Research: Teen Dating Violence: a machine learning approach to identify risk factors (SSD M-PSI/08)
EDUCATION
• September 2016 - December 2016: Bachelor's degree in Psychological Science and Techniques (L-24) at "G. d'Annunzio" University of Chieti - Pescara.
Grade: 96/110. Thesis in Neuroscience of Consciousness, with the title: "Sleep and Consciousness." Supervisor: Prof. Alfredo Brancucci.
• September 2018 - February 2019: Erasmus+ for study at "Universidade de Coimbra," Coimbra, Portugal.
• September 2019 - December 2021: Master's degree in Clinical and Health Psychology (LM- 51) at "G. d'Annunzio" University of Chieti - Pescara.
Grade: 110/110. Experimental thesis in Forensic Psychology, with the title: "Misogyny in Psychological and Psychopathological view: the Incel phenomenon". Supervisor: Dr. Lilybeth Fontanesi, Co-supervisor: Dr. Daniela Marchetti.
• January 2023 - December 2023: Second-level University Master's Degree in Psychodiagnostics and Forensic Psychology at "G. d'Annunzio" University of Chieti - Pescara.
• March 2023 - October 2023: Scolarship with the title "Parent-Child Visitation Assessment Grid: applications in forensic science" at "G. d'Annunzio" University of Chieti-Pescara, Department of Psychological, Health and Territorial Sciences (DiSPuTer). Tutor: Prof. Maria Cristina Verrocchio.
• November 2023 - (ongoing) PhD in Psychopathology and mental functioning: research methods in forensics. Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Human Neuroscience.
TRAINING INTERNSHIPS
• October 2023: Training internship for Second-level University Master's Degree in Psychodiagnostics and Forensic Psychology (20 hours). Tutor: Dr. Monica Galasso, lawyer.
• June 2023 - September 2023: Training internship for Second-level Master's Degree in Psychodiagnostics and Forensic Psychology (60 hours). Tutor: Dr. Elisabetta Catapane, Psychologist - Psychotherapist - Forensic psychology expert.
• July 2022 - December 2022: 2nd period post - graduate training internship (500 hours), Department of Psychological, Health and Territorial Sciences at "G. d'Annunzio" University of Chieti - Pescara. Tutor: Dr. Lilybeth Fontanesi - area: General and Experimental Psychology.
• January 2022 - June 2022: 1st period post - graduate training internship (500 hours), Department of Psychological, Health and Territorial Sciences at "G. d'Annunzio" University of Chieti - Pescara Tutor: Dr. Lilybeth Fontanesi - area: Clinical and Community Psychology.
Participation as a speaker (oral and poster presentations) at national congresses and conferences:
1. February 22-24, 2023: 17th National Congress Italian Society of Psychopathology SOPSI (Rome). Speaker at the symposium: "The dark side of love: new trajectories in the study of gender-based violence." Oral presentation with the title: "The psychopathology of Incel: the violence of loneliness."
2. February 22-24, 2023: 17th National Congress Italian Society of Psychopathology SOPSI (Rome). Poster with the title: "A preliminary validation of the Incel Trait Scale: a tool to assess the characteristics of involuntary celibacy in Italian men" (Cosi, G., Verrocchio, M.C., Fontanesi, L.).
3. September 14-17, 2023: 23rd National Congress of the AIP Section of Clinical and Dynamic Psychology (Florence, Italy). Mini talk with the title: "Psychology and Psychopathology of Involuntary Celibate: a study on Italian Incels" (Cosi G., Facchino A.P.).
Prizes and Awards:
• Best mini-talk award (euro 500) given by the Italian Association of Psychology (AIP) during the annual conference of the Clinical and Dynamic Psychology Section at Florence (2023). Mini talk with the title: "Psychology and Psychopathology of Involuntary Celibate: a study on Italian Incels" (Cosi G., Facchino A. P.).
Articles in international indexed journals:
1. Fontanesi, L., Cosi, G., Di Crosta, A., Ciocca, G. (2022). Involuntary Celibate (Incel): validation of the Incel Trait Scale (ITS) in a population of Italian males. 28:113-119 Journal of Psychopathology DOI: 10.36148/2284-0249-468
2. Fontanesi, L., Marchetti, D., Cosi, G., Limoncin, E., Jannini, E. A., Verrocchio M.C., Ciocca, G. (accepted). What does it take to make an incel? The role of paranoid thinking, depression, anxiety, and attachment patterns. Depression and Anxiety.
Articles in national indexed journals:
1. Fontanesi, L., Planzo, O., & Cosi, G. (2024). Gli abusi sui minorenni nello sport: prevalenza, tipologie e direttive Europee (Child maltreatment and abuse in sport: prevalence, forms and European guidelines). Maltrattamento E Abuso Dell’infanzia, 25(3), 31–50. https://doi.org/10.3280/mal2023-003003
2. Fontanesi, L., Marchetti, D., Cosi, G., Facchino, A.P., Verrocchio M.C. (In press). Dark Personality and emotional abuse in intimate partner violence relationship: the role of gender, jealousy and attitude for violence. Rassegna italiana di criminologia.
Chapters in books:
• Cosi G. (2023) “Uomini che odiano le donne: Incel, misoginia e patologia”. In Manuale di psicologia clinica, a cura di Verrocchio Maria Cristina. 437-438, Piccin