Cinzia Di Dio
Biographic Data
| ID | 1106472 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cinzia Di Dio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cinzia |
| FAMILY NAME | Di Dio |
| SIGNATURE | DI DIO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3962-4684 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Art made by artificial intelligence: The effect of authorship on aesthetic judgments
Playing with robots in a nursery: A sociomaterial focus on interaction and learning
In the field of educational robotics, it is important to understand the processes trough which child-robot interactions are established during play activities. In terms of socio-material characteristics, robots can vary widely, from more mechanical robots to more anthropomorphic ones. Research has shown that the degree of anthropomorphization of the robot has an impact on how children perceive and interact with the robot. The role of the socio-ma…
Inter-relations between mind-mindedness, maternal communicative style in the context of attachment distress, and infant–mother attachment security
The quality of the maternal communication plays a critical role in the development of secure infant–caregiver attachment. This relationship may be mediated by the caregivers’ capacity to recognize and appropriately respond to the child’s mental states (i.e., mind-mindedness). To specifically explore the role of mind-mindedness in the relationship between maternal communicative style and attachment, associations between maternal communicative styl…
Cross-cultural moral judgments and emotions in preschoolers: Human and robot transgressions in Japan and Italy
The study aims to investigate the effect of cultural background between Italy and Japan on 5-year-old children’s moral judgements and emotion attributions towards human and robot. The children watched videos drawn from classic ‘happy victimizer’ stories, in which the transgressors were either a child or a robot, violating rules against stealing or not sharing. We assessed the children’s attribution of emotions both to the transgressors and to the…
Shared Knowledge in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
According to the Theory of Natural Pedagogy, object-directed emotion may provide different information depending on the context: in a communicative context, the information conveys culturally shared knowledge regarding the emotional valence of an object and is generalizable to other individuals, whereas, in a non-communicative context, information is interpreted as a subjective disposition of the person expressing the emotion, i.e., personal pref…
Validation Study of the Spanish Version of the Measure of Happiness (MH) Questionnaire
This study aims to validate the Spanish version of the Measure of Happiness (MH), a questionnaire that identifies the specific areas of an individual’s life that are related to experienced happiness. The sample consisted of 458 Spanish native speakers (65.7% women, 34.3% men; mean age = 24.14, SD = 8.45) and was divided into two groups: Sample 1 (N = 226) underwent Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), and Sample 2 (N = 232) underwent Confirmatory F…
Evaluation of aesthetic pleasure in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, using the eye-tracking methodology
Infants’ Prediction of Humanoid Robot’s Goal-Directed Action
Several studies have shown that infants anticipate human goal-directed actions, but not robot’s ones. However, the studies focusing on the robot goal-directed actions have mainly analyzed the effect of mechanical arms on infant’s attention. To date, the prediction of goal-directed actions in infants has not yet been studied when the agent is a humanoid robot. Given this lack of evidence in infancy research, the present study aims at analyzing inf…
It Does Not Matter Who You Are: Fairness in Pre-schoolers Interacting with Human and Robotic Partners
Exploring the relation between maternal mind‐mindedness and children’s symbolic play: A longitudinal study from 6 to 18 months
Relations between mothers’ mind‐mindedness (appropriate attunement to their infants’ internal states) at 6 and 12 months and infants’ early symbolic play during infant–mother pretense at 12 and 18 months were investigated in a sample of 43 mothers and infants. Mothers’ appropriate mind‐related comments were associated with average level, length, complexity, and maturity level of symbolic play. Specific sub‐categories of appropriate mind‐related c…
Discrepancies between explicit and implicit evaluation of aesthetic perception ability in individuals with autism: A potential way to improve social functioning
Overall, our results clearly show that individuals with autism are not completely blind to aesthetic pleasure: in fact, they retain an implicit ability to experience beauty. These findings could pave the way for the development of new protocols to rehabilitate ASD social functioning, exploiting their conserved implicit aesthetic perception
A Robot Is Not Worth Another: Exploring Children’s Mental State Attribution to Different Humanoid Robots
Recent technological developments in robotics has driven the design and production of different humanoid robots. Several studies have highlighted that the presence of human-like physical features could lead both adults and children to anthropomorphize the robots. In the present study we aimed to compare the attribution of mental states to two humanoid robots, NAO and Robovie, which differed in the degree of anthropomorphism. Children aged 5, 7, a…
Growing Up Thinking of God's Beliefs: Theory of Mind and Ontological Knowledge
The study of social cognition involves the attribution of states of mind to humans, as well as, quite recently, to nonhuman creatures, like God. Some studies support the role of social cognition in religious beliefs, whereas others ascribe religious beliefs to an ontological knowledge bias. The present study compares these distinct approaches in 37 catholic children aged 4 to 10 years, who were administered an adapted version of the unexpected co…
Body Aesthetic Preference in Preschoolers and Attraction to Canons Violation: An Exploratory Study
Sensitivity to canons of beauty as represented in the human body-and as typically defined in the Western Culture-has been poorly studied in children. Current literature shows that infants as young as about three months are sensitive to the human body structure and its parts. Using a sample of 54 three- to five-year-old children, the present study investigated preference for drawings representing the "canonical" body structure, contrasting these w…
A Robot Is Not Worth Another: Exploring Children’s Mental State Attribution to Different Humanoid Robots
Recent technological developments in robotics has driven the design and production of different humanoid robots. Several studies have highlighted that the presence of human-like physical features could lead both adults and children to anthropomorphize the robots. In the present study we aimed to compare the attribution of mental states to two humanoid robots, NAO and Robovie, which differed in the degree of anthropomorphism. Children aged 5, 7, a…
Growing Up Thinking of God's Beliefs: Theory of Mind and Ontological Knowledge
The study of social cognition involves the attribution of states of mind to humans, as well as, quite recently, to nonhuman creatures, like God. Some studies support the role of social cognition in religious beliefs, whereas others ascribe religious beliefs to an ontological knowledge bias. The present study compares these distinct approaches in 37 catholic children aged 4 to 10 years, who were administered an adapted version of the unexpected co…
Body Aesthetic Preference in Preschoolers and Attraction to Canons Violation: An Exploratory Study
Sensitivity to canons of beauty as represented in the human body-and as typically defined in the Western Culture-has been poorly studied in children. Current literature shows that infants as young as about three months are sensitive to the human body structure and its parts. Using a sample of 54 three- to five-year-old children, the present study investigated preference for drawings representing the "canonical" body structure, contrasting these w…
Growing Up Thinking of God's Beliefs: Theory of Mind and Ontological Knowledge
The study of social cognition involves the attribution of states of mind to humans, as well as, quite recently, to nonhuman creatures, like God. Some studies support the role of social cognition in religious beliefs, whereas others ascribe religious beliefs to an ontological knowledge bias. The present study compares these distinct approaches in 37 catholic children aged 4 to 10 years, who were administered an adapted version of the unexpected co…
It Does Not Matter Who You Are: Fairness in Pre-schoolers Interacting with Human and Robotic Partners
Exploring the relation between maternal mind‐mindedness and children’s symbolic play: A longitudinal study from 6 to 18 months
Relations between mothers’ mind‐mindedness (appropriate attunement to their infants’ internal states) at 6 and 12 months and infants’ early symbolic play during infant–mother pretense at 12 and 18 months were investigated in a sample of 43 mothers and infants. Mothers’ appropriate mind‐related comments were associated with average level, length, complexity, and maturity level of symbolic play. Specific sub‐categories of appropriate mind‐related c…
Discrepancies between explicit and implicit evaluation of aesthetic perception ability in individuals with autism: A potential way to improve social functioning
Overall, our results clearly show that individuals with autism are not completely blind to aesthetic pleasure: in fact, they retain an implicit ability to experience beauty. These findings could pave the way for the development of new protocols to rehabilitate ASD social functioning, exploiting their conserved implicit aesthetic perception
A Robot Is Not Worth Another: Exploring Children’s Mental State Attribution to Different Humanoid Robots
Recent technological developments in robotics has driven the design and production of different humanoid robots. Several studies have highlighted that the presence of human-like physical features could lead both adults and children to anthropomorphize the robots. In the present study we aimed to compare the attribution of mental states to two humanoid robots, NAO and Robovie, which differed in the degree of anthropomorphism. Children aged 5, 7, a…
Evaluation of aesthetic pleasure in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, using the eye-tracking methodology
Infants’ Prediction of Humanoid Robot’s Goal-Directed Action
Several studies have shown that infants anticipate human goal-directed actions, but not robot’s ones. However, the studies focusing on the robot goal-directed actions have mainly analyzed the effect of mechanical arms on infant’s attention. To date, the prediction of goal-directed actions in infants has not yet been studied when the agent is a humanoid robot. Given this lack of evidence in infancy research, the present study aims at analyzing inf…
Shared Knowledge in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
According to the Theory of Natural Pedagogy, object-directed emotion may provide different information depending on the context: in a communicative context, the information conveys culturally shared knowledge regarding the emotional valence of an object and is generalizable to other individuals, whereas, in a non-communicative context, information is interpreted as a subjective disposition of the person expressing the emotion, i.e., personal pref…
Validation Study of the Spanish Version of the Measure of Happiness (MH) Questionnaire
This study aims to validate the Spanish version of the Measure of Happiness (MH), a questionnaire that identifies the specific areas of an individual’s life that are related to experienced happiness. The sample consisted of 458 Spanish native speakers (65.7% women, 34.3% men; mean age = 24.14, SD = 8.45) and was divided into two groups: Sample 1 (N = 226) underwent Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA), and Sample 2 (N = 232) underwent Confirmatory F…
Art made by artificial intelligence: The effect of authorship on aesthetic judgments
Playing with robots in a nursery: A sociomaterial focus on interaction and learning
In the field of educational robotics, it is important to understand the processes trough which child-robot interactions are established during play activities. In terms of socio-material characteristics, robots can vary widely, from more mechanical robots to more anthropomorphic ones. Research has shown that the degree of anthropomorphization of the robot has an impact on how children perceive and interact with the robot. The role of the socio-ma…
Inter-relations between mind-mindedness, maternal communicative style in the context of attachment distress, and infant–mother attachment security
The quality of the maternal communication plays a critical role in the development of secure infant–caregiver attachment. This relationship may be mediated by the caregivers’ capacity to recognize and appropriately respond to the child’s mental states (i.e., mind-mindedness). To specifically explore the role of mind-mindedness in the relationship between maternal communicative style and attachment, associations between maternal communicative styl…
Cross-cultural moral judgments and emotions in preschoolers: Human and robot transgressions in Japan and Italy
The study aims to investigate the effect of cultural background between Italy and Japan on 5-year-old children’s moral judgements and emotion attributions towards human and robot. The children watched videos drawn from classic ‘happy victimizer’ stories, in which the transgressors were either a child or a robot, violating rules against stealing or not sharing. We assessed the children’s attribution of emotions both to the transgressors and to the…
Psychology (13 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (8 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Artificial Intelligence (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Social Robot Interaction and HRI (6 works) · Robot (5 works) · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (3 works)