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Luigi Castelli

Luigi Castelli

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Psychology

D-Index
35
Citations
5922
World Ranking
9794
National Ranking
216

Luigi Castelli 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 Luigi Castelli sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 127 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Luigi Castelli 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 Luigi Castelli sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 35 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Luigi Castelli is affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy and conducts research primarily in the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology. Their work significantly contributes to subfields such as Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, and Clinical Psychology.

Their research encompasses a variety of topics, prominently including:

  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Cultural Differences and Values

Luigi Castelli has published multiple recent papers that reflect their focus on social attention and gaze-related cognitive processes. Notable publications include:

  • Social modulators of gaze-mediated orienting of attention: A review, 2020, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Early saccade planning cannot override oculomotor interference elicited by gaze and arrow distractors, 2020, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
  • Social attention across borders: A cross-cultural investigation of gaze cueing elicited by same- and other-ethnicity faces, 2020, British Journal of Psychology
  • Increased gaze cueing of attention during COVID-19 lockdown, 2021, iScience
  • Eye contact boosts the reflexive component of overt gaze following, 2020, Scientific Reports

Their research has appeared frequently in publication venues such as Scientific Reports, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Frontiers in Psychology, Consciousness and Cognition, and Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications.

Throughout their career, they have collaborated repeatedly with several co-authors, including Giovanni Galfano, Mario Dalmaso, Luciana Carraro, Alessia Valmori, and Xinyuan Zhang. These collaborative relationships reflect an interdisciplinary approach within cognitive and social psychology domains.

Best Publications

  • On the behavioral consequences of infrahumanization: the implicit role of uniquely human emotions in intergroup relations.

    Jeroen Andre' Filip Vaes;M. P. Paladino;Luigi Alessandro Castelli;J. P. H. Leyens

  • On the Activation of Social Stereotypes: The Moderating Role of Processing Objectives

    C.Neil Macrae;Galen V. Bodenhausen;Alan B. Milne;Tania M.J. Thorn

  • Predicting the Vote: Implicit Attitudes as Predictors of the Future Behavior of Decided and Undecided Voters

    Luciano Arcuri;Luigi Castelli;Silvia Galdi;Cristina Zogmaister

  • The transmission of racial attitudes within the family

    Luigi Castelli;Cristina Zogmaister;Silvia Tomelleri

  • The automatic conservative: ideology-based attentional asymmetries in the processing of valenced information.

    Luciana Carraro;Luigi Castelli;Claudia Macchiella

  • Social status gates social attention in humans

    Mario Dalmaso;Giulia Pavan;Luigi Alessandro Castelli;Giovanni Galfano

  • Learning Social Attitudes: Children's Sensitivity to the Nonverbal Behaviors of Adult Models During Interracial Interactions

    Luigi Castelli;Christina De Dea;Drew Nesdale

  • Social modulators of gaze-mediated orienting of attention: A review.

    Mario Dalmaso;Luigi Castelli;Giovanni Galfano

  • A Group by Any Other Name—The Role of Entitativity in Group Perception

    D. L. Hamilton;S. J. Sherman;Luigi Alessandro Castelli

  • Measuring prejudice: Implicit versus explicit techniques.

    Anne Maass;Luigi Castelli;Luciano Arcuri

  • On the Immediate Consequences of Intergroup Categorization: Activation of Approach and Avoidance Motor Behavior Toward Ingroup and Outgroup Members:

    Maria-Paola Paladino;Luigi Castelli

  • The loyal member effect: on the preference for ingroup members who engage in exclusive relations with the ingroup.

    Luigi Castelli;Leyla De Amicis;Steven J. Sherman

  • Implicit and Explicit Attitudes and Interracial Interaction: The Moderating Role of Situationally Available Control Resources

    Wilhelm Hofmann;Tobias Gschwendner;Luigi Castelli;Manfred Schmitt

  • Taking one’s time in feeling other-race pain: an event-related potential investigation on the time-course of cross-racial empathy

    Paola Sessa;Federica Meconi;Luigi Castelli;Roberto Dell’Acqua

  • Eye gaze cannot be ignored (but neither can arrows)

    Giovanni Galfano;Mario Dalmaso;Daniele Marzoli;Giulia Pavan

  • On the automatic evaluation of social exemplars.

    Luigi Alessandro Castelli;Cristina Zogmaister;Er Smith;Luciano Arcuri

  • Racial group membership is associated to gaze-mediated orienting in Italy.

    Giulia Pavan;Mario Dalmaso;Giovanni Galfano;Luigi Alessandro Castelli

  • The Explicit and Implicit Perception of In-Group Members Who Use Stereotypes: Blatant Rejection but Subtle Conformity

    Luigi Castelli;Katia Vanzetto;Steven J. Sherman;Luciano Arcuri

  • Ideology is related to basic cognitive processes involved in attitude formation

    Luigi Alessandro Castelli;Luciana Carraro

  • Losing on all fronts: the effects of negative versus positive person-based campaigns on implicit and explicit evaluations of political candidates.

    Luciana Carraro;B Gawronski;Luigi Alessandro Castelli

Frequent Co-Authors

Bertram Gawronski
Bertram Gawronski The University of Texas at Austin
Steven J. Sherman
Steven J. Sherman Indiana University
Daniela Palomba
Daniela Palomba University of Padua
Maria Paola Paladino
Maria Paola Paladino University of Trento
C. Neil Macrae
C. Neil Macrae University of Aberdeen
Alan B. Milne
Alan B. Milne University of Aberdeen
Jacques-Philippe Leyens
Jacques-Philippe Leyens Université Catholique de Louvain
Roberto Dell'Acqua
Roberto Dell'Acqua University of Padua
David L. Hamilton
David L. Hamilton University of California, Santa Barbara
Anne Maass
Anne Maass University of Padua

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