AIP Sperimentale 2025, 31° Congresso annuale

Session

Emotions and motivation 2

Sep 12, 2025, 5:30 PM

Conveners

Emotions and motivation 2

• Pietro Cipresso (Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università di Torino)

560. Il ruolo dell'empatia di tratto nel decision making morale: risultati di uno studio sui tratti di personalità borderline

Pasquale Zappimpulso (Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro)

9/12/25, 5:30 PM

Emotions and motivation

Mini-talks

Il decision making morale è frequentemente associato all’empatia, ma il ruolo specifico dell’empatia affettiva di tratto rimane poco esplorato. Il presente studio ha indagato l’influenza di elevati livelli di empatia affettiva sulle scelte morali, considerando i tratti borderline di personalità (BP), noti per la loro accentuata sensibilità emotiva. Un campione di 78 partecipanti non clinici è...

758. L’espressione dell’osservatore influenza la percezione ma non la memoria di volti emotivi

Ivan Nabil Ras

9/12/25, 5:40 PM

Emotions and motivation

Mini-talks

Questo studio indaga l’influenza della manipolazione del muscolo facciale zigomatico, attivo quando sorridiamo, su percezione e memoria a lungo termine di volti emotivi.
Nell’Esperimento 1, i partecipanti hanno valutato la valenza di volti arrabbiati, neutri e felici mentre tenevano una penna tra i denti (attivazione zigomatico) oppure tra le labbra (inibizione zigomatico). I risultati hanno...

919. Neuromodulating Moral Emotions: Effects of tVNS and tDCS on Gastric and Cardiac Rhythm, Disgust, and Dishonest Behavior

Giulio Piperno (Sapienza Università di Roma)

9/12/25, 5:50 PM

Emotions and motivation

Mini-talks

Disgust plays a critical role in shaping moral behavior, particularly in situations involving violations of social or bodily norms. While traditional cognitive-behavioral approaches often struggle to modulate maladaptive disgust responses, recent neuromodulation techniques offer promising alternatives. In a series of studies, we investigated whether transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation...

606. Daily Worry and Physiological Reactivity to Psychosocial Stress: An Experimental and Ecological Assessment on Stress Anticipation

Fiorella Del Popolo Cristaldi (Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale, Università di Padova)

9/12/25, 6:00 PM

Emotions and motivation

Mini-talks

Adjusting to minor psychosocial stressors, such as public speaking, is crucial for promoting health and well-being. However, not everyone manages this effectively, which can lead to chronic stress, illness, and affective psychopathology. According to the perseverative cognition hypothesis, repetitive negative thinking like worry and rumination prolongs stress-related affective and...

649. From Faces to Feelings: The Role of Metacontrol in Empathic Accuracy within the Enfacement Illusion

Ilenia Lanni (Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, RM 00185 Italy, and the Experimental and Applied Psychology Laboratory, Dept. of Health and Life Sciences, Università Europea di Roma, Rome, RM 00163 Italy)

9/12/25, 6:10 PM

Emotions and motivation

Mini-talks

Introduction: Empathy, comprising both affective and cognitive components, crucially relies on empathic accuracy (EA)—the ability to correctly recognize others' emotions. Emotional contagion, facilitated by facial mimicry, enhances EA by improving emotional understanding. The enfacement illusion, a visuo-tactile multisensory paradigm, has been shown to modulate self–other boundaries,...

859. Interoceptive-Based Interventions for Eating Disorders

Salvatore Manuel Diana (Istituto di scienze e tecnologie della cognizione (ISTC-CNR))

9/12/25, 6:20 PM

Emotions and motivation

Mini-talks

The ability to perceive, interpret, and regulate internal bodily signals - known as interoception - is fundamental to emotional regulation, decision-making, and well-being. Altered interoception has been increasingly recognized as a central feature of eating disorders (EDs) such as anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), and binge-eating disorder (BED).
Training methods designed to...