Pio E. Ricci Bitti
1. Education: Medicine Doctor (1968, University of
Bologna); Diploma (Specialization) in Nervous and Mental Disease
(1971, University of Bologna).
2. Current Academic Position: Professor Emeritus of
Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of
Bologna.
3. Past Academic Positions : Full Professor of Psychology, University of Bologna (1983-2013), Full Professor of Psychology,
University of Parma (1982-1984); Associate Professor of Psychology,
University of Bologna (1974-1981); Lecturer in Experimental
Psychology, University of Macerata (1972-1974); Assistant Professor
of Psychology, University of Bologna (1970-1972).
4. Current Institutional and Scientific Responsibilities: Member of the Research Center for Emotion and Health (Department
of Psychology, University of Bologna); Past-President of the Italian
Society for Health Psychology (SIPSA); President of the Italian
Association for the Study of Non Verbal Communication (AISCNV).
5. Past Institutional and Scientific Responsibilities:
Director of the Department of Psychology, University of Bologna;
Member of the Academic Senate, University of Bologna; Member of the
Executive Committee of the Italian Association of Psychology;
Coordinator of the Experimental Psychology Section of the Italian
Association of Psychology; Chairman, Board of the Departments'
Directors, University of Bologna; Member of the Executive Committee
of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology;
Member of the Executive Committee of the European Health Psychology
Society;.
6. Research Interests: Expression and recognition of
emotions; interpersonal communication; nonverbal behaviour;
regulation of emotion and health; time perspective.
7. Membership of Scientific Societies: Academia Europaea;
Association for Psychological Science (awarded fellow); Italian
Psychological Association; European Association of Social
Psychology; European Health Psychology Society; International
Society for Research on Emotion; International Society for the
Study of Behavioral Development; International Society of Human
Ethology; Italian Society for Health Psychology; Italian Society of
Psychiatry; Italian Association for the Study of Non-Verbal
Communication.
8. Publications: Author or co-author of 11 books;
editor or co-editor of 9 books; author or co-author of 43 articles
in referenced journals, 54 articles in other scientific journals, 31 contributions as chapters in collective books and other 140
papers of different type.
9. Editorial Responsibilities: Co-editor of “Psicologia
della Salute”; member of the editorial board of other national and
international journals.
10. Honors and Award: Italian Institute of Social
Medicine Award (1971 and 1972); Italo-American Medical Association
Foundation Award (1977); Fulbright Visiting Scholar to
University of California, San Francisco (1981); Invited Address,
36th Annual Meeting of the German Psychological Association, Berlin
(1988); Fulbright Visiting Professor to Stanford University(1991)
and to University of California, San Francisco(1991); Visiting
Professor to University of Munster (1991); Visiting Professor to
University of Angers (2004,2005,2006).; Visiting Professor to Yale
University (2004); Visiting Professor to University of California, Berkeley (2013).
