Phd in SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATIONAL
RESEARCH

email: fiorenzo.laghi@uniroma1.it
phone: 0649917619
building: via dei Marsi 78
room: 402 IV piano

Fiorenzo Laghi received his doctoral degree from Sapienza University in Psychology in 2003. He is Full Professor of Developmental Psychology and Director of the Department of Developmental and Social Psychology at Sapienza, University of Rome. His primary research interests focus on prevention of risk behaviors and promotion of positive outcomes for at-risk child and adolescent populations, analyzing the role of theory of mind as protective factor for different disorders. He also has interests in the application of advanced multivariate data analytic methods to examine risk and protective processes associated with developmental processes in behavioral outcomes. In addition to his academic activities, Fiorenzo Laghi focuses on bridging the academy-society divide and he has developed different inter-disciplinary research cooperations with other researchers: Prof. P. M. Valkenburg e M. Buijzen, Amsterdam School of Communications Research; Prof. B. Schneider, School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Oronto; Prof. Van LeeuWen, Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology,Ghent University, Belgium; Prof. Z. Mello, Department of Psychology, University of Colorado.