Formal Psychological Assessment (FPA)

Granziol, U., Brancaccio, A., Pizziconi, G., Spangaro, M., Gentili, F., Bosia, M., ... & Spoto, A. (2022). On the implementation of computerized adaptive observations for psychological assessment. Assessment, 29(2), 225-241.https://doi.org/10.1177/1073191120960215

Granziol, U., Spoto, A., & Vidotto, G. (2018). The assessment of nonverbal behavior in schizophrenia through the Formal Psychological Assessment. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, 27(1), e1595. https://doi.org/10.1002/mpr.1595

Donadello, I., Spoto, A., Sambo, F., Badaloni, S., Granziol, U., & Vidotto, G. (2017). ATS-PD: An adaptive testing system for psychological disorders. Educational and psychological measurement, 77(5), 792-815. https://doi.org/10.1177/0013164416652188

Bottesi, G., Spoto, A., Freeston, M. H., Sanavio, E., & Vidotto, G. (2015). Beyond the score: Clinical evaluation through formal psychological assessment. Journal of personality assessment, 97(3), 252-260. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2014.958846

Spoto, A., Bottesi, G., Sanavio, E., & Vidotto, G. (2013). Theoretical foundations and clinical implications of formal psychological assessment. Psychotherapy and psychosomatics, 82(3), 197-199. https://doi.org/10.1159/000345317

Spoto, A., Stefanutti, L., & Vidotto, G. (2010). Knowledge space theory, formal concept analysis, and computerized psychological assessment. Behavior research methods, 42(1), 342-350.https://doi.org/10.3758/BRM.42.1.342

  Statistical analysis and psychological methods

Bruno, G., Vicovaro, M., Nucci, M., Cropanise, G., Fabbian, V., Mondin, M., …& Spoto, A. (2023). A new Bayesian procedure for the estimation of the referees' decision thresholds and agreement. The case of professional handball refereeing. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 65, 102347. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2022.102347

Spoto, A., Nucci, M., Prunetti, E., & Vicovaro, M. (2023). Improving content validity evaluation of assessment instruments through formal content validity analysis. Psychological methods. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000545

Mignemi, G., Panzeri, A., Granziol, U., Bruno, G., Bertamini, M., Vidotto, G. & Spoto, A. (2022). The mediating role of scientifical-medical satisfaction between COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs and vaccine confidence: A two-waves structural equation model. Journal of Behavioral Medicine 2022, 1, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1007/S10865-022-00322-5

Nucci, M., Spoto, A., Altoè, G., & Pastore, M. (2021). The role of raters threshold in estimating interrater agreement. Psychological Methods, 26(5), 622. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000416

Mignemi, G., Calcagnì, A., Spoto, A., & Manolopoulou, I. (2024). Mixture polarization in inter-rater agreement analysis: a Bayesian nonparametric index. Statistical Methods & Applications, 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10260-023-00741-x

de Chiusole, D., Spoto, A., & Stefanutti, L. (2020). Extracting partially ordered clusters from ordinal polytomous data. Behavior research methods, 52, 503-520. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-019-01248-8

  Mathematical Psychology

Noventa, S., Ye, S., Kelava, A., & Spoto, A. (2024). On the Identifiability of 3-and 4-Parameter Item Response Theory Models From the Perspective of Knowledge Space Theory. Psychometrika, 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11336-024-09950-z

Spoto, A., & Stefanutti, L. (2023). Empirical indistinguishability: From the knowledge structure to the skills. British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 76(2), 312-326. https://doi.org/10.1111/bmsp.12291

Stefanutti, L., Spoto, A., Anselmi, P., & de Chiusole, D. (2023). Towards a competence-based polytomous knowledge structure theory. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 115, 102781. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmp.2023.102781

Spoto, A., & Stefanutti, L. (2020). On the necessary and sufficient conditions for delineating forward-and backward-graded knowledge structures from skill maps. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 99, 102451. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmp.2020.102451

Spoto, A., Stefanutti, L., & Vidotto, G. (2013). Considerations about the identification of forward-and backward-graded knowledge structures. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 57(5), 249-254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmp.2013.09.002

  Assessment tools in clinical and health psychology

Panzeri, A., Castelnuovo, G., & Spoto, A. (2024). Assessing Discriminant Validity through Structural Equation Modeling: The Case of Eating Compulsivity. Nutrients, 16(4), Article 4. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16040550 

Panzeri, A., Bettinardi, O., Bottesi, G., Bertolotti, G., Brambatti, L., Monfredo, M., Mignemi, G., Bruno, G., Vidotto, G., Spoto, A., Frattola, P., & Chiesa, S. (2022). Assessment of perceived support in the context of emergency: Development and validation of the psycho-social support scale. Current Psychology, 12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-03344-z

Shevlin, M., Butter, S., McBride, O., Murphy, J., Gibson-Miller, J., Hartman, T. K., Levita, L., Mason, L., Martinez, A. P., McKay, R., Stocks, T. V., Bennett, K. M., Hyland, P., Vallieres, F., Valiente, C., Vazquez, C., Contreras, A., Peinado, V., Trucharte, A., … Bentall, R. P. (2022). Measurement invariance of the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale (GAD-7) across four European countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. BMC Psychiatry, 22(1), 154. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-03787-5 

Ferrario, S. R., Panzeri, A., Anselmi, P., & Vidotto, G. (2019). Development and psychometric properties of a short form of the illness denial questionnaire. Psychology Research and Behavior Management, 12, 727–739. https://doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S207622 

Giuntoli, L., Marchetti, I., Panzeri, A., Spoto, A., Vidotto, G., & Caudek, C. (2019). Measuring cognitive vulnerability to depression: Further evidence on the factorial and predictive validity of negative cognitive style. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 65(April), 101479. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbtep.2019.04.005

  Risk perception, cognition and road safety

Cellini, N., Bruno, G., Orsini, F., Vidotto, G., Gastaldi, M., Rossi, R., & Tagliabue, M. (2023). The Effect of Partial Sleep Deprivation and Time-on-Task on Young Drivers’ Subjective and Objective Sleepiness. International journal of environmental research and public health, 20(5), 4003. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20054003

Bassani, M., Passalacqua, P., Catani, L., Bruno, G., & Spoto, A. (2021). A driving simulation study on the effects of different wine types on the performance of young drivers. Drug and alcohol dependence, 225, 108847. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108847

Centola, C., Tagliabue, M., Spoto, A., Palpacelli, M., Giorgetti, A., Giorgetti, R., & Vidotto, G. (2020). Enhancement of unsafe behaviors in simulated moped-riding performance under the influence of low dose of alcohol. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 136, 105409. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108847

Gianfranchi, E., Spoto, A., & Tagliabue, M. (2017). Risk profiles in novice road users: relation between moped riding simulator performance, on-road aberrant behaviors and dangerous driving. Transportation research part F: traffic psychology and behaviour, 49, 132-144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2017.06.016

Tagliabue, M., Da Pos, O., Spoto, A., & Vidotto, G. (2013). The contribution of attention in virtual moped riding training of teenagers. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 57, 10-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aap.2013.03.034

  Morality and ethics of autonomous systems

Bruno, G., Spoto, A., Sarlo, M., Lotto, L., Marson, A., Cellini, N., & Cutini, S. (2024). Moral reasoning behind the veil of ignorance: An investigation into perspective‐taking accessibility in the context of autonomous vehicles. British Journal of Psychology, 115(1), 90-114. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12679

Bruno, G., Spoto, A., Lotto, L., Cellini, N., Cutini, S., & Sarlo, M. (2023). Framing self-sacrifice in the investigation of moral judgment and moral emotions in human and autonomous driving dilemmas. Motivation and Emotion, 47(5), 781-794. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-023-10024-3

Bruno, G., Sarlo, M., Lotto, L., Cellini, N., Cutini, S., & Spoto, A. (2023). Moral judgment, decision times and emotional salience of a new developed set of sacrificial manual driving dilemmas. Current psychology, 42(15), 13159-13172. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02511-y

  Functional Measurement

Vicovaro, M. (2014). Intuitive physics of free fall: An information integration approach to the mass-speed belief. Psicológica, 35, 463-477.

Vicovaro, M. (2021). Intuitive physics and cognitive algebra: A review. European Review of Applied Psychology, 71, 100610.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erap.2020.100610

Masin. S. C., & Vicovaro, M. (2022). Sources of uncertainty in functional measurement methodology. Quality & Quantity. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-022-01407-8

  Inter rater agreement

Nucci, M., Spoto, A., Altoè, G., & Pastore, M. (2021). The role of raters threshold in estimating interrater agreement. Psychological Methods, 26(5), 622. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000416

Spoto, A., Nucci, M., Prunetti, E., & Vicovaro, M. (2023). Improving content validity evaluation of assessment instruments through formal content validity analysis. Psychological methods. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000545

Bruno, G., Vicovaro, M., Nucci, M., Cropanise, G., Fabbian, V., Mondin, M., ... & Spoto, A. (2023). A new Bayesian procedure for the estimation of the referees' decision thresholds and agreement. The case of professional handball refereeing. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 65, 102347. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2022.102347