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Cristiano Castelfranchi

Cristiano Castelfranchi

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Psychology

D-Index
57
Citations
14681
World Ranking
3994
National Ranking
61

Cristiano Castelfranchi publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Cristiano Castelfranchi sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 251 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Cristiano Castelfranchi D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Cristiano Castelfranchi sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 57 D-Index — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Mind & Brain Prize, University and Polytechnic of Turin

Overview

Cristiano Castelfranchi is affiliated with the National Research Council (CNR) in Italy. Their research spans multiple disciplines within social sciences and neuroscience, contributing to studies in cognitive neuroscience, sociology and political science, social psychology, safety research, and artificial intelligence.

Their work covers a range of topics, including:

  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
  • Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Cristiano Castelfranchi include:

  • Rino Falcone
  • Elisa Colí
  • Alessandro Sapienza
  • Fabio Paglieri
  • Silvia Felletti

Publications have appeared in several venues, notably:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Scientific Reports
  • 2020 IEEE International Conference on Human-Machine Systems (ICHMS)
  • Intelligenza Artificiale
  • Frontiers in Physics

Recent papers by Cristiano Castelfranchi include:

  • "All We Need Is Trust: How the COVID-19 Outbreak Reconfigured Trust in Italian Public Institutions" (2020, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • "Trusting COVID-19 vaccines as individual and social goal" (2022, Scientific Reports)
  • "Guilt, shame, and embarrassment: similar or different emotions? A comparison between Italians and Americans" (2023, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • "For a Science-oriented, Socially Responsible, and Self-aware AI: beyond ethical issues" (2020, 2020 IEEE International Conference on Human-Machine Systems (ICHMS))
  • "Human-robot interaction through adjustable social autonomy" (2022, Intelligenza Artificiale)

The research places particular focus on themes such as trust, especially in the context of public institutions and vaccination efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as ethical and social aspects of artificial intelligence. The intersection of moral and emotional judgment with neuroscience appears regularly in their published work.

Cristiano Castelfranchi received the Mind & Brain Prize from the University and Polytechnic of Turin in 2007, recognizing contributions in their field.

Best Publications

  • Cognitive and social action

    Rosaria Conte;Cristiano Castelfranchi

  • Principles of trust for MAS: cognitive anatomy, social importance, and quantification

    C. Castelfranchi;R. Falcone

  • Trust Theory: A Socio-Cognitive and Computational Model

    Christiano Castelfranchi;Rino Falcone

  • Modelling social action for AI agents

    Cristiano Castelfranchi

  • Social trust: a cognitive approach

    Rino Falcone;Cristiano Castelfranchi

  • Commitments: From Individual Intentions to Groups and Organizations

    Cristiano Castelfranchi

  • The challenge of abstract concepts.

    Anna M. Borghi;Ferdinand Binkofski;Cristiano Castelfranchi;Felice Cimatti

  • A social reasoning mechanism based on dependence networks

    Jaime Simão Sichman;Rosaria Conte;Yves Demazeau;Cristiano Castelfranchi

  • Guarantees for autonomy in cognitive agent architecture

    Cristiano Castelfranchi

  • Words as social tools: Language, sociality and inner grounding in abstract concepts.

    Anna M. Borghi;Anna M. Borghi;Laura Barca;Ferdinand Binkofski;Cristiano Castelfranchi

  • Trust is much more than subjective probability: mental components and sources of trust

    C. Castelfranchi;R. Falcone

  • The envious mind

    Maria Miceli;Cristiano Castelfranchi

  • Coordination Artifacts: Environment-Based Coordination for Intelligent Agents

    Andrea Omicini;Alessandro Ricci;Mirko Viroli;Cristiano Castelfranchi

  • Engineering Social Order

    Cristiano Castelfranchi

  • Trust and deception in virtual societies

    Christiano Castelfranchi;Yao-Hua Tan

  • A fuzzy approach to a belief-based trust computation

    Rino Falcone;Giovanni Pezzulo;Cristiano Castelfranchi

  • Normative reputation and the costs of compliance.

    Cristiano Castelfranchi;Rosaria Conte;Mario Paolucci

  • The Role of Trust and Deception in Virtual Societies

    Cristiano Castelfranchi;Yao-Hua Tan

  • Thinking as the control of imagination: a conceptual framework for goal-directed systems

    Giovanni Pezzulo;Cristiano Castelfranchi

  • Hope The Power of Wish and Possibility

    Maria Miceli;Cristiano Castelfranchi

  • Modeling social action for AI agents

    Cristiano Castelfranchi

Frequent Co-Authors

Giovanni Pezzulo
Giovanni Pezzulo National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Rosaria Conte
Rosaria Conte National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Martin V. Butz
Martin V. Butz University of Tübingen
Alessandro Ricci
Alessandro Ricci University of Bologna
Anna M. Borghi
Anna M. Borghi Sapienza University of Rome
Frank Dignum
Frank Dignum Umeå University
Jan Treur
Jan Treur Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Catholijn M. Jonker
Catholijn M. Jonker Delft University of Technology
Ferdinand Binkofski
Ferdinand Binkofski RWTH Aachen University
Andrea Omicini
Andrea Omicini University of Bologna

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