Phd in PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE

email: michele.vecchione@uniroma1.it
phone: 0649917845
building: Dipartimento di Psicologia
room: 317

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EDUCATION AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT

2001: Laurea degree in Psychology cum Laude, Sapienza University of Rome.

2003: Enters in a 3-year PhD program in Personality and Social Psychology, University of Padua

2006: PhD in Personality and Social Psychology

2008: Post-doc grant at the University "LUISS GUIDO CARLI" of Rome

2008: Researcher in Psychometric Theory (M-PSI 03) at the Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome

2015: Associate professor in Psychometric Theory (M-PSI 03) at the Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome

2023: Full professor in Psychometric Theory (M-PSI 03) at the Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome


ACADEMIC AND INSTITUTIONAL POSITIONS

Since 2008: Member of CIRMPA (Centro Interuniversitario per la Ricerca sulla Genesi e lo Sviluppo delle Motivazioni Prosociali e Antisociali), Sapienza University of Rome.

Since 2009: Board member of the PhD program in "Psychology and Social Neuroscience", research tracks (curriculum): Personality and Organizational Psychology (POP).

From 2013 to 2016: Junior Research Fellows at Scuola Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SSAS). Academic Class of Life sciences

Since 2019: Member of the Comitato di Monitoraggio (Monitoring Committee) of the Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome

Since 2022: components of the Ethics Committee for Transdisciplinary Research (CERT), Sapienza University of Rome.


MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS

Main research interests focus on psychological measurement and the application of multivariate statistics in the psychological domain. In particular, recent research concerns: (1) measurement issues in personality questionnaires (e.g. socially desirable responding, response set and response biases, impression management, method effects due to items wording), (2) the assessment of personality in applied settings, (3) the role of individual differences in personality (e.g. basic traits, personal values) in predicting individual’s preferences and performance, (4) the issue of measurement invariance across different cultural contexts and administration modes, (5) the longitudinal investigation of stability and change of personality.


EDITORIAL AND REVIEWING ACTIVITIES

From 2013 to 2019: Associate editor for BMC Psychology (Editorial Board Member for the ‘Social, organizational and cultural psychology’ section).

Since 2017: Consulting editor for the British Journal of Social Psychology.

Since 2017: Member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Psychological Assessment.

Since 2020: Associate editor for Psychological Test Adaptation and Development (PDAT).


TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Since 2009 – carries out teaching activities within the Phd program in "Psychology and Social Neuroscience", research tracks (curriculum): Personality and Organizational Psychology (POP).

2008-2009 academic year: Course in “Tecniche psicometriche: corso progredito” (course leader – 6 CFU) – Laurea Triennale IN “Psicologia del Benessere nel corso di vita”, Faculty of Psychology 2, Sapienza University of Rome.

2009-2010 academic year: Course in “Psicometria I and II” (course leader, 8 CFU) – Laurea IN “Psicologia del Benessere nel corso di vita”, Faculty of Psychology 2, Sapienza University of Rome.

2010-2011 academic year: Course in “Metodologia I: Psicometria” (course leader –8 CFU), Laurea triennale in “Scienze Psicologiche”, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome.

2011-2012 academic year: Course in “Metodologia II: Test psicologici con elementi di analisi dei dati” (Course co-leader, 6 CFU), Laurea in “Scienze Psicologiche”, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome.

2013-2014 academic year: Course in ”Teorie e Tecniche dei Test (course co-leader, 4 CFU), Laurea Triennale in “Psicologia e Processi Sociali”, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome.

2014-2015, 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 academic years: Course in “Analisi dei Dati” (course co-leader, 6 CFU), Laurea Magistrale in “Psicologia applicata ai contesti della salute, del lavoro e giuridico-forense”, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome.

2016-2017 academic year: Course in “Psicometria” (course co-leader, 5 CFU), Laurea Triennale in “Psicologia e Salute”, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome.

2017-2018 academic year: Course in “Psicometria” (course leader, 6 CFU), Laurea Triennale in “Scienze dell'educazione e della formazione”, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome.

2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023, and 2023-2024 academic years: Course in “Psicometria” (course leader, 9 CFU), Laurea Triennale in “Psicologia e Processi Sociali”, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome.

2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022, 2022-2023, and 2023-2024 academic years: Course in “Psicometria” (course leader, 9 CFU), Laurea Triennale in “Scienze e tecniche psicologiche”, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome.

2020-2021, 2021-2022, and 2022-2023 academic years: Course in “Psicometria: Metodi e tecniche per la valutazione di un intervento in ambito educativo” (course leader, 1 CFU lab), Scuola di specializzazione in “Psicologia del Ciclo di Vita”, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome.

2023-2024 academic year: Course in “Psicometria: Metodi e tecniche per la valutazione di un intervento in ambito educativo” (course leader, 3 CFU), Scuola di specializzazione in “Psicologia del Ciclo di Vita”, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome.