Currently, Prof. Mariaelena Tagliabue works at the Department of General Psychology, University of Padova. Her main areas of interest covered the fields of Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science, Experimental Psychology, and the application of this knowledge to the topic of road safety and sustainable mobility, in the field of Traffic psychology. Her current projects focus on 'Risk perception and road safety: the role of cognition and emotion” and “Sustainable mobility”.
List of research areas:
traffic psychology;
driving ability and risk perception;
sustainable mobility;
spatial attention;
coding of the spatial dimension of the stimulus;
selective attention and interference between non-spatial features of the stimulus;
executive functions and behavior control.