Social Behavior
Apr 27, 2016
Sociality has a crucial adaptive value. My research uses behavioral, perceptual, psychophysiological, neurophysiological techniques as tools to uncover the functions and mechanisms of human social function.
Starting from perceptual illusions (see my work on the numbness illusion) and multisensory integration (see my work on the visuo-olfactory affective matching) to analyzing the olfactory impact of female intra-sexual competition, spanning from moral decisions to the development of political attitudes political attitudes my work focuses on understanding how we process social information and regulate dyadic behavior through sensory, cognitive, affective and motor information.
Related
- Disgust Sensitivity and the Development of Political Attitudes among Children and Their Parents
- Human body odor increases familiarity for faces during encoding‐retrieval task
- Body Odors (even when Masked) Make you More Emotional: Behavioral and Neural insights
- Ethnic influences on the perceptual properties of human chemosignals
- Heart Rate Increase Predicts Challenging Behavior Episodes in Preschoolers with Autism
Publications
Human body odor increases familiarity for faces during encoding‐retrieval task
Odors can increase memory performance when presented as context during both encoding and retrieval phases. Since information from …
Sex Differences in Body Ownership in Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder
A strong male prevalence has been observed in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) since its definition, but the behavioral manifestations of …
Women Smelling Men's Masked Body Odors Show Enhanced Harm Aversion in Moral Dilemmas
Among the most unnoticeable stimuli providing social information, body odors are powerful social tools that can modulate behavioral and …
Measuring how Typical and Atypical Minds Read Other's Intentions
Comment on Seeing mental states: An experimental strategy for measuring the observability of other minds by Cristina Becchio et al.
In Sync or not in Sync? Illusory Body Ownership in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Background A fundamental aspect of self-consciousness is body ownership, which refers to the experience that our body and its parts …
Promoting Cross-Culture Research on Moral Decision-Making with Standardized, Culturally-Equivalent Dilemmas The 4CONFiDe Set
Introduction Moral dilemmas are a common tool in moral decision-making research. However, they are often hardly comparable across …
Relative Contribution of Odour Intensity and Valence to Moral Decisions
Meta-analytic evidence showed that the chemical senses affect moral decisions. However, how odours impact on morality is currently …