Experimental and developmental psychology

Main research areas:

Attachment relationships in childhood and adolescence in normative and at risk contexts;
Child abuse and neglect: risk and protective factors;
Non-parental care and psychological adjustment in infancy: individual, family and contextual factors;
Parenting style and practices: gender and cultural differences;
Transition to parenthood: construction of parental identity, dyadic adjustment and socialization goals in infancy;
Child socioemotional development: protective and risk factors in family and social context.

Cognitive processes and neural correlates of social cognition;
Psychology of communication: Neuropragmatics, Cognitive pragmatics and communicative intentions;
Communicative competence and Theory of Mind in atypical development (Autism), in neuropsychological populations, and in neurodegenerative diseases (Frontotemporal Dementia, Alzheimer and Parkinson disease).