviani, C. Malavasi, M., Di Marzio, R., Bonifacci, P. (2019). Emotional processes in human-robot interaction during brief cognitive testing. Computers in Human Behavior, 90, 331-342.
16. Desideri, L., Ottaviani, C., Cecchetto, C., Bonifacci, P. (2019). Mind wandering, together with test anxiety and self-efficacy, predict student's academic self-concept but not reading comprehension skills. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 89, 307-323.
17. Ottaviani, C. (2018). Brain-heart interaction in perseverative cognition. Psychophysiology, 1284, e13082. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.13082
18. Carnevali, L., Koenig, J., Sgoifo, A., Ottaviani, C. (2018). Autonomic and brain morphological concomitants of stress resilience. Invited review paper for the Research Topic “10 years of impactful, open neuroscience”. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 12:228.
19. Ottaviani, C., Fagioli, S., Mattei, E., Censi, F., Edwards, L., Macaluso, E., Bozzali, M, Critchley, H., Calcagnini, G. (2018). Brain-heart pathways to blood pressure-related hypoalgesia. Psychosomatic Medicine, 80(9), 845-852.
20. Ottaviani, C., Thayer, J.F., Verkuil, B., Critchley, H.D., Brosschot, J.F. (2017). Editorial: Can't get you out of my head: Brain-body interactions in perseverative cognition. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 11, 634. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00634.
21. Ottaviani, C., Zingaretti, P., Petta, A.M., Antonucci, G., Thayer, J.F., Spitoni, G.F. (2018). Resting heart rate variability predicts inhibitory control above and beyond impulsivity. Journal of Psychophysiology, 33 (3), 198-206.
22. Ottaviani, C., Collazzoni, A., D’Olimpio, F. Moretta, T., Mancini, F. (2018). I obsessively clean because my deontological guilt makes me feel physiologically disgusted! Invited paper for the special Issue on "Experimental studies of cognitive processes in OCD". Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 20, 21-29.
23. Ballesio, A., Ottaviani, C., & Lombardo, C. (2018). Poor cognitive inhibition predicts rumination about insomnia in a clinical sample. Behavioral Sleep Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1080/15402002.2018.1461103
24. Ottaviani, C. Lonigro, A., Cioffi, B., Manzi, D., Laghi, F., Baiocco, R. (2017). Family functioning and parents’ dispositions moderate the physiological, affective, and attentional consequences of rumination in children. Biological Psychology, 127, 220-228.
25. Carnevali, L., Thayer, J.F., Brosschot, J.F., Ottaviani, C. (2018). Heart rate variability mediates the link between rumination and depressive symptoms: a longitudinal study. Special issue on the “Psychophysiology of Stress and Adaptation”. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 131, 131-138.
26. Ottaviani, C., Brosschot, J.F., Lonigro, A., Medea, B., Van Diest, I, Thayer, J.F. (2017). Hemodynamic profiles of functional and dysfunctional forms of repetitive thinking. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 51, 261-271.
27. Gould van Praag, C.D., Garfinkel, S.N., Sparasci, O., Mees, A., Philippides, A.O., Ware, M., Ottaviani, C., Critchley, H.D. (2017). Mind-wandering and alterations to default mode network connectivity when listening to naturalistic versus artificial sounds. Scientific Reports, 7, 45273. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep45273.
28. Petrocchi, N., Piccirillo, G., Fiorucci, C., Moscucci, F., Di Iorio, C., Mastropietri, F., Parrotta, I., Pascucci, M., Magrì, D., Ottaviani, C. (2017). Transcranial direct current stimulation enhances soothing positive affect and vagal tone. Neuropsychologia. 96, 256-261.
29. Baiocco, R., Manzi, D., Lonigro, A., Petrocchi, N., Laghi, F., Ioverno, S., Ottaviani, C. (2017). A kid-friendly tool to assess rumination in children and early adolescents: Relationships with mother psychopathology and family functioning. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 26, 2703–2715.
30. Spitoni, G.F., Ottaviani, C., Petta, A.M., Zingaretti, P., Aragona, M., Sarnicola, A., Antonucci, G. (2017). Obesity is associated with lack of inhibitory control and impaired heart rate variability reactivity and recovery in response to food stimuli. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 116, 77-84.
31. Makovac, E., Thayer, J.F., Ottaviani, C. (2017). A meta-analysis of non-invasive brain stimulation and autonomic functioning: Implications for brain-heart pathways to cardiovascular disease. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 74, 330-341.
32. Ottaviani, C., Vandone, D. (2018). Financial literacy, debt burden, and impulsivity: a mediation analysis. Invited paper for the special issue on “Financial Literacy”. Economic Notes, 47, 439–453.
33. Zemestani, M., Imani, M., Ottaviani, C. (2017). A preliminary investigation on the effectiveness of Unified and Transdiagnostic Cognitive Behavior Therapy for patients with comorbid depression and anxiety. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, 10 (2), 175-185.
34. Gazzellini, S., Dettori M., Amadori F., Paoli B., Napolitano A., Mancini, F., Ottaviani, C. (2016). Association between attention and heart rate fluctuations in pathological worriers. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 10, 648. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00648.
35. Makovac, E., Watson, D.R., Meeten, F., Garfinkel, S.N., Cercignani, M., Critchley, H.D., Ottaviani, C. (2016). Amygdala functional connectivity as a longitudinal biomarker of symptom changes in generalized anxiety. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11(11), 1719-1728.
36. Meeten, F., Davey, G.C.L., Makovac, E., Watson, R.D., Garfinkel, S.N., Critchley, H.D., Ottaviani, C. (2016). Goal directed worry rules are associated with distinct patterns of amygdala functional connectivity and vagal modulation during perseverative cognition. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 10, 553. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00553.
37. Ottaviani, C., Watson, D.R., Meeten, F., Makovac, E., Garfinkel, S.N., Critchley, H.D. (2016). Neurobiological substrates of cognitive rigidity and autonomic inflexibility in generalized anxiety disorder. Biological Psychology, 119, 31-34.
38. Makovac, E., Meeten, F., Watson, D., Herman, A., Garfinkel, S., Critchley, H., Ottaviani, C. (2016). Alterations in amygdala-prefrontal functional connectivity account for excessive worry and autonomic dysregulation in generalized anxiety disorder. Biological Psychiatry, 80(10), 786-795.
39. Zemestani, M., Ottaviani, C. (2016). Effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention for co-occurring substance use and depression disorders. Mindfulness, 7(6), 1347–1355.
40. Colonnello, V., Petrocchi, N., Farinelli, M., Ottaviani, C. (2017). Positive social interactions in a lifespan perspective with a focus on opioidergic and oxytocinergic systems: Implications for neuroprotection. Invited review paper for a special issue on “Neuroprotection mechanisms and their potential applications”. Current Neuropharmacology, 15(4), 543-561.
41. Ottaviani, C., Thayer, J.F., Verkuil, B., Lonigro, A., Medea, B., Couyoumdjian, A. Brosschot, J.F. (2016). Physiological concomitants of perseverative cognition: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Psychological Bullettin, 142, 231-259.
42. Medea, B., Karapanagiotidis, T., Konishi, M., Ottaviani, C., Margulies, D., Bernasconi, A., Bernasconi, N., Bernhardt, B., Jefferies, E., Smallwood, J. (2018). How do we decide what to do? Resting‐state connectivity patterns and components of self‐generated thought linked to the development of more concrete personal goals. Experimental Brain Research, 236 (9), 2469–2481.
43. Piccirillo, G., Ottaviani, C., Fiorucci, C., Petrocchi, N., Moscucci, F., Di Iorio, C., Mastropietri, F., Parrotta, I., Pascucci, M., Magrì, D. (2016). Transcranial direct current stimulation improves the QT variability index and autonomic cardiac control in healthy subjects over sixty years old. Clinical Interventions in Aging, 11, 1687-1695.
44. Petrocchi, N., Ottaviani, C. (2016). Mindfulness facets distinctively predict depressive symptoms after two years: The mediating role of rumination. Mindfulness Special Issue - Personality and Individual Differences, 93, 92-96.
45. Couyoumdjian, A., Ottaviani, C., Petrocchi, N., Trincas, R., Tenore, K., Buonanno, C., Mancini, F. (2016). Reducing the meta-emotional problem decreases physiological fear response during exposure in phobics. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:1105. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01105.
46. Petrocchi, N., Ottaviani, C., Couyoumdjian, A. (2017). Compassion at the mirror: Exposure to a mirror increases the efficacy of a self-compassion manipulation in enhancing soothing positive affect and heart rate variability. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 12 (6), 525-536.
47. Tobia, V., Bonifacci, P., Ottaviani, C., Borsato, T., Marzocchi, G.M. (2016). Reading under the skin: Physiological activation during reading in children with dyslexia and typical readers. Annals of Dyslexia, 66 (2), 171-186.
48. Zemestani, M., Davoudi, I., Honarmand, M. M., Zargar, Y., Ottaviani, C. (2016). Comparative effects of group metacognitive therapy versus behavioural activation in moderately depressed students. Journal of Mental Health, 25 (6), 479-485.
49. Petta, A.M., Aragona, M., Zingaretti, P., Ottaviani, C., Antonucci G., Sarnicola A., Spitoni G.F. (2016). Psychopathology, body uneasiness and self-identity in non-BED patients with obesity compared to healthy controls. Dialogues in Philosophy, Mental and Neuro Sciences, 9 (2), 52-61.
50. Makovac, E., Meeten, F., Watson, D.R., Garfinkel, S., Critchley, H.D., Ottaviani, C. (2015). Neurostructural abnormalities associated with axes of emotion dysregulation in generalized anxiety. Neuroimage: Clinical, 10, 172-181.
51. Ottaviani, C., Shahabi, L., Tarvainen, M., Cook, I., Abrams, M., Shapiro, D. (2015). Cognitive, behavioral, and autonomic correlates of mind wandering and perseverative cognition in major depression. Frontiers in Neuroscience 8, 433. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2014.00433.
52. Ottaviani, C., Medea, B., Lonigro, A., Tarvainen, M., Couyoumdjian, A. (2015). Cognitive rigidity is mirrored by autonomic inflexibility in daily life perseverative cognition. Biological Psychology, 107, 24-30.
53. Bonifacci, P., Desideri, L., Ottaviani C. (2015). Familiarity of faces: sense or feeling? An exploratory investigation with eye movements and skin conductance. Journal of Psychophysiology. 29 (1), 20-25.
54. Ottaviani, C., Vandone, D. (2015). Decision-making under uncertainty and demand for health insurance: a multidisciplinary study. Journal of Psychophysiology, 29 (2), 80-85.
55. Ottaviani, C., Borlimi, R., Brighetti, G., Caselli, G., Favaretto, E., Giardini, I., Marzocchi, C., Nucifora, V., Rebecchi, D., Ruggiero, G.M., Sassaroli, S. (2014). Worry as an adaptive avoidance strategy in healthy controls but not in pathological worriers. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 93 (3), 349-355.
56. Jain, F.A., Cook, I.A., Leuchter, A.F., Hunter, A.M., Davydov, D.M., Ottaviani, C., Tartter, M., Crump, C., Shapiro, D. (2014). Heart rate variability and treatment outcome in major depression: a pilot study. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 93 (2), 204-210.
57. Petrocchi, N., Ottaviani, C., Couyoumdjian, A. (2014). Dimensionality of self-compassion: Translation and construct validation of the Self-Compassion Scale in an Italian sample. Journal of Mental Health, 23 (2), 72-77.
58. Trincas, R., Ottaviani, C., Couyoumdjian, A., Tenore, K., Spitoni, G, Mancini, F. (2014). Specific dysphoric symptoms are predicted by early maladaptive schemas. The Scientific World Journal, 231965. https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/231965.
59. Ottaviani, C., Couyoumdjian, A. (2013). Pros and cons of a wandering mind: A prospective study. Invited paper for Special Issue on “Towards a psychological and neuroscientific account of the wandering mind”. Frontiers in Psychology, 4:524. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00524.
60. Ottaviani, C., Shapiro, D., Couyoumdjian, A. (2013). Flexibility as the key for somatic health: From mind wandering to perseverative cognition. Biological Psychology, 94, 38-43.
61. Ottaviani, C., Mancini, F., Petrocchi, N., Medea, B., Couyoumdjian, A. (2013). Autonomic correlates of physical and moral disgust. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 89, 57-62.
62. Couyoumdjian, A., Ottaviani, C., Trincas, R., Spitoni, G, Tenore, K., Mancini, R. (2012). The role of personal goals in depressive reaction to adverse life events: A cross-sectional study. The Scientific World Journal, 810341. https://doi.org/10.1100/2012/810341.
63. Ottaviani, C., Cevolani, D., Nucifora, V., Borlimi, R., Agati, R., Leonardi, M., De Plato, G., Brighetti, G (2012). Amygdala responses to masked and low spatial frequency fearful faces: A preliminary fMRI study in panic disorder. Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 203, 159-165.
64. Fitzgerald, L., Ottaviani, C., Goldstein, I.B., Shapiro, D. (2012). Effects of dipping and psychological traits on morning surge in blood pressure in healthy people. Journal of Human Hypertension, 26 (4), 228-235.
65. Ottaviani, C., Vandone, D. (2011). Impulsivity and household indebtedness: Evidence from real life. Journal of Economic Psychology, 32, 754-761.
66. Ottaviani, C., Shapiro, D. (2011). Do we need a stressor to be stressed? Insights from cardiac regulation. Invited paper for Special Issue on “Psychobiological approaches to stress and health: Recent progress”. Japanese Psychological Research, 53 (2), 155-162.
67. Ottaviani, C., Shapiro, D., Fitzgerald, L. (2011). Rumination in the laboratory: What happens when you go back to everyday life? Psychophysiology, 48 (4), 453-461.
68. Ottaviani, C., Shapiro, D., Davydov, D.M., Goldstein, I.B., Mills, P.J. (2009). The autonomic phenotype of rumination. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 72 (3), 267-275.
69. Mills, P.J., Shapiro, D., Goldstein, I.B., Ottaviani, C., Pung, M.A., Khandrika, S., von Känel, R., Rutledge, T.R. (2008). Metabolic predictors of inflammation, adhesion, and coagulability in healthy younger aged adults. Obesity, 16 (12), 2702-2706.
70. Ottaviani, C., Shapiro, D., Davydov, D.M., Goldstein, I.B. (2008). Autonomic stress response modes and ambulatory heart rate level and variability. Journal of Psychophysiology, 22 (1), 28-40.
71. Ottaviani, C., Shapiro, D., Goldstein, I.B., Mills, P.J. (2007). Vascular profile, delayed recovery, inflammatory process, and ambulatory blood pressure: laboratory-to-life generalizability. International Journal of Psychophysiology, 66 (1), 56-65.
72. Brighetti, G., Bonifacci, P., Borlimi, R., Ottaviani, C. (2007). “Far from the heart far from the eye”: Evidence from the Capgras delusion. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 12 (3), 189-197.
73. Shapiro, D., Cook, I.A., Davydov, D.M., Ottaviani, C., Leuchter, A.F., Abrams, M. (2007). Yoga as a complementary treatment of depression: Effects of traits and moods on treatment outcome. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 4 (4), 493-502.
74. Ottaviani, C., Shapiro, D., Goldstein, I.B., James, J.E., Weiss, R. (2006). Hemodynamic profile, compensation deficit, and ambulatory blood pressure. Psychophysiology, 43 (1), 46-56.
BOOKS
Ottaviani, C., Thayer, J. F., Verkuil, B., Critchley, H. D., Brosschot, J. F., eds. (2018). Can’t Get You Out of My Head: Brain-Body Interactions in Perseverative Cognition. Lausanne: Frontiers Media. doi: 10.3389/978-2-88945-414-3
Crane, R. (2012). La terapia cognitiva basata sulla mindfulness. Caratteristiche distintive. Ottaviani, C. (Ed.). Roma: Franco Angeli Editore.
Ottaviani, C, Nucifora, V., Borlimi, R., Brighetti, G. (2012). “Decision making” patologico in soggetti con disregolazione emotiva. In R. Di Schiena & G. Belelli (Eds.), Decisioni ed emozioni. Come la psicologia spiega il conflitto tra ragione e sentimento (pp. 191-215). Bologna: Il Mulino.
Brighetti, G., Ottaviani, C., Nucifora, V., Borlimi, R. (2011). Decision making: Psychological perspective. In C. Lucarelli & G. Brighetti (Eds.), Risk tolerance in the financial decision making (pp. 133-152). Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Lucarelli, C., Ottaviani, C., Vandone, D. (2011). The layout of the empirical analysis. In C. Lucarelli & G. Brighetti (Eds.), Risk tolerance in the financial decision making (pp. 153-163). Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Vandone, D., Ottaviani, C. (2011). The determinants of households debt holding: An empirical analysis. In C. Lucarelli & G. Brighetti (Eds.), Risk tolerance in the financial decision making (pp. 208-217). Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Ottaviani, C., Shapiro, D., Goldstein, I., Gofman, V. (2009). Personality traits and daily moods. In L. B. Palcroft & M. V. Lopez (Eds.), Personality Assessment: New Research (pp. 95-107). New York: Nova Science Publishers.
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS
Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR): 2005-present.
American Psychosomatic Society (APS): 2010-present.
International Organization of Psychophysiology (IOP): 2010-present.
European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (ESCAN): 2013-present.
European Health Psychology Society (EHPS): 2017-present.
Associazione Italiana Psicologi (AIP): 2017-present.
EDITORIAL ACTIVITY
Associate Editor for: International Journal of Psychophysiology (2020-present); Journal of Psychophysiology (2010-present).
Consulting Editor for: Psychophysiology (2017-present).
Review Editor for: Frontiers in Autonomic Neuroscience, part of the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience, Physiology and Neurology (2018-present).
Member of the American Psychosomatic Society (APS) Program Committee (2016).
Member of the Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) Program Committee (2018) and Nomination Committee (2019).
TITLES AND AWARDS
-Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychophysiology (Society for Psychophysiological Research; 2017)
-Visiting Research Fellow, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, UK (February 1 2014 - January 31 2017);
-American Psychosomatic Society Young Investigator Colloquium (2013);
-American Psychosomatic Society Young Scholar Award (2012);
-Student Travel Award to attend the annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research in Austin, Texas, USA (2008);
-Student Travel Award to attend the annual meeting of the Society for Psychophysiological Research in Vancouver, BC, Canada (2006).