SIMONE MATTAVELLI DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF MILAN - BICOCCA P.ZZA DELL’ATENEO NUOVO 1 (U6), 20126 MILAN, ITALY s.mattavelli3@campus.unimib.it EDUCATION 2012 Master Degree, Psychology of Social and Decision Processes and of Economic Behaviour, cum laude University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy Master’s thesis title: The question-behavior effect about doing vs. not doing cognitions: an experimental test on healthy food consumption Supervisor: Prof. Marco Perugini; Co-Supervisor: Prof. Mark Conner February/ May 2012 Visiting Student Institute of Psycological Science, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK Supervisor: Prof. Mark Conner 2010 Bachelor Degree, Psychology University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy Bachelor’s thesis title: Pratiche di modificazione corporea: tra fenomeno di tendenza e psicopatologia Supervisor: Prof. Antonio Prunas, CURRENT POSITION January 2014/ Ph.D student in Experimental psychology, linguistics and cognitive Present neurosciences Supervisor: Prof. Marco Perugini Department of Psychology, University of Milan – Bicocca RESEARCH INTERESTS My interests span both explicit and implicit attitudes, with a particular focus on their instruments of measurement (e.g. the Implicit Association Test, IAT) as well as on the different psychological paradigms to influence and modify them. I am also interested in the different features of evaluative conditioning and evaluative learning: in this field of research, I am currently working on the use of the Self Referencing task (Prestwich, Perugini, Hurling, & Richetin, 2010), specifically investigating its potential effetcs in shaping and affecting both attitudes and behaviors. - 1/2- RESEARCH EXPERIENCE October 2012/ April 2013 Internship Social Cognition and Personality Lab, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy Supervisor: Dr. Cristina Zogmaister February/ May 2012 Internship Instititute of Pychological Science, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK Prof. Mark Conner GRANT January 2014/ Present Doctoral Scholarship Department of Psychology, University of Milan - Bicocca, Milan, Italy February 2012 Fondazione Cariplo, Extra-Plus Project – Scholarship Thesis preparation abroad, € 2.100 (3 months) TECHNICAL SKILLS  Experiments and online survey building softwares: Inquisit, Voxco, SurveyMonkey  Data analysis packages: SPSS * JANUARY 2014 - 2/2-