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    Effects of Socioeconomic Status, Parental Stress, and Family Support on Children’s Physical and Emotional Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic

    In the current study, we conduct an exploratory study on children’s emotional and physical health in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The direct and interactive effects of parental stress, family socioeconom...

    Sara Scrimin, Libera Ylenia Mastromatteo in Journal of Child and Family Studies (2022)

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    Mothers living with contamination of perfluoroalkyl substances: an assessment of the perceived health risk and self-reported diseases

    Widespread contamination of the superficial, drinking, and groundwater by perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) was discovered in the Veneto Region (northeast of Italy) in 2013. Mothers from the contaminated area ...

    Paolo Girardi, Alice Lupo in Environmental Science and Pollution Resear… (2022)

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    Short-Term Exposure to Nature and Benefits for Students’ Cognitive Performance: a Review

    There is growing interest recently in the outdoor environment surrounding schools where students spent time during breaks, in-school activities, and after-school programs. Several reviews have examined the imp...

    Lucia Mason, Angelica Ronconi, Sara Scrimin in Educational Psychology Review (2022)

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    Dehumanization after terrorism: the role of psychophysiological emotion regulation and trait emotional intelligence

    In recent years, numerous terrorist attacks have been perpetrated, inducing a reaction even in people who were not directly exposed. In this scenery, we measured people’s blatant dehumanization of Arabs in the...

    Sara Scrimin, Enrico Rubaltelli in Current Psychology (2021)

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    The Role of Inhibition in Conceptual Learning from Refutation and Standard Expository Texts

    Text is the primary tool to learn disciplinary knowledge in school. Text-based learning is shaped by a complex interplay between the text and reader characteristics. This study examined the role of text struct...

    Lucia Mason, Sonia Zaccoletti in International Journal of Science and Mathe… (2019)

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    Emotional intelligence buffers the effect of physiological arousal on dishonesty

    We studied the emotional processes that allow people to balance two competing desires: benefitting from dishonesty and kee** a positive self-image. We recorded physiological arousal (skin conductance and hea...

    Andrea Pittarello, Beatrice Conte, Marta Caserotti in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (2018)

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    Parenting Stress and Externalizing Behavior Symptoms in Children: The Impact of Emotional Reactivity

    This study investigated whether the parenting stress-child externalizing behavior link is moderated by children’s emotional reactivity, as indexed by skin conductance responses (SCRs). Participants were 61 chi...

    Giulia Buodo, Ughetta Moscardino, Sara Scrimin in Child Psychiatry & Human Development (2013)

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    Conversational strategies with parents of newly diagnosed leukaemic children: An analysis of 4880 conversational turns

    Communication with parents of children newly diagnosed with cancer poses a number of problems, mostly due to the psychological effects of parental trauma. This study was designed to answer the following questi...

    Sara Scrimin, Giovanna Axia, Marta Tremolada, Marta Pillon in Supportive Care in Cancer (2005)