PERUGINI MARCO

Research interests span the various fields of personality, social psychology, and experimental psychology, with a keen eye on methodological and psychometric issues. They are part of a broader interest in individual differences, personality traits, attitudes, social cognition, and in the factors that underlie evaluation and motivation and influence behavior, as well as in the relevant quantitative methods and techniques.
In personality, the interests are on general taxonomies of broad personality dimensions (so-called Big Five and Big Six) and on the development and application of implicit measures. My interests also focus on the role of individual differences, including in terms of motivations and goals, within a broader dynamic situation-person interaction perspective.
My background in Psychometrics and quantitative research methodology is the cornerstone supporting all theoretical interests. Most statistical methods are applied and refined depending on the specific needs. I have been involved in the replicability debate in Psychology since its beginning, and I have authored several publications on related issues, including on power analysis.
Another research interest is in developing, applying, and testing models of decision-making within the tradition of attitude theory and social cognition. A related research interest is on behavioral change, initially concerning health and environmental-related behaviors, which dovetails nicely with the interest in personality trait change.
Further research interest is in evaluative learning and the use of related paradigms as a means to form and change attitudes. A recent research direction is in considering also the role of personality traits, for example, Neuroticism, in affecting evaluative learning, for example, evaluative conditioning.
Finally, a related interest is in the use of inferences by people, such as when they extrapolate and apply some features about one concept target given some features of a concept source and some, even superficial, commonalities among the two, without being necessarily aware of the underlying process.
Given my broad scientific interests, I am also involved in several national and international collaborations on a range of topics with colleagues from several countries (e.g., USA, UK, Germany, Belgium, France).