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Overview

Riccardo Russo is affiliated with the University of Essex in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple areas within psychology and neuroscience, focusing significantly on the intersections of psychological well-being, social exclusion, and cognitive neuroscience.

The main fields of study covered by Russo include Psychology and Neuroscience. These fields break down into specific subfields such as Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Signal Processing, Health, and General Health Professions.

Russo's research topics emphasize Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction as well as Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion. Additional areas include Health disparities and outcomes, Employment and Welfare Studies, the Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, and Functional Brain Connectivity Studies.

They have published research in a variety of academic journals, with frequent publications in PLoS ONE. Other publication venues include the International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Sensors, and IEEE Access.

  • The social readjustment rating scale: Updated and modernised, 2023, PLoS ONE
  • Different stages of emotional prosody processing in healthy ageing-evidence from behavioural responses, ERPs, tDCS, and tRNS, 2022, PLoS ONE
  • Breakfast and Beyond: The Dietary, Social and Practical Impacts of a Universal Free School Breakfast Scheme in the North West of England, UK, 2020, International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
  • Automatic User Preferences Selection of Smart Hearing Aid Using BioAid, 2022, Sensors
  • Who tugs at our heart strings? The effect of avatar images on player generosity in the dictator game, 2021, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Frequent collaborators of Russo include Denise Wallace, Kathryn Buchanan, Jonathan J. Rolison, Nicholas R. Cooper, and Alejandra Sel. This network of co-authors represents ongoing work across several interdisciplinary research projects.

Best Publications

  • Do threatening stimuli draw or hold visual attention in subclinical anxiety

    Elaine Fox;Riccardo Russo;Robert Bowles;Kevin Dutton

  • Attentional Bias for Threat: Evidence for Delayed Disengagement from Emotional Faces.

    Elaine Fox;Riccardo Russo;Kevin Dutton

  • Facial expressions of emotion: Are angry faces detected more efficiently?

    Elaine Fox;Victoria Lester;Riccardo Russo;R.J. Bowles

  • Focusing on fear: Attentional disengagement from emotional faces

    George A Georgiou;Cheryl Bleakley;James Hayward;Riccardo Russo

  • Anxiety modulates the degree of attentive resources required to process emotional faces.

    Elaine Fox;Riccardo Russo;George A. Georgiou

  • On the differential nature of implicit and explicit memory.

    Alan J. Parkin;Thomas K. Reid;Riccardo Russo

  • Does short-term exposure to mobile phone base station signals increase symptoms in individuals who report sensitivity to electromagnetic fields? A double-blind randomized provocation study.

    Stacy Eltiti;Denise Wallace;Anna Ridgewell;Konstantina Zougkou

  • The British public’s perception of the UK smart metering initiative: Threats and opportunities

    Kathryn Buchanan;Nick Banks;Ian Preston;Riccardo Russo

  • Development and evaluation of the electromagnetic hypersensitivity questionnaire.

    Stacy Eltiti;Denise Wallace;Konstantina Zougkou;Riccardo Russo

  • The cognitive effects of listening to background music on older adults: processing speed improves with upbeat music, while memory seems to benefit from both upbeat and downbeat music.

    Sara Bottiroli;Alessia Rosi;Riccardo Russo;Tomaso Vecchi

  • Age differences in implicit memory: More apparent than real

    Riccardo Russo;Alan J. Parkin

  • The picture superiority effect in recognition memory: A developmental study using the response signal procedure

    Margaret Anne Defeyter;Riccardo Russo;Pamela Louise McPartlin

  • Statistics for the Behavioural Sciences: An Introduction

    Riccardo Russo

  • Age differences and the identity negative priming effect: An updated meta-analysis

    Nadia Gamboz;Riccardo Russo;Elaine Fox

  • Perception of Comfort During Active and Sham Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation: A Double Blind Study

    Riccardo Russo;Denise Wallace;Paul Bernard Fitzgerald;Nicholas R Cooper

  • A combined use of phase plane and handling diagram method to study the influence of tyre and vehicle characteristics on stability

    Flavio Farroni;Michele Russo;Riccardo Russo;Mario Terzo

  • Developmental Trends in Implicit and Explicit Memory: A Picture Completion Study

    R. Russo;P. Nichelli;M. Gibertoni;C Cornia

  • Theoretical and experimental investigation into the influence of the periodic backlash fluctuations on the gear rattle

    Ernesto Rocca;Riccardo Russo

  • Does acute exposure to mobile phones affect human attention

    Riccardo Russo;Elaine Fox;Caterina Cinel;Angela Boldini

  • Perceived Comfort and Blinding Efficacy in Randomised Sham-Controlled Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) Trials at 2 mA in Young and Older Healthy Adults.

    Denise Wallace;Nicholas R. Cooper;Silke Paulmann;Paul B. Fitzgerald

  • Revising current two-process accounts of spacing effects in memory.

    Riccardo Russo;Alan J. Parkin;Sandra R. Taylor;Jacqueline Wilks

Frequent Co-Authors

Elaine Fox
Elaine Fox University of Oxford
Alan J. Parkin
Alan J. Parkin University of Sussex
Paul B. Fitzgerald
Paul B. Fitzgerald Australian National University
Paolo Frigio Nichelli
Paolo Frigio Nichelli University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Tomaso Vecchi
Tomaso Vecchi University of Pavia
Annalena Venneri
Annalena Venneri Brunel University London
Hilde M. Geurts
Hilde M. Geurts University of Amsterdam
Stephen Joseph
Stephen Joseph University of Nottingham
Jackie Andrade
Jackie Andrade Plymouth University
Hans Spinnler
Hans Spinnler University of Milan

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