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Curci A, Battista F, Lanciano T, d'Ovidio FD, Conway MA. The reminiscence bump and the self: evidence from five studies on positive and negative memories. Memory 2024:1-19. [PMID: 38451240 DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2325522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2023] [Accepted: 02/19/2024] [Indexed: 03/08/2024]
Abstract
A plethora of studies have shown that people persistently remember public and personal events experienced during adolescence and early adulthood, particularly with a positive valence. In five studies, we investigate the reminiscence bump (RB) for positive and negative memories of public events (Studies 1 and 2), private events (Study 3), music-related events (Study 4), and cross-cultural memory differences (i.e., China and US) (Study 5). Participants retrieved either one positive or one negative memory, indicated their Age of Encoding, and provided secondary measures, i.e., memory vividness and rehearsal (Studies 1 and 3) and emotional intensity (Studies 2 and 4). About 10,000 memories were collected and positive memories appeared generally older than negative recollections, but the RB emerged for both positive and negative memories. Furthermore, the peak was earlier for positive memories of public events (<15 years old) than for negative memories (20-40 years), while no differences were found for private events or music-related experiences (15-25 years). Chinese had their RB later than US respondents. Finally, autobiographical recollections have moderate to low associations with secondary measures of phenomenological features of memory. These findings are consistent with the identity-formation theory, providing additional and important information on the development of the Self.
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- Antonietta Curci
- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, City University of London, London, UK
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Lanciano T, Alfeo F, Curci A, Marin C, D'Uggento AM, Decarolis D, Öner S, Anthony K, Barzykowski K, Bascón M, Benavides A, Cabildo A, de la Mata-Benítez ML, Ergen İ, Filip K, Gofman A, Janssen SMJ, Kai-Bin Z, Markostamou I, Matías-García JA, Nourkova V, Oleksiak S, Santamaría A, Szpunar K, Taylor A, Watson LA, Zheng J. The flashbulb-like nature of memory for the first COVID-19 case and the impact of the emergency. A cross-national survey. Memory 2024; 32:264-282. [PMID: 38315731 DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2024.2310554] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2023] [Accepted: 01/11/2024] [Indexed: 02/07/2024]
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Flashbulb memories (FBMs) refer to vivid and long-lasting autobiographical memories for the circumstances in which people learned of a shocking and consequential public event. A cross-national study across eleven countries aimed to investigate FBM formation following the first COVID-19 case news in each country and test the effect of pandemic-related variables on FBM. Participants had detailed memories of the date and others present when they heard the news, and had partially detailed memories of the place, activity, and news source. China had the highest FBM specificity. All countries considered the COVID-19 emergency as highly significant at both the individual and global level. The Classification and Regression Tree Analysis revealed that FBM specificity might be influenced by participants' age, subjective severity (assessment of COVID-19 impact in each country and relative to others), residing in an area with stringent COVID-19 protection measures, and expecting the pandemic effects. Hierarchical regression models demonstrated that age and subjective severity negatively predicted FBM specificity, whereas sex, pandemic impact expectedness, and rehearsal showed positive associations in the total sample. Subjective severity negatively affected FBM specificity in Turkey, whereas pandemic impact expectedness positively influenced FBM specificity in China and negatively in Denmark.
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- Tiziana Lanciano
- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Kadir Has University, İstanbul, Turkey
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- School of Psychology, University of Nottingham Malaysia, Semenyih, Malaysia
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- Applied Memory Research Laboratory, Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
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- Laboratory of Human Activity, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain
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- Department of Psychology, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Applied Memory Research Laboratory, Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- School of Psychology, University of Nottingham Malaysia, Semenyih, Malaysia
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- Henan International Joint Laboratory of Psychological Science, Zhengzhou Normal University, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China
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- Division of Psychology, School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
- Department of Psychology, Bournemouth University, Poole, UK
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- Laboratory of Human Activity, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain
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- Department of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
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- Applied Memory Research Laboratory, Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
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- Laboratory of Human Activity, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Seville, Sevilla, Spain
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- Department of Psychology, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
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- School of Psychology, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- Center for Autobiographical Memory Research, Department of Psychology and Behavioural Science, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Henan International Joint Laboratory of Psychological Science, Zhengzhou Normal University, Zhengzhou, People's Republic of China
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Battista F, Lanciano T, Borrelli P, Curci A. The Cognitive Cost of Repetitive Thinking: A Study on the Effects of Shifting and Updating on Rumination of Emotional Experiences. Brain Sci 2023; 13:1569. [PMID: 38002529 PMCID: PMC10669856 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci13111569] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2023] [Revised: 11/06/2023] [Accepted: 11/07/2023] [Indexed: 11/26/2023] Open
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The present study aimed to investigate the consequence of resource competition between post-emotional processing and concurrent cognitive tasks. Previous studies have shown that such a resource competition engenders both short-term (e.g., defeats in the execution of the working memory task) and long-term effects (e.g., procrastination or rumination following an emotional experience). We expected these effects to vary as a function of the different WM components involved (shifting, Study 1; updating, Study 2). In two studies, participants (Study 1: N = 48; Study 2: N = 42) were administered one out of two variants of a visuospatial task (Study 1: shifting; Study 2: updating) adopted by Curci and colleagues before and after a negative or neutral manipulation. Rumination was assessed immediately after the second WM task performance and 24 h later. In Study 1, results showed that the exposure to negative content impaired the subsequent executive performance compared with exposure to neutral material, while no difference was found in Study 2. Rumination for emotional material was higher and more persistent over time as a function of shifting resources but not for updating ones. These findings provide information on the possible role of individuals' cognitive resources on rumination for emotional experiences.
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- Fabiana Battista
- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’, 70121 Bari, Italy; (T.L.); (P.B.); (A.C.)
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Clemente L, Gasparre D, Alfeo F, Battista F, Abbatantuono C, Curci A, Lanciano T, Taurisano P. Theory of Mind and Executive Functions in Individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment or Healthy Aging. Brain Sci 2023; 13:1356. [PMID: 37891725 PMCID: PMC10605804 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci13101356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2023] [Revised: 09/17/2023] [Accepted: 09/20/2023] [Indexed: 10/29/2023] Open
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Social cognition involves skills for maintaining harmonious personal and social relationships throughout life. Social cognition issues, including Theory of Mind (ToM), can significantly impact the well-being of older individuals and intensify with the onset of neurological conditions. Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is a state between healthy and pathological neurocognitive aging, where monitoring social functions is crucial. Despite numerous studies on ToM challenges in older adults and cognitive disorders, the underlying mechanisms remain debated. Uncertainty exists regarding whether ToM deficits are related to other cognitive functions, such as Executive Functions (EFs). Our study examined the correlation between EF and ToM performance in 32 MCI patients and 36 healthy elderly controls. The findings revealed a link between EF and ToM performance among healthy elderly individuals. Specifically, within the assessed EFs, the role of the working memory (WM) emerged. The study also highlighted distinctions between the MCI group and the healthy elderly group, showing that despite a general reduction in cognitive performance, the condition could impact these abilities in different ways. The study contributes to the literature, fostering comprehension of the mechanisms underlying ToM difficulties, while also paving the way for targeted interventions and enhanced clinical or preventative care.
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- Livio Clemente
- Department of Translational Biomedicine and Neuroscience (DiBraiN), University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’, 70121 Bari, Italy; (L.C.); (D.G.); (C.A.); (P.T.)
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- Department of Translational Biomedicine and Neuroscience (DiBraiN), University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’, 70121 Bari, Italy; (L.C.); (D.G.); (C.A.); (P.T.)
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’, 70121 Bari, Italy; (F.B.); (A.C.); (T.L.)
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’, 70121 Bari, Italy; (F.B.); (A.C.); (T.L.)
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- Department of Translational Biomedicine and Neuroscience (DiBraiN), University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’, 70121 Bari, Italy; (L.C.); (D.G.); (C.A.); (P.T.)
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’, 70121 Bari, Italy; (F.B.); (A.C.); (T.L.)
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’, 70121 Bari, Italy; (F.B.); (A.C.); (T.L.)
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- Department of Translational Biomedicine and Neuroscience (DiBraiN), University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’, 70121 Bari, Italy; (L.C.); (D.G.); (C.A.); (P.T.)
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Belli S, Aceros JC, Barrasa A, Selva C, Sini B, Curci A. Editorial: Emotions in digital contexts during the COVID-19 pandemic. Front Psychol 2023; 14:1231258. [PMID: 37469896 PMCID: PMC10353310 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1231258] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2023] [Accepted: 06/21/2023] [Indexed: 07/21/2023] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Simone Belli
- Department of Social Anthropology and Social Psychology, Complutense University of Madrid and TRANSOC Institute, Madrid, Spain
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- Industrial University of Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia
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- Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Turin, Piedmont, Italy
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Battista F, Mangiulli I, Patihis L, Dodier O, Curci A, Lanciano T, Otgaar H. A scientometric and descriptive review on the debate about repressed memories and traumatic forgetting. J Anxiety Disord 2023; 97:102733. [PMID: 37311335 DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2023.102733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2022] [Revised: 05/31/2023] [Accepted: 05/31/2023] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Recent work suggests that the debate surrounding repressed memory and traumatic forgetting continues today. To further investigate this debate, we performed preregistered scientometric analyses on publications on the debate about repressed memory to provide information about its bibliometric evolution. Furthermore, we reviewed these publications to highlight the different positions taken by scholars on this debate. We reviewed 434 publications extracted from Scopus and Web of Science from 1969 to 2022. Our scientometric analyses permitted us to visualize the development of the publications on repressed memories and identify the terminology used to label this phenomenon. We identified three waves of publications (i.e., 1994-2000; 2003-2009; 2012-2021) showing that there is a recent peak of scholarly attention into this topic. 40% of scholars supported the phenomenon of repressed memory while 29% did not. Moreover, although in the last wave of publications, 35% of articles included critical arguments against the existence of repressed memory, a sizable number of publications (21%) supported ideas in favour of repressed memory. Finally, we observed that the term dissociative amnesia is another expression used to refer to the phenomenon. Our results provide additional evidence that the debate on repressed memories (and dissociative amnesia) is far from being over.
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- Fabiana Battista
- Leuven Institute of Criminology, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium; Maastricht University, the Netherlands; University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy.
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- Leuven Institute of Criminology, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium; University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
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- Leuven Institute of Criminology, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium; Maastricht University, the Netherlands
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Tagliente S, Passarelli M, D'Elia V, Palmisano A, Dunn JD, Masini M, Lanciano T, Curci A, Rivolta D. Corrigendum to “Self-reported face recognition abilities moderately predict face-learning skills: Evidence from Italian samples” [Heliyon 9 (3) (March 2023) Article e14125]. Heliyon 2023; 9:e15217. [PMID: 37151625 PMCID: PMC10161577 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e15217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2023] [Accepted: 03/30/2023] [Indexed: 04/07/2023] Open
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[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14125.].
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Tagliente S, Passarelli M, D'Elia V, Palmisano A, Dunn JD, Masini M, Lanciano T, Curci A, Rivolta D. Self-reported face recognition abilities moderately predict face-learning skills: Evidence from Italian samples. Heliyon 2023; 9:e14125. [PMID: 36915548 PMCID: PMC10006496 DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2022] [Revised: 02/16/2023] [Accepted: 02/21/2023] [Indexed: 02/27/2023] Open
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Face Recognition Ability (FRA) varies widely throughout the population. Previous research highlights a positive relationship between self-perceived and objectively measured FRA in the healthy population, suggesting that people do have insight into their FRA. Given that this relationship has not been investigated in Italian samples yet, the main aim of the present work was to develop an Italian translation of the Prosopagnosia Index-20 (PI-20), a self-report measure of FRA, to investigate the relationship between PI-20 performances and an objective assessment given by the Cambridge Face Memory Test Long Form (CFMT+) in the Italian population. A sample of 553 participants filled in the PI-20 Italian version 1 or 2 (PI-20_GE or PI-20_BA) and completed the CFMT+. Results showed a negative correlation between both versions of the Italian PI-20 and CFMT+ scores, meaning that the more self-evaluations were negative, the worse they objectively performed. The same results applied to the extreme limits of the distribution (i.e., 10% of the highest and lowest PI-20 scores). Furthermore, both age and administration order of the tests were predictor variables of CFMT+ scores. Overall, our results suggest that people possess insight, although relatively limited, into their FRA.
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- Serena Tagliente
- Department of Education, Psychology and Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Institute of Educational Technology, National Research Council, Genova, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology and Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology and Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, (UNSW), Sydney, Australia
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- Valorizzazione Innovazione Empowerment s.r.l. (VIE), Genova, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology and Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology and Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology and Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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Mirandola C, Lanciano T, Battista F, Otgaar H, Curci A. Psychopathic personality traits are linked to reduced false memories for negative events. Br J Psychol 2023; 114:176-193. [PMID: 36302691 DOI: 10.1111/bjop.12604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2022] [Revised: 10/03/2022] [Accepted: 10/06/2022] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Individuals scoring high on psychopathic personality traits process emotional material to a different extent than individuals with few psychopathic traits. Evidence exists that these individuals have impaired emotional memory. The question arises whether this emotional memory impairment has ramifications for the production of emotional false memories. In the present study, we investigated the production of false and true memories for emotional events in a community sample (N = 120) of individuals varying in psychopathic traits (evaluated with the Psychopathic Personality Inventory-Revised [PPI-R] questionnaire). The fearless dominance (FD) component of psychopathy interacted with the emotional impact of to-be-remembered events in the production of false memories, showing fewer negative false memories with increasing levels of FD. At the subjective level, negative false memories were not perceived as vivid memory experiences in high FD individuals. Concerning true memories, higher scores in cold-heartedness were related to fewer true memories for neutral and negative (but not positive) events. These results show that individuals with high psychopathy traits - in particular, FD - do not have a general emotional memory impairment but they process negative material in a different way than individuals with low psychopathic traits and thus are less susceptible to producing false memories for negative events.
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- Chiara Mirandola
- Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.,Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy.,Leuvens Institute of Criminology, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Leuvens Institute of Criminology, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.,Department of Clinical Psychological Science, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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Mangiulli I, Battista F, Kafi NA, Coveliers E, Webster TC, Curci A, Otgaar H. False memory and COVID-19: How people fall for fake news about COVID-19 in digital contexts. Front Psychol 2022; 13:972004. [PMID: 36312068 PMCID: PMC9608342 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.972004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2022] [Accepted: 09/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
Abstract
People are often exposed to fake news. Such an exposure to misleading information might lead to false memory creation. We examined whether people can form false memories for COVID-19-related fake news. Furthermore, we investigated which individual factors might predict false memory formation for fake news. In two experiments, we provided participants with two pieces of COVID-19-related fake news along with a non-probative photograph. In Experiment 1, 41% (n = 66/161) of our sample reported at least one false memory for COVID-19-related fake news. In Experiment 2, even a higher percentage emerged (54.9%; n = 185/337). Moreover, in Experiment 2, participants with conspiracy beliefs were more likely to report false memories for fake news than those without such beliefs, irrespective of the conspiratorial nature of the materials. Finally, while well-being was found to be positively associated with both true and false memories (Experiment 1), only analytical thinking was negatively linked to the vulnerability to form false memories for COVID-19-related fake news (Experiment 2). Overall, our data demonstrated that false memories can occur following exposure to fake news about COVID-19, and that governmental and social media interventions are needed to increase individuals’ discriminability between true and false COVID-19-related news.
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- Ivan Mangiulli
- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
- Faculty of Law and Criminology, Leuven Institute of Criminology, Leuven, Belgium
- *Correspondence: Ivan Mangiulli, ;
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- Faculty of Law and Criminology, Leuven Institute of Criminology, Leuven, Belgium
- Forensic Psychology Section, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Forensic Psychology Section, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Faculty of Law and Criminology, Leuven Institute of Criminology, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Faculty of Law and Criminology, Leuven Institute of Criminology, Leuven, Belgium
- Forensic Psychology Section, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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Lanciano T, de Leonardis L, Curci A. The psychological effects of imprisonment: The role of cognitive, psychopathic and affective traits. Eur J Psychol 2022; 18:262-278. [PMID: 36348818 PMCID: PMC9632560 DOI: 10.5964/ejop.3995] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/07/2020] [Accepted: 04/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
Abstract
The present cross-sectional correlational study aimed to investigate a set of cognitive, affective, and personality traits impacting the psychological effects of imprisonment. Ninety-three male inmates filled out a battery including measures of intelligence, working memory, psychopathy, aggressiveness, anxious trait, emotionality, rumination styles, and empathy proneness. Inmates' psychological outcomes were conceptualized in terms of mood, anxiety, depression, and general health. Results showed that inmates with high cognitive abilities, psychopathic impulsivity, proactive aggression, personal distress and fantasy, anxious and negative emotionality are mainly prone to ill-being psychological outcomes. Contrariwise, the fearless dominance trait, positive emotionality and empathic concern ability seem to expose inmates to positive psychological outcomes. Reactive aggression and perspective taking seem to impact both positive and negative moods. Ruminative style was unrelated to psychological outcomes. These preliminary results provide an insight into which factors intervention programs should be based upon in order to enhance well-being and reduce distress among inmates.
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- Tiziana Lanciano
- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’, Bari, Italy
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Otgaar H, Curci A, Mangiulli I, Battista F, Rizzotti E, Sartori G. A court ruled case on therapy-induced false memories. J Forensic Sci 2022; 67:2122-2129. [PMID: 35652501 PMCID: PMC9544012 DOI: 10.1111/1556-4029.15073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2022] [Revised: 05/04/2022] [Accepted: 05/25/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We report on a unique Italian criminal case in which a court ruled that a therapist implanted false memories of abuse in a young girl. Using therapeutic excerpts, we show that the therapist used a multitude of problematic interventions that are all linked to false memory creation. Specifically, an analysis of the therapeutic excerpts showed that across many sessions, the therapist asked highly suggestive questions to the girl, implying that she was abused by her father. In addition, the girl underwent EMDR techniques that have been associated with memory undermining effects. Our analyses showed that although before treatment the girl did not have any recollection of being abused by her father, she gradually started to remember the abuse and identified the father as her abuser during the therapeutic sessions. Our case report clearly shows the danger of suggestive pressure in a therapeutic context causing patients to form false memories of abuse and supports the need to prevent the therapeutic practice of suggestive techniques.
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- Henry Otgaar
- Faculty of Law and Criminology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.,Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Faculty of Law and Criminology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.,Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Faculty of Law and Criminology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.,Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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- Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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Taurisano P, Lanciano T, Alfeo F, Bisceglie F, Monaco A, Sbordone FL, Abbatantuono C, Costadura S, Losole J, Ruggiero G, Iachini S, Vimercati L, Vacca A, De Caro MF, Curci A. The COVID-19 Stress Perceived on Social Distance and Gender-Based Implications. Front Psychol 2022; 13:846097. [PMID: 35615201 PMCID: PMC9126176 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.846097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2021] [Accepted: 03/17/2022] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented event entailing long-term consequences on population health and welfare. Those who contracted the coronavirus may have suffered from both physical and mental health issues that unfold the need for tailored intervention strategies. Hence, our study aims to investigate the psychological and social consequences of COVID-19 on a sample of 86 participants, encompassing 43 patients (clinical group; 25 women; mean age = 50.4 ± 10.1 years) recruited from Bari University Hospital, 19 of whom were hospitalized due to the disease. The remaining 43 were individuals not fallen ill with COVID-19 to date (control group; 25 women; mean age = 50.4 ± 10.1 years). The investigation yielded significant gender differences in post-traumatic stress symptoms, depression, and representation of interpersonal distance (IPD), evaluated through the IES-R, the BDI-II, and the IVAS task, respectively. This pattern of results was not replicated in the control group. In general, participants who reported having experienced the most intense post-traumatic symptoms also presented a greater mood deflection and, more specifically, within the clinical group women obtained the highest scores on both scales. Women reported higher IES-R and BDI-II scores compared to men, that could indicate that women who have contracted COVID-19 are more exposed to post-traumatic and depressive symptoms. Our results also showed a significant effect of COVID-19 on IPD with a tendency of disease-experienced individuals to increase their preferred IPD from adults, children, and elderly people. Regarding gender differences in mood and proxemic behavior, a correlation between depressive symptoms and probable PTSD and a further correlation between probable PTSD and greater IPD were found in women from both clinical and control group. Overall, these findings might contribute to a better understanding of gender-based implications of the current pandemic on mental health, also leading to the development of integrated yet personalized intervention strategies.
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- Paolo Taurisano
- Department of Basic Medical Science, Neuroscience and Sense Organs, University of Bari "Aldo Moro," Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari "Aldo Moro," Bari, Italy
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- Department of Basic Medical Science, Neuroscience and Sense Organs, University of Bari "Aldo Moro," Bari, Italy.,Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari "Aldo Moro," Bari, Italy
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- Department of Basic Medical Science, Neuroscience and Sense Organs, University of Bari "Aldo Moro," Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari "Aldo Moro," Bari, Italy
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- Department of Basic Medical Science, Neuroscience and Sense Organs, University of Bari "Aldo Moro," Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari "Aldo Moro," Bari, Italy
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- Department of Basic Medical Science, Neuroscience and Sense Organs, University of Bari "Aldo Moro," Bari, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Second University of Naples, Caserta, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, Second University of Naples, Caserta, Italy
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- Department of Interdisciplinary Medicine, Occupational Health Division, University of Bari "Aldo Moro," Bari, Italy
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, University of Bari "Aldo Moro," Bari, Italy
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- Department of Basic Medical Science, Neuroscience and Sense Organs, University of Bari "Aldo Moro," Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari "Aldo Moro," Bari, Italy
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The present experiment aimed to examine how fabrication can affect memory. In particular, we examined whether different types of fabrication can lead to different mnemonic effects. A sample of 159 participants watched a video of a robbery and subsequently answered some questions about it. Participants were divided into three conditions: one group was instructed to tell the truth (i.e., truth-telling group), while the other two groups were instructed to lie either by partially distorting details (i.e., distortion group) or by completely making up wrong details of the event seen in the video (i.e., fabrication group). Two days later, participants completed a final memory test where they honestly answered recognition and recall questions concerning: (i) memory for the video and (ii) memory for having discussed details during the interview. Results showed that different types of fabrication affect liars' memory differently. Fabricators reported an undermining of memory for the event, whereas those who partially distorted details reported a higher impairment for the interview. Our findings showed that the effects of lying on liars' memory might be determined by the cognitive resources required to lie.
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- Fabiana Battista
- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy.,Leuven Institute of Criminology, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Leuven Institute of Criminology, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Leuven Institute of Criminology, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy
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- Leuven Institute of Criminology, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.,Section Forensic Psychology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Battista F, Lanciano T, Curci A. Does Alexithymia Affect Memory for a Crime? The Relationship Between Alexithymia, Executive Functions, and Memories. Front Psychol 2021; 12:669778. [PMID: 34276491 PMCID: PMC8278017 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.669778] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2021] [Accepted: 05/19/2021] [Indexed: 01/12/2023] Open
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Prior studies on alexithymia and memory have found a negative association between the two constructs, especially when emotional memories are considered. Moreover, it has been demonstrated that also the executive functioning (EF) of the individuals influences this relationship. Thus, the goal of this study is to verify whether alexithymia can influence the memory accuracy for a violent crime in people with different levels of EF resources in terms of both correct details and memory distortions (i.e., omissions and commissions) reported. We assessed the alexithymia and EF resources of individuals and showed participants a video of a violent crime (i.e., murder). We then asked participants to testify about the content of the video by imagining to be witnesses of the crime. A memory test was run on two moments in time: immediately after the video presentation and after 10 days. Findings demonstrated that alexithymia influences the recall of the event both in proneness to report correct details and memory distortions of the participants (i.e., omissions and commissions). Additionally, we found a contribution of EF resources in this relationship. The findings provide new information for legal professionals on memory functioning.
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- Fabiana Battista
- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy.,Leuven Institute of Criminology, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy
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Curci A, de Leonardis L, Lanciano T, Basile P. The Characteristics and Benefits of Disclosing Personal Experiences in Prison: A Study of the Writing Paradigm. The American Journal of Psychology 2021. [DOI: 10.5406/amerjpsyc.134.1.0075] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The aim of this study is to investigate the characteristics and benefits of writing about personal experiences in prison. A variation of the classic writing paradigm was proposed to a sample of 93 male inmates in southern Italian prisons. Participants were left to write on any personal experience related to their condition and time in prison in 4 daily sessions. Measures of subjective well-being were collected across the sessions. Transcripts were analyzed through sentiment analysis. Cognitive and executive functioning indices (i.e., general cognitive abilities, working memory capacity, inhibition, and shifting) are included as covariates in our analyses on the evolution of well-being measures. Results showed that participants’ well-being improved across the sessions, independent of the emotional valence of the disclosed experience. This effect was partly modulated by the participant’s measure of working memory capacity. After an initial simplification, narrative productions appeared to increase their length and complexity. Our results support the idea that emotional disclosure in our sample of inmates contributes to social integration. Results encourage the adoption of writing procedures, as they are inexpensive and effective in supporting prisoners’ adjustment to prison life. Supplemental materials are available at https://www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/ajp/media/a_study_on_the_writing_paradigm/index.htm
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Battista F, Otgaar H, Mangiulli I, Curci A. The role of executive functions in the effects of lying on memory. Acta Psychol (Amst) 2021; 215:103295. [PMID: 33752141 DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2021.103295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2020] [Revised: 02/17/2021] [Accepted: 03/01/2021] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Recent studies have demonstrated that lying can affect memory and that such memory effects are based on the cognitive load required in performing the lie. The present study aimed to verify whether the impact of two deceptive strategies (i.e., false denials and fabrication) depends on individuals' cognitive resources in terms of Executive Functions (i.e., EF: Shifting, Inhibition, and Updating). A sample of 147 participants watched a video of a robbery and then were instructed to either fabricate (i.e., fabrication condition), deny (i.e. false denial condition), or tell the truth (i.e., truth-telling condition) to some questions about the crime. Two days later, all participants had to provide an honest account on a final memory test where they indicated their memory for having discussed details (i.e., fabricated, denied, or told the truth) and their memory for the video. Finally, their EF resources were also assessed. Our findings demonstrated that individual differences in EFs played a role in how the event was recalled and on the effects of lying on memory. That is, memory for the event after having lied depended especially on individuals' Shifting resources. We also found that the two deceptive strategies differentially affected individuals' memory for the interview and for the event: Denying affected memory for the interview while fabricating affected memory for the event. Our findings can inform legal professionals on the possibility to assess individuals' EF as an indicator of witnesses' credibility.
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- Fabiana Battista
- University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy; Leuven Institute of Criminology, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.
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- Leuven Institute of Criminology, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium; Maastricht University, the Netherlands
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- Leuven Institute of Criminology, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
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Lanciano T, Graziano G, Curci A, Costadura S, Monaco A. Risk Perceptions and Psychological Effects During the Italian COVID-19 Emergency. Front Psychol 2020; 11:580053. [PMID: 33071920 PMCID: PMC7533588 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.580053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2020] [Accepted: 08/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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The current study provides data about the immediate risk perceptions and psychological effects of the COVID-19 pandemic among Italian participants. A sample of 980 volunteers answered a web-based survey which aimed to investigate the many facets of risk perceptions connected to COVID-19 (health, work, institutional-economy, interpersonal and psychological), and risk-related variables such as perceived knowledge, news seeking, perceived control, perceived efficacy of containment measures, and affective states. Socio-demographic characteristics were also collected. Results showed that although levels of general concern are relatively high among Italians, risk perceptions are highest with regards to the institutional-economy and work, and lowest concerning health. COVID-19 has been also estimated to be the least likely cause of death. Cognitive and affective risk-related variables contributed to explain the several risk perception domains differently. COVID-19 perceived knowledge did not affect any risk perception while the perceived control decreased health risk likelihood. The other risk-related variables amplified risk perceptions: News seeking increased work and institutional-economy risk; perceived efficacy of containment measures increased almost all perceived risks; negative affective states of fear, anger and sadness increased health risk; anxiety increased health, interpersonal and psychological risks, and uncertainty increased work, institutional-economy, interpersonal and psychological risk perceptions. Finally, positive affective states increased health risk perception. Socio-psychological implications are discussed.
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- Tiziana Lanciano
- Department of Education, Psychology, and Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- CORESEARCH, Center for Outcomes Research and Clinical Epidemiology, Pescara, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology, and Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology, and Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology, and Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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Battista F, Otgaar H, Lanciano T, Curci A. Individual differences impact memory for a crime: A study on executive functions resources. Conscious Cogn 2020; 84:103000. [PMID: 32828004 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2020.103000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2020] [Revised: 07/14/2020] [Accepted: 08/02/2020] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Previous studies demonstrated that memory accuracy is affected by the availability of the individual's cognitive resources. A predominant role in complex cognition has been postulated for executive functions (EF). The aim of the present study was to verify if there are differences in remembering a crime with respect to the individual's EF availability (i.e., Shifting, Inhibition, and Updating). We showed participants a video of a violent crime. Next, they were requested to imagine to be an eyewitness of the crime and report a testimony as detailed as possible. A subsequent memory test was run after ten days. EF resources were assessed in a third session through three neuropsychological tasks. Findings showed that high EF individuals reported more correct details and fewer memory distortions (i.e., omissions and commissions) than low EF individuals. Our results underline that individual EF resources are implicated in the recalling of an event.
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- Fabiana Battista
- University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy; Leuven Institute of Criminology, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.
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- Leuven Institute of Criminology, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium; Maastricht University, the Netherlands
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Zangrossi A, Sartori G, Prior M, Bobbo D, Zuccon M, Curci A. Memory performance predicts interrogative suggestibility better than global cognition in older adults with subjective cognitive complaints. Conscious Cogn 2020; 84:102985. [PMID: 32711360 DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2020.102985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2020] [Revised: 06/12/2020] [Accepted: 07/04/2020] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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The present study aims to investigate to which extent global cognition and verbal memory can estimate interrogative suggestibility (IS) in elderly people with subjective cognitive complaints (SCCs). We used the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale (GSS 2) subscales (i.e., Yield 1, Yield 2 and Shift) as measures of IS. Data from a sample of consecutive patients (N = 94) who referred to neuropsychology units for the first time were collected. Our results showed that verbal memory is a better predictor of IS than global cognition. Moreover, memory impairment led to significantly higher IS independently of global cognitive status. These findings suggest that the assessment of verbal memory allows to estimate individual levels of IS better than global cognition, even in elders with objective cognitive deficits. Implications for forensic assessment of senior witnesses are discussed.
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- Andrea Zangrossi
- Department of Neuroscience, University of Padua, Padua, Italy; Padova Neuroscience Center (PNC), University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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- Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy.
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- Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy; AULSS 2 Neurology Operating Unit, Hospital of Treviso, Treviso, Italy
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- AULSS 2 Hospital of Castelfranco Veneto, Castelfranco Veneto, Italy
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- AULSS 2 Neurology Operating Unit, Hospital of Treviso, Treviso, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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Spano G, Caffò AO, Lanciano T, Curci A, Bosco A. Visuospatial/executive abilities and mood affect the reliability of a subjective memory complaints measure. Aging Clin Exp Res 2020; 32:1317-1326. [PMID: 31428996 DOI: 10.1007/s40520-019-01307-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2019] [Accepted: 08/05/2019] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND Inconsistent results are reported so far in the literature on the relationship between subjective memory complaints (SMC) and objective memory performance. Mixed findings triggered the need to investigate whether other potential mediating variables, such as mood and non-memory domains, affect the relationship between SMC and memory performance. AIMS The present study aimed to contribute in clarifying the relation between subjective and objective memory considering the potential role of mood and visuospatial/executive functions. METHODS Six hundred and sixty Italian community-dwelling adults (52-91 years old) were enrolled. Italian version of Montreal Cognitive Assessment Test (MoCA), Geriatric Depression Scale and Subjective Memory Complaints Questionnaire (SMCQ) were administered. Four subsamples were composed according to the following criteria: (a) participants with high visuospatial/executive function (VSE) score at MoCA and high mood; (b) participants with high VSE score and low mood; (c) participants with low VSE score and high mood and; (d) participants with low VSE score and low mood. RESULTS Preliminarily, two confirmatory factor analysis have set the one-factor structure of SMCQ as the best fitting model. Diagnostic accuracy of the SMCQ in discriminating high and low memory score was assessed. ROC analyses confirmed that a low score in executive tasks was associated with poor reliability of the SMCQ. On the contrary, well-preserved executive functions and high mood levels ensured a good reliability of SMCQ in detecting memory problems. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS Although mood is a key mediator in the relationship between subjective and objective memory, preserving executive functions is essential for ensuring the accuracy of memory self-appraisal in adulthood and elderly.
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- Giuseppina Spano
- Department of Agro-Environmental and Territorial Sciences, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Via Amendola 165/A, 70126, Bari, Italy.
- Department of Educational Sciences, Psychology, Communication Sciences, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Via Crisanzio, 42, 70122, Bari, Italy.
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- Department of Educational Sciences, Psychology, Communication Sciences, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Via Crisanzio, 42, 70122, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Educational Sciences, Psychology, Communication Sciences, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Via Crisanzio, 42, 70122, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Educational Sciences, Psychology, Communication Sciences, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Via Crisanzio, 42, 70122, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Educational Sciences, Psychology, Communication Sciences, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Via Crisanzio, 42, 70122, Bari, Italy
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In legal proceedings, when no corroboration is possible with external sources of evidence, judges and jurors derive from their own experience the criteria to ascertain if a memory report is accurate and a witness credible. These legal criteria closely resemble the aspects traditionally investigated by literature on Flashbulb memory (i.e., consistency, confidence, quantity), but have failed to obtain a generalised consensus within the scientific community. Drawing up a set of univocal rules upon which to base a conclusion regarding witnesses' credibility is a difficult task, from both legal and scientific points of view. Respectful cooperation between cognitive science and criminal law will encompass both technical support by expert witnesses, and updating guidelines for fact-finders. This cooperation would prevent the risk of common sense fallacies in the legal process, preserving the legal autonomy to evaluate witness credibility.
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- Antonietta Curci
- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy
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- Department of General Psychology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
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The abnormal allocation of nodules of grey matter in areas of the brain or spinal cord that should physiologically be occupied by white matter characterizes a neural defect called Grey Matter Heterotopia (GMH). The improvement of MRI techniques has enabled a deeper understanding of the neuropathological bases and epidemiology of such a condition. Among its major manifestations, there is the onset of epileptic seizures, mild intellectual disability, impairments in executive functioning, neurodevelopmental disorders; less frequently GMH has been found associated with depression, anxiety, and schizophrenia. Despite the clinical interest in GMH, no studies have considered the possible forensic and criminological implications of this condition. In the current study, we present a case of GMH in a young male defendant accused of having seriously injured a schoolmate as a reaction to bullying behavior. Neuropsychological and instrumental evidence converge in showing prevalence for the defendant's adoption of repressive responses to stressors, and difficulties to inhibit undesirable behavior at the long run. In the case at hand, the massive stress induced by the exposition to bullying behavior undermined inhibitory control, hence an impulsive and disproportionate reaction took place. Without appropriate therapeutic control, this reactive behavior might take place again. As a consequence, the forensic assessment recommended that the defendant was held partially liable only but that there was likelihood of recidivism. We discuss this single-case evidence for a possible role of GMH in the adoption of dyscontrolled responses to stressors, and the relevance of GMH diagnosis in forensic proceedings.
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- Antonietta Curci
- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy
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- Department of Basic Medical Science, Neuroscience and Sense Organs University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy
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Research shows that simulating amnesia impairs actual memory for a mock crime. Lack of rehearsal has been suggested as the most likely explanation for this finding because feigning amnesia is linked to reduced thinking about the offence. We investigated whether reminders about the crime could reverse the memory-undermining effect of simulation. In two studies, participants watched a video of a violent crime. After, they were asked to either simulate amnesia or confess the crime. During the week between the first and second memory test phase, participants were provided with reminders of the crime in two different modalities. In Study 1 (pilot), participants received frames of the mock crime video via WhatsApp. Findings showed that such reminders did not enhance ex-simulators' memory. In Study 2, participants were asked to put sequences of the mock crime in the right order. This latter modality led to enhanced memory for the offence in simulating participants. Theoretical and practical implications of our findings for the legal field are discussed.
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- I Mangiulli
- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari A. Moro, Bari, Italy.
- Forensic Psychology Section, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200, MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari A. Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Forensic Psychology Section, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200, MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Forensic Psychology Section, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616, 6200, MD, Maastricht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari A. Moro, Bari, Italy
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Mangiulli I, van Oorsouw K, Curci A, Jelicic M. Retrieval-Induced Forgetting in the Feigning Amnesia for a Crime Paradigm. Front Psychol 2019; 10:928. [PMID: 31080428 PMCID: PMC6497810 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00928] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2019] [Accepted: 04/08/2019] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Previous studies demonstrated that, when asked to honestly provide information about a mock crime, former feigners performed worse than those who were requested to confess to this event. Thus, feigning amnesia for a mock crime undermined genuine memory for the same experience. In the present study, we examined whether retrieval-induced forgetting (RIF) underlies this memory-undermining effect. After watching a mock crime, participants had to feign amnesia or confess to having committed that crime. Feigners were given retrieval practice instructions (i.e., retrieval-practice group) or no further instructions (i.e., control group). Immediately and 1 day later, all participants had to genuinely report what they remembered about the crime. Although simulators in the retrieval-practice group recalled the largest amount of information as a positive consequence of retrieval, the ratio for crucial crime-related details was lower than that exhibited by both simulators who were given no instructions and confessors. These findings suggest that RIF might play a role in forgetting critical information in claims of crime-related amnesia. Theoretical and practical implications will be discussed.
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- Ivan Mangiulli
- Forensic Psychology Section, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Forensic Psychology Section, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Forensic Psychology Section, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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Taga M, Curci A, Lacal I, Turner D. The N100 TEP as a neural predictor of motor learning: A TMS-EEG study. Brain Stimul 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.brs.2018.12.445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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We examined the relationship between psychopathic traits and autobiographical memory (AM) for emotional life experiences in both a community (Study 1) and forensic sample (Study 2). Considering that psychopathy is traditionally linked to an impairment in the processing of emotion, we hypothesised an emotional deficit of AM in individuals with high levels of psychopathic traits. Participants in both samples were asked to recall an emotionally charged event, and were then administered the Psychopathic Personality Inventory-Revised, the Flashbulb Memory Checklist, and the Autobiographical Memory Characteristics Questionnaire. A linguistic content analysis was applied to inmates' memory transcriptions (Study 2). Only in the forensic sample, was self-centered impulsivity found to be positively related to the linguistic use of mood terms, and negatively related to the linguistic use of cognitive labels. Furthermore, high levels of fearless dominance were associated to a low emotional attribution to the event and its implications, and highly confident and coherent memory. Lastly, coldheartedness was the psychopathic trait most associated to a deficit in emotional AM, in terms of a lack of hedonic labels and contextual details, a poor emotional evaluation of the event and its implications. The current results encourage further investigation concerning AM in psychopathic traits.
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- Tiziana Lanciano
- a Department of Education, Psychology, Communication , University of Bari Aldo Moro , Bari , Italy
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- a Department of Education, Psychology, Communication , University of Bari Aldo Moro , Bari , Italy
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- b Department of Computer Science , University of Bari Aldo Moro , Bari , Italy
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Manuti A, Curci A, Van der Heijden B. The meaning of working for young people: the case of the millennials. International Journal of Training and Development 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/ijtd.12138] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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- Radboud University; Nijmegen the Netherlands
- the Open University; the Netherlands
- Kingston University; London UK
- Hubei University; Wuhan China
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Mangiulli I, van Oorsouw K, Curci A, Merckelbach H, Jelicic M. Feigning Amnesia Moderately Impairs Memory for a Mock Crime Video. Front Psychol 2018; 9:625. [PMID: 29760675 PMCID: PMC5936792 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00625] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2017] [Accepted: 04/13/2018] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Previous studies showed that feigning amnesia for a crime impairs actual memory for the target event. Lack of rehearsal has been proposed as an explanation for this memory-undermining effect of feigning. The aim of the present study was to replicate and extend previous research adopting a mock crime video instead of a narrative story. We showed participants a video of a violent crime. Next, they were requested to imagine that they had committed this offense and to either feign amnesia or confess the crime. A third condition was included: Participants in the delayed test-only control condition did not receive any instruction. On subsequent recall tests, participants in all three conditions were instructed to report as much information as possible about the offense. On the free recall test, feigning amnesia impaired memory for the video clip, but participants who were asked to feign crime-related amnesia outperformed controls. However, no differences between simulators and confessors were found on both correct cued recollection or on distortion and commission rates. We also explored whether inner speech might modulate memory for the crime. Inner speech traits were not found to be related to the simulating amnesia effect. Theoretical and practical implications of our results are discussed.
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- Ivan Mangiulli
- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication Science, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
- Forensic Psychology Section, Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Forensic Psychology Section, Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication Science, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Forensic Psychology Section, Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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- Forensic Psychology Section, Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
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Participants who are asked to simulate amnesia for a mock crime have a weaker memory for this event when they have to give up their role as a feigner, than those who are not asked to feign memory loss. According to the source monitoring framework (SMF), this memory-undermining effect of simulating amnesia for a crime would be due to misattribution of the right source of information. However, we know that the content of self-generated information (e.g., feigned version of the crime) might be preserved and recognised over time as a result of elaborative cognitive processing. In the present study, we aimed to contrast these two explanations. We showed participants a mock crime video and we instructed them to either feign amnesia (simulators) or confess the mock crime (confessors). Next, a free recall memory test was administered. After one week, participants were asked to perform a personalised source monitoring task using the autobiographical Implicit Association Test (aIAT). As predicted, we found that simulators were able to discriminate the content of their self-generated feigned story of the crime from the original version. Moreover, simulators were quicker than confessors at the aIAT task. Practical and theoretical implications of our results are discussed.
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- Ivan Mangiulli
- a Department of Education, Psychology, Communication , University of Bari A. Moro , Bari , Italy.,b Forensic Psychology Section, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience , Maastricht University , Maastricht , the Netherlands
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- a Department of Education, Psychology, Communication , University of Bari A. Moro , Bari , Italy
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- b Forensic Psychology Section, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience , Maastricht University , Maastricht , the Netherlands
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- b Forensic Psychology Section, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience , Maastricht University , Maastricht , the Netherlands
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- a Department of Education, Psychology, Communication , University of Bari A. Moro , Bari , Italy
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- a Department of Education, Psychology, Communication , University of Bari A. Moro , Bari , Italy
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What do we remember following an emotionally charged event? The assessment of memory characteristics for an emotional event represents one of the most challenging issues in the domain of autobiographical memory. Literature of flashbulb memories (FBMs) provides a crucial contribution on this issue: Following an emotional and unexpected public event, people remember not only central details of the episode, but also irrelevant, peripheral and idiosyncratic details of the reception context in which they learned of the news. The present study was set up to assess the factorial structure (samples 1 and 2) and convergent validity (sample 2) of an FBM checklist, an instrument designed to measure Flashbulb-like features of memories for emotional private events. Factorial analyses account for an oblique two-factor solution - FBM Specificity and Confidence - while correlational analyses support the convergent validity of this instrument. Practical implications are discussed, especially for the credibility assessment of witnesses of emotional events in forensic settings.
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- Tiziana Lanciano
- a Department of Education, Psychology, Communication , University of Bari "A. Moro" , Bari , Italy
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- a Department of Education, Psychology, Communication , University of Bari "A. Moro" , Bari , Italy
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- a Department of Education, Psychology, Communication , University of Bari "A. Moro" , Bari , Italy
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- b Department of General Psychology , University of Padua , Padua , Italy
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Curci A, Lanciano T, Battista F, Guaragno S, Ribatti RM. Accuracy, Confidence, and Experiential Criteria for Lie Detection Through a Videotaped Interview. Front Psychiatry 2018; 9:748. [PMID: 30740066 PMCID: PMC6357939 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00748] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2018] [Accepted: 12/18/2018] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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An individual's ability to discriminate lies from truth is far from accurate, and is poorly related to an individual's confidence in his/her detection. Both law enforcement and non-professional interviewers base their evaluations of truthfulness on experiential criteria, including emotional and expressive features, cognitive complexity, and paraverbal aspects of interviewees' reports. The current experimental study adopted two perspectives of investigation: the first is aimed at assessing the ability of naïve judges to detect lies/truth by watching a videotaped interview; the second takes into account the interviewee's detectability as a liar or as telling the truth by a sample of judges. Additionally, this study is intended to evaluate the criteria adopted to support lie/truth detection and relate them with accuracy and confidence of detection. Results showed that judges' detection ability was moderately accurate and associated with a moderate individual sense of confidence, with a slightly better accuracy for truth detection than for lie detection. Detection accuracy appeared to be negatively associated with detection confidence when the interviewee was a liar, and positively associated when the interviewee was a truth-teller. Furthermore, judges were found to support lie detection through criteria concerning emotional features, and to sustain truth detection by taking into account the cognitive complexity and the paucity of expressive manifestations related with the interviewee's report. The present findings have implications for the judicial decision on witnesses' credibility.
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- Antonietta Curci
- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy
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Lanciano T, Curci A, Guglielmi F, Soleti E, Grattagliano I. Preliminary Data on the Role of Emotional Intelligence in Moderating the Link between Psychopathy and Aggression in a Nonforensic Sample. J Forensic Sci 2017; 63:906-910. [DOI: 10.1111/1556-4029.13612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2017] [Accepted: 07/03/2017] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Tiziana Lanciano
- Department of Education; Psychology; Communication; University of Bari Aldo Moro; 70121 Bari Italy
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- Department of Education; Psychology; Communication; University of Bari Aldo Moro; 70121 Bari Italy
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- Department of Education; Psychology; Communication; University of Bari Aldo Moro; 70121 Bari Italy
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- Department of Education; Psychology; Communication; University of Bari Aldo Moro; 70121 Bari Italy
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- Department of Education; Psychology; Communication; University of Bari Aldo Moro; 70121 Bari Italy
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Curci A, Soleti E, Manuti A. Preliminary Data on the Role of Emotional Intelligence in Mediating the Relationship Between Psychopathic Characteristics and Detention Terms of Property Offenders. J Forensic Sci 2017; 62:1357-1359. [PMID: 28120402 DOI: 10.1111/1556-4029.13402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2016] [Revised: 10/18/2016] [Accepted: 11/03/2016] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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We present preliminary data on the role of emotional intelligence (EI) in mediating the relationship between psychopathy and detention term of authors of property crimes. We assumed that the detention term is an approximation of the severity of criminal behavior. A sample of 24 property offenders were individually administered a brief anamnestic interview, the Psychopathic Personality Inventory-Revised (PPI-R), and the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT). Information concerning the detention term was obtained from prison records. A mediation model was applied to the data showing that offenders high in psychopathic traits (i.e., total PPI-R score and Self-centered dimension of PPI-R) have a low level of ability EI and this is in turn negatively associated with the duration of their prison sentence. Results encourage the investigation of ability EI as a protective factor against the antisocial outcomes of psychopathic disorder.
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- Antonietta Curci
- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", via Crisanzio, 42, 70121, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", via Crisanzio, 42, 70121, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", via Crisanzio, 42, 70121, Bari, Italy
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General Strain Theory (GST: Agnew Criminology 30:47-87, 1992) posits that deviant behaviour results from adaptation to strain and the consequent negative emotions. Empirical research on GST has mainly focused on aggressive behaviours, while only few research studies have considered alternative manifestations of deviance, like substance use and gambling. The aim of the present study is to test the ability of GST to explain gambling behaviours and substance use. Also, the role of family in promoting the adoption of gambling and substance use as coping strategies was verified. Data from 266 families with in mean 8 observations for each group were collected. The multilevel nature of the data was verified before appropriate model construction. The clustered nature of gambling data was analysed by a two-level Hierarchical Linear Model while substance use was analysed by Multivariate Linear Model. Results confirmed the effect of strain on gambling and substance use while the positive effect of depressive emotions on these behaviours was not supported. Also, the impact of family on the individual tendency to engage in addictive behaviours was confirmed only for gambling.
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- Romy Greco
- Department of Law, Libera Università SS Maria Assunta (LUMSA), Taranto, Italy.
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
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Lanciano T, Soleti E, Guglielmi F, Mangiulli I, Curci A. Fifty Shades of Unsaid: Women's Explicit and Implicit Attitudes Towards Sexual Morality. Eur J Psychol 2016; 12:550-566. [PMID: 27872666 PMCID: PMC5114872 DOI: 10.5964/ejop.v12i4.1124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/27/2016] [Accepted: 05/23/2016] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The movie Fifty Shades of Grey has created a great deal of controversy which has reignited the debate on unusual and alternative sexual practices such as bondage. Erotophobic individuals have negative affect towards the type of sexual libertinism conveyed by the movie, while erotophilic persons have a positive attitude and emotional feelings towards this kind of sexual emancipation. Using the Implicit Association Test, this study aimed to explore the extent to which there is a difference in women's attitudes towards sexual morality on an explicit and implicit level. Our findings found that erotophobic and erotophilic women differed only on an explicit level of sex guilt and moral evaluation, while no difference in the implicit measure was found.
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- Tiziana Lanciano
- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari "A. Moro", Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari "A. Moro", Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari "A. Moro", Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari "A. Moro", Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari "A. Moro", Bari, Italy
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Cassibba R, Coppola G, Sette G, Curci A, Costantini A. The transmission of attachment across three generations: A study in adulthood. Dev Psychol 2016; 53:396-405. [PMID: 27854468 DOI: 10.1037/dev0000242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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One of the most striking pieces of evidence in attachment research is that attachment security is transmitted from 1 generation to the next. Although there has been an enormous advance in the understanding of this process, this area of research suffers from some significant gaps, as for example the transmission across 3 generations when considering the 2 parents as well as the 2 couples of grandparents. The current study was designed to fill this gap in existing literature by investigating AAI attachment representations in the members of 3 generations, belonging to a total of 32 families, each including an adult offspring, both parents and the 4 grandparents (N = 224). Main findings show that the transmission across 2 generations was stronger in the presence of a female caregiver (either mother or maternal/paternal grandmother), and that across 3 generations was confirmed only in the presence of 2 female caregivers (grandmother to mother to offspring). Conversely, the transmissions across 3 generations with only 1 or no female caregiver were not confirmed. Last, experiencing 2 secure parents increased the likelihood of developing a secure state of mind with respect to attachment among offspring, mothers and fathers, 95% confidence intervals [3.52, 1,238.72], [1.67, 31.17], and [1.67, 19.98], respectively. These findings may have important theoretical implications related to the understanding of the factors involved in the continuity and discontinuity of attachment patterns across generations. (PsycINFO Database Record
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- Rosalinda Cassibba
- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari "Aldo Moro"
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari "Aldo Moro"
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari "Aldo Moro"
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari "Aldo Moro"
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Curci A, Cabras C, Lanciano T, Soleti E, Raccis C. What Is over and above Psychopathy? The Role of Ability Emotional Intelligence in Predicting Criminal Behavior. Psychiatr Psychol Law 2016; 24:139-151. [PMID: 31983945 PMCID: PMC6818233 DOI: 10.1080/13218719.2016.1196642] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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This study aims to investigate the role of ability emotional intelligence (EI) in predicting criminal behavior from a life-span perspective, over and above psychopathy. Psychopathic individuals are characterized by a deviant lifestyle and an inability to regulate emotion. A sample of 29 male inmates was administered the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS), the Buss-Perry Aggression Questionnaire (BPAQ), the Psychopathy Checklist - Revised (PCL-R), the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT), and five dichotomous items that are converged into the Criminal Behavior Index (CBI). Correlation analysis showed a complex pattern of relationships among the variables. The MSCEIT Experiential area of EI together with CISS Emotion-oriented Coping and PCL-R Social Deviance are found to significantly predict the CBI. The results offer promising findings for the assessment of the relationship between personality traits, emotional abilities and criminal behavior across the life span. Furthermore, the results suggest that EI is an important feature for implementing prevention programs of criminal behavior and recidivism.
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- Antonietta Curci
- Department of Education, Psychology Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology and Philosophy, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology and Philosophy, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
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Quarto T, Blasi G, Maddalena C, Viscanti G, Lanciano T, Soleti E, Mangiulli I, Taurisano P, Fazio L, Bertolino A, Curci A. Association between Ability Emotional Intelligence and Left Insula during Social Judgment of Facial Emotions. PLoS One 2016; 11:e0148621. [PMID: 26859495 PMCID: PMC4747486 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0148621] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2015] [Accepted: 01/21/2016] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The human ability of identifying, processing and regulating emotions from social stimuli is generally referred as Emotional Intelligence (EI). Within EI, Ability EI identifies a performance measure assessing individual skills at perceiving, using, understanding and managing emotions. Previous models suggest that a brain "somatic marker circuitry" (SMC) sustains emotional sub-processes included in EI. Three primary brain regions are included: the amygdala, the insula and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC). Here, our aim was to investigate the relationship between Ability EI scores and SMC activity during social judgment of emotional faces. Sixty-three healthy subjects completed a test measuring Ability EI and underwent fMRI during a social decision task (i.e. approach or avoid) about emotional faces with different facial expressions. Imaging data revealed that EI scores are associated with left insula activity during social judgment of emotional faces as a function of facial expression. Specifically, higher EI scores are associated with greater left insula activity during social judgment of fearful faces but also with lower activity of this region during social judgment of angry faces. These findings indicate that the association between Ability EI and the SMC activity during social behavior is region- and emotion-specific.
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- Tiziana Quarto
- Psychiatric Neuroscience Group, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Neuroscience and Sense Organs, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy
- Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Psychiatric Neuroscience Group, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Neuroscience and Sense Organs, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education Science, Psychology and Communication Science, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy
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- Psychiatric Neuroscience Group, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Neuroscience and Sense Organs, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education Science, Psychology and Communication Science, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education Science, Psychology and Communication Science, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education Science, Psychology and Communication Science, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy
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- Psychiatric Neuroscience Group, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Neuroscience and Sense Organs, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy
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- Psychiatric Neuroscience Group, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Neuroscience and Sense Organs, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy
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- Psychiatric Neuroscience Group, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Neuroscience and Sense Organs, University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, Bari, Italy
- pRED, NORD DTA, Hoffman-La Roche Ltd, Basel, Switzerland
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- Department of Education Science, Psychology and Communication Science, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy
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Curci A, Soleti E, Lanciano T, Doria V, Rimé B. Balancing emotional processing with ongoing cognitive activity: the effects of task modality on intrusions and rumination. Front Psychol 2015; 6:1275. [PMID: 26379598 PMCID: PMC4550779 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2015] [Accepted: 08/10/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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In the present paper we aimed to show that competition for resources between post-emotional processes and the execution of a cognitive task will result in two possible effects: (1) an impairment of the cognitive task in the short run and (2) an elongation of intrusions and rumination in the long run. The outcome of this competition is influenced by the interaction of the modality (verbal vs. visuospatial) of cognitive tasks run in the aftermath of an emotional experience and the nature (verbal vs. visuospatial) of the same experience. Non-clinical participants were given a working memory task (OSPAN vs. an analog Visual task) before and after the presentation of negative vs. neutral material (a novel excerpt in Experiment 1 and a video clip in Experiment 2). Intrusions and rumination were measured after a 24-h delay. Rumination was also assessed immediately after the experimental induction. Results showed that exposure to verbal negative material impaired verbal performance (Experiment 1); by contrast, exposure to visual negative material impaired both verbal and visuospatial performance (Experiment 2). Intrusions were only affected by the emotional valence of the original experience, while performing a visuospatial task resulted in enhanced rumination only after exposure to verbal emotional material. The findings of both experiments suggest that emotional processing spreads over time in balance with ongoing cognitive activities, and, in such a balance, the visuospatial processing mode tends to prevail over verbal engagements.
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- Antonietta Curci
- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro , Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro , Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro , Bari, Italy
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- Department of Education, Psychology, Communication, University of Bari Aldo Moro , Bari, Italy
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- Institute of Psychological Sciences, University of Louvain , Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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Bianco A, Curci A. Measuring interrogative suggestibility with the Italian version of the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scales (GSS): Factor structure and discriminant validity. Personality and Individual Differences 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2015.03.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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We tested the incremental validity of an ability measure of emotional intelligence (El) in predicting academic achievement in undergraduate students, controlling for cognitive abilities and personality traits. Academic achievement has been conceptualized in terms of the number of exams, grade point average, and study time taken to prepare for each exam. Additionally, gender differences were taken into account in these relationships. Participants filled in the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT), the Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices, the reduced version of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, and academic achievement measures. Results showed that El abilities were positively related to academic achievement indices, such as the number of exams and grade point average; total El ability and the Perceiving branch were negatively associated with the study time spent preparing for exams. Furthermore, El ability adds a percentage of incremental variance with respect to cognitive ability and personality variables in explaining scholastic success. The magnitude of the associations between El abilities and academic achievement measures was generally higher for men than for women. Jointly considered, the present findings support the incremental validity of the MSCEIT and provide positive indications of the importance of El in students' academic development. The helpfulness of El training in the context of academic institutions is discussed.
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Lanciano T, Curci A. Does Emotions Communication Ability Affect Psychological Well-Being? A Study with the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT) v2.0. Health Commun 2014; 30:1112-1121. [PMID: 25357255 DOI: 10.1080/10410236.2014.921753] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The main aim of the current study was to provide evidence regarding the relationship between emotions communication ability--in terms of emotional intelligence (EI)--and psychological well-being. Additionally, the study explored the moderating effect of sex on this relationship. Participants filled in the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test, General Health Questionnaire, Psychological General Well-Being Index, and Depression Questionnaire. Results showed the moderating role of sex in the relationship between EI ability and psychological well-being. Furthermore, the associations between EI and psychological well-being measures were generally higher for men than for women, supporting the idea that sex needs to be taken into account when considering EI measures. The potential helpfulness of EI and emotions communications ability in promoting mental health is discussed.
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- Tiziana Lanciano
- a Department of Educational Sciences, Psychology, Communication , University of Bari "A. Moro"
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Curci A, Lanciano T, Maddalena C, Mastandrea S, Sartori G. Flashbulb memories of the Pope's resignation: Explicit and implicit measures across differing religious groups. Memory 2014; 23:529-44. [DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2014.908923] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Curci A, Lanciano T, Soleti E, Zammuner VL, Salovey P. Construct Validity of the Italian Version of the Mayer–Salovey–Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT) v2.0. J Pers Assess 2013; 95:486-94. [DOI: 10.1080/00223891.2013.778272] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Lanciano T, Curci A, Soleti E. “I Knew It Would Happen ... And I Remember It!”: The Flashbulb Memory for the Death of Pope John Paul II. EJOP 2013. [DOI: 10.5964/ejop.v9i2.521] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Curci A, Conway MA. Playing the flashbulb memory game: A comment on Cubelli and Della Sala. Cortex 2013; 49:352-5; discussion 356-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2012.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2012] [Revised: 05/02/2012] [Accepted: 05/11/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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