Since 1995, he is working on several topics in the field of
General Psychology, and particularly on personality, psychometrics
and methodology. He published several research papers on national
and international journals and he communicated his works to
national and international conferences. The main topics of his
activity are:
Personality and temperament
Impulsivity and behavioural disinhibition
Decision making, framing effects and health risky behaviours
Sleep quality and sleep disorders
Health psychology
Questionnaire and Interview techniques
Studies on the biological bases of personality. In 2000, he was
visiting researcher at Dipartimento di “Behavioral and Brain
Sciences” della University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB; Prof.
E.S. Barratt) at Galveston (TX, USA) and his main topic of interest
is impulsivity. He conducted studies with different measures of
impulsivity and its subdimensions; he investigated the relationship
between impulsivity and mental ability, and impulsivity and reward
sensitivity.
He conducted studies on the framing effects in health related
messages, using the Prospect theory developed by Daniel Kahneman
and Amos Tversky.
He conducetd studies on juvenile headache sufferes,
investigating information processing (by means of event related
potentials, as P300 and CNV), impact on daily activities, and the
relationship between migrain attack and sleep disturbances.In
collaboration with Prof. Violani, he investigated sleep
disturbances and, particularly, insomnia.
He contributed to the validation of several questionnaires and
test in personality and health psychology research field, as such
as the Zuckerman-Kuhlman Personality Questionnaire, the Stanford
Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale(Form C), the Harvard Group Scale of
Hypnotic Susceptibility (Form A), the Sleep Disorders
Questionnaire, the Questionnare on Disordered Eating (DEQ), the
Headache Specific Quality of Life Scale (HSQoL).
Recently, he is involved in a research program, with Prof.
Cipolli and Dott. Mazzetti, aimed to investigate the influence of
sleep quality and sleep disturbances on cognitive performances in
procedural learning tasks and declarative memory tasks.
