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Fiorella Del Popolo Cristaldi @fiorelladpc.bsky.social · 1d

Thrilled to share some news! 🎉📷 Don't miss my #poster tomorrow. I could not be at the conference for unforeseen circumstances but feel free to email me with all your questions! - via #Whova Event Platform
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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · 19d

“Added value” 🙄

Rutger K. 🟥 @anotheraspirin.bsky.social · 19d

This is a problem.

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Fiorella Del Popolo Cristaldi @fiorelladpc.bsky.social · 21d

Luigi (@luigi_micillo ) truly touched my🫀by citing me in his PhD thesis acknowledgments 🥹 From that conference to now, it’s been a wild journey — and this is just the beginning! Wishing him all the best, both as a researcher and the amazing person he is 🫶🏻 Let’s crush the PhD defense now!

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Sahib Khalsa @skhalsa.bsky.social · 28d

What if many psychiatric disorders share the same hidden glitch in how the brain infers reality? In a new volume, Al Powers and I gather experts to examine how disrupted sensory inference across #vision, #touch, #proprioception and #interoception might unify our understanding.

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Society for Psychophysiological Research (SPR) @therealspr.bsky.social · Sep 12

✨ 🎬 “Psychophys Is” 2025 videos are lighting up the contest! This video was submitted by Antonio Maffei, @fiorelladpc.bsky.social & Salvatore Frisina

🔗 Submit your video before October 1, 2025: sprweb.org/spr-video-cont

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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Stress

1 min 29 sec video

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Fiorella Del Popolo Cristaldi @fiorelladpc.bsky.social · Sep 12

I’m really grateful to my supervisory team @skhalsa.bsky.social @micahgallen.com & Gioia Bottesi for the precious support throughout and for helping me refine my insights for the proposal, let’s keep fingers crossed! 🤞🏻
#MSCAActions

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Fiorella Del Popolo Cristaldi @fiorelladpc.bsky.social · Sep 12

#MSCAPF call closed and number of applications is huuuge this year😱
I’m happy with my proposal and, as ⁦‪Sahib Khalsa‬⁩ said “every grant submission it’s worth celebrating the opportunity to articulate the best version of your science”

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MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 receives record number of 17,058 proposals

This year’s annual MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships call has attracted considerable interest from the research community with 17,058 proposals submitted.

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Fiorella Del Popolo Cristaldi @fiorelladpc.bsky.social · Sep 4

Huge thanks to my amazing co-authors for their brilliant contributions to this work 🙌👩‍🔬👨‍🔬
@francafranchini.bsky.social Giulia Buodo & Carmen Belacchi

Fiorella Del Popolo Cristaldi @fiorelladpc.bsky.social · Sep 4

Take-home message: promoting self-regulation capacity + active lifestyles may help students resist unhealthy temptations and maintain balanced nutrition.

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Fiorella Del Popolo Cristaldi @fiorelladpc.bsky.social · Sep 4

But here’s the twist: higher HRV and regular physical activity were linked to less junk food and more fruit/veg intake 🌿✨

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Fiorella Del Popolo Cristaldi @fiorelladpc.bsky.social · Sep 4

Unhealthy foods triggered stronger pleasantness, arousal, and craving compared to healthy options 🍔🍩 > 🥦🐟

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Fiorella Del Popolo Cristaldi @fiorelladpc.bsky.social · Sep 4

🧠🍎 New study alert!
Among female university students, emotional reactivity and self-regulation (measured via heart rate variability, HRV) play a key role in shaping food choices.

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Frontiers | Nutritional habits, inhibitory control, and emotional reactivity to healthy and unhealthy food cues in non-obese female students: insights from heart rate variability

BackgroundResearch shows that the nutritional habits of university students do not follow the national recommendations. While most studies have focused on th...

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Micah G. Allen @micahgallen.com · Aug 27

Are interoception and mental health linked? Many assume so, with interoception even described as a psychiatric “p-factor.” But in our latest preprint, we were surprised to find little evidence for such a connection. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 Thread with our reflections on the matter 👇

Interoceptive Ability is Unrelated to Mental Health Symptoms: Evidence From a Large Scale Multi-Domain Psychophysical Investigation

Interoception-the sensing and perception of the internal viscera-is widely cast as a transdiagnostic mechanism linking brain-body interaction to mental illness. Prevailing models propose that altered ...

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Marc Wittmann @marcwittmann.bsky.social · Aug 23

More news on interoception and time perception!

Fiorella Del Popolo Cristaldi @fiorelladpc.bsky.social · Aug 23

🎉 Happy to share our latest paper on #Physiology&Behavior @elsevierconnect.bsky.social
Together with Luigi Micillo, Nicola Cellini and Giovanna Mioni we explored the link between cardiac #interoception and time perception
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In the heart of time: investigating the link between cardiac activity and interoception in explicit and implicit timing

Recent research suggests that our sense of time is influenced by interoceptive abilities. Efficient access to bodily signals, measured objectively (in…

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Fiorella Del Popolo Cristaldi @fiorelladpc.bsky.social · Aug 23

🧵5/5 These findings highlight the distinct roles of cardiac interoception and activity in explicit and implicit timing, emphasizing their nuanced contributions to time perception.

Fiorella Del Popolo Cristaldi @fiorelladpc.bsky.social · Aug 23

🧵4/n Better interoceptive accuracy sped up responses in the implicit foreperiod task. Higher interoceptive confidence led to worse performance in time bisection. Cardiac vagal tone influenced self-paced tapping in explicit timing tasks.

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Fiorella Del Popolo Cristaldi @fiorelladpc.bsky.social · Aug 23

🧵3/n In Study 1, participants (N = 31, M = 23.1 years, SD = 3.23) completed an implicit timing task (foreperiod) and an explicit timing task (time bisection). In Study 2, participants (N = 51, M = 22.6 years, SD = 1.52) performed an explicit timing task (self-paced finger-tapping).

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Fiorella Del Popolo Cristaldi @fiorelladpc.bsky.social · Aug 23

🧵2/n Interoceptive accuracy was assessed using a HCT. Interoceptive sensibility was measured using the Body Perception Questionnaire and subjective confidence ratings (0–9 scale) provided during the HCT. Resting HRV served as an index of cardiac vagal control.

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Fiorella Del Popolo Cristaldi @fiorelladpc.bsky.social · Aug 23

🧵1/n We examined how cardiac and interoceptive signals shape time perception. Implicit and explicit timing were tested via foreperiod, bisection, and tapping tasks.

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Fiorella Del Popolo Cristaldi @fiorelladpc.bsky.social · Aug 23

🎉 Happy to share our latest paper on #Physiology&Behavior @elsevierconnect.bsky.social
Together with Luigi Micillo, Nicola Cellini and Giovanna Mioni we explored the link between cardiac #interoception and time perception
🧵in the comments

In the heart of time: investigating the link between cardiac activity and interoception in explicit and implicit timing

Recent research suggests that our sense of time is influenced by interoceptive abilities. Efficient access to bodily signals, measured objectively (in…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Fiorella Del Popolo Cristaldi @fiorelladpc.bsky.social · Jun 23

Excited to chair @micahgallen.com 's fantastic seminar this Wednesday, June 25th at DPG! 🧠🫀 Join us in 📍 Room 2C, PSICO2 building. Don’t miss it! 🚀
#UniversityOfPadova #DepartmentOfGeneralPsychology

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Fiorella Del Popolo Cristaldi @fiorelladpc.bsky.social · Jun 12

Sycophancy in Generative-AI Chatbots - NN/g
Def worth a read #AI #chatGPT #sycophancy #generativeAI

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Sycophancy in Generative-AI Chatbots

Large language models like ChatGPT can lie to elicit approval from users. This phenomenon, called sycophancy, can be detected in state-of-the-art models.

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Fiorella Del Popolo Cristaldi @fiorelladpc.bsky.social · Jun 9

Who says department retreats can't be fun? 😄Here's a glimpse of our latest retreat—full of laughter, learning, and meaningful connections. #TeamBuilding #GrowthMoments #dpgunipd Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale, Università di Padova

Fiorella Del Popolo Cristaldi @fiorelladpc.bsky.social · May 26

🙏 A huge thank you to the amazing research team supporting me throughout this journey: Giovanni Mento, Nicola Cellini, Antonio Maffei, Gioia Bottesi, @micahgallen.com

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Fiorella Del Popolo Cristaldi @fiorelladpc.bsky.social · May 26

🎉 Thrilled to give the very first talk on my latest line of research at Prof. Paola Sessa's Lab Meeting today! 🧠✨ A precious opportunity to get feedback 💬 on the project I’m developing for my forthcoming #MSCA application 🚀

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