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Overview

Vittorio Girotto was affiliated with the Università Iuav di Venezia in Italy. Their scholarly activity primarily focused on the fields of psychology and neuroscience, with particular attention to social psychology and cognitive neuroscience as main subfields.

Their academic work addressed various topics, including:

  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Emotions and Moral Behavior

Among the recent papers authored by Vittorio Girotto, there is a notable publication:

  • Foreign language effect in decision-making: How foreign is it?, 2020, published in Cognition

Vittorio collaborated frequently with several researchers:

  • Michele Miozzo
  • Eduardo Navarrete
  • Martino Ongis
  • Enrica Mello
  • Francesca Peressotti

The venues chosen for publication included:

  • Cognition

This information reflects Vittorio Girotto's profile as a contributor to psychological and neuroscientific research, particularly in understanding cognitive and social aspects of moral and emotional judgment and decision-making processes across cultural boundaries.

Best Publications

  • Conditionals: A Theory of Meaning, Pragmatics, and Inference

    Philip Johnson-Laird;Ruth M. J. Byrne

  • Relevance theory explains the selection task.

    Dan Sperber;Francesco Cara;Vittorio Girotto

  • Naive Probability: A Mental Model Theory of Extensional Reasoning

    Philip Johnson-Laird;Paolo Legrenzi;Vittorio Girotto;Maria Sonino Legrenzi

  • Focussing in reasoning and decision making

    P. Legrenzi;V. Girotto;Philip N. Johnson-Laird

  • Pure Reasoning in 12-Month-Old Infants as Probabilistic Inference

    Ernő Téglás;Ernő Téglás;Edward Vul;Vittorio Girotto;Vittorio Girotto;Michel Gonzalez

  • Event controllability in counterfactual thinking

    Vittorio Girotto;Paolo Legrenzi;Antonio Rizzo

  • Solving probabilistic and statistical problems: a matter of information structure and question form

    Vittorio Girotto;Michel Gonzalez

  • Intuitions of probabilities shape expectations about the future at 12 months and beyond.

    Ernő Téglás;Vittorio Girotto;Michel Gonzalez;Luca L. Bonatti

  • Reasoning from inconsistency to consistency.

    P. N. Johnson-Laird;Vittorio Girotto;Paolo Legrenzi

  • Postdecisional Counterfactual Thinking by Actors and Readers

    Vittorio Girotto;Vittorio Girotto;Donatella Ferrante;Stefania Pighin;Michel Gonzalez

  • Illusions in reasoning about consistency.

    P. N. Johnson-Laird;Paolo Legrenzi;Vittorio Girotto;Vittorio Girotto;Maria S. Legrenzi

  • Use or misuse of the selection task? Rejoinder to Fiddick, Cosmides, and Tooby

    Dan Sperber;Vittorio Girotto;Vittorio Girotto

  • The effect of premise order in conditional reasoning: a test of the mental model theory.

    Vittorio Girotto;Alberto Mazzocco;Alessandra Tasso

  • Inept Reasoners or Pragmatic Virtuosos? Relevance and the Deontic Selection Task

    Vittorio Girotto;Vittorio Girotto;Markus Kemmelmeier;Dan Sperber;Jean-Baptiste van der Henst

  • Children's reasoning on conditional promises and permissions

    Paul Light;Vittorio Girotto;Paolo Legrenzi

  • Children's performance in the selection task: Plausibility and familiarity

    Vittorio Girotto;Michel Gilly;Agnes Blaye;Paul Light

  • Children's understanding of posterior probability.

    Vittorio Girotto;Michael Gonzalez

  • Pragmatic schemas and conditional reasoning in children

    Vittorio Girotto;Paul Light;Christopher Colbourn

  • Distinguishing Sources of Cooperation in the One-Round Prisoner's Dilemma: Evidence for Cooperative Decisions Based on the Illusion of Control

    Michael W. Morris;Damien L.H. Sim;Vittorio Girotto

  • Improving the past and the future: a temporal asymmetry in hypothetical thinking.

    Donatella Ferrante;Vittorio Girotto;Marta Stragà;Clare Walsh

  • Pragmatic schemas and logical reasoning in 6- to 8-year-old children

    Paul Light;Agnès Blaye;Michel Gilly;Vittorio Girotto

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip N. Johnson-Laird
Philip N. Johnson-Laird Princeton University
Giorgio Vallortigara
Giorgio Vallortigara University of Trento
Dan Sperber
Dan Sperber Central European University
Hugo Mercier
Hugo Mercier School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
Ruth M. J. Byrne
Ruth M. J. Byrne Trinity College Dublin
Markus Kemmelmeier
Markus Kemmelmeier University of Nevada Reno
Luca Surian
Luca Surian University of Trento
Jonathan St. B. T. Evans
Jonathan St. B. T. Evans Plymouth University
Edward E. Smith
Edward E. Smith Columbia University
Barbara Landau
Barbara Landau Johns Hopkins University

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