Folco Panizza
Biographic Data
| ID | 3862489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Folco Panizza |
| GIVEN NAMES | Folco |
| FAMILY NAME | Panizza |
| SIGNATURE | PANIZZA F |
| AFFILIATIONS | IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5178-5926 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Scrolling to wisdom
The present study explores the effect of exposure to news in a social media environment on people’s perceived knowledge and on the “Illusion of knowledge” —that is, the overestimation of perceived knowledge relative to actual knowledge. Using a mixed, within-subjects design, participants ( N = 828) engaged in a two-session study featuring pre- and post-exposure assessments. Participants scrolled through a social media newsfeed and completed asses…
I want to be safe
Vaccine perception is a dynamic process shaped by evolving factors like efficacy and safety perceptions, trust levels, and individual motivations. Our study sheds light on the complex dynamics that underlie the perception of vaccine safety and efficacy, and their impact on willingness to vaccinate. We discuss these results in light of bounded rationality, loss aversion and classic utility theory
Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation
How do online users respond to crowdsourced fact-checking
Recently, crowdsourcing has been proposed as a tool for fighting misinformation online. Will internet users listen to crowdsourced fact-checking, and how? In this experiment we test how participants follow others’ opinions to evaluate the validity of a science-themed Facebook post and examine which factors mediate the use of this information. Participants observed a post presenting either scientific information or misinformation, along with a gra…
The Importance of Informative Interventions in a Wicked Environment
Lewis Thomas (1983), in his medical history treatise, describes the case of an early 20th-century physician who was eerily accurate in diagnosing typhoid fever in his patients. Only much later did people realize that the physician himself “was a more effective carrier . . . than Typhoid Mary” (p. 22), because he was examining his patients using only his bare hands, transmitting the disease to everyone he touched. In this story, the complex enviro…
How Conformity Can Lead to Polarised Social Behaviour
Learning social behaviour of others strongly influences one’s own social attitudes. We compare several distinct explanations of this phenomenon, testing their predictions using computational modelling across four experimental conditions. In the experiment, participants chose repeatedly whether to pay for increasing (prosocial) or decreasing (antisocial) the earnings of an unknown other. Halfway through the task, participants predicted the choices…
Neopopulism and its limits in Collor's Brazil
Is Brazil becoming a “boring” country
Neopopulism and its limits in Collor's Brazil
Is Brazil becoming a “boring” country
How Conformity Can Lead to Polarised Social Behaviour
Learning social behaviour of others strongly influences one’s own social attitudes. We compare several distinct explanations of this phenomenon, testing their predictions using computational modelling across four experimental conditions. In the experiment, participants chose repeatedly whether to pay for increasing (prosocial) or decreasing (antisocial) the earnings of an unknown other. Halfway through the task, participants predicted the choices…
The Importance of Informative Interventions in a Wicked Environment
Lewis Thomas (1983), in his medical history treatise, describes the case of an early 20th-century physician who was eerily accurate in diagnosing typhoid fever in his patients. Only much later did people realize that the physician himself “was a more effective carrier . . . than Typhoid Mary” (p. 22), because he was examining his patients using only his bare hands, transmitting the disease to everyone he touched. In this story, the complex enviro…
How do online users respond to crowdsourced fact-checking
Recently, crowdsourcing has been proposed as a tool for fighting misinformation online. Will internet users listen to crowdsourced fact-checking, and how? In this experiment we test how participants follow others’ opinions to evaluate the validity of a science-themed Facebook post and examine which factors mediate the use of this information. Participants observed a post presenting either scientific information or misinformation, along with a gra…
I want to be safe
Vaccine perception is a dynamic process shaped by evolving factors like efficacy and safety perceptions, trust levels, and individual motivations. Our study sheds light on the complex dynamics that underlie the perception of vaccine safety and efficacy, and their impact on willingness to vaccinate. We discuss these results in light of bounded rationality, loss aversion and classic utility theory
Toolbox of individual-level interventions against online misinformation
Scrolling to wisdom
The present study explores the effect of exposure to news in a social media environment on people’s perceived knowledge and on the “Illusion of knowledge” —that is, the overestimation of perceived knowledge relative to actual knowledge. Using a mixed, within-subjects design, participants ( N = 828) engaged in a two-session study featuring pre- and post-exposure assessments. Participants scrolled through a social media newsfeed and completed asses…
Psychology (5 works) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Computer security (3 works) · Internet privacy (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social media (3 works) · Social Media and Politics (3 works) · Democracy (2 works)