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Daniela Villani is affiliated with the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Italy. Their research focuses primarily on the intersection of psychology and computer science, with 60 publications in psychology and 20 in computer science.

Their work covers several subfields including clinical psychology, social psychology, human-computer interaction, applied psychology, and developmental and educational psychology. Research topics encompass virtual reality applications and impacts, COVID-19 and mental health, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, optimism, hope and well-being, religion, spirituality and psychology, mindfulness and compassion interventions, and identity, memory, and therapy.

Daniela Villani has contributed to multiple papers, among which are:

  • Immersive virtual reality in K-12 and higher education: A 10-year systematic review of empirical research (2020), published in British Journal of Educational Technology
  • Knowledge, Concerns, and Behaviors of Individuals During the First Week of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic in Italy (2020), published in JAMA Network Open
  • COVID Feel Good-An Easy Self-Help Virtual Reality Protocol to Overcome the Psychological Burden of Coronavirus (2020), published in Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Prevalence and health correlates of Online Fatigue: A cross-sectional study on the Italian academic community during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021), published in PLoS ONE
  • The role of perceived social support on pregnant women's mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic (2022), published in Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Villani include Giuseppe Riva, Anna Flavia Di Natale, Elisa Pancini, Claudia Repetto, and Andrea Gaggioli.

Their research is published often in venues such as Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking, BMC Psychology, Current Psychiatry Reports, British Journal of Educational Technology, and JAMA Network Open.

Best Publications

  • Affective Interactions Using Virtual Reality: The Link between Presence and Emotions

    Giuseppe Riva;Fabrizia Mantovani;Claret Samantha Capideville;Alessandra Preziosa

  • Immersive virtual reality in K-12 and higher education: A 10-year systematic review of empirical research

    Anna Flavia Di Natale;Claudia Repetto;Giuseppe Riva;Daniela Villani

  • Videogames for Emotion Regulation: A Systematic Review

    Daniela Villani;Claudia Carissoli;Stefano Triberti;Antonella Marchetti

  • The Role of Spirituality and Religiosity in Subjective Well-Being of Individuals With Different Religious Status.

    Daniela Villani;Angela Sorgente;Paola Iannello;Alessandro Antonietti

  • Individual Differences in Cognitive Emotion Regulation: Implications for Subjective and Psychological Well-Being

    Stefania Balzarotti;Federica Biassoni;Daniela Villani;Antonio Prunas

  • May I experience more presence in doing the same thing in virtual reality than in reality? An answer from a simulated job interview

    D. Villani;C. Repetto;P. Cipresso;G. Riva

  • New Technologies for Relaxation: The Role of Presence

    Daniela Villani;Francesco Riva;Giuseppe Riva

  • Self-Help Stress Management Training Through Mobile Phones: An Experience With Oncology Nurses

    Daniela Villani;Alessandra Grassi;Chiara Cognetta;Davide Toniolo

  • Does a Meditation Protocol Supported by a Mobile Application Help People Reduce Stress? Suggestions from a Controlled Pragmatic Trial

    Claudia Carissoli;Daniela Villani;Giuseppe Riva

  • Is your phone so smart to affect your state? An exploratory study based on psychophysiological measures

    Pietro Cipresso;Silvia Serino;Daniela Villani;Claudia Repetto

  • Personality of people using chat: an on-line research.

    Luigi Anolli;Daniela Villani;Giuseppe Riva

  • Predictors of Health-related Quality of Life and Adjustment to Prostate Cancer During Active Surveillance

    Lara Bellardita;Tiziana Rancati;Maria Francesca Alvisi;Daniela Villani

  • NeuroVR: an open source virtual reality platform for clinical psychology and behavioral neurosciences.

    Giuseppe Riva;Andrea Gaggioli;Daniela Villani;Alessandra Preziosa

  • Toward a validation of cyber-interventions for stress disorders based on stress inoculation training: a systematic review

    Silvia Serino;Stefano Triberti;Daniela Villani;Pietro Cipresso

  • Does Interactive Media Enhance the Management of Stress? Suggestions from a Controlled Study

    Daniela Villani;Giuseppe Riva

  • What matters is when you play: Investigating the relationship between online video games addiction and time spent playing over specific day phases

    Stefano Triberti;Stefano Triberti;Luca Milani;Daniela Villani;Serena Grumi

  • Changing Avatars, Changing Selves? The Influence of Social and Contextual Expectations on Digital Rendition of Identity

    Stefano Triberti;Ilaria Durosini;Filippo Aschieri;Daniela Villani

  • COVID Feel Good—An Easy Self-Help Virtual Reality Protocol to Overcome the Psychological Burden of Coronavirus

    Giuseppe Riva;Luca Bernardelli;Matthew H. E. M. Browning;Gianluca Castelnuovo

  • Knowledge, Concerns, and Behaviors of Individuals During the First Week of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic in Italy.

    Francesco Pagnini;Francesco Pagnini;Andrea Bonanomi;Semira Tagliabue;Michela Balconi

  • Prevalence and health correlates of Onine Fatigue: A cross-sectional study on the Italian academic community during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Andrea Bonanomi;Federica Facchin;Serena Barello;Daniela Villani

  • Visual exploration patterns of human figures in action: an eye tracker study with art paintings.

    Daniela Villani;Francesca Morganti;Pietro Cipresso;Simona Ruggi

Frequent Co-Authors

Giuseppe Riva
Giuseppe Riva Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Andrea Gaggioli
Andrea Gaggioli Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Stefano Triberti
Stefano Triberti University of Milan
Pietro Cipresso
Pietro Cipresso Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Silvia Serino
Silvia Serino University of Milano-Bicocca
Enrico Molinari
Enrico Molinari Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Gianluca Castelnuovo
Gianluca Castelnuovo Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Rosa M. Baños
Rosa M. Baños University of Valencia
Cristina Botella
Cristina Botella Jaume I University
Francesco Pagnini
Francesco Pagnini Catholic University of the Sacred Heart

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