Patrice P. Rusconi - Dipartimento di Psicologia

Curriculum Vitae
Patrice P. Rusconi
Born October 6, 1981 in Lecco (Italy)
Nationality: Italian
Gender: male
Department of Psychology
University of Milano-Bicocca
Piazza Ateneo Nuovo 1, 20126 Milano (Italy)
Email: [email protected], [email protected]
Phone: 0039-3348556646
CURRENT POSITION
January, 2011 - today
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Psychology,
University of Milano-Bicocca.
EDUCATION
August 27, 2008 - December 21, 2008
January 11, 2009 - July 10, 2009
March 22, 2010 - June 11, 2010
Visiting scholar at the University of California, San Diego
(UCSD).Advisors: Prof. Craig R. M. McKenzie (Department
of Psychology and Rady School of Management) and Prof.
David E. Huber (Department of Psychology - CEMNL:
Cognitive Experiments, Models, and Neuroscience,
Laboratory).
November 2006 - November 2010
PhD in Social, Cognitive and Clinical Psychology at the
University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Psychology.
Supervisor: Prof. Paolo Cherubini. Dissertation title:
«Search and Evaluation Strategies in Belief Revision:
Psychological Mechanisms and Normative Deviations».
(thesis defended on January 21, 2011).
December 14, 2005
Master’s degree in Psychology with honors, University of
Milano-Bicocca. Title of the degree dissertation: «Vincoli e
strategie nel ragionamento sillogistico con materiale
astratto» («Constraints and strategies in the syllogistic
reasoning with abstract material»). Supervisors: Prof. Paolo
Cherubini, Dr. Carlo Reverberi.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Hypothesis testing; human sensitivity to information; pain assessment; impression formation; attentional
blink; syllogistic reasoning.
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PUBLICATIONS
JOURNAL ARTICLES (* corresponding author)
1. *Rusconi, P., & McKenzie, C. R. M. (in press). Insensitivity and oversensitivity to answer
diagnosticity in hypothesis testing. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. doi:
10.1080/17470218.2013.793732
5-year impact factor (2011 JCR Social Science Edition): 2.354, ERA§ 2010: A
2. Sacchi, S., Rusconi, P., Bonomi, M., & Cherubini, P. (in press). Effects of asymmetric questions
on impression formation: A trade-off between evidence diagnosticity and frequency. Social
Psychology. doi: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000158
5-year impact factor (2011 JCR Social Science Edition): 1.146, ERA 2010: C
3. *Rusconi, P., Marelli, M., Russo, S., D’Addario, M., & Cherubini, P. (2013). Integration of base
rates and new information in an abstract hypothesis-testing task. British Journal of Psychology,
104, 193−211. doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8295.2012.02112.x
5-year impact factor (2011 JCR Social Science Edition): 2.821, ERA 2010: B
4. Cherubini, P., *Rusconi, P., Russo, S., & Crippa, F. (in press). Missing the dog that failed to bark
in the nighttime: On the overestimation of occurrences over non-occurrences in hypothesis
testing. Psychological Research. doi: 10.1007/s00426-012-0430-3
5-year impact factor (2011 JCR Social Science Edition): 2.371, ERA 2010: B
5. Sacchi, S., Rusconi, P., Russo, S., Bettiga, R., & Cherubini, P. (2012). New knowledge for old
credences: Asymmetric information search about in-group and out-group members. British
Journal of Social Psychology, 51, 606−625. doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8309.2011.02026.x
5-year impact factor (2011 JCR Social Science Edition): 2.430, ERA 2010: B
6. *Rusconi, P., Sacchi, S., Toscano, A., & Cherubini, P. (2012). Confirming expectations in
asymmetric and symmetric social hypothesis testing. Experimental Psychology, 59, 243−250. doi:
10.1027/1618-3169/a000149
5-year impact factor (2011 JCR Social Science Edition): 2.186, ERA 2010: B
7. *Rusconi, P., Crippa, F., Russo, S., & Cherubini, P. (2012). Moderators of the feature-positive
effect in abstract hypothesis-evaluation tasks. Canadian Journal of Experimental
Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, 66, 181−192. doi:
10.1037/a0028173
5-year impact factor (2011 JCR Social Science Edition): 1.561, ERA 2010: B
8. Brambilla, M., Sacchi, S., Rusconi, P., Cherubini, P., & Yzerbyt, V. Y. (2012). You want to give
a good impression? Be honest! Moral traits dominate group impression formation. British Journal
of Social Psychology, 51, 149−166. doi: 10.1111/j.2044-835X.2010.02011.x
5-year impact factor (2011 JCR Social Science Edition): 2.430, ERA 2010: B
9. Riva, P., Rusconi, P., Montali, L., & Cherubini, P. (2011). The influence of anchoring on pain
judgment. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 42(2), 265−277. doi:
10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2010.10.264
5-year impact factor (2011 JCR Science Edition): 3.106, ERA 2010: B
Impact factor, 2012 Thomson Reuters, 2011 Journal Citation Reports®: 2.503.
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10. Brambilla, M., Rusconi, P., Sacchi, S., & Cherubini, P. (2011). Looking for Honesty: The
Primary Role of Morality (vs. Sociability and Competence) in Information Gathering. European
Journal of Social Psychology, 41(2), 135−143. doi: 10.1002/ejsp.744.
5-year impact factor (2011 JCR Social Science Edition): 2.117, ERA 2010: A
Impact factor, 2012 Thomson Reuters, 2011 Journal Citation Reports®: 1.466.
11. Cherubini, P., Rusconi, P., Russo, S., Di Bari, S., & Sacchi, S. (2010). Preferences for different
questions when testing hypotheses in an abstract task: positivity does play a role, asymmetry does
not. Acta Psychologica, 134(2), 162−174. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2010.01.007.
5-year impact factor (2011 JCR Social Science Edition): 2.609, ERA 2010: A
Impact factor, 2011 Thomson Reuters, 2010 Journal Citation Reports®: 2.246.
12. *Rusconi, P., Riva, P., Cherubini, P., & Montali, L. (2010). Taking into account the observers’
uncertainty: a graduated approach to the credibility of the patient’s pain evaluation. Journal of
Behavioral Medicine, 33(1), 60−71. doi: 10.1007/s10865-009-9232-5.
5-year impact factor (2011 JCR Social Science Edition): 4.303, ERA 2010: A
Impact factor, 2011 Thomson Reuters, 2010 Journal Citation Reports®: 3.232.
13. Reverberi, C., Rusconi, P., Paulesu, E., & Cherubini, P. (2009). Response demands and the
recruitment of heuristic strategies in syllogistic reasoning. Quarterly Journal of Experimental
Psychology, 62(3), 513−530. doi: 10.1080/17470210801995010.
5-year impact factor (2011 JCR Social Science Edition): 2.354, ERA 2010: A
Impact factor, 2010 Thomson Reuters, 2009 Journal Citation Reports®: 2.016.
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The ranked journal list relative to 2010 made by the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA)
initiative is available at the following link:
http://www.arc.gov.au/era/era_2010/archive/era_journal_list.htm
PAPER IN REVISION (MAJOR)
1. *Rusconi, P., Marelli, M., D’Addario, M., Russo, S., & Cherubini, P. Optimal data evaluation:
On the descriptive adequacy of Bayesian models of the value of obtained information.
BOOK CHAPTERS
1. (in Italian) Cherubini, P., Russo, S., Rusconi, P., D’Addario, M., & Boccuti, I. (2009). Il
ragionamento probabilistico nella diagnosi medica: sensibilità e insensibilità alle informazioni
[Probabilistic reasoning in medical diagnoses: sensitivity and insensitivity to information]. In P.
Giaretta, A. Moretto, G. F. Gensini, and M. Trabucchi (Eds.), Filosofia della medicina: Metodo,
modelli, cura ed errori [Philosophy of Medicine: Method, Models, Treatment and Errors] (pp.
541-564). Bologna, Italy: Il Mulino.
2. (in Italian) Riva, P., & Rusconi, P. (2012). Il dolore sociale [Social pain]. In P. Cherubini (Ed.),
Manuale di psicologia generale [Handbook of general psychology]. Milano, Italy: Raffaello
Cortina Editore.
3. (in Italian) Rusconi, P., & Riva, P. (2012). La stima del livello di dolore [The assessment of the
pain level]. In P. Cherubini (Ed.), Manuale di psicologia generale [Handbook of general
psychology]. Milano, Italy: Raffaello Cortina Editore.
PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS
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1. Rusconi, P., Riva, P., Cherubini, P., & Montali, L. (2009). A graduate approach to credibility
attribution in pain assessment. European Journal of Pain, 13(1, Supplement): S223.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
April 9, 2013
P-value, intervalli di confidenza ed effect size: definizioni e
concezioni erronee (P-value, confidence intervals and effect size:
Definitions and erroneous conceptions). Seminar lesson held for the
PhD course in Social, Cognitive and Clinical Psychology at the
Department of Psychology of the University of Milano-Bicocca.
December 17, 2012
Una logica delle decisioni (A logic of decisions). Invited speaker
for a lesson in the undergraduate class of Negotiation, thought and
decision held by Prof. Paolo Cherubini at the University of MilanoBicocca.
December 10, 2012
Logica mentale vs. modelli mentali (Mental logic vs. mental
models). Invited speaker for a lesson in the undergraduate class of
Negotiation, thought and decision held by Prof. Paolo Cherubini at
the University of Milano-Bicocca.
November 5, 2012
I processi di pensiero induttivi (The inductive processes of
thinking). Invited speaker for a lesson in the undergraduate class of
Negotiation, thought and decision held by Prof. Paolo Cherubini at
the University of Milano-Bicocca.
October 29, 2012
Controllo di ipotesi nei contesti sociali (Hypothesis testing in social
contexts). Invited speaker for a lesson in the undergraduate class of
Social Cognition held by Dr. Simona Sacchi (PhD) at the University
of Milano-Bicocca.
From November 2011
Teacher assistant for the following courses:
- Psychology of Thinking.
- General Psychology II.
- Psychology of Thinking and Decision Processes.
November 28-29, 2011
Ricerca di informazioni e tendenza alla conferma nel controllo di
ipotesi (Information search and tendency to confirmation in
hypothesis testing), Valutazione di informazioni e tendenza alla
conferma nel controllo di ipotesi (Information evaluation and
tendency to confirmation in hypothesis testing). Invited speaker for
two lessons in the undergraduate class of Psychology of Thinking
and decision processes: advanced class held by Prof. Paolo
Cherubini at the University of Milano-Bicocca.
November 16, 2011
Ricerca di informazioni e tendenza alla conferma (Information
search and tendency to confirmation). Invited speaker for a lesson in
the undergraduate class of Social Cognition held by Dr. Simona
Sacchi (PhD) at the University of Milano-Bicocca.
June 14, 2011
Controllo e valutazione di ipotesi: strategie e meccanismi
psicologici che influenzano la ricerca e la valutazione di
informazioni (Hypothesis testing and evaluation: Strategies and
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psychological mechanisms that influence information search and
evaluation). Seminar lesson held for the PhD course in Social,
Cognitive and Clinical Psychology at the Department of Psychology
of the University of Milano-Bicocca.
November 6, 2009
Ricerca di informazioni e tendenza alla conferma (Information
search and tendency to confirmation). Invited speaker for a lesson in
the undergraduate class of Social Cognition held by Dr. Simona
Sacchi (PhD) at the University of Milano-Bicocca.
July 24, 2009
Consciousness, attention, and pathology. Invited speaker for two
lessons in the class “Medicine and the Brain” held by Marco Mion
for the Oxbridge Academic Programs at the Jesus College,
Cambridge, UK (reference: Dyton Simon,
[email protected])
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
¾ 2011 – Co-investigator in the research group funded by the “Fondo di Ateneo”. Title: Meccanismi
cognitivi e basi neurali del ragionamento e della decisione [Cognitive mechanisms and neural
bases of reasoning and decision]. Coordinator: Prof. Paolo Cherubini. € 4.526,64
¾ 2010 – Co-investigator in the research group funded by the “Fondo di Ateneo”. Title: Meccanismi
cognitivi e basi neurali del ragionamento e nella decisione [Cognitive mechanisms and neural
bases of reasoning and decision]. Coordinator: Prof. Paolo Cherubini. € 4.558,28
¾ 2009 – Co-investigator in the research group funded by the “ATE Fondo di Ateneo”. Title:
Meccanismi cognitivi e basi neurali del ragionamento [Cognitive mechanisms and neural bases of
reasoning]. Coordinator: Prof. Paolo Cherubini. € 4.183,56
¾ 2008 – Co-investigator in the research group funded by the “ATE Fondo di Ateneo”. Title:
Meccanismi basici, cognitivi e neurali, del ragionamento deduttivo e induttivo: aspetti teorici e
aspetti applicativi [Basic, cognitive and neural, mechanisms of deductive and inductive reasoning:
theoretical and applied aspects]. Coordinator: Prof. Paolo Cherubini. € 7.701,36
¾ 2008 – Awarded of a fellowship for promising young scientists of the title: “Strategies of
information search in social hypothesis testing”, under the scientific direction of Prof. Paolo
Cherubini, of the duration of 10 months and of the cost of €9.580,00 ($14,924 U.S. Dollars)
starting from March 1, 2008.
¾ 2007 – Co-investigator in the research group funded by the “Fondo d’Ateneo per la Ricerca”
(F.A.R.). Title: Meccanismi cognitivi e basi neurali del ragionamento induttivo [Cognitive
mechanisms and neural bases of inductive reasoning]. Coordinator: Prof. Paolo Cherubini.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
1. Giromini, L., Brusadelli, E., Rusconi, P., & Lang, M. (March, 2013). A Study on Noninsight
Problems, Insight Problems, and the Rorschach Test, poster presented at the Society for
Personality Assessment (SPA) 2013 Annual Meeting, San Diego (California, Usa).
2. Rusconi, P., Marelli, M., Russo, S., & Cherubini, P. (November, 2011). The additive integration
of prior probabilities and new present information in one-shot tasks of hypothesis evaluation,
poster presented at the 32nd Annual Conference of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making
(SJDM), Seattle (Washington, Usa).
3. Brambilla, M., Sacchi, S., Rusconi, P., Cherubini, P., & Yzerbyt, V. Y. (July, 2011). The leading
role of morality in the impression-formation process, poster presented at the 16th General Meeting
of the European Association for Social Psychology, Stockholm (Sweden).
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4. Sacchi, S., Cherubini, P., Rusconi, P., & Bonomi, M. (July, 2011). Information gathering on
social targets: The trade-off between frequency and diagnosticity, poster presented at the 16th
General Meeting of the European Association for Social Psychology, Stockholm (Sweden).
5. Rusconi, P., Cherubini, P., Russo, S., Di Bari, S., & Sacchi, S. (November, 2010). What is a good
question? Positivity and diagnosticity drive people’s testing preferences in abstract tasks.
Asymmetry does not, poster presented at the 31st Annual Conference of the Society for Judgment
and Decision Making (SJDM), St. Louis (Missouri, Usa).
6. Brambilla, M., Rusconi, P., Sacchi, S., & Cherubini, P. (October, 2010). Fundamental
Dimensions of Social Judgment: Sociability and Morality as Distinct Characteristics of Social
Warmth, talk given at the Expert Meeting: The “Big Two” Content Dimensions in Social
Cognition and Behavior (sponsored by ESCON and DFG), Neuendettelsau (Germany).
7. Sacchi, S., Brambilla, M., Rusconi, P., & Cherubini, P. (September, 2010). Dimensioni
fondamentali del giudizio sociale: evidenze sull’importanza di moralità nella formazione di
impressioni, talk given at the X National Congress of the Social Psychology Section of the Italian
Psychological Society (AIP), Torino (Italy).
8. Brambilla, M., Sacchi, S., Rusconi, P., & Cherubini, P. (September, 2010). Fundamental
Dimensions of Social Judgment: The leading role of morality in the impression-formation
process, poster presented at the BPS (British Psychological Society) Social Psychology Section
Annual Conference 2010 “Social Psychology in Action: Theoretical Debate and Social Impact”,
University of Winchester, Winchester (UK).
9. Rusconi, P., Riva, P., Montali, L., & Cherubini, P. (January 2010). The role of initial impressions
when evaluating credibility in the observers-patients relationship, poster presented at the 11th
Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Las Vegas
(Nevada, USA).
10. Brambilla, M., Rusconi, P., Sacchi, S., & Cherubini, P. (January 2010). You want to give a good
impression? Be honest! Moral traits dominate impression formation, poster presented at the 11th
Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), Las Vegas
(Nevada, USA).
11. Rusconi, P., & McKenzie, C. R. M. (November 2009). Testing different accounts of insensitivity
to answer diagnosticity, poster presented at the 30th Annual Conference of the Society for
Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM), Boston (Massachusetts, USA).
12. Sacchi, S., Brambilla, M., Rusconi, P., & Cherubini, P. (September 2009). Selezione di
informazioni e dimensioni stereotipiche: il ruolo primario di moralità, talk given at the IX
National Congress of the Social Psychology Section of the Italian Psychological Society (AIP),
Cagliari (Italy).
13. Brambilla, M., Rusconi, P., Sacchi, S., & Cherubini, P. (September 2009). On the importance of
morality (vs. sociability and competence) in information-gathering, poster presented at the BPS
(British Psychological Society) Social Psychology Section Annual Conference, Sheffield (UK).
14. Rusconi, P., Riva, P., Cherubini, P., & Montali, L. (September 2009). A graduate approach to
credibility attribution in pain assessment, poster presented at the 6th Congress of the European
Federation of IASP Chapters (EFIC) - PAIN IN EUROPE VI, Lisbon (Portugal).
15. Rusconi, P., Russo, S., & Cherubini, P. (September 2009). How the presence of information
directs people when selecting hypotheses, poster presented at the 26th Annual Cognitive
Psychology Section Conference 2009 of the British Psychological Society (BPS), de Havilland
Campus, University of Hertfordshire (UK).
16. Rusconi, P., Russo, S., & Cherubini, P. (August 2009). Misweighing clues: A feature-positive
effect in belief update, poster presented at the Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making
(SPUDM 22) Conference, Rovereto (Italy).
17. Sacchi, S., Cherubini, P., Rusconi, P., & Russo, S. (April 2009). Information Search and
Stereotyping, talk given at the PRIN International Conference, “Xenophobia, Prejudice and
Interethnic Relations”, Milan (Italy).
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18. Rusconi, P., Russo, S., Sacchi, S., & Cherubini, P. (June 2008). Social and cognitive factors
affecting information search for ingroup and outgroup members, poster presented at the 15th
General Meeting of the European Association of Experimental Social Psychology (EAESP),
Opatija (Croatia).
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
July, 2010 - today
member of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM).
September, 2012 - today
full member of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP).
May, 2010 - September, 2012 associate member of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology
(ESCoP).
July, 2009 - today
member of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
June 1999 - August 23, 2008
September 13, 2009 - March 21, 2010
June 13, 2010 - October 23, 2011
contributor at the «Giornale di Lecco», Lecco (Italy)
writing articles concerning local sports events for a
weekly paper. From October 24, 2007 on the register
of journalists - list of contributors, card number
125587.
March 13, 2008
qualified for the profession of psychologist.
March 15, 2006 - March 15, 2007
training required for the qualification for the
profession of psychologist, University of MilanoBicocca, Department of Psychology. Supervisor:
Prof. Paolo Cherubini.
SPOKEN LANGUAGES
Italian, French (Diplôme du DELF 1er degré (A1, A2, A3, A4), session du mois de mai 2000), English,
German (Zertifikat Deutsch (Gesamtnote: gut), am 31.05.2000).
STATISTICAL AND PROGRAMMING SKILLS
Statistical data analysis with R and SPSS.
Basic knowledge of the E-Prime software.
REFERENCES
Paolo Cherubini
Full Professor, Department of Psychology,
University of Milano-Bicocca
1, P.zza Ateneo Nuovo, 20126 Milano (Italy)
Office: +39 02 64483811
Facsimile: +39 02 6448 3706
Mobile: +39 338 6296089
e-mail: [email protected]
Craig R. M. McKenzie
Professor of Management and Strategy,
Rady School of Management
Professor of Psychology
9500 Gilman Drive - MC 0553 UC San Diego
La Jolla CA 92093-0553 USA
tel: 858.534.8075
fax: 858.534.7190
e-mail: [email protected]
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David E. Huber
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0109
(858) 822-1630
e-mail: [email protected]
Last update: April 11, 2013
Simona Sacchi
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Milano-Bicocca
1, P.zza Ateneo Nuovo, 20126 Milano (Italy)
tel. 0039-02-64483821
fax 0039-02-64483706
e-mail: [email protected]