Chiara Pecini
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5877290 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Chiara Pecini |
| NOMBRES | Chiara |
| APELLIDO | Pecini |
| FIRMA | PECINI C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Florence |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2577-5980 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Impact of Social Robot Interaction on Engagement and Narrative Complexity in Primary School Children
Social robots are increasingly being integrated into educational settings as they can enhance engagement and learning, particularly in young learners. This study explored the impact of a social robot (NAO) during a storytelling activity with primary school children, focusing on engagement, narrative skills, and introspective language, compared to the interaction with a standard technological device such as a tablet). It was hypothesized that, in …
The Role of Sexual Goals Fit in Interactions
In the current article, we tested the social interaction model of objectification to explore the effects of the activation and compatibility of sexual goals on women's perceptions of sexual objectification and behavioral intentions. Studies 1 ( N = 272) and 2 ( N = 141), conducted in Italy, demonstrated the importance of women's sexual goals in shaping favorable perceptions and subsequent behavioral intentions in sexually objectifying interaction…
Child engagement during interaction with digital and robotic activities
Introduction In the last decades we assisted in the exponential increase of information and robotic technologies for remote learning and rehabilitation. Such procedures are associated with a decrease of human interaction and “in person” control of responses, characteristics that, especially when children or youth are involved, can affect learning performances. Thus, online quantitative, and qualitative indicators of child's psychological engageme…
Emotional engagement in a humor-understanding reading task
Misconceptions about neurodevelopmental disorders among Italian special education teachers
Neurodevelopmental neuromyths, misconceptions about development, were frequently endorsed by Italian SEND teachers. • On average, Italian SEND teachers endorsed 27.9 % of neurodevelopmental neuromyths. • Neuroscience training is linked to reduced belief in such misconceptions. • Instructional practices reflect both evidence-based and neuromyth-influenced approaches. • SEND teachers often lacked explicit neuroscientific rationale in their instruct…
Love Me Inside Out
The purpose of the present research was to investigate how objectification manifests in romantic relationships and its determining features. Despite abundant literature on sexual objectification, there are few studies about body and appearance valuation between romantic partners. Therefore, we aimed to identify concrete behavioral exemplars of how objectification manifests and is interpreted in the context of romantic relationships. Likewise, we …
No Hard Feelings
In the current research, we investigated whether self-objectification (i.e., giving priority to physical appearance over other personal attributes) and self-dehumanization (i.e., the denial of one's humanity) are associated with an impaired ability to understand others’ emotions, as reflected in empathy (both affective and cognitive) and mental state understanding, as measured by theory of mind i.e., the ability to comprehend others’ mental and e…
Integrating Executive Function Activities Into a Computerized Cognitive Training to Enhance Reading Comprehension in Primary Students
It is acknowledged the need for interventions to improve reading comprehension and its cognitive underpinnings, such as executive functions. The present study implemented a computerized cognitive training for enhancing reading comprehension in primary school children through EF activities embedded in text comprehension exercises. 263 third and fourth graders were involved in this study and randomly divided into experimental ( n = 156, M age = 9.0…
Socio-emotional behavior, learning, and the distinct contributions of Executive Functions in primary graders
Socio-emotional school behavior and learning are both fundamental aspects of children’s development influenced by cognitive control processes named Executive Functions (EF). Yet, research on school-age children has often focused on the relationship between EF and learning skills overlooking that of EF and school behavior, which has usually been examined among preschoolers. The current study investigated the contribution of EF in both school behav…
Improving executive functions at school. Integrating metacognitive exercise in class and computerized training at home to ensure training intensity and generalization. A feasibility pilot study
Previous research has demonstrated the effectiveness of executive functions (EFs) training, both in computer‐based and school‐based formats. However, there is limited research on the combined effects of these training modalities. This study aims to assess the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of an EFs training programme for primary school children. The programme includes computerized training sessions for home use and school activities with m…
Who Is in Charge? Partner-Sexual Objectification, Personal Power, and Relationship Satisfaction in Heterosexual Women
Exploring the impact of sexual objectification within romantic relationships is an emerging field of study. Previous work has typically associated sexual objectification by a romantic partner with adverse outcomes for both the individual and the relationship. Our research sought to build upon and advance this emerging body of literature by investigating the link between partner-sexual objectification and women's personal power. Personal power, de…
Proxemic Behaviors During Gay/Straight Interactions
150), we investigated proxemic behaviors featuring gay/straight dyadic interactions. In doing so, for the first time, we relied on an IR depth camera and considered the interpersonal volume between the interactants, a novel feature that exhaustively captures interactants' proxemic behaviors. Study 1 revealed that the straight participants' implicit sexual bias - but not the explicit prejudice - significantly predicted their volume while interacti…
Which executive functions affect text comprehension and writing in paper and digital mode? An investigation in primary school children
The scientific literature supports the hypothesis of a disadvantage in students' performances when learning tasks are conducted in the digital mode in comparison to the paper one. Some studies suggest the need of investigating the role of individual cognitive functioning in digital reading and writing with special attention to those cognitive processes, such as Executive Functions (EF), which are acknowledged to control and affect learning and sc…
Body Shame in 7–12-Year-Old Girls and Boys
Guided by the Tripartite Influence Model and Objectification Theory, we examined whether parents' attention to their children's appearance was related to higher body shame in girls and boys. In Study 1 ( N = 195) and 2 ( N = 163), we investigated 7-12-year-old children's metaperceptions about parents' attention to their appearance and its association with children's body shame. In Study 3, we examined the link between parents' self-reported atten…
Executive Functions and Rapid Automatized Naming
Executive function deficits are documented in many neurodevelopmental disorders and may contribute to clinical complexity or rehabilitation resilience. The present research was primarily aimed at presenting and evaluating the feasibility and effectiveness of a telerehabilitation program used during the pandemic period. MemoRAN (Anastasis), a computerised cognitive training to improve executive control during visual-verbal integration tasks was us…
Investigating Children’s Ability to Express Internal States through Narratives and Drawings
The COVID-19 pandemic emergency has challenged children's socio-affective and cognitive development. It is essential to capture the modulation of their emotional experience through ecological and children-friendly tasks, such as written narratives and drawings. This contribution investigates the impact of pandemic experience (2020-2021 waves) on the internal states and emotions of the primary school age children, according to a longitudinal resea…
Stop looking at me! associations between men's partner‐objectification and women's self‐objectification, body shame and life satisfaction in romantic relationships
A growing amount of empirical evidence shows that sexual objectification can be elicited within the context of romantic relationships, leading to adverse consequences for women's well‐being. However, most of this research assessed women's self‐reported perceptions of being objectified by their romantic partner, while scant and not converging research has considered men's objectifying perceptions toward their romantic partners. Furthermore, little…
Attention Components and Spelling Accuracy
Attention and working memory are cross-domain functions that regulate both behavioural and learning processes. Few longitudinal studies have focused on the impact of these cognitive resources on spelling skills in the early phase of learning to write. This longitudinal study investigates the contributions of attention and working memory processes to spelling accuracy and handwriting speed in 112 primary school children (2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade; a…
Preschool Executive Functioning and Child Behavior
Preschool age is a golden period for the emergence of executive functions (EFs) that, in turn, predict learning and adaptive behavior throughout all life. The study was aimed to identify which EFs measures significantly explained the learning prerequisites and the mediation role of self-regulatory and executive behavior recorded in structured or free settings. One hundred and twenty-seven preschoolers were remotely assessed by standardized tests …
Dialogic Reading to Empower Executive Functions in Preschoolers
Among the interventions recently developed to enhance Executive Functions (EFs) in preschoolers, Quincey Quokka's Quest (QQQ) is an illustrated book proposing EF activities embedded within a shared reading framework (Howard et al., 2017). In the present study, the Italian version of QQQ (QQQ IT ) was tested in 20 typical developing 4-5 year old children. Standardized tests were used to assess EFs pre- and post- intervention. QQQ IT was conducted …
Associations between Learning and Behavioral Difficulties in Second-Grade Children
Learning and behavioral difficulties often emerge during the first years of primary school and are one of the most important issues of concern for families and schools. The study was aimed at investigating the co-occurrence of difficulties between academic learning and emotional-behavioral control in typically developing school children and the moderating role of sex. A sample of 640 second-grade school children participated in the study. This st…
How Young Children Treat Objects and People
Diagnostic boundaries between regulatory and multisystem developmental disorders
The objective of the study was to define diagnostic boundaries between Regulatory Disorders (RD) and Multisystem Developmental Disorders (MSDD). Two groups of 15 subjects, between 20 and 36 months of age, diagnosed as RD or MSDD, according to DC: 0–3 (1994) criteria, were compared in relationship, linguistic, and behavioral profiles using specific instruments. The results showed that both RD and MSDD children were impaired on all linguistic measu…
Stop looking at me! associations between men's partner‐objectification and women's self‐objectification, body shame and life satisfaction in romantic relationships
A growing amount of empirical evidence shows that sexual objectification can be elicited within the context of romantic relationships, leading to adverse consequences for women's well‐being. However, most of this research assessed women's self‐reported perceptions of being objectified by their romantic partner, while scant and not converging research has considered men's objectifying perceptions toward their romantic partners. Furthermore, little…
Body Shame in 7–12-Year-Old Girls and Boys
Guided by the Tripartite Influence Model and Objectification Theory, we examined whether parents' attention to their children's appearance was related to higher body shame in girls and boys. In Study 1 ( N = 195) and 2 ( N = 163), we investigated 7-12-year-old children's metaperceptions about parents' attention to their appearance and its association with children's body shame. In Study 3, we examined the link between parents' self-reported atten…
Diagnostic boundaries between regulatory and multisystem developmental disorders
The objective of the study was to define diagnostic boundaries between Regulatory Disorders (RD) and Multisystem Developmental Disorders (MSDD). Two groups of 15 subjects, between 20 and 36 months of age, diagnosed as RD or MSDD, according to DC: 0–3 (1994) criteria, were compared in relationship, linguistic, and behavioral profiles using specific instruments. The results showed that both RD and MSDD children were impaired on all linguistic measu…
Diagnostic boundaries between regulatory and multisystem developmental disorders
The objective of the study was to define diagnostic boundaries between Regulatory Disorders (RD) and Multisystem Developmental Disorders (MSDD). Two groups of 15 subjects, between 20 and 36 months of age, diagnosed as RD or MSDD, according to DC: 0–3 (1994) criteria, were compared in relationship, linguistic, and behavioral profiles using specific instruments. The results showed that both RD and MSDD children were impaired on all linguistic measu…
How Young Children Treat Objects and People
Associations between Learning and Behavioral Difficulties in Second-Grade Children
Learning and behavioral difficulties often emerge during the first years of primary school and are one of the most important issues of concern for families and schools. The study was aimed at investigating the co-occurrence of difficulties between academic learning and emotional-behavioral control in typically developing school children and the moderating role of sex. A sample of 640 second-grade school children participated in the study. This st…
Attention Components and Spelling Accuracy
Attention and working memory are cross-domain functions that regulate both behavioural and learning processes. Few longitudinal studies have focused on the impact of these cognitive resources on spelling skills in the early phase of learning to write. This longitudinal study investigates the contributions of attention and working memory processes to spelling accuracy and handwriting speed in 112 primary school children (2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade; a…
Preschool Executive Functioning and Child Behavior
Preschool age is a golden period for the emergence of executive functions (EFs) that, in turn, predict learning and adaptive behavior throughout all life. The study was aimed to identify which EFs measures significantly explained the learning prerequisites and the mediation role of self-regulatory and executive behavior recorded in structured or free settings. One hundred and twenty-seven preschoolers were remotely assessed by standardized tests …
Dialogic Reading to Empower Executive Functions in Preschoolers
Among the interventions recently developed to enhance Executive Functions (EFs) in preschoolers, Quincey Quokka's Quest (QQQ) is an illustrated book proposing EF activities embedded within a shared reading framework (Howard et al., 2017). In the present study, the Italian version of QQQ (QQQ IT ) was tested in 20 typical developing 4-5 year old children. Standardized tests were used to assess EFs pre- and post- intervention. QQQ IT was conducted …
Executive Functions and Rapid Automatized Naming
Executive function deficits are documented in many neurodevelopmental disorders and may contribute to clinical complexity or rehabilitation resilience. The present research was primarily aimed at presenting and evaluating the feasibility and effectiveness of a telerehabilitation program used during the pandemic period. MemoRAN (Anastasis), a computerised cognitive training to improve executive control during visual-verbal integration tasks was us…
Investigating Children’s Ability to Express Internal States through Narratives and Drawings
The COVID-19 pandemic emergency has challenged children's socio-affective and cognitive development. It is essential to capture the modulation of their emotional experience through ecological and children-friendly tasks, such as written narratives and drawings. This contribution investigates the impact of pandemic experience (2020-2021 waves) on the internal states and emotions of the primary school age children, according to a longitudinal resea…
Stop looking at me! associations between men's partner‐objectification and women's self‐objectification, body shame and life satisfaction in romantic relationships
A growing amount of empirical evidence shows that sexual objectification can be elicited within the context of romantic relationships, leading to adverse consequences for women's well‐being. However, most of this research assessed women's self‐reported perceptions of being objectified by their romantic partner, while scant and not converging research has considered men's objectifying perceptions toward their romantic partners. Furthermore, little…
Which executive functions affect text comprehension and writing in paper and digital mode? An investigation in primary school children
The scientific literature supports the hypothesis of a disadvantage in students' performances when learning tasks are conducted in the digital mode in comparison to the paper one. Some studies suggest the need of investigating the role of individual cognitive functioning in digital reading and writing with special attention to those cognitive processes, such as Executive Functions (EF), which are acknowledged to control and affect learning and sc…
Body Shame in 7–12-Year-Old Girls and Boys
Guided by the Tripartite Influence Model and Objectification Theory, we examined whether parents' attention to their children's appearance was related to higher body shame in girls and boys. In Study 1 ( N = 195) and 2 ( N = 163), we investigated 7-12-year-old children's metaperceptions about parents' attention to their appearance and its association with children's body shame. In Study 3, we examined the link between parents' self-reported atten…
Socio-emotional behavior, learning, and the distinct contributions of Executive Functions in primary graders
Socio-emotional school behavior and learning are both fundamental aspects of children’s development influenced by cognitive control processes named Executive Functions (EF). Yet, research on school-age children has often focused on the relationship between EF and learning skills overlooking that of EF and school behavior, which has usually been examined among preschoolers. The current study investigated the contribution of EF in both school behav…
Improving executive functions at school. Integrating metacognitive exercise in class and computerized training at home to ensure training intensity and generalization. A feasibility pilot study
Previous research has demonstrated the effectiveness of executive functions (EFs) training, both in computer‐based and school‐based formats. However, there is limited research on the combined effects of these training modalities. This study aims to assess the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of an EFs training programme for primary school children. The programme includes computerized training sessions for home use and school activities with m…
Who Is in Charge? Partner-Sexual Objectification, Personal Power, and Relationship Satisfaction in Heterosexual Women
Exploring the impact of sexual objectification within romantic relationships is an emerging field of study. Previous work has typically associated sexual objectification by a romantic partner with adverse outcomes for both the individual and the relationship. Our research sought to build upon and advance this emerging body of literature by investigating the link between partner-sexual objectification and women's personal power. Personal power, de…
Proxemic Behaviors During Gay/Straight Interactions
150), we investigated proxemic behaviors featuring gay/straight dyadic interactions. In doing so, for the first time, we relied on an IR depth camera and considered the interpersonal volume between the interactants, a novel feature that exhaustively captures interactants' proxemic behaviors. Study 1 revealed that the straight participants' implicit sexual bias - but not the explicit prejudice - significantly predicted their volume while interacti…
Child engagement during interaction with digital and robotic activities
Introduction In the last decades we assisted in the exponential increase of information and robotic technologies for remote learning and rehabilitation. Such procedures are associated with a decrease of human interaction and “in person” control of responses, characteristics that, especially when children or youth are involved, can affect learning performances. Thus, online quantitative, and qualitative indicators of child's psychological engageme…
Emotional engagement in a humor-understanding reading task
Misconceptions about neurodevelopmental disorders among Italian special education teachers
Neurodevelopmental neuromyths, misconceptions about development, were frequently endorsed by Italian SEND teachers. • On average, Italian SEND teachers endorsed 27.9 % of neurodevelopmental neuromyths. • Neuroscience training is linked to reduced belief in such misconceptions. • Instructional practices reflect both evidence-based and neuromyth-influenced approaches. • SEND teachers often lacked explicit neuroscientific rationale in their instruct…
Love Me Inside Out
The purpose of the present research was to investigate how objectification manifests in romantic relationships and its determining features. Despite abundant literature on sexual objectification, there are few studies about body and appearance valuation between romantic partners. Therefore, we aimed to identify concrete behavioral exemplars of how objectification manifests and is interpreted in the context of romantic relationships. Likewise, we …
No Hard Feelings
In the current research, we investigated whether self-objectification (i.e., giving priority to physical appearance over other personal attributes) and self-dehumanization (i.e., the denial of one's humanity) are associated with an impaired ability to understand others’ emotions, as reflected in empathy (both affective and cognitive) and mental state understanding, as measured by theory of mind i.e., the ability to comprehend others’ mental and e…
Integrating Executive Function Activities Into a Computerized Cognitive Training to Enhance Reading Comprehension in Primary Students
It is acknowledged the need for interventions to improve reading comprehension and its cognitive underpinnings, such as executive functions. The present study implemented a computerized cognitive training for enhancing reading comprehension in primary school children through EF activities embedded in text comprehension exercises. 263 third and fourth graders were involved in this study and randomly divided into experimental ( n = 156, M age = 9.0…
The Impact of Social Robot Interaction on Engagement and Narrative Complexity in Primary School Children
Social robots are increasingly being integrated into educational settings as they can enhance engagement and learning, particularly in young learners. This study explored the impact of a social robot (NAO) during a storytelling activity with primary school children, focusing on engagement, narrative skills, and introspective language, compared to the interaction with a standard technological device such as a tablet). It was hypothesized that, in …
The Role of Sexual Goals Fit in Interactions
In the current article, we tested the social interaction model of objectification to explore the effects of the activation and compatibility of sexual goals on women's perceptions of sexual objectification and behavioral intentions. Studies 1 ( N = 272) and 2 ( N = 141), conducted in Italy, demonstrated the importance of women's sexual goals in shaping favorable perceptions and subsequent behavioral intentions in sexually objectifying interaction…
Psychology (19 obras) · Developmental psychology (14 obras) · Cognition (11 obras) · Cognitive psychology (7 obras) · Executive functions (7 obras) · Linguistics (7 obras) · Educational and Psychological Assessments (6 obras) · Objectification (6 obras) · Social Psychology (6 obras) · Social Psychology (5 obras)