Chair of the Department
Paola Castelli
2011
Associate Professor of Psychology
Laurea, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, 1998
Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 2009
Email: [email protected]
Professors
Ana Aznar
2023
Lecturer in Psychology
Ph.D., Kingston University London, 2013
Email:
[email protected]
Angelo Brandelli Costa
2024
Associate Professor of Psychology
B.Sc., Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 2009
M.Sc., Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 2012
Ph.D., Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 2015
Email:
[email protected]
Isabella Clough Marinaro
2006
Professor of Sociology and Italian Studies
B.A., Bath University, UK, 1994
Ph.D., Bath University, UK, 2006
Email:
[email protected]
Carmen Franzese
2017
Lecturer in Psychology and Coordinator for Disability-related Academic Accommodations
Laurea, Second University of Naples, 2006
Ph.D., University of Naples “Federico II,” 2011
Email:
[email protected]
Thomas Hope
2023
Associate Professor of Psychology
B.A., University of Oxford, 1999
M.Sc., University of Sussex, 2001
Graduate Diploma, City University London, 2011
Ph.D., University of Padova 2008
Email:
[email protected]
Merel Keijsers
2021
Assistant Professor of Psychology
B.A., Utrecht University, 2011
M.A., Utrecht University, 2016
M.A., Utrecht University, 2016
Ph.D., University of Canterbury, 2020
Email:
[email protected]
Jenn Lindsay
2018
Lecturer in Sociology
B.A., Stanford University, 2001
Certificate in Theatre Management, Yale University, 2005
M.Div., Union Theological Seminary, 2011
Master 2nd Level Diploma, La Sapienza University, 2017
Ph.D., Boston University, 2018
Email:
[email protected]
Elaine Luti
1999
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychology
B.F.A., Massachusetts College of Art, 1970
Laurea, University of Rome "La Sapienza," 1980
Email:
[email protected]
Nicola Petrocchi
2015
Lecturer in Psychology
Laurea, University of Rome "La Sapienza,” 2005
Specialization in Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy at School of Cognitive Psychotherapy (APC-SPC), Rome, 2012.
Ph.D., University of Rome "La Sapienza,” 2015
Email:
[email protected]
Elisa Puvia
2022
Lecturer in Psychology
Ph.D., University of Padova, 2011
Master II Livello, University of Pisa, 2017
Laurea, University of Padova, 2007
Email:
[email protected]
Carola Salvi
2023
Assistant Professor of Psychology
B.S., University of Milano-Bicocca, 2004
M.Sc., University of Milano-Bicocca, 2007
Ph.D., University of Milano-Bicocca, 2013
Email:
[email protected]
Ferruccio Trabalzi
2011
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Sociology
Laurea, University of Rome "La Sapienza," 1992
M.A., University California Los Angeles, 1994
Ph.D., University California Los Angeles, 2000
Email:
[email protected]
Carolina Trella
2024
Lecturer in Psychology
B.A., John Cabot University, 2015
M.Sc., London Metropolitan University, 2016
Ph.D., University of Kent, 2024
Email:
[email protected]
Eleonora Vagnoni
2024
Lecturer in Psychology
Laurea Triennale, Università di Bologna, 2007
Laurea specialistica, Università di Bologna, 2010
Ph.D., Birkbeck University of London, 2015
Email:
[email protected]
Paola Castelli
2011
Associate Professor of Psychology
Laurea, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, 1998
Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 2009
Email:
[email protected]
Prof. Castelli’s research interests lie in the areas of cognitive development and psychology and law. Specifically, she is interested in understanding the development of psychological processes underlying children’s memory accuracy. Her work focuses on the memorial and metamemorial processes involved in the formation and rejection of false memories, and aims to clarify the conditions through which existing memories are more (or less) likely to become distorted. Results from this line of investigation also help highlight the conditions under which children’s accuracy as witnesses can be compromised, or maintained.
Selected Publications
Castelli, P., Ghetti, S. (2014). Resisting imagination and confabulation. Effects of metacognitive training.Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Castelli, P., & Goodman, G. S. (2014). Children's perceived emotional behavior at disclosure and prosecutor's evaluation. Child Abuse & Neglect.
Ghetti, S., Castelli, P., & Lyons, K.E. (2010). Knowing about not remembering: Developmental dissociations in lack-of memory monitoring. Developmental Science, 3, 611-621.
Ghetti, S., & Castelli, P. (2006). Developmental differences in false-event rejection: Effects of memorability-based warning. Memory, 14, 762-776.
Goodman, G. S., Myers, J. E. B., Qin, J. J., Quas, J. A., Castelli, P., & Redlich, A (2006). Effects of children’s testimony versus hearsay on jurors’ decisions. Law and Human Behavior, 30, 363-401.
Castelli, P., Goodman, G. S., Edelstein, R. S., Mitchell, E., Paz-Alonso, P. M., Lyons, K. E., & Newton, J. W. (2006). Evaluating eyewitness testimony in adults and children. In A. K. Hess and I. B. Weiner (Eds.), The Handbook of Forensic Psychology (3rd ed.) (pp.243-304). NY: Wiley.
Castelli, P., Goodman, G.S., & Ghetti, S. (2005). Effects of interview style and witness age on perceptions of children’s credibility in sexual abuse cases. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 35, 297-319.
