Giulio Vidotto
Biographic Data
| ID | 4117869 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giulio Vidotto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giulio |
| FAMILY NAME | Vidotto |
| SIGNATURE | VIDOTTO G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Padua |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3854-5087 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Plausibility, persuasion, and truth
Large language models can produce fluent, coherent, and persuasive responses even when the information on which they rely is partial, contested, or false. In disputed domains, this may leave some users with the impression that they are being deliberately misled. This Comment argues that the phenomenon is better understood in structural than intentional terms. It results from the convergence of four features of current systems: optimization for pl…
The role of the Covid-19 impersonal threat strengthening the associations of right-wing attitudes, nationalism and anti-immigrant sentiments
Literature showed that the link between right-wing attitudes and ethnocentric attitudes gets stronger under existential threats, but the role exerted by an impersonal threat – as COVID-19 – on right-wing attitudes is still unclear. This study aimed to highlight the role of anxiety exerted by the impersonal COVID-19 threat on the relationship between right-wing attitudes and ethnocentric attitudes, as nationalism and anti-immigrants’ sentiments. A…
Assessment of perceived support in the context of emergency
In research and clinical contexts, it is important to briefly evaluate perceived Psychological and Social Support (PSS) to plan psychological interventions and allocate efforts and resources. However, an appropriate brief assessment tool for PSS was lacking. This study aimed at developing a brief and accurate scale to specifically measure PSS in clinical and emergency contexts, with specific, relevant, targeted, and irredundant items. Experienced…
The Effect of Partial Sleep Deprivation and Time-on-Task on Young Drivers’ Subjective and Objective Sleepiness
Despite sleepiness being considered one of the main factors contributing to road crashes, and even though extensive efforts have been made in the identification of techniques able to detect it, the assessment of fitness-to-drive regarding driving fatigue and sleepiness is still an open issue. In the literature on driver sleepiness, both vehicle-based measures and behavioral measures are used. Concerning the former, the one considered more reliabl…
The Different Roles of Hedonic and Eudaimonic Motives for Activities in Predicting Functioning and Well-Being Experiences
Research on hedonic and eudaimonic orientations has previously focused on their effects on well-being experiences. Very little is known about their associations with functioning. A preliminary objective of the study was to establish the factorial validity of the Hedonic and Eudaimonic Motives for Activities–Revised (HEMA-R) on an Italian sample (N = 461) through a confirmatory factor analysis. The main objective was to study the distinctive patte…
Exploring Diener’s Multidimensional Conceptualization of Well-Being Through Network Psychometrics
Previous research has addressed the study of the well-being structure focusing on the separability among hedonic and eudaimonic dimensions by means of latent variable approaches. Diener's tripartite model of Subjective Well-Being has often been identified with hedonic well-being, while flourishing (i.e., positive functioning) has been classified as a proxy for eudaimonic well-being. Instead of pursuing a theory-driven approach, the structure of w…
Ats-Pd
The clinical assessment of mental disorders can be a time-consuming and error-prone procedure, consisting of a sequence of diagnostic hypothesis formulation and testing aimed at restricting the set of plausible diagnoses for the patient. In this article, we propose a novel computerized system for the adaptive testing of psychological disorders. The proposed system combines a mathematical representation of psychological disorders, known as the “fo…
Predictors of Interest in Sexual and Sentimental Relationships among Gay Males
Little is known of the factors that influence an individual's interest in stable relationships. The drive to have support in child care is one, as evidenced by evolutionary theory, but that does not explain the formation of stable homosexual relationships, in which there is no risk of pregnancy from casual sex. Surveys were administered to 177 gay males to understand this phenomenon. Anxious attachment style and base sex drive were found to be th…
The Italian Version of the Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire
An experimental version of the Italian Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire with a 5-point scale was administered to a group of 1,000 high school students, 200 within each age group from 11 to 15 years. Following a previous exploratory factor analysis, which yielded a fourth factor in addition to the original three, the aim of the present research was to study the factor structure of the Italian version using confirmatory factor analysis. Thr…
The Italian Version of the Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire
The Italian Version of the Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire
Assessment of Organizational Trust
The EORTC Quality of Life Questionnaire-Head and Neck 35 in Italian Laryngectomized Patients
Temporal Characteristics in Infant Cry and Non-Cry Vocalizations
Cry and non-cry vocalizations in four infants, videorecorded between 4 and 8 months of age, were analyzed by spectrograph in order to extract their temporal features. The vocalizations were classified with respect to their communicative value on the basis of situational context. Temporal parameters considered were: sequence length, pause duration, and vocalization duration. In order to analyze the influence of communicative value and non-segmenta…
Temporal Characteristics in Infant Cry and Non-Cry Vocalizations
Cry and non-cry vocalizations in four infants, videorecorded between 4 and 8 months of age, were analyzed by spectrograph in order to extract their temporal features. The vocalizations were classified with respect to their communicative value on the basis of situational context. Temporal parameters considered were: sequence length, pause duration, and vocalization duration. In order to analyze the influence of communicative value and non-segmenta…
The EORTC Quality of Life Questionnaire-Head and Neck 35 in Italian Laryngectomized Patients
The Italian Version of the Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire
An experimental version of the Italian Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire with a 5-point scale was administered to a group of 1,000 high school students, 200 within each age group from 11 to 15 years. Following a previous exploratory factor analysis, which yielded a fourth factor in addition to the original three, the aim of the present research was to study the factor structure of the Italian version using confirmatory factor analysis. Thr…
The Italian Version of the Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire
The Italian Version of the Junior Eysenck Personality Questionnaire
Assessment of Organizational Trust
Predictors of Interest in Sexual and Sentimental Relationships among Gay Males
Little is known of the factors that influence an individual's interest in stable relationships. The drive to have support in child care is one, as evidenced by evolutionary theory, but that does not explain the formation of stable homosexual relationships, in which there is no risk of pregnancy from casual sex. Surveys were administered to 177 gay males to understand this phenomenon. Anxious attachment style and base sex drive were found to be th…
Ats-Pd
The clinical assessment of mental disorders can be a time-consuming and error-prone procedure, consisting of a sequence of diagnostic hypothesis formulation and testing aimed at restricting the set of plausible diagnoses for the patient. In this article, we propose a novel computerized system for the adaptive testing of psychological disorders. The proposed system combines a mathematical representation of psychological disorders, known as the “fo…
Exploring Diener’s Multidimensional Conceptualization of Well-Being Through Network Psychometrics
Previous research has addressed the study of the well-being structure focusing on the separability among hedonic and eudaimonic dimensions by means of latent variable approaches. Diener's tripartite model of Subjective Well-Being has often been identified with hedonic well-being, while flourishing (i.e., positive functioning) has been classified as a proxy for eudaimonic well-being. Instead of pursuing a theory-driven approach, the structure of w…
The Different Roles of Hedonic and Eudaimonic Motives for Activities in Predicting Functioning and Well-Being Experiences
Research on hedonic and eudaimonic orientations has previously focused on their effects on well-being experiences. Very little is known about their associations with functioning. A preliminary objective of the study was to establish the factorial validity of the Hedonic and Eudaimonic Motives for Activities–Revised (HEMA-R) on an Italian sample (N = 461) through a confirmatory factor analysis. The main objective was to study the distinctive patte…
Assessment of perceived support in the context of emergency
In research and clinical contexts, it is important to briefly evaluate perceived Psychological and Social Support (PSS) to plan psychological interventions and allocate efforts and resources. However, an appropriate brief assessment tool for PSS was lacking. This study aimed at developing a brief and accurate scale to specifically measure PSS in clinical and emergency contexts, with specific, relevant, targeted, and irredundant items. Experienced…
The Effect of Partial Sleep Deprivation and Time-on-Task on Young Drivers’ Subjective and Objective Sleepiness
Despite sleepiness being considered one of the main factors contributing to road crashes, and even though extensive efforts have been made in the identification of techniques able to detect it, the assessment of fitness-to-drive regarding driving fatigue and sleepiness is still an open issue. In the literature on driver sleepiness, both vehicle-based measures and behavioral measures are used. Concerning the former, the one considered more reliabl…
The role of the Covid-19 impersonal threat strengthening the associations of right-wing attitudes, nationalism and anti-immigrant sentiments
Literature showed that the link between right-wing attitudes and ethnocentric attitudes gets stronger under existential threats, but the role exerted by an impersonal threat – as COVID-19 – on right-wing attitudes is still unclear. This study aimed to highlight the role of anxiety exerted by the impersonal COVID-19 threat on the relationship between right-wing attitudes and ethnocentric attitudes, as nationalism and anti-immigrants’ sentiments. A…
Plausibility, persuasion, and truth
Large language models can produce fluent, coherent, and persuasive responses even when the information on which they rely is partial, contested, or false. In disputed domains, this may leave some users with the impression that they are being deliberately misled. This Comment argues that the phenomenon is better understood in structural than intentional terms. It results from the convergence of four features of current systems: optimization for pl…
Psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Psychometrics (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Statistics (4 works) · Big Five personality traits (3 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works)