Dr Silvio Aldrovandi
Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Research Director (Centre for Applied Psychological research)
School of Social Sciences
- Email:
- silvio.aldrovandi@bcu.ac.uk
- Phone:
- +44 (0)121 331 6547
Dr Silvio Aldrovandi graduated in Psychology at the University of Bologna (Italy). Prior to joining the Department of Psychology at Birmingham City University in 2013, Dr Aldrovandi completed a PhD in experimental psychology at City University London and then spent three years at the University of Warwick as a post-doctoral research fellow.
His research interests revolve around the study of human cognition. Specifically, he investigates judgement and decision-making processes and their application in several domains, including social cognition.
Areas of Expertise
- Behavioural decision-making
- Social cognition
- Memory and judgment
- Risk
- Context effects
Qualifications
- PhD in Psychology, City University, London
- Laurea, Department of Psychology, University of Bologna
- Diploma, Department of Psychology, University of Kent at Canterbury
Memberships
- Society for Judgment and Decision-Making
- Cognitive Science Society
- Association for Psychological Science
Teaching
- PSY4033 Contemporary Issues and Applied Psychology
- PSY5063 Work Experience
- PSY3000 Real World Psychology
- PSY4030 Introduction to Psychology
- PSY5047 Neuropsychology
- PSY5048 Quantitative Research Methods and Analysis
- PSY7054 Brain and Cognition
Research
- Cognitive biases and food related decisions
- Judgment and decision-making heuristics
- Cognitive principles in social norms judgment
- Knowledge-based effects in working memory
- Context effects in financial risk preferences
- The role of memory in decision making
Postgraduate Supervision
- Mr Daniel Knowles: Exploring the proximity effect: Underlying mechanisms and impact on food consumption
- How do students assess debt? A socio-cognitive investigation
Publications
- Aldrovandi, S., Dhillon, J., & Rentzelas, P. (in press). To achieve and to conform: Motivational values predict social comparison orientation. Personality and Individual Differences. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.111083.
- Knowles, D., Brown, K. G., & Aldrovandi, S. (2020). Exploring the roles of physical effort and visual salience within the proximity effect. Appetite, 145. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2019.104489.
- Aldrovandi, S., Kusev, P., Hill, T., & Vlaev, I. (2019). From gloom to doom: Financial loss and negative affect prime risk averse preferences. Current Psychology. doi:10.1007/s12144-019-00507-3.
- Knowles, D., Brown, K. G., & Aldrovandi, S. (2019). Exploring the underpinning mechanisms of the proximity effect within a competitive food environment. Appetite, 134, 94–102.
- O’Donnell, M., Nelson, L. D., Ackermann, E., Aczel, B., Akhtar, A., Aldrovandi, S., et al. (2018). Registered replication report: Dijksterhuis & van Knippenberg (1998). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13, 268–294.
- Poirier, M., Heussen, D., Aldrovandi, S., Daniel, L., Tasnim, S., & Hampton, J. A. (2017). Reconstructing the recent visual past: Hierarchical knowledge-based effects in visual working memory. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24, 1889–1899.
- Mavritsaki, E., Aldrovandi, S., & Bridger, E. (2017). Modelling human choices: MADeM and decision-making. BMC Neuroscience, 18(Suppl1), P18.
- Aldrovandi, S., Kusev, P., Hill, T., & Vlaev, I. (2017). Context moderates priming effects on financial risk taking. Risks, 5, 1–11.
- Aldrovandi, S., Poirier, M., Kusev, P., & Ayton, P. (2015). Retrospective evaluations of sequences: Testing the predictions of a memory-based analysis. Experimental Psychology, 62, 320–334.
- Aldrovandi, S., Wood, A., & Brown, G. D. A. (2015). Social norms and rank-based nudging: Changing willingness to pay for healthy food. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 21, 242–254.
- Aldrovandi, S., Wood, A. M., Maltby, J., & Brown, G. D. A. (2015). Students’ concern about indebtedness: A rank based social norms account. Studies in Higher Education, 40, 1307–1327.
- Aldrovandi, S., Wood, A., & Brown, G. D. A. (2013). Sentencing, severity, and social norms: A rank-based model of contextual influence on judgments of crimes and punishments. Acta Psychologica, 144, 538–547.
- Kusev, P., van Schaik, P., & Aldrovandi, S. (2012). Preferences induced by accessibility: Evidence from priming. Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology and Economics, 5, 250–258.
- Aldrovandi, S., & Heussen, D. (2011). Preference stability and memory: Two unlikely companions. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 291.
- Aldrovandi, S., Poirier, M., Kusev, P., Heussen, D., & Ayton, P. (2011). Now I like it, now I don’t: Delay effects and retrospective judgment. In Carlson, L., Hoelscher, C., & Shipley, T. F. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2866–2871). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
- Heussen, D., Poirier, M., Hampton, J. A., & Aldrovandi, S. (2011). An effect of semantic memory on immediate memory in the visual domain. In B. Kokinov, A. Karmiloff-Smith, and N. J. Nersessian (Eds.). European Perspectives on Cognitive Science: Proceedings of the European Conference on Cognitive Science. Sofia: NBU Press.
- Vlaev, I., Kusev, P., Stewart, N., Aldrovandi, S., & Chater, N. (2010). Domain effects and financial risk attitudes. Risk Analysis, 30, 1374–1386.
- Aldrovandi, S., Poirier, M., Heussen, D., & Ayton, P. (2009). Memory strategies mediate the relationships between memory and judgment. In N. A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2457–2462). Cognitive Science Society.
- Heussen, D., Aldrovandi, S., Kusev, P., & Hampton, J. A. (2009). Explanations of comparative facts: A shift in focus. In N. A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1716–1721). Cognitive Science Society.
- Aldrovandi, S., Kusev, P., Hill, T., & Vlaev, I. (under review) Context moderates priming effects on financial risk taking.
- Brown, G. D. A., Aldrovandi, S., Sanborn, A., & Wood, A. (under review) The stability of “unstable” preferences and judgments: A rank-based approach to anchoring effects.
- Kusev, P., van Schaik, P., Aldrovandi, S., & Heussen, D. (in preparation) Contrast, similarity and assimilation: Why some categories are more pronounced than others?
- Johansson, P., Hall, L., Kusev, P., Aldrovandi, S., Yamaguchi, Y., & Watanabe, K. (in preparation) Choice blindness in multi attribute decision making.