Research Interests:
Behavioural Ethics, Emotions, Decision Making Procedure, Experimental Economics.
I have two main research interests:
Unethical behaviours such as lying and fare evasion. More precisely I conduct laboratory experiments to identify some determinants of unethical behaviours and I conduct field experiments to investigate the efficiency of behavioural interventions in reducing unethical behaviours.
Emotions and their impact on decision-making procedure. More precisely, I focus on envy and my research mainly addresses the question of how envy affects individuals’ decisions and what are the determinants modulating envy? I mainly refer on experimental methods. Thanks to experimental methods I can observe subjects’ decisions and connect the latter with subjects’ emotions.
These are some of the questions I am interested in:
What is the connection between effort and the emotional intensity of envy? (Are you more envious when making efforts in vain?)
Is envy powerful enough to refrain people from being immoral?
What strategies can be implemented in the field to fight dishonest behaviours such as fare evasion?
Do emotions channel you into different career paths and social roles?
Is envy really responsible for leading subjects to engage in counterproductive behaviours?
What are the advantages and limits of practicing sport activities?