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Nicola Matteucci

2024/10-2025/04

Visiting Ph. D student

University of Bologna

After earning a degree in Psychological Sciences of Development, Personality, and Interpersonal Relationships from the University of Padua and completing a master's degree in Applied Cognitive Psychology at the University of Bologna, I began my PhD in 2022, again at the University of Bologna, under the supervision of Raffaella Nori.
In 2024, I joined LaPsyDÉ as a visiting PhD student under the supervision of Wim De Neys.
I am passionate about exploring how human cognition shapes the world around us.
My research interests focus on how we interpret the actions of others when intentions and outcomes do not match, with a particular emphasis on the role of reasoning and cognitive skills in this process.
The main focus of my PhD project is to investigate whether reasoning and cognitive abilities are involved in the Knobe Effect, a phenomenon in which a foreseeable but unintended side effect is perceived as intentional only when the outcome is negative, but not when it is positive.

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