He obtained a degree in Psychology and a Ph.D. in Social and Personality Psychology from the University of Padua. He is a Full Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Padua. He teaches the following courses: Strategies of Prejudice Reduction; Contemplative Psychology and Promotion of Individual and Social Well-being; Psychosocial Processes in Groups. He has spent periods abroad at the School of Psychology at the University of Wales (Cardiff) and the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, as well as the Department of Psychology at Ohio State University (Columbus, USA). He served as associate editor of the European Journal of Social Psychology and was a member of the editorial board of the European Review of Social Psychology and Social Psychology Quarterly. In 2009, in collaboration with Rhiannon Turner and Miles Hewstone, he received the "Robert B. Cialdini award" from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. His main research areas include: reducing prejudice through intergroup contact, perspective-taking and empathy; the influence of awareness and self-perceptions on well-being and prosociality; the psychosocial correlates of spirituality and religiosity.

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