Experimental and developmental psychology
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Main research areas:
- Attachment relationships in typical and atypical developmental trajectories in childhood and adolescence
- Child abuse and neglect: risk and protective factors
- Non-parental care and psychological adjustment in childhood: individual, family and contextual factors
- Parenting styles and parental practices: gender and cultural differences
- Transition to parenthood: development of parental identity, couple adaptation and socialization goals
- Children socio-emotional development: protective and risk factors in family and extrafamilial contexts (e.g. daycare centers, kindergarten, school)
- COVID-19 pandemic: emotional and behavioral consequences in parents and in children aged 0–6 years and effects on educational services
- Student-Teacher relationship in preschool and primary school context
- Social interactions in preschool and primary school context
- Learning difficulties
- Emotional factors and quality of school experience
- Cognitive and neural correlates of social cognition and Theory of Mind
- Psychology of communication: Neuropragmatics, pragmatics of communication and communicative intention
- Communicative competence and Theory of Mind in atypical development (Autism spectrum disorder), in neuropsychological patients and in neurodegenerative diseases (Fronto-temporal dementia, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases)
- Angelica Arace
- Ivan Enrici
- Francesca Giovanna Maria Gastaldi
- Laura Elvira Prino
- Donatella Scarzello