Cristina Ottaviani
Biographic Data
| ID | 2175148 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cristina Ottaviani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cristina |
| FAMILY NAME | Ottaviani |
| SIGNATURE | OTTAVIANI C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fondazione Santa Lucia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5240-4387 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Face your heart: Resting vagally mediated Heart Rate Variability Shapes Social Attributions from facial appearance
Phylogenetic theories suggest resting vagally mediated heart rate variability (vmHRV) as a biomarker for adaptive behavior in social encounters. Until now, no study has examined whether vmHRV can predict individual differences in inferring personality traits and intentions from facial appearance. To test this hypothesis, resting vmHRV was recorded in 83 healthy individuals before they rated a series of faces based on their first impression of tru…
St Annual Scientific Meeting Biopsychosocial Health in Context March 20-23, 2024, Brighton, UK
The impact of perseverative cognition in the development and maintenance of psychiatric disorders has been mainly investigated in the context of individuals’ responses to aversive situations. Limited and contrasting evidence has emerged about the role of perseverative cognition in the positive valence systems domain. The present study combined laboratory-based assessment of reward responsiveness and electrophysiology to examine the effects of wor…
Leveraging Vagally Mediated Heart Rate Variability as an Actionable, Noninvasive Biomarker for Self-Regulation: Assessment, Intervention, and Evaluation
This contribution highlights the significance of using vagally-mediated heart rate variability (vmHRV), a general indicator of adaptation, as an actionable biomarker to assess and enhance self-regulation abilities in individuals and organizations. The paper reviews the state-of-the-art on vmHRV and introduces various techniques to enhance vmHRV, including slow-paced breathing, the diving reflex, transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS), tran…
Beliefs in Regulating Negative Emotions and Vagally Mediated Heart Rate Variability: Does Sex Make a Difference
OBJECTIVE: This ecological study explored the association between regulatory emotional self-efficacy beliefs in managing negative emotions (RESE-NE) and heart rate variability (HRV), a measure of parasympathetic modulation of the heart that has been positively associated with a better ability to flexibly adjust to a changing environment and regulate emotions. METHOD: To test these associations, we used data from 161 adults working in relational p…
Better Safe Than Sorry: A Common Signature of General Vulnerability for Psychopathology
Several labels, such as neuroticism, negative emotionality, and dispositional negativity, indicate a broad dimension of psychopathology. However, largely separate, often disorder-specific research lines have developed that focus on different cognitive and affective characteristics that are associated with this dimension, such as perseverative cognition (worry, rumination), reduced autobiographical memory specificity, compromised fear learning, an…
Covid‐19 Impact on Parental Emotion Socialization and Youth Socioemotional Adjustment in Italy
This study examines the change and associations in parental emotion socialization strategies in response to children’s negative emotions and youths’ adjustment, comparing before the Covid‐19 pandemic hit Italy and since the pandemic began. Participants were convenient cross‐sectional/normative (Study 1) and clinical/longitudinal (Study 2) samples of Italian parents whose children were in middle childhood and adolescence. In Study 1, self‐reported…
Rumination and Emotional Profile in Children with Specific Learning Disorders and Their Parents
Rumination, namely a cognitive process characterized by a repetitive thinking focused on negative feelings and thoughts, is a significant predictor for the onset of internalizing symptoms and has also been found to run in families. Rumination has never been studied in children with specific learning disorders (SLD), a population that, due to its condition, might encounter more difficulties in daily life and is at risk of increased psychological d…
The Mind in the Machine: Mind Perception Modulates Gaze Aversion During Child–Robot Interaction
Trusting your heart: Long-term memory for bad and good people is influenced by resting vagal tone
Mind wandering, together with test anxiety and self-efficacy, predicts student's academic self-concept but not reading comprehension skills
BackgroundMind wandering (MW) has commonly been linked to bad scholastic performance; however, such association has rarely been investigated in the classroom. Moreover, in examining such association, motivational variables have been largely ignored.AimWe aimed at examining the associations between the dispositional tendency to engage in MW and a series of reading comprehension skills and measures of academic self-concept above and beyond the role…
Brain–Heart Pathways to Blood Pressure-Related Hypoalgesia
OBJECTIVE: High blood pressure (BP) is associated with reduced pain sensitivity, known as BP-related hypoalgesia. The underlying neural mechanisms remain uncertain, yet arterial baroreceptor signaling, occurring at cardiac systole, is implicated. We examined normotensives using functional neuroimaging and pain stimulation during distinct phases of the cardiac cycle to test the hypothesized neural mediation of baroreceptor-induced attenuation of p…
Emotional processes in human-robot interaction during brief cognitive testing
Reading under the skin: Physiological activation during reading in children with dyslexia and typical readers
Physiological concomitants of perseverative cognition: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Do we need a stressor to be stressed? Insights from cardiac regulation 1
In consideration of existing contradictory findings, the aim of the present study was to overcome the limitations of traditional cardiac reactivity studies. First, we examined the cardiac activation that takes place in response to ruminating about stress, independently of the presence of a real stressor, and second, we focused on the underlying physiological components of cardiac regulation during rumination, that is, the sympathetic and parasymp…
Impulsivity and household indebtedness: Evidence from real life
Emotional processes in human-robot interaction during brief cognitive testing
Impulsivity and household indebtedness: Evidence from real life
Covid‐19 Impact on Parental Emotion Socialization and Youth Socioemotional Adjustment in Italy
This study examines the change and associations in parental emotion socialization strategies in response to children’s negative emotions and youths’ adjustment, comparing before the Covid‐19 pandemic hit Italy and since the pandemic began. Participants were convenient cross‐sectional/normative (Study 1) and clinical/longitudinal (Study 2) samples of Italian parents whose children were in middle childhood and adolescence. In Study 1, self‐reported…
The Mind in the Machine: Mind Perception Modulates Gaze Aversion During Child–Robot Interaction
Do we need a stressor to be stressed? Insights from cardiac regulation 1
In consideration of existing contradictory findings, the aim of the present study was to overcome the limitations of traditional cardiac reactivity studies. First, we examined the cardiac activation that takes place in response to ruminating about stress, independently of the presence of a real stressor, and second, we focused on the underlying physiological components of cardiac regulation during rumination, that is, the sympathetic and parasymp…
Impulsivity and household indebtedness: Evidence from real life
Reading under the skin: Physiological activation during reading in children with dyslexia and typical readers
Physiological concomitants of perseverative cognition: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Brain–Heart Pathways to Blood Pressure-Related Hypoalgesia
OBJECTIVE: High blood pressure (BP) is associated with reduced pain sensitivity, known as BP-related hypoalgesia. The underlying neural mechanisms remain uncertain, yet arterial baroreceptor signaling, occurring at cardiac systole, is implicated. We examined normotensives using functional neuroimaging and pain stimulation during distinct phases of the cardiac cycle to test the hypothesized neural mediation of baroreceptor-induced attenuation of p…
Emotional processes in human-robot interaction during brief cognitive testing
Trusting your heart: Long-term memory for bad and good people is influenced by resting vagal tone
Mind wandering, together with test anxiety and self-efficacy, predicts student's academic self-concept but not reading comprehension skills
BackgroundMind wandering (MW) has commonly been linked to bad scholastic performance; however, such association has rarely been investigated in the classroom. Moreover, in examining such association, motivational variables have been largely ignored.AimWe aimed at examining the associations between the dispositional tendency to engage in MW and a series of reading comprehension skills and measures of academic self-concept above and beyond the role…
Rumination and Emotional Profile in Children with Specific Learning Disorders and Their Parents
Rumination, namely a cognitive process characterized by a repetitive thinking focused on negative feelings and thoughts, is a significant predictor for the onset of internalizing symptoms and has also been found to run in families. Rumination has never been studied in children with specific learning disorders (SLD), a population that, due to its condition, might encounter more difficulties in daily life and is at risk of increased psychological d…
The Mind in the Machine: Mind Perception Modulates Gaze Aversion During Child–Robot Interaction
Better Safe Than Sorry: A Common Signature of General Vulnerability for Psychopathology
Several labels, such as neuroticism, negative emotionality, and dispositional negativity, indicate a broad dimension of psychopathology. However, largely separate, often disorder-specific research lines have developed that focus on different cognitive and affective characteristics that are associated with this dimension, such as perseverative cognition (worry, rumination), reduced autobiographical memory specificity, compromised fear learning, an…
Covid‐19 Impact on Parental Emotion Socialization and Youth Socioemotional Adjustment in Italy
This study examines the change and associations in parental emotion socialization strategies in response to children’s negative emotions and youths’ adjustment, comparing before the Covid‐19 pandemic hit Italy and since the pandemic began. Participants were convenient cross‐sectional/normative (Study 1) and clinical/longitudinal (Study 2) samples of Italian parents whose children were in middle childhood and adolescence. In Study 1, self‐reported…
Leveraging Vagally Mediated Heart Rate Variability as an Actionable, Noninvasive Biomarker for Self-Regulation: Assessment, Intervention, and Evaluation
This contribution highlights the significance of using vagally-mediated heart rate variability (vmHRV), a general indicator of adaptation, as an actionable biomarker to assess and enhance self-regulation abilities in individuals and organizations. The paper reviews the state-of-the-art on vmHRV and introduces various techniques to enhance vmHRV, including slow-paced breathing, the diving reflex, transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS), tran…
Beliefs in Regulating Negative Emotions and Vagally Mediated Heart Rate Variability: Does Sex Make a Difference
OBJECTIVE: This ecological study explored the association between regulatory emotional self-efficacy beliefs in managing negative emotions (RESE-NE) and heart rate variability (HRV), a measure of parasympathetic modulation of the heart that has been positively associated with a better ability to flexibly adjust to a changing environment and regulate emotions. METHOD: To test these associations, we used data from 161 adults working in relational p…
Face your heart: Resting vagally mediated Heart Rate Variability Shapes Social Attributions from facial appearance
Phylogenetic theories suggest resting vagally mediated heart rate variability (vmHRV) as a biomarker for adaptive behavior in social encounters. Until now, no study has examined whether vmHRV can predict individual differences in inferring personality traits and intentions from facial appearance. To test this hypothesis, resting vmHRV was recorded in 83 healthy individuals before they rated a series of faces based on their first impression of tru…
St Annual Scientific Meeting Biopsychosocial Health in Context March 20-23, 2024, Brighton, UK
The impact of perseverative cognition in the development and maintenance of psychiatric disorders has been mainly investigated in the context of individuals’ responses to aversive situations. Limited and contrasting evidence has emerged about the role of perseverative cognition in the positive valence systems domain. The present study combined laboratory-based assessment of reward responsiveness and electrophysiology to examine the effects of wor…
Psychology (15 works) · Cognition (10 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Heart rate (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Heart rate variability (5 works) · Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works)