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ANDREA SPOTO

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Position

Professore Ordinario

Structure

Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale - DPG

Address

VIA VENEZIA, 8 - PADOVA

Telephone

0498276654

E-mail

andrea.spoto@unipd.it

GENERAL INFO

· Phone: +39 049 827 6654
· Email: andrea.spoto@unipd.it
- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrea_Spoto

ACADEMIC DEGREES:
· Bachelor Degree in Psychological Sciences of Personality and Interpersonal Relations (Faculty of Psychology, University of Padua, 2001-2004, 110/110 cum laude);
· Master Degree in Clinical Psychology (Faculty of Psychology, University of Padua, 2004-2006, 110/110 cum laude);
· PhD in Psychological Science - Experimental Psychology (University of Padua, 2008-2010);
· PsyD in Cognitive and Behavioral Psychotherapy (Institute for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy, Padua).

ACADEMIC POSITION:
· Assistant Professor (RTDb; SSD: M-PSI/03 Psychometrics) at the Department of General Psychology (University of Padua, 2017-Present);

PROFESSIONAL AND CLINICAL EXPERIENCE:
· Research Assistant (Junior) at the Department of General Psychology (University of Padua, 2011-2013);
· Research Assistant (Senior) at the Department of General Psychology (University of Padua, 2013-30/11/2014);
· Assistant Professor (RTDa; SSD: M-PSI/03 Psychometrics) at the Department of General Psychology (University of Padua, 2014-2017);
· Psychotherapist at the Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy Service of the Department og General Psychology (University of Padua, 2016 – Present)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
· Computerized statistical data analysis (4CFU); Faculty of Psychology (University of Padua; Academic Year 2009-2010);
· 6 Hours Seminar in Psychological Research Techniques and Data Analysis (1 CFU); Faculty of Psychology (University of Padua; Academic Year 2009-2010);
· Courses of “Methods in Psychotherapy”, “History of Psychological Measurement”, “Psychodiagnostics using the CBA 2.0 Primary Scales”, “Psychodiagnostics using the MCMI-III”, “CBA-OE and CBA-Y” at the Institute for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy (Padua), Miller Institute (Genoa and Florence), and ASIPSE Institute (Milan) since 2013 to present.
· Basic Research Methods in Psychology (6 CFU); The course was taught in English within the Bachelor in Psychological Science – School of Psychology (University of Padua; Academic Year 2015-2016)
· Psychometrics (10 CFU); The course was taught in English within the Bachelor in Psychological Science – School of Psychology (University of Padua; Academic Year 2016-2017 and 2017-2018)

Notices

ATTENTION: ATTENTION: Due to construction works on the sixth floor of Psychology Building 1, the office hours on Wednesday 8/5 and Wednesday 15/5 will be held ONLY via Zoom at the usual link.

- The office hours take place in person or on zoom at the link below

https://unipd.zoom.us/j/202773279

Students will be admitted one at a time in order of connection to the link.

Office hours

  • Wednesday from 14:00 to 16:00
    at Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale - Via Venezia 8 - Sesto Piano - Stanza 06 008

Teachings

Publications

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

1) Granziol, U., Spoto, A., & Vidotto, G. (2018). The assessment of nonverbal behavior in schizophrenia through the Formal Psychological Assessment. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 27 (1), art. no. e1595.

2) Stefanutti, L., Spoto, A., & Vidotto, G. (2018). Detecting and explaining BLIM's unidentifiability: Forward and backward parameter transformation groups. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 82, 38-51.

3) Cipolletta, S., Spina, G., & Spoto, A. (2018). Psychosocial functioning, self-image, and quality of life in children and adolescents with neurofibromatosis type 1. Child: Care, Health and Development, 44 (2), 260-268.

4) Rugani, R., Castiello, R., Priftis, K., Spoto, A., & Sartori, L. (2017). What is a number? The interplay between number and continuous magnitudes. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, 39-40.

5) Guerra, S., Spoto, A., Parma, V., Straulino, E., & Castiello, U. (2017). In sync or not in sync? Illusory body ownership in autism spectrum disorder. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 41-42, 1-7.

6) Moscardino, U., Spoto, A., Pellegrini, S., & Regolin, L. (2017). Internationalization of psychology in Italy: An exploratory investigation [L'internazionalizzazione della psicologia In Italia: Un'indagine esplorativa]. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 44 (4), 805-821.

7) Gianfranchi, E., Tagliabue, M., Spoto, A., & Vidotto, G. (2017). Sensation seeking, non-contextual decision making, and driving abilities as measured through a moped simulator. Frontiers in Psychology, 8 (DEC), art. no. 2126.

8) Granziol, U., Bottesi, G., Serra, F., Spoto, A., & Vidotto, G. (2017). New perspectives on the assessment of the social anxiety disorder: The formal psychological assessment. Journal of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies, 17 (2), 53-68.

9) Gatta, M., Balottin, L., Mannarini, S., Chesani, G., Del Col, L., Spoto, A., & Battistella, P.A. (2017). Familial factors relating to alexithymic traits in adolescents with psychiatric disorders. Clinical Psychologist, 21 (3), 252-262.

10) Gianfranchi, E., Spoto, A., & Tagliabue, M. (2017). Risk profiles in novice road users: Relation between moped riding simulator performance, on-road aberrant behaviors and dangerous driving. Transportation Research Part F, 49, 132-144.

11) Serra, F., Spoto, A., Ghisi, M., & Vidotto, G. (2017). Improving major depressive episode assessment: A new tool developed by formal psychological assessment. Frontiers in Psychology, 8 (FEB), art. no. 214.

12) Gatta, M., Spoto, A., Colombo, E., Penzo, M., & Battistella, P.A. (2017). The Dysfunction of Emotional Expression as a Related Factor for Alcohol Misuse in Young Adolescents. Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 26 (1), 30-40.

13) Donadello, I., Spoto, A., Sambo, F., Badaloni, S., Granziol, U., & Vidotto, G. (2017). ATS-PD: An Adaptive Testing System for Psychological Disorders. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 77 (5), 792-815.

14) de Chiusole, D., Stefanutti, L., & Spoto, A. (2017). A class of k-modes algorithms for extracting knowledge structures from data. Behavior Research Methods, 49 (4), 1212-1226

Research Area

- Formal Psychological Assessment;
- Threshold Personality Trait;
- Inter-rater agreement and content validity;
- Implementation of adaptive algorithms for psychological assessment;
- Advanced methods for data analysis;
- Network Analysis;
- Structural Equation Modeling;
- Development of apps (R Shiny) for experimental designs construction and data analysis;
- Ethical Decision-Making and Risk Perception in traditional and autonomous driving scenarios;
- The role of time pressure on moral-decision making during driving activities;
- Emotional activation and moral evaluation in complex traditional and autonomous driving scenario;
- Perceptual and attentive processes involved riding training in a virtual environment;
- Item Response Theory;
- Theoretical developments of Knowledge Space Theory and Formal Concept Analysis;
- Research Methodology;
- Development of new assessment tools in sport psychology.

Thesis proposals

- Development and validation of a questionnaire within the theoretical frame of the Enneagram, a tool that identifies 9 main types of personality.
- Formal Psychological Assessment;
- Threshold Personality Trait;
- Inter-rater agreement and content validity;
- Implementation of adaptive algorithms for psychological assessment;
- Advanced methods for data analysis;
- Network Analysis;
- Structural Equation Modeling;
- Development of apps (R Shiny) for experimental designs construction and data analysis;
- Ethical Decision-Making and Risk Perception in traditional and autonomous driving scenarios;
- The role of time pressure on moral-decision making during driving activities;
- Emotional activation and moral evaluation in complex traditional and autonomous driving scenario;
- Perceptual and attentive processes involved riding training in a virtual environment;
- Item Response Theory;
- Theoretical developments of Knowledge Space Theory and Formal Concept Analysis;
- Research Methodology;
- Development of new assessment tools in sport psychology.