Tiziana Lanciano
Biographic Data
| ID | 2750682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tiziana Lanciano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tiziana |
| FAMILY NAME | Lanciano |
| SIGNATURE | LANCIANO T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bari Aldo Moro |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6533-1052 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Malingering depression: A comparative study of human and GPT-3.5 performance
The closer you are, the more it hurts: The Impact of Proximity on Moral Decision-Making
Moral dilemmas arise when individuals must navigate conflicts between competing moral principles. Sacrificial dilemmas are widely used to examine factors influencing decision-making (DM). This study explored how proximity affects moral DM using computer-based interactive videos depicting variations of the Footbridge Dilemma, aiming to clarify how contextual factors shape moral evaluations. In Study 1, scenarios required varying levels of physical…
The effects of university psychological counseling on students’ mental health in the Covid- 19 pandemic era
With the onset of the COVID- 19 pandemic era, university students have been confronted with heightened mental health challenges. In response, educational institutions have attempted to support students by offering online counseling services, aimed to promote their well-being. The present study examines the extent to which a psychological counseling intervention conducted during the COVID- 19 pandemic is associated with significant variations of s…
The Role of Trait Empathy in Moral Decision Making: Findings From a Study on Borderline Personality Traits
Although moral decision making is generally associated with empathy, the role of trait affective empathy in moral choices is less explored. This study investigates how people with subclinical borderline personality (BP) traits—associated with heightened emotional sensitivity and affective empathy—respond to footbridge-type dilemmas involving deontological (refraining from sacrificing one) and utilitarian (sacrificing one) outcomes. Seventy-eight …
Speed and contextual information of a crime-related video bias the responsibility judgments
Courts often rely on video evidence, assuming it accurately shows important legal details. Yet, studies suggest that video isn’t inherently “objective” and people, including legal professionals, might misinterpret its objectivity due to video quality or context. This study aimed to explore how video speed variations and contextual information affect judgments of responsibility in a video portraying a bus assault. The study employed a 5 × 3 mixed …
Even if you look confident, I am not sure you are telling the truth! The role of sender confidence on truthfulness judgment of emotional narratives
Judging truthfulness and detecting deception are critical in the criminal justice system as well as in many other applied contexts (e.g., clinical and business organizations). The ability to discriminate a truth-teller from a liar might be associated with the content of deception (e.g., emotional or high-stakes lies) or with the deceiver's characteristics, such as his/her level of confidence shown in lying. The two present studies aimed to manipu…
The reminiscence bump and the self: Evidence from five studies on positive and negative memories
A plethora of studies have shown that people persistently remember public and personal events experienced during adolescence and early adulthood, particularly with a positive valence. In five studies, we investigate the reminiscence bump (RB) for positive and negative memories of public events (Studies 1 and 2), private events (Study 3), music-related events (Study 4), and cross-cultural memory differences (i.e., China and US) (Study 5). Particip…
The flashbulb-like nature of memory for the first Covid-19 case and the impact of the emergency. A cross-national survey
Flashbulb memories (FBMs) refer to vivid and long-lasting autobiographical memories for the circumstances in which people learned of a shocking and consequential public event. A cross-national study across eleven countries aimed to investigate FBM formation following the first COVID-19 case news in each country and test the effect of pandemic-related variables on FBM. Participants had detailed memories of the date and others present when they hea…
Patient-caregiver relationship in cancer fatigue and distress. A dyadic approach
It has been shown that a reciprocal relationship between cancer patients and their family caregivers positively decreases distress in both. In this context we tried to explore the role of relationship reciprocity in the dyad members’ symptoms of fatigue and distress (anxiety and depression). Specifically, we aimed to assess the implications of relationship reciprocity testing the link between the various measurements of patient Quality of Life (Q…
Psychopathic personality traits are linked to reduced false memories for negative events
Individuals scoring high on psychopathic personality traits process emotional material to a different extent than individuals with few psychopathic traits. Evidence exists that these individuals have impaired emotional memory. The question arises whether this emotional memory impairment has ramifications for the production of emotional false memories. In the present study, we investigated the production of false and true memories for emotional ev…
The Characteristics and Benefits of Disclosing Personal Experiences in Prison: A Study of the Writing Paradigm
The aim of this study is to investigate the characteristics and benefits of writing about personal experiences in prison. A variation of the classic writing paradigm was proposed to a sample of 93 male inmates in southern Italian prisons. Participants were left to write on any personal experience related to their condition and time in prison in 4 daily sessions. Measures of subjective well-being were collected across the sessions. Transcripts wer…
Lessons for the courtroom from the study of Flashbulb memory: An integrative review
In legal proceedings, when no corroboration is possible with external sources of evidence, judges and jurors derive from their own experience the criteria to ascertain if a memory report is accurate and a witness credible. These legal criteria closely resemble the aspects traditionally investigated by literature on Flashbulb memory (i.e., consistency, confidence, quantity), but have failed to obtain a generalised consensus within the scientific c…
Individual differences impact memory for a crime: A study on executive functions resources
Accuracy, Confidence, and Experiential Criteria for Lie Detection Through a Videotaped Interview
An individual's ability to discriminate lies from truth is far from accurate, and is poorly related to an individual's confidence in his/her detection. Both law enforcement and non-professional interviewers base their evaluations of truthfulness on experiential criteria, including emotional and expressive features, cognitive complexity, and paraverbal aspects of interviewees' reports. The current experimental study adopted two perspectives of inv…
An art therapy group intervention for cancer patients to counter distress before chemotherapy
Background : The aim of this study was to investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of a single group session based on art therapy (AT) for adult cancer patients to reduce anxiety and distress before anticancer treatment. Methods : A non-randomized pre-post study design was adopted. Sixty-two patients took part in one of twenty-seven "one-off" sessions held over a four-month period. Sixty-six patients, who simply received routine medical trea…
Negative emotional experiences arouse rumination and affect working memory capacity
Following an emotional experience, individuals are confronted with the persistence of ruminative thoughts that disturb the undertaking of other activities. In the present study, we experimentally tested the idea that experiencing a negative emotion triggers a ruminative process that drains working memory (WM) resources normally devoted to other tasks. Undergraduate participants of high versus low WM capacity were administered the operation-word m…
Features of Autobiographical Memory: Theoretical and Empirical Issues in the Measurement of Flashbulb Memory
Flashbulb memories (FBMs) were defined by R. Brown and J. Kulik (1977) as vivid, detailed, and long-lasting memories for attributes of the reception context of public news. Unlike ordinary autobiographical memories, they are conceived as autobiographical formations that noticeably integrate specific perceptual details. The authors aimed to test a measurement model for FBMs as compared with event memory (EM) by hypothesizing that a categorical, ra…
Features of Autobiographical Memory: Theoretical and Empirical Issues in the Measurement of Flashbulb Memory
Flashbulb memories (FBMs) were defined by R. Brown and J. Kulik (1977) as vivid, detailed, and long-lasting memories for attributes of the reception context of public news. Unlike ordinary autobiographical memories, they are conceived as autobiographical formations that noticeably integrate specific perceptual details. The authors aimed to test a measurement model for FBMs as compared with event memory (EM) by hypothesizing that a categorical, ra…
Psychopathic personality traits are linked to reduced false memories for negative events
Individuals scoring high on psychopathic personality traits process emotional material to a different extent than individuals with few psychopathic traits. Evidence exists that these individuals have impaired emotional memory. The question arises whether this emotional memory impairment has ramifications for the production of emotional false memories. In the present study, we investigated the production of false and true memories for emotional ev…
An art therapy group intervention for cancer patients to counter distress before chemotherapy
Background : The aim of this study was to investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of a single group session based on art therapy (AT) for adult cancer patients to reduce anxiety and distress before anticancer treatment. Methods : A non-randomized pre-post study design was adopted. Sixty-two patients took part in one of twenty-seven "one-off" sessions held over a four-month period. Sixty-six patients, who simply received routine medical trea…
Features of Autobiographical Memory: Theoretical and Empirical Issues in the Measurement of Flashbulb Memory
Flashbulb memories (FBMs) were defined by R. Brown and J. Kulik (1977) as vivid, detailed, and long-lasting memories for attributes of the reception context of public news. Unlike ordinary autobiographical memories, they are conceived as autobiographical formations that noticeably integrate specific perceptual details. The authors aimed to test a measurement model for FBMs as compared with event memory (EM) by hypothesizing that a categorical, ra…
Negative emotional experiences arouse rumination and affect working memory capacity
Following an emotional experience, individuals are confronted with the persistence of ruminative thoughts that disturb the undertaking of other activities. In the present study, we experimentally tested the idea that experiencing a negative emotion triggers a ruminative process that drains working memory (WM) resources normally devoted to other tasks. Undergraduate participants of high versus low WM capacity were administered the operation-word m…
Accuracy, Confidence, and Experiential Criteria for Lie Detection Through a Videotaped Interview
An individual's ability to discriminate lies from truth is far from accurate, and is poorly related to an individual's confidence in his/her detection. Both law enforcement and non-professional interviewers base their evaluations of truthfulness on experiential criteria, including emotional and expressive features, cognitive complexity, and paraverbal aspects of interviewees' reports. The current experimental study adopted two perspectives of inv…
An art therapy group intervention for cancer patients to counter distress before chemotherapy
Background : The aim of this study was to investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of a single group session based on art therapy (AT) for adult cancer patients to reduce anxiety and distress before anticancer treatment. Methods : A non-randomized pre-post study design was adopted. Sixty-two patients took part in one of twenty-seven "one-off" sessions held over a four-month period. Sixty-six patients, who simply received routine medical trea…
Lessons for the courtroom from the study of Flashbulb memory: An integrative review
In legal proceedings, when no corroboration is possible with external sources of evidence, judges and jurors derive from their own experience the criteria to ascertain if a memory report is accurate and a witness credible. These legal criteria closely resemble the aspects traditionally investigated by literature on Flashbulb memory (i.e., consistency, confidence, quantity), but have failed to obtain a generalised consensus within the scientific c…
Individual differences impact memory for a crime: A study on executive functions resources
The Characteristics and Benefits of Disclosing Personal Experiences in Prison: A Study of the Writing Paradigm
The aim of this study is to investigate the characteristics and benefits of writing about personal experiences in prison. A variation of the classic writing paradigm was proposed to a sample of 93 male inmates in southern Italian prisons. Participants were left to write on any personal experience related to their condition and time in prison in 4 daily sessions. Measures of subjective well-being were collected across the sessions. Transcripts wer…
Patient-caregiver relationship in cancer fatigue and distress. A dyadic approach
It has been shown that a reciprocal relationship between cancer patients and their family caregivers positively decreases distress in both. In this context we tried to explore the role of relationship reciprocity in the dyad members’ symptoms of fatigue and distress (anxiety and depression). Specifically, we aimed to assess the implications of relationship reciprocity testing the link between the various measurements of patient Quality of Life (Q…
Psychopathic personality traits are linked to reduced false memories for negative events
Individuals scoring high on psychopathic personality traits process emotional material to a different extent than individuals with few psychopathic traits. Evidence exists that these individuals have impaired emotional memory. The question arises whether this emotional memory impairment has ramifications for the production of emotional false memories. In the present study, we investigated the production of false and true memories for emotional ev…
Speed and contextual information of a crime-related video bias the responsibility judgments
Courts often rely on video evidence, assuming it accurately shows important legal details. Yet, studies suggest that video isn’t inherently “objective” and people, including legal professionals, might misinterpret its objectivity due to video quality or context. This study aimed to explore how video speed variations and contextual information affect judgments of responsibility in a video portraying a bus assault. The study employed a 5 × 3 mixed …
Even if you look confident, I am not sure you are telling the truth! The role of sender confidence on truthfulness judgment of emotional narratives
Judging truthfulness and detecting deception are critical in the criminal justice system as well as in many other applied contexts (e.g., clinical and business organizations). The ability to discriminate a truth-teller from a liar might be associated with the content of deception (e.g., emotional or high-stakes lies) or with the deceiver's characteristics, such as his/her level of confidence shown in lying. The two present studies aimed to manipu…
The reminiscence bump and the self: Evidence from five studies on positive and negative memories
A plethora of studies have shown that people persistently remember public and personal events experienced during adolescence and early adulthood, particularly with a positive valence. In five studies, we investigate the reminiscence bump (RB) for positive and negative memories of public events (Studies 1 and 2), private events (Study 3), music-related events (Study 4), and cross-cultural memory differences (i.e., China and US) (Study 5). Particip…
The flashbulb-like nature of memory for the first Covid-19 case and the impact of the emergency. A cross-national survey
Flashbulb memories (FBMs) refer to vivid and long-lasting autobiographical memories for the circumstances in which people learned of a shocking and consequential public event. A cross-national study across eleven countries aimed to investigate FBM formation following the first COVID-19 case news in each country and test the effect of pandemic-related variables on FBM. Participants had detailed memories of the date and others present when they hea…
The effects of university psychological counseling on students’ mental health in the Covid- 19 pandemic era
With the onset of the COVID- 19 pandemic era, university students have been confronted with heightened mental health challenges. In response, educational institutions have attempted to support students by offering online counseling services, aimed to promote their well-being. The present study examines the extent to which a psychological counseling intervention conducted during the COVID- 19 pandemic is associated with significant variations of s…
The Role of Trait Empathy in Moral Decision Making: Findings From a Study on Borderline Personality Traits
Although moral decision making is generally associated with empathy, the role of trait affective empathy in moral choices is less explored. This study investigates how people with subclinical borderline personality (BP) traits—associated with heightened emotional sensitivity and affective empathy—respond to footbridge-type dilemmas involving deontological (refraining from sacrificing one) and utilitarian (sacrificing one) outcomes. Seventy-eight …
Malingering depression: A comparative study of human and GPT-3.5 performance
The closer you are, the more it hurts: The Impact of Proximity on Moral Decision-Making
Moral dilemmas arise when individuals must navigate conflicts between competing moral principles. Sacrificial dilemmas are widely used to examine factors influencing decision-making (DM). This study explored how proximity affects moral DM using computer-based interactive videos depicting variations of the Footbridge Dilemma, aiming to clarify how contextual factors shape moral evaluations. In Study 1, scenarios required varying levels of physical…
Psychology (14 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Deception detection and forensic psychology (5 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Memory Processes and Influences (5 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Cognition (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works)