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ANDREA SPOTO
Position
Professore Ordinario
Address
VIA VENEZIA, 8 - PADOVA
Telephone
0498276654
GENERAL INFO\n\n· Phone: +39 049 827 6654 \n· Email: andrea.spoto@unipd.it\n- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrea_Spoto\n\nACADEMIC DEGREES:\n· Bachelor Degree in Psychological Sciences of Personality and Interpersonal Relations (Faculty of Psychology, University of Padua, 2001-2004, 110/110 cum laude);\n· Master Degree in Clinical Psychology (Faculty of Psychology, University of Padua, 2004-2006, 110/110 cum laude);\n· PhD in Psychological Science - Experimental Psychology (University of Padua, 2008-2010);\n· PsyD in Cognitive and Behavioral Psychotherapy (Institute for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy, Padua).\n\nACADEMIC POSITION:\n· Full Professor (PO; SSD: M-PSI/03 Psychometrics) at the Department of General Psychology (University of Padua, 2017-Present);\n\n\nTEACHING EXPERIENCE\n- Basic Research Methods in Psychology (6 CFU, AY:2015-2016 and 2021-2022); Bachelor in Psychological Science - Department of General Psychology - University of Padova\n- Psychometrics (12 CFU, AA: 2016-Presente);Bachelor in Psychological Science - Department of General Psychology - University of Padova\n- Psychometric Methods (6 CFU, AA 2022-Presente). Bachelor in Techniques and Methods in Psychological Science - Department of General Psychology - University of Padova
Notices
ATTENTION!! The office hours of Thursday 23rd October will take place from 12 to 2 PM.
- 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.
Orari di ricevimento
Gio14:0016:00Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale - Via Venezia 8 - Sesto Piano - Stanza 06 010Il ricevimento si tiene anche su zoom al link https://unipd.zoom.us/j/202773279
Publications
RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
1) Bottesi, G., & Spoto, A. (2025). Should we worry about how we measure worry? Insights from an updated version of the Italian Penn State Worry Questionnaire. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 25(2), 100579.
2) Rocco, D., De Bei, F., Negri, A., Spoto, A., & Hayes, J. A. (2025). Development and validation of countertransference feeling and behavior awareness measures in an Italian and American clinician sample. Psychotherapy Research, 1-14.
3) Granziol, U., Rabe, M., Gallucci, M., Spoto, A., & Vidotto, G. (2025). Not Another Post Hoc Paper: A New Look at Contrast Analysis and Planned Comparisons. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 8(1), 25152459241293110.
4) Vicovaro, M., Mignemi, G., Nucci, M., Bolognani, L., Iannattone, S., Bruno, G., & Spoto, A. (2025). A new Bayesian method for the estimation of emergency nurses’ thresholds and agreement in the context of telephone triage. Frontiers in Psychology, 16, 1477844.
5) Pecunioso, A., Spoto, A., & Agrillo, C. (2024). Investigating acoustic numerosity illusions in professional musicians. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 31(6), 2611-2620.
6) de Chiusole, D., Granziol, U., Spoto, A., & Stefanutti, L. (2024). Reliability of a probabilistic knowledge structure. Behavior Research Methods, 56(7), 8022-8037.
7) Noventa, S., Ye, S., Kelava, A., & Spoto, A. (2024). On the identifiability of 3-and 4-parameter item response theory models from the perspective of knowledge space theory. psychometrika, 89(2), 486-516.
8) Stefanutti, L., Spoto, A., Anselmi, P., & de Chiusole, D. (2023). Towards a competence-based polytomous knowledge structure theory. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 115, 102781.
9) Spoto, A., & Stefanutti, L. (2023). Empirical indistinguishability: From the knowledge structure to the skills. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 76(2), 312-326.
10) Spoto, A., Nucci, M., Prunetti, E., & Vicovaro, M. (2023). Improving content validity evaluation of assessment instruments through formal content validity analysis. Psychological methods.
Research Area
- Formal Psychological Assessment;\n- Threshold Personality Trait;\n- Inter-rater agreement and content validity;\n- Implementation of adaptive algorithms for psychological assessment;\n- Advanced methods for data analysis;\n- Network Analysis;\n- Structural Equation Modeling;\n- Development of apps (R Shiny) for experimental designs construction and data analysis;\n- Ethical Decision-Making and Risk Perception in traditional and autonomous driving scenarios;\n- The role of time pressure on moral-decision making during driving activities;\n- Emotional activation and moral evaluation in complex traditional and autonomous driving scenario;\n- Perceptual and attentive processes involved riding training in a virtual environment;\n- Item Response Theory; \n- Theoretical developments of Knowledge Space Theory and Formal Concept Analysis;\n- Research Methodology;\n- Development of new assessment tools in sport psychology.\n
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.
