Conveners
Methodology 2
- Pietro Cipresso (Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università di Torino)
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Dr Laura Dattilo (Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici. Lettere, Beni Culturali, Scienze della Formazione. Università degli Studi di Foggia)9/13/25, 11:00 AMMethodologyMini-talks
Understanding math anxiety in adults is important because it leads to a cycle of low confidence and anxiety that can affect academic and/or work performance. It also was very challenging given that most existing tools focus this construct on younger populations and school-related contexts—such as classrooms, teachers, and exams—, raising concerns about their relevance and ecological validity...
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Ambra Perugini (Università degli Studi di Padova)9/13/25, 11:10 AMMethodologyMini-talks
L’Indice di Overlapping (η) stima l’area condivisa tra due densità empiriche tra 0 a 1 (0 - nessuna sovrapposizione, 1 - sovrapposizione completa). In contesti sperimentali, dove le distribuzioni empiriche sono frequentemente asimmetriche, e.g. tempi di reazione e accuratezza, η offre una misura dell’effetto meno distorta rispetto agli indici tradizionali. Questo studio indaga le proprietà...
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Giuliana Nasonte (Università Kore di Enna - Laboratorio di Psicometria, Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Uomo e della Società)9/13/25, 11:20 AMMethodologyMini-talks
The inclusion of negatively worded items in psychological scales often introduces wording effects—systematic response biases that distort factor structures and inflate dimensionality estimates, threatening structural validity. The random intercept item factor analysis (RIIFA) offers a promising strategy to isolate systematic variance due to item wording by incorporating a latent method factor...
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Andrea Spoto (Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale - Università di Padova)9/13/25, 11:30 AMMethodologyMini-talks
Differently from other measurement approaches, such as classical test theory and item response theory, the knowledge space theory (KST) framework has long lacked an overall index for measuring reliability. Recent literature has proposed the introduction of two indices, both grounded in an information-theoretic framework. In this research, we further investigate reliability in KST and introduce...
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Michela Zambelli (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)9/13/25, 11:40 AMMethodologyMini-talks
The concept of meaning in life (MIL) is inherently complex, subjective, and thus challenging to measure, despite its core relevance in the promotion of individual well-being and flourishing. Self-measure tools based on verbal items (e.g., SMILE, Zambelli & Tagliabue, 2024) are traditionally used to measure self-perception of life meaningfulness, however, they face well-documented limitations,...
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Francesca Agliati (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)9/13/25, 11:50 AMMethodologyMini-talks
Introduzione.
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I metodi partecipativi stanno trasformando la ricerca applicata, promuovendo una collaborazione attiva tra ricercatori e stakeholder, in particolare nei contesti di innovazione tecnologica orientata a soluzioni Human-Centered. Tuttavia, la dicotomia tra soggetti “esperti” e “non esperti” rimane ancora irrisolta, limitando il pieno potenziale inclusivo di tali pratiche (Crabu &... -
Mario Angelelli (Università del Salento)9/13/25, 12:00 PMMethodologyMini-talks
As digital ecosystems become increasingly interconnected, cyber-risk assessment is no longer solely a technical matter. It now encompasses human factors, social dynamics, and individual perceptions that shape user behaviour and influence decision-making in the context of cyber social security. The diffusion of cyber-physical systems has intensified human–digital interactions, exposing users to...
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Dr Filippo Gambarota (University of Padova)9/13/25, 12:10 PMMethodologyMini-talks
When planning an experiment, the number of participants is typically based on the desired statistical power or precision. For intrinsically noisy measures such as reaction times, neural or physiological indexes, the number of trials per participant can also be increased to enhance statistical power. However, the actual benefit of adding more trials has not been systematically evaluated. Longer...
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Francesco Fedeli (University of Milan-Bicocca)9/13/25, 12:20 PMMethodologyMini-talks
When people encounter a new stimulus, they may draw on their knowledge of similar stimuli to make inferences. This mechanism is captured by the Shared Features Principles (SFP, https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000777). However, while SFP facilitates attribute transfer between stimuli, it does not inherently predict behavior. This research integrates SFP with the Goal-Directed Perspective (GDP),...
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