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)