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Mario Dalmaso
@mariodalmaso.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Experimental Psychology, University of Padova 🇪🇺
http://colab.psy.unipd.it/mario-dalmaso/
New publication out:

Ethnicity does not matter: Comparable reversed congruency effects for gaze stimuli from same- and other-ethnicity faces.
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Ethnicity does not matter: Comparable reversed congruency effects for gaze stimuli from same- and other-ethnicity faces - Psychological Research
In spatial Stroop tasks with gaze stimuli, the reversed congruency effect (RCE) refers to slower responses in congruent (i.e., a gaze pointing right presented on the right side of the screen) than inc...
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October 30, 2025 at 9:18 AM
The “Face Perception” Collection is now complete.
Read our editorial: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Explore the full collection: www.nature.com/collections/...
Face perception: a window into the social mind - Scientific Reports
This editorial introduces a broad Collection of works highlighting the central role of faces, the richest and most complex of social stimuli, in human behaviour. The Collection covers work from variou...
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September 4, 2025 at 8:04 AM
New paper out!
Mind wandering "leaves" a trace in our eyes.
We show that tiny, involuntary eye movements (microsaccades) reveal when our mind drifts away from the task at hand.
doi.org/10.1016/j.bi...
Redirecting
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August 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
What we eat says who we are.
Our new cross cultural study shows that people prioritise foods linked to their own culture.
Italy vs Japan, same effect, different flavours.

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<em>British Journal of Psychology</em> | Wiley Online Library
Previous research has shown that the concept of self is malleable and can be associated with various arbitrary stimuli. This study explored whether the self could be linked to images of food represen...
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August 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
New paper out: “Uncovering everyday attention in the lab: Front-viewed heads boost overt social orienting”
Published in Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications

Open access: doi.org/10.1186/s412...

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Uncovering everyday attention in the lab: front-viewed heads boost overt social orienting - Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications
Social attention can be defined as the tendency to orient attentional resources in response to spatial cues provided by others, such as their gaze or head direction. This mechanism is essential for na...
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August 2, 2025 at 5:43 AM
Reposted by Mario Dalmaso
PhD position opening in Padova. It is a multidisciplinary project in Experimental Aesthetics and Psychology of Art.
www.bertamini.org/lab/MIRACLE....
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April 6, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Do we really need real faces? Our new paper tests whether schematic faces are just as powerful in guiding attention

"A direct comparison of gaze-mediated orienting elicited by schematic and real human faces"
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A direct comparison of gaze-mediated orienting elicited by schematic and real human faces
During social interactions, we tend to orient our visual attention towards the spatial location indicated by the gaze direction of others. However, mo…
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March 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
New study in AP&P
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A SNARC-like effect for visual speed

Results show a consistent left-to-right spatial representation of visual speed, influenced by movement direction. Read more here: t.co/KUldglk5kA
January 30, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Reposted by Mario Dalmaso
We're on the lookout for passionate minds to join us as reviewers for #CogSci2025. This is your chance to be among the first to check out groundbreaking research while playing a crucial role in shaping the future of #CogSci

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December 4, 2024 at 4:52 PM
New research in 'Consciousness and Cognition' shows that arrows automatically shift attention, even when unhelpful or when they are always pointing in the same direction
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
October 23, 2024 at 9:57 AM
New open-access paper out:
The self can be associated with novel faces of in-group and out-group members: A cross-cultural study
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) The self can be associated with novel faces of in-group and out-group members: A cross-cultural study
PDF | The self can be associated with arbitrary images, such as geometric figures or unknown faces. By adopting a cross-cultural perspective, we... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on R...
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September 28, 2024 at 11:23 AM