Pietro Pietrini
Biographic Data
| ID | 88348 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pietro Pietrini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pietro |
| FAMILY NAME | Pietrini |
| SIGNATURE | PIETRINI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6768-5556 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Humans incorrectly reject confident accusatory AI judgments
Automated verbal deception detection using methods from Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been shown to outperform humans in disentangling lies from truths. Research suggests that transparency and interpretability of computational methods tend to increase human acceptance of using AI to support decisions. However, the extent to which humans accept AI judgments for deception detection remains unclear. We experimentally examined how an AI model’s ac…
Addressing insanity in paedophilic disorder: The need for a cognitive approach for forensic assessment to correctly identify idiopathic, acquired and iatrogenic forms
Assessing insanity in individuals with paedophilic disorder presents unique challenges, particularly due to the diverse aetiologies of the condition, which lead to varying symptomatology and behavioural manifestations. To address this complexity, in this article we overview the characteristics of three variants of paedophilic disorder - idiopathic, acquired, and iatrogenic - and highlight the key obstacles in differentiating these forms, resultin…
Sexual assault by a gynecologist with two frontal lobe meningiomas: Implications and challenges for forensic psychiatric assessment: a case report
Brain diseases may determine the development of focal neurological deficits and behavioral anomalies. In some cases, behavioral alterations may lead to illicit demeanours which, in turn, may have potential serious legal consequences as well. We report the case of a male gynecologist in his seventies sued by a young female patient for sexual violence. The man had no significant premorbid medical history and was a respected medical doctor with seve…
Under‐Interpretation of Neuroimaging Data in Insanity Assessment: A Hidden Risk
Neuroimaging data can provide valuable insights into insanity evaluations, but the debate over its use for legal purposes is far from resolved. While much attention has been given to the risks of over‐interpretation, potential errors stemming from under‐interpretation received less scrutiny. In this paper, we aim to showcase how this error may influence the results of an insanity evaluation by presenting an Italian forensic case. The defendant pr…
Detecting Deception Through Linguistic Cues: From Reality Monitoring to Natural Language Processing
Detecting deception in interpersonal communication is a pivotal issue in social psychology, with significant implications for court and criminal proceedings. In this study, four experiments were designed to compare the performance of natural language processing (NLP) techniques and human judges in detecting deception from linguistic cues in a dataset of 62 transcriptions of video-taped interviews (32 genuine and 30 deceptive). The results showed …
A modality-independent proto-organization of human multisensory areas
The processing of multisensory information is based upon the capacity of brain regions, such as the superior temporal cortex, to combine information across modalities. However, it is still unclear whether the representation of coherent auditory and visual events requires any prior audiovisual experience to develop and function. Here we measured brain synchronization during the presentation of an audiovisual, audio-only or video-only version of th…
ANKK1 and TH gene variants in combination with paternal maltreatment increase susceptibility to both cognitive and attentive impulsivity
Recent scientific findings suggest that dopamine exerts a central role on impulsivity, as well as that aversive life experiences may promote the high levels of impulsivity that often underlie violent behavior. To deepen our understanding of the complex gene by environment interplay on impulsive behavior, we genotyped six dopaminergic allelic variants ( ANKK1 -rs1800497, TH -rs6356, DRD4 -rs1800955, DRD4 -exonIII-VNTR, SLC6A3 -VNTR and COMT -rs468…
The detection of faked identity using unexpected questions and choice reaction times
The identification of faked identities, especially within the Internet environment, still remains a challenging issue both for companies and researchers. Recently, however, latency-based lie detection techniques have been developed to evaluate whether the respondent is the real owner of a certain identity. Among the paradigms applied to this purpose, the technique of asking unexpected questions has proved to be useful to differentiate liars from …
Translational Application of a Neuro-Scientific Multi-Modal Approach Into Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation: Why and How
A prominent body of literature indicates that insanity evaluations, which are intended to provide influential expert reports for judges to reach a decision " beyond any reasonable doubt ," suffer from a low inter-rater reliability. This paper reviews the limitations of the classical approach to insanity evaluation and the criticisms to the introduction of neuro-scientific approach in court. Here, we explain why in our opinion these criticisms, th…
Neuroethics: Ethics of Science and Science of Ethics
Forgiveness, Health, and Well-Being: A Review of Evidence for Emotional Versus Decisional Forgiveness, Dispositional Forgivingness, and Reduced Unforgiveness
On Cultural Constraints on Pirahã Grammar
Distributed and Overlapping Representations of Faces and Objects in Ventral Temporal Cortex
The functional architecture of the object vision pathway in the human brain was investigated using functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure patterns of response in ventral temporal cortex while subjects viewed faces, cats, five categories of man-made objects, and nonsense pictures. A distinct pattern of response was found for each stimulus category. The distinctiveness of the response to a given category was not due simply to the regions …
Distributed and Overlapping Representations of Faces and Objects in Ventral Temporal Cortex
The functional architecture of the object vision pathway in the human brain was investigated using functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure patterns of response in ventral temporal cortex while subjects viewed faces, cats, five categories of man-made objects, and nonsense pictures. A distinct pattern of response was found for each stimulus category. The distinctiveness of the response to a given category was not due simply to the regions …
On Cultural Constraints on Pirahã Grammar
Forgiveness, Health, and Well-Being: A Review of Evidence for Emotional Versus Decisional Forgiveness, Dispositional Forgivingness, and Reduced Unforgiveness
Neuroethics: Ethics of Science and Science of Ethics
The detection of faked identity using unexpected questions and choice reaction times
The identification of faked identities, especially within the Internet environment, still remains a challenging issue both for companies and researchers. Recently, however, latency-based lie detection techniques have been developed to evaluate whether the respondent is the real owner of a certain identity. Among the paradigms applied to this purpose, the technique of asking unexpected questions has proved to be useful to differentiate liars from …
Translational Application of a Neuro-Scientific Multi-Modal Approach Into Forensic Psychiatric Evaluation: Why and How
A prominent body of literature indicates that insanity evaluations, which are intended to provide influential expert reports for judges to reach a decision " beyond any reasonable doubt ," suffer from a low inter-rater reliability. This paper reviews the limitations of the classical approach to insanity evaluation and the criticisms to the introduction of neuro-scientific approach in court. Here, we explain why in our opinion these criticisms, th…
ANKK1 and TH gene variants in combination with paternal maltreatment increase susceptibility to both cognitive and attentive impulsivity
Recent scientific findings suggest that dopamine exerts a central role on impulsivity, as well as that aversive life experiences may promote the high levels of impulsivity that often underlie violent behavior. To deepen our understanding of the complex gene by environment interplay on impulsive behavior, we genotyped six dopaminergic allelic variants ( ANKK1 -rs1800497, TH -rs6356, DRD4 -rs1800955, DRD4 -exonIII-VNTR, SLC6A3 -VNTR and COMT -rs468…
A modality-independent proto-organization of human multisensory areas
The processing of multisensory information is based upon the capacity of brain regions, such as the superior temporal cortex, to combine information across modalities. However, it is still unclear whether the representation of coherent auditory and visual events requires any prior audiovisual experience to develop and function. Here we measured brain synchronization during the presentation of an audiovisual, audio-only or video-only version of th…
Under‐Interpretation of Neuroimaging Data in Insanity Assessment: A Hidden Risk
Neuroimaging data can provide valuable insights into insanity evaluations, but the debate over its use for legal purposes is far from resolved. While much attention has been given to the risks of over‐interpretation, potential errors stemming from under‐interpretation received less scrutiny. In this paper, we aim to showcase how this error may influence the results of an insanity evaluation by presenting an Italian forensic case. The defendant pr…
Detecting Deception Through Linguistic Cues: From Reality Monitoring to Natural Language Processing
Detecting deception in interpersonal communication is a pivotal issue in social psychology, with significant implications for court and criminal proceedings. In this study, four experiments were designed to compare the performance of natural language processing (NLP) techniques and human judges in detecting deception from linguistic cues in a dataset of 62 transcriptions of video-taped interviews (32 genuine and 30 deceptive). The results showed …
Humans incorrectly reject confident accusatory AI judgments
Automated verbal deception detection using methods from Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been shown to outperform humans in disentangling lies from truths. Research suggests that transparency and interpretability of computational methods tend to increase human acceptance of using AI to support decisions. However, the extent to which humans accept AI judgments for deception detection remains unclear. We experimentally examined how an AI model’s ac…
Addressing insanity in paedophilic disorder: The need for a cognitive approach for forensic assessment to correctly identify idiopathic, acquired and iatrogenic forms
Assessing insanity in individuals with paedophilic disorder presents unique challenges, particularly due to the diverse aetiologies of the condition, which lead to varying symptomatology and behavioural manifestations. To address this complexity, in this article we overview the characteristics of three variants of paedophilic disorder - idiopathic, acquired, and iatrogenic - and highlight the key obstacles in differentiating these forms, resultin…
Sexual assault by a gynecologist with two frontal lobe meningiomas: Implications and challenges for forensic psychiatric assessment: a case report
Brain diseases may determine the development of focal neurological deficits and behavioral anomalies. In some cases, behavioral alterations may lead to illicit demeanours which, in turn, may have potential serious legal consequences as well. We report the case of a male gynecologist in his seventies sued by a young female patient for sexual violence. The man had no significant premorbid medical history and was a respected medical doctor with seve…
Psychology (9 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Neuroscience (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Cognition (3 works) · Deception detection and forensic psychology (3 works) · Insanity (3 works) · Insanity defense (3 works)