Giuliana Mazzoni
Biographic Data
| ID | 3658579 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giuliana Mazzoni |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giuliana |
| FAMILY NAME | Mazzoni |
| SIGNATURE | MAZZONI G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hull |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6377-0139 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Remembering sentences not presented in lists
False memories are typically studied with lists of isolated words that converge on an unstudied critical item, as in the Deese–Roediger–McDermott (DRM) paradigm. Yet most real-world remembering concerns events expressed in richer linguistic forms. Here, we adapted the DRM to sentence materials and, using sentence embeddings, we arranged new sentence probes along a continuum of semantic similarity to each list's theme. Participants studied the DRM…
False memories from nowhere
Semantic knowledge plays an active role in many well-known false memory phenomena, including those emerging from the Deese–Roediger–McDermott (DRM) task. Indeed, in this experimental paradigm, humans tend to falsely recognize newly presented words via activation of other previously shown stimuli. In the present study we aimed to test what happens in cases in which no apparent prior semantic knowledge is available, like in the case of entirely nov…
Forward false memories of actions only occur for single and simple actions
Observing a photo depicting an individual about to perform an action can implicitly trigger an automatic forward mental simulation of the action's unfolding. Since automatic processes can lead to errors in source monitoring (i.e. confusing self-generated information with perception), we investigated the tendency to form false memories of forward compared to backward phases of actions. In Experiment 1, participants were presented with a series of …
Positive and negative touch differentially modulate metacognitive memory judgements for emotional stimuli
Touch plays a crucial role in providing humans with information from the external environment and can be perceived by humans as positively or negatively valenced. It is well documented that touch can differentially influence social functions, but very little is known about how touch can modulate (meta)cognition. Utilizing a within‐subject design, participants were exposed to (a) positive, (b) negative, and (c) no touch, alongside encoding of emot…
Dimensions of a hyper memory
Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM) is a rare form of exceptional memory, characterised by an ability to recall personal episodes in response to dates. The single case “DT” is one of less than 100 HSAM individuals globally, and little is known about how these individuals organise the vast number of events they can recollect. We administered 2 novel priming tasks to explore navigation between autobiographical memories. In both tasks, a …
An exploration of Italian laypeople’s belief in how human memory works
We present the first study to measure the beliefs held by Italian laypeople about how human memory works, using a newly developed tool: the Italian Memory Belief Questionnaire (IMBQ). Research conducted in other countries has demonstrated that beliefs about memory vary widely between different professional and non-professional groups, indicating that limitations exist regarding the dissemination of empirically researched scientific knowledge. To …
Psychophysiological indexes in the detection of deception
The relationship between transliminality, hypnotic and imaginative suggestibility, and other personality traits
To our knowledge, no study has directly examined the link between hypnotic response and the personality trait of transliminality (which is underpinned, for example, by magical ideation, mystical experience, fantasy proneness, absorption, hyperaesthesia). In order to further understand the correlates of suggestibility, the aim of the current project was to investigate whether transliminality is associated with hypnotic and imaginative suggestibili…
Enhancing mental health and well-being in adults from lower-resource settings
Mental health conditions, recognised as a global crisis, were further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Access to mental health services remains limited, particularly in low-income regions. Task-sharing interventions, exemplified by Problem Management Plus (PM+), have emerged as potential solutions to bridge this treatment gap. This study presents an evaluation of the PM+ scale-up in Sub-Saharan Africa (Ethiopia and Benin) and Eastern Europe …
Hands-on false memories
Although mouse-tracking has been seen as a real-time window into different aspects of human decision-making processes, currently little is known about how the decision process unfolds in veridical and false memory retrieval. Here, we directly investigated decision-making processes by predicting participants’ performance in a mouse-tracking version of a typical Deese–Roediger–McDermott (DRM) task through distributional semantic models, a usage-bas…
Do intuitive ideas of the qualities that should characterize involuntary and voluntary memories affect their classification
It is assumed that the difference between voluntary and involuntary autobiographical memories lies in the intentionality to retrieve a memory assigned by the experimenter. Memories that are retrieved when people are instructed to do so in response to cues are considered voluntary (VAMs), those that pop up spontaneously are considered involuntary (IAMs). VAMs and IAMs so classified are also found to differ in terms of phenomenological characterist…
Intention and Monitoring Influence the Content of Memory Reports
We discuss the novel hypothesis that there may be two different types of monitoring that operate independently of each other, before and after retrieval, respectively
Retrieval effort or intention
Theories of autobiographical memory distinguish between involuntary and voluntary memories. While involuntary memories are retrieved with no conscious intention and are therefore unexpected, voluntary memories are both intended and expected. Recent research has shown that participants sometimes classify their memories as either involuntary or voluntary based on retrieval effort instead of intention. These findings question whether intention reall…
How intention to retrieve a memory and expectation that a memory will come to mind influence the retrieval of autobiographical memories
The ‘Not Knowns’
Colette Conroya* http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4455-7930, Sarah Jane Dickensona & Giuliana Mazzoniba School of Arts, University of Hull, Hull, UKb School of Life Sciences, University of Hull, Hull, UK
Eyewitness Testimony
Suggested visual hallucination without hypnosis enhances activity in visual areas of the brain
With or Without You
The present research was designed to investigate the consequences of suppressing social stereotypes on behavior in intrapersonal and interpersonal contexts. In two experiments, the authors manipulated the behavioral context in which postsuppression effects were measured. In intrapersonal contexts, postsuppression behavior was consistent with the suppressed stereotype ( assimilation behavior). Conversely, in interpersonal contexts, postsuppression…
Automatic and ironic behavior are both mediated by changes in the self-concept
When Not Thinking Leads to Being and Doing
Suppressing stereotypes often results in more stereotype use, an effect attributed to heightened stereotype activation. The authors report two experiments examining the consequences of suppression on two self-relevant outcomes: the active self-concept and overt behavior. Participants who suppressed stereotypes incorporated stereotypic traits into their self-concepts and demonstrated stereotype-congruent behavior compared to those who were exposed…
Suggested visual hallucinations in and out of hypnosis
Hypnotic induction decreases anterior default mode activity
Hypnotic suggestibility, cognitive inhibition, and dissociation
False claims about false memory research
When Dreams Become Reality
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When Dreams Become Reality
False claims about false memory research
Suggested visual hallucinations in and out of hypnosis
Hypnotic induction decreases anterior default mode activity
Hypnotic suggestibility, cognitive inhibition, and dissociation
When Not Thinking Leads to Being and Doing
Suppressing stereotypes often results in more stereotype use, an effect attributed to heightened stereotype activation. The authors report two experiments examining the consequences of suppression on two self-relevant outcomes: the active self-concept and overt behavior. Participants who suppressed stereotypes incorporated stereotypic traits into their self-concepts and demonstrated stereotype-congruent behavior compared to those who were exposed…
With or Without You
The present research was designed to investigate the consequences of suppressing social stereotypes on behavior in intrapersonal and interpersonal contexts. In two experiments, the authors manipulated the behavioral context in which postsuppression effects were measured. In intrapersonal contexts, postsuppression behavior was consistent with the suppressed stereotype ( assimilation behavior). Conversely, in interpersonal contexts, postsuppression…
Automatic and ironic behavior are both mediated by changes in the self-concept
Suggested visual hallucination without hypnosis enhances activity in visual areas of the brain
Eyewitness Testimony
The ‘Not Knowns’
Colette Conroya* http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4455-7930, Sarah Jane Dickensona & Giuliana Mazzoniba School of Arts, University of Hull, Hull, UKb School of Life Sciences, University of Hull, Hull, UK
How intention to retrieve a memory and expectation that a memory will come to mind influence the retrieval of autobiographical memories
Intention and Monitoring Influence the Content of Memory Reports
We discuss the novel hypothesis that there may be two different types of monitoring that operate independently of each other, before and after retrieval, respectively
Retrieval effort or intention
Theories of autobiographical memory distinguish between involuntary and voluntary memories. While involuntary memories are retrieved with no conscious intention and are therefore unexpected, voluntary memories are both intended and expected. Recent research has shown that participants sometimes classify their memories as either involuntary or voluntary based on retrieval effort instead of intention. These findings question whether intention reall…
Do intuitive ideas of the qualities that should characterize involuntary and voluntary memories affect their classification
It is assumed that the difference between voluntary and involuntary autobiographical memories lies in the intentionality to retrieve a memory assigned by the experimenter. Memories that are retrieved when people are instructed to do so in response to cues are considered voluntary (VAMs), those that pop up spontaneously are considered involuntary (IAMs). VAMs and IAMs so classified are also found to differ in terms of phenomenological characterist…
Hands-on false memories
Although mouse-tracking has been seen as a real-time window into different aspects of human decision-making processes, currently little is known about how the decision process unfolds in veridical and false memory retrieval. Here, we directly investigated decision-making processes by predicting participants’ performance in a mouse-tracking version of a typical Deese–Roediger–McDermott (DRM) task through distributional semantic models, a usage-bas…
Dimensions of a hyper memory
Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM) is a rare form of exceptional memory, characterised by an ability to recall personal episodes in response to dates. The single case “DT” is one of less than 100 HSAM individuals globally, and little is known about how these individuals organise the vast number of events they can recollect. We administered 2 novel priming tasks to explore navigation between autobiographical memories. In both tasks, a …
An exploration of Italian laypeople’s belief in how human memory works
We present the first study to measure the beliefs held by Italian laypeople about how human memory works, using a newly developed tool: the Italian Memory Belief Questionnaire (IMBQ). Research conducted in other countries has demonstrated that beliefs about memory vary widely between different professional and non-professional groups, indicating that limitations exist regarding the dissemination of empirically researched scientific knowledge. To …
Psychophysiological indexes in the detection of deception
The relationship between transliminality, hypnotic and imaginative suggestibility, and other personality traits
To our knowledge, no study has directly examined the link between hypnotic response and the personality trait of transliminality (which is underpinned, for example, by magical ideation, mystical experience, fantasy proneness, absorption, hyperaesthesia). In order to further understand the correlates of suggestibility, the aim of the current project was to investigate whether transliminality is associated with hypnotic and imaginative suggestibili…
Enhancing mental health and well-being in adults from lower-resource settings
Mental health conditions, recognised as a global crisis, were further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Access to mental health services remains limited, particularly in low-income regions. Task-sharing interventions, exemplified by Problem Management Plus (PM+), have emerged as potential solutions to bridge this treatment gap. This study presents an evaluation of the PM+ scale-up in Sub-Saharan Africa (Ethiopia and Benin) and Eastern Europe …
False memories from nowhere
Semantic knowledge plays an active role in many well-known false memory phenomena, including those emerging from the Deese–Roediger–McDermott (DRM) task. Indeed, in this experimental paradigm, humans tend to falsely recognize newly presented words via activation of other previously shown stimuli. In the present study we aimed to test what happens in cases in which no apparent prior semantic knowledge is available, like in the case of entirely nov…
Forward false memories of actions only occur for single and simple actions
Observing a photo depicting an individual about to perform an action can implicitly trigger an automatic forward mental simulation of the action's unfolding. Since automatic processes can lead to errors in source monitoring (i.e. confusing self-generated information with perception), we investigated the tendency to form false memories of forward compared to backward phases of actions. In Experiment 1, participants were presented with a series of …
Positive and negative touch differentially modulate metacognitive memory judgements for emotional stimuli
Touch plays a crucial role in providing humans with information from the external environment and can be perceived by humans as positively or negatively valenced. It is well documented that touch can differentially influence social functions, but very little is known about how touch can modulate (meta)cognition. Utilizing a within‐subject design, participants were exposed to (a) positive, (b) negative, and (c) no touch, alongside encoding of emot…
Remembering sentences not presented in lists
False memories are typically studied with lists of isolated words that converge on an unstudied critical item, as in the Deese–Roediger–McDermott (DRM) paradigm. Yet most real-world remembering concerns events expressed in richer linguistic forms. Here, we adapted the DRM to sentence materials and, using sentence embeddings, we arranged new sentence probes along a continuum of semantic similarity to each list's theme. Participants studied the DRM…
Psychology (23 works) · Cognitive psychology (17 works) · Memory Processes and Influences (12 works) · Cognition (10 works) · Neuroscience (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Recall (7 works) · Identity, Memory, and Therapy (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works)