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Emanuele Castano

Emanuele Castano

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
31
Citations
8363
World Ranking
11049
National Ranking
259

Emanuele Castano 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 Emanuele Castano sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 76 publications — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Emanuele Castano 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 Emanuele Castano sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 31 D-Index — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Emanuele Castano is affiliated with the University of Trento in Italy and has contributed extensively to the fields of psychology and social sciences. Their research primarily focuses on social psychology and literature's influence on cognition, with additional work intersecting experimental and cognitive psychology as well as cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's published work covers a range of topics including media influence and health, social and intergroup psychology, animal and plant science education, misinformation and its impacts, language, metaphor, and cognition, action observation and synchronization, and death anxiety and social exclusion.

Frequent co-authors of Emanuele Castano include Pietro Perconti, Alison Jane Martingano, Elisa Monti, Wendy D'Andrea, and Linda M. Carroll, indicating collaboration across related interdisciplinary studies.

Publication venues where Emanuele Castano has contributed include:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Empirical Studies of the Arts
  • Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology

Selected recent papers by Emanuele Castano are:

  • The effect of exposure to fiction on attributional complexity, egocentric bias and accuracy in social perception, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Art films foster theory of mind, 2021, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
  • Exposure to Literary Fiction Is Associated With Lower Psychological Essentialism, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology

Emanuele Castano's main fields of study consist of psychology with a total of 14 publications, and social sciences with eight publications. Their subfields cover social psychology, literature and literary theory, sociology and political science, experimental and cognitive psychology, and cognitive neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • Reading Literary Fiction Improves Theory of Mind

    David Comer Kidd;Emanuele Castano

  • Not quite human: infrahumanization in response to collective responsibility for intergroup killing.

    Emanuele Castano;Roger Giner-Sorolla

  • I Belong, therefore, I Exist: Ingroup Identification, Ingroup Entitativity, and Ingroup Bias

    Emanuele Castano;Vincent Yzerbyt;Maria-Paola Paladino;Simona Sacchi

  • Forgive and Forget? Antecedents and Consequences of Intergroup Forgiveness in Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Sabina Cehajic;Rupert Brown;Emanuele Castano

  • Ingroup Glorification, Moral Disengagement, and Justice in the Context of Collective Violence

    Bernhard Leidner;Emanuele Castano;Erica Zaiser;Roger Giner-Sorolla

  • Social Class is Dead. Long Live Social Class! Stereotype Threat among Low Socioeconomic Status Individuals

    Bettina Spencer;Emanuele Castano

  • Who may enter? The impact of in-group identification on in-group/out-group categorization

    Emanuele Castano;Vincent Yzerbyt;David Bourguignon;Eleonore Seron

  • We are one and I like it: The impact of ingroup entitativity on ingroup identification

    Emanuele Castano;Vincent Yzerbyt;David Bourguignon

  • The Primacy of the Ingroup: The Interplay of Entitativity and Identification

    Vincent Yzerbyt;Emanuele Castano;Jacques-Philippe Leyens;Maria-Paola Paladino

  • Protecting the ingroup stereotype: Ingroup identification and the management of deviant ingroup members

    Emanuele Castano;Maria-Paola Paladino;Alastair Coull;Vincent Y. Yzerbyt

  • In case of death, cling to the ingroup

    Emanuele Castano

  • Ideology, Fear of Death, and Death Anxiety

    Emanuele Castano;Bernhard Leidner;Alain Bonacossa;John Nikkah

  • On defeating death: Group reification and social identification as immortality strategies

    Emanuele Castano;Mark Dechesne

  • The Perception of the Other in International Relations: Evidence for the Polarizing Effect of Entitativity

    Emanuele Castano;Simona Sacchi;Peter Hays Gries

  • Morality shifting in the context of intergroup violence

    Bernhard Leidner;Emanuele Castano

  • My body or my mind: The impact of state and trait objectification on women's cognitive resources

    Emanuele Castano

  • Different stories: How levels of familiarity with literary and genre fiction relate to mentalizing.

    David Kidd;Emanuele Castano

  • Shame expressions reduce the recipient’s insult from outgroup reparations

    Roger Giner-Sorolla;Emanuele Castano;Pablo Espinosa;Rupert Brown

  • Dehumanization, Retributive and Restorative Justice, and Aggressive Versus Diplomatic Intergroup Conflict Resolution Strategies

    Bernhard Leidner;Emanuele Castano;Jeremy Ginges

  • Protecting the Ingroup: Motivated Allocation of Cognitive Resources in the Presence of Threatening Ingroup Members:

    Alastair Coull;Vincent Y. Yzerbyt;Emanuele Castano;Maria-Paola Paladino

Frequent Co-Authors

Vincent Yzerbyt
Vincent Yzerbyt Université Catholique de Louvain
Maria Paola Paladino
Maria Paola Paladino University of Trento
Roger Giner-Sorolla
Roger Giner-Sorolla University of Kent
Jacques-Philippe Leyens
Jacques-Philippe Leyens Université Catholique de Louvain
Peter Hays Gries
Peter Hays Gries University of Manchester
Rupert Brown
Rupert Brown University of Sussex
Paula M. Niedenthal
Paula M. Niedenthal University of Wisconsin–Madison
Brian Lickel
Brian Lickel University of Massachusetts Amherst
William Hirst
William Hirst New School

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