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Andrea Pittarello, Ph.D. 

 

Pittarello

Contact: 

andrea.pittarello@stonybrook.edu
Office: Psychology B-301
Phone: (631) 632-7807

Current Research:

Project 1: How can we change people’s attitudes towards vaccines? Preliminary work showed that people who felt forced to get a shot tend to overestimate the likelihood of suffering side effects, despite the fact that the odds are extremely low. What is causing these erroneous perceptions? This project aims to unravel these hidden forces behind people’s misperceptions (e.g., belief in fake news, misinformation) and to test different nudges and interventions to change them.

Project 2: How does the presence of others affect people’s willingness to help? Initial evidence showed that people in a position of resource disadvantage are more prone to help others than those in a position of resource advantage. This is true only when one’s resources can be evaluated. In other words, people who have less give more, but only in the presence of better off others. The question is: What is driving this effect? This project will examine both psychological drivers (e.g., regret, sense of responsibility) as well as information processing strategies (e.g., the order in which information about others’ resources are presented).

Project 3: Does emotional intelligence shape our emotional expressions when presented with different hazards? And if so, how does it affect people’s risk perception? Initial data showed that people who are better at managing, controlling and recognizing their emotions are less likely to display negative emotions (measured implicitly via face reading technology) when presented with a series of risks. This project aims to replicate and extend this research by looking at other ways to manipulate emotional management.

More projects will be available during the semester. Please reach out to me to learn more.

Publications and papers under review

  1. DeMetropolis, S., M., & Pittarello, A. (2024). Visual attention to semantic and orthographic associations in fluent aphasia: Evidence from Eye Tracking. Perceptual and Motor Skills. DOI: 1177/00315125241248309
  2. Pittarello, A., & Motro, D. (2024) “Women who cry to manipulate others face more backlash than men”. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.237
  3. Pittarello, A., & Rubaltelli, E. The effect of immediacy and delay on affective reactions and preferences towards certain and uncertain gambles. Invited revision in Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.
  4. Abseysekera, A., P., & Pittarello, A. Examining the Impact of Moral Purity and Corporate Responses to Sexual Harassment on Individual Investment Decision-Making (Under review in Journal of Business Ethics)
  5. Pittarello, A., Schmidt, T., Segel, A., & Mayo, R. (2023) “Compliance and reciprocity following norm nudges mainly depend on prior behavior” Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2327
  6. Kogut, T., Pittarello, A., & Slovic, P. (2023) “The fear of personal death and the willingness to commit to organ donation. Social Psychological and Personality Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506231198135
  7. Motro, D., Pittarello, A., Nolan, K., Shahani-Denning, C., & Lenaghan, J. (2023) "The Dark Side of Leave: How Voluntary Leave Shapes Preferences for Male and Female Supervisors". Journal of Managerial Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1108/JMP-05-2021-0267
  8. Pittarello, A., & Rubaltelli, E., (2023) “The Certainty Effect for Gains and Losses Emerges in Joint Evaluation but not Always in Separate Evaluation”. American Journal of Psychology. https://doi.org/10.5406/19398298.135.4.02
  9. Pittarello, A., Motsenok, M., Ritov, I., & Dickert, S. (2022). “Resource evaluability determines when the poor give more than the rich". Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.2293.
  10. Pittarello, A., Kogut, T. (2021). To Ask or Not to Ask: Enhancing Donations to Nonprofits by Soliciting Opinions Upfront, Rather than Donations", Journal of Business and Psychology, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-021-09771-2.
  11. Pittarello, A., Fratescu, M., & Mathôt, S. (2021). Temptation Shapes Dishonesty and can Alter Working Memory, Current Psychology, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02339-6.
  12. Pittarello, A., & Foti, R. J. (2021). “Context corrupts: What makes leaders fail to see their (mis)behaviors”, in Judgment and Leadership: A multidisciplinary approach to concepts, practice, and development, Edward Elgar Publishing: New York.
  13. Pittarello, A., & Motro D. (2021).”Dishonesty”. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible (edited by Vlad Petre Glăveanu), Springer International Publishing (in press).
  14. Pittarello, A., Caserotti, M., & Rubaltelli, E. (2020). “Three is better than two”. Increasing donations with the attraction effect. British Journal of Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12428
  15. Leib, M, Pittarello, A, Gordon-Hecker, T., Shalvi, S., & Roskes, M. (2019). Loss framing increases self-serving mistakes (but does not alter attention). Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2019.103880
  16. Pittarello, A., Fratescu, M, & Mathôt, S. (2019). Visual saliency influences ethical blind spots and (dis)honesty. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, DOI: 10.3758/s13423-019-01638-1
  17. Gordon-Hecker, T., Pittarello, A., Shalvi, S., & Roskes, M. (2019). Buy-One-Get-One Free Deals Attract More Attention than Percentage Deals. Journal of Business Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.02.070
  18. Rubaltelli, E*., & Pittarello, A*. (2018). Negative Emotion and Trait Emotional Intelligence in Reaction to Terrorist Attacks. Personality and Individual Differences, 123,247-252. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.11.036 * denotes share authorship
  19. Canale, N., Rubaltelli, E., Vieno, A., Pittarello, A., Billieux, J. (2017). Impulsivity influences betting under stress in laboratory gambling. Scientific Reports, doi:10.1038/s41598-017-10745-9.
  20. Pittarello, A., Conte, B., Caserotti, M., Scrimin, S., Rubaltelli, E. (2017). Emotional intelligence buffers the effect of physiological arousal on dishonesty. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, doi:10.3758/s13423-017-1285-9.
  21. Gordon-Hecker, T., Rosensaft-Eshel, D., Pittarello, A., Shalvi, S., & Bereby-Meyer, Y. (2017). Not Taking Responsibility: Equity trumps efficiency in allocation decisions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146, 771-775. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000273
  22. Motro, D., Ordóñez, L., Pittarello, A., & Welsh, D. (2016). Investigating the effects of anger and guilt on unethical decision-making: A dual process approach. Journal of Business Ethics,doi: 10.1007/s10551-016-3337-x.
  23. Ordóñez, L., Benson, L., & Pittarello, A. (2016). Time pressure perception and decision-making. In G. Keren and G. Wu (Eds): The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making.
  24. Pittarello, A., Rubaltelli, E., & Motro, D. (2016). Legitimate lies: The relationship between omission, commission, and cheating. European Journal of Social Psychology, 46, 481-491. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2179
  25. Pittarello, A., Motro, D., Rubaltelli, E., & Pluchino, P. (2016). The relationship between attention allocation and cheating. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 23, 609-616. doi: 10.3758/s13423-015-0935-z
  26. Pittarello, A., Leib, M., Gordon-Hecker, T., & Shalvi, S. (2015). Justifications shape ethical blind spots. Psychological Science, 26, 794-804. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797615571018
  27. Agnoli, S*., Pittarello, A*., Hysenbelli, D*., & Rubaltelli, E*. (2015). Give, but give until it hurts: The modulatory role of trait emotional intelligence on the motivation to help. PlosOne, 10(6), e0130704. * denotes share authorship
  28. Motro, D., Ordóñez, L., & Pittarello, A. (2014). Investigating the effects of anger and guilt on unethical behavior: A Self-regulation approach. In Academy of Management Proceedings (Vol. 2014, No. 1, p. 16865). Academy of Management.
  29. Pittarello, A., Rubaltelli, E., & Rumiati, R. (2013). You can't be better than me: The role of the reference point in modulating people's pursuit of wealth. Journal of Economic Psychology, 37, 65-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2013.05.006
  30. Pittarello, A. (2013). Tax evasion: Cognitive processes and taxpayer behavior. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, XXXIX, n. 4, 53-76 (Language: Italian).