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MICHELANGELO VIANELLO

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Position

Professore Ordinario

Address

VIA VENEZIA, 14 - PADOVA

Telephone

0498276296

Michelangelo Vianello is Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Padua since dec 2023. Previously, he has been Researcher and Associate Professor at the same university, Research Fellow at the University of Turin, and Visiting Student at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.
He was Vice-President of the CdS Magistrale in Management of Educational Services and Continuing Education, member of the Board of Directors of the Doctoral Program in Psychological Sciences, representative of the School of Psychology in the Vocational Guidance and Tutoring Commission of the University of Padua, and elected commissioner from the M-PSI/06 field in the Area Scientific Committee of the University of Padua.
He has been PI, Co-PI or research unit manager of a number of grants and research contracts with public and private organizations.
He has been consulted as a reviewer by a long list of journals and by the ERC - Research Executive Agency for Horizon 2020 and 2022, and has been an editor of Discover Psychology, Frontiers in Psychology - Organizational Psychology, Plos One and Scientific Reports (Nature group) for the "Registered Reports" section.
He is a member of many innovative research networks that promote open scientific collaborations, such as Psychological Science Accelerator, Project Implicit and Open Science Collaboration. He has coordinated very large research groups in multicenter studies.
His main research interests are in personnel psychology, the meaning of work and professional calling, and psychological assessment methodology. He takes an open approach to science, including pre-registration of hypotheses and publication of materials and data.
His co-authored publications have been cited more than 10,000 times (Scopus), and some have received extensive media coverage.

For further information check my website https://sites.google.com/site/michelangelovianello/, or write me a note.

Notices

For prospective graduate students. I advise students in the "Social Sciences" program.
Please get in touch to define a project of mutual interest.

Office hours

  • Tuesday from 15:30 to 17:30
    at Dipartimento FISPPA -sezione di Psicologia Applicata, via venezia 14, quarto piano
    Il ricevimento si svolgerà in presenza ed è consigliata la prenotazione via mail per evitare inutili attese. Office hours will be held in presence. I suggest to contact me via e-mail before coming to avoid waiting.

Teachings

Publications

see website: https://sites.google.com/site/michelangelovianello/ for more information or contact me at my institutional e-mail address.

Research Area

Career calling.
Reproducibility of scientific knowledge in psychology.
Personnel selection: Operational Validities.
Faking in selection interviews.

Thesis proposals

Some themes that I deem worth studying:
- Validity generalization with Italian samples
-Italian adaptation of scales for measuring moral integrity.
-Career calling: personal and organizational effects and cross-cultural differences.
-Employee questions and interview validity
-Adverse impact and interview selection
-Use of references to select applicants in Italy: frequency and motivations.
-General mental ability and team performance.

In keeping with the principles of an open and reproducible science, I promote the participation of students in the CREP project: https://www.crep-psych.org/, whose goal is to coordinate replications of psychological scientific studies.

The selection of students will occur in February and September each year. Students are invited to send me a brief research proposal (max 3 pages, 2 would be better) composed by the following sections:

A. Abstract (summary of the research)
B. State of the art (relevant literature)
C. Research question
D. Goals of the research
E. Methodology (study design, measures, and analysis plan)
F. References

Projects will be assessed based on their:

1. Theoretical and/or practical importance
2. Feasibility of the research.

Students are invited to explicitly discuss the contribution of their research. One or two sentences are enough.
Applicants will be notified before day 15 of the month after the application (either march or october).