Research

 Working Papers

• Toccafondi N., Di Paolo R., Di Guida S. (2024). Virtual currencies in online gaming increase the willingness to pay for loot boxes: an experimental analysis. (Submitted to Experimental Economics)
  
  

• Capraro V., Di Paolo R., Pizziol V. (2023). Predict-AI-bility of how humans balance self-interest with the interest of others.
  
  

• Toccafondi N., Antognozzi T., Di Paolo R., Pizziol V., Santin E., Bilancini E. (2023). “Delocalized events management: The experience of hobby stores hosting the Campfire event during LCG20”
  
  

• Bilancini E., Boncinelli L., Di Paolo R., Menicagli D., Ricciardi E.,& Serti F. (2022). “Symbolic Incentives can affect the frequency of blood and plasma donations: evidence from 12 years of donors' behavior and donation awards”
  
  

• Bilancini E., Boncinelli L., & Di Paolo R. (2021). “Manipulating Cognition in the One-Shot Stag-Hunt Game Played Online”
  
  

• Cevolani G.,& Di Paolo R. (2020). “Rationality, fallacies and truth(likeness)”

 Published Papers

• Capraro V., Di Paolo R., Perc M., Pizziol V. (2024). Languange-based game theory in the age of artificial intelligence. Journal of Royal Society Interface, 212 (21)
  
  

• Albano G.L., Cipollone A., Di Paolo R., Ponti G., Sparro M. (2024) Scoring Rules in Experimental Procurement. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 102131

• Pizziol V., Demaj X., Di Paolo R., Capraro V. (2023)  Political Ideology and Generosity around the Globe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 120 (15), e2219676120

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• Bilancini E., Boncinelli L., Di Paolo R. (2023) Game-based educational program promotes sustainable water use. Ecological Economics, 208, 107801.

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• Di Paolo R., Pizziol, V. (2023). Gamification and Sustainable Water Use: The Case of the BLUTUBE Educational Program. Simulation & Gaming

• Blanos R., Beneventi N., Bisanti M., D’Alessandro M., Di Paolo R., Manna D., ...  & Petrera F. (2023). Let Them Dive into Ocean Science: The Role of Research Institutions in Public Engagement. Development, 1-5.

• Azevedo F., Pavlović T., do Rêgo G. G., Ay F. C., Gjoneska B., Etienne T. W., ... & Huang G. (2023). Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries.  Scientific Data, 10(1), 272.
  
  

• Bilancini E., Boncinelli L., Di Paolo R., Menicagli D., Pizziol V., Ricciardi E., Serti F. (2022) Prosocial Behavior in emergencies: Blood donors recruitment and retention during the Covid-19 pandemic. Social Science & Medicine, 314, 115438

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• Pavlović T., Azevedo F., De, K., Riaño-Moreno J. C., Maglić M., Gkinopoulos T., ... & Keudel O. (2022). Predicting attitudinal and behavioral responses to COVID-19 pandemic using machine learning. PNAS nexus, 1(3), pgac093.
  
  

• Van Bavel J.J. et al (2022). National identity predicts public health support during a global pandemic. Nature Comunications, 13(1), 517

• Bilancini E., Boncinelli L., Capraro V., Celadin T., Di Paolo R. (2020) The effect of norm-based messages on reading and understanding COVID-19 pandemic response governmental rules. Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy 4, 45-55.

• Bilancini E., Boncinelli L., Capraro V., Celadin T., Di Paolo R. (2020) “Do the right thing” for whom? An Experiment on Ingroup Favouritism, Group Assorting and Moral Suasion. Judgment and Decision Making 15, 182-192

• Alonso J., Di Paolo R., Ponti G., Sartarelli M. (2018). Facts and misconceptions about 2D:4D, social and risk preferences. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 12, 22

 Conference Papers and Reports

• Chiarello F., Fioretti D., Antognozzi T., Bertani F. R., Bilancini E., Bisanti M., ... & Iurescia S. (2023). The Language of Life: A Game-Based Workshop for Introducing Protein Biosynthesis. In European Conference on Games Based Learning (Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 101-107).
  
  

• Bisanti, M., Di Paolo, R., Pizziol, V., Accardi, S., Maggi, F., Paladino, G., ... & Bilancini, E. (2022). Digital Escape Games in Educational Programs for Financial Literacy. In European Conference on Games Based Learning (Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 666-674).
  
  

• New Frontiers in Gaming (2022)

Editorial and Refereeing Activities

Editorial

Guest Associated Editor in Frontiers in Education with the Special Issue on “Game-Based Learning for Social Change”

Referee

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Ecological Economics, British Journal of Psychology, Sustainability, Frontiers in Education, Applied Science