Funding:

• Behavioral Responses to Inequality as a Social Ranking - BREAKING (ANR)

• Age-It: Aging Well in an Aging Society (PNRR)

• Cos.Mo.Pro.Be. - Cognition, Social Motives, and Prosocial Behavior (PRIN)

Ongoing Projects :

• Determinants of risk-taking (psychological and economic) in the aging population

• Impulsive and decontrolled behaviors (e.g., hostility, aggressive behaviors, impulse-control syndrome) in healthy adults and Parkinson’s patients

• Genetic determinants of cooperation and punishment 

• Cognitive and economic aspects of cooperation, hostility, and punishment

• Gender differences in hostile behavior 

• Impact of cognitive biases (e.g., sunk-cost bias, heuristics, biases in resource allocation, risk, and loss aversion) on water use and consumption in farmers and in the general population

• How economic inequality and social hierarchies shape cognition and behaviors.