CIARDO Francesca Maria

Role
Assistant Professor  
Academic disciplines
General Psychology (PSIC-01/A)
Scientific-Disciplinary Group:
GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY, NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE, PSYCHOMETRICS (11/PSIC-01)

Publications

  • Ciardo, F., Bolis, M., Lapomarda, L., Roselli, C., Datteri, E. (2026). Are social robots inherently deceptive?. SISTEMI INTELLIGENTI(1/2026, aprile), 203-225 [10.1422/120420]. Detail

  • Ciardo, F., Foini, F., Spitale, M. (2026). Storytelling and Self-other Integration with Robots: Creation and Validation of Storytelling Stimuli that Induce Social Identification with the QT Robot. In Social Robotics + AI 17th International Conference, ICSR+AI 2025, Naples, Italy, September 10–12, 2025, Proceedings, Part II (pp.181-191). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH [10.1007/978-981-95-2382-5_13]. Detail

  • Roselli, C., Navare, U., Ciardo, F., De Tommaso, D., Kotz, S., Wykowska, A. (2026). Minimal conditions for the emergence of a vicarious sense of agency toward artificial agents. COGNITION, 267(February 2026) [10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106349]. Detail

  • Ciardo, F., Fava, A., Ricciardelli, P., Villani, V., Iani, C., Sabattini, L. (2026). Diffusion of Responsibility in HRI: Reduction of Human Agency Does not Occur When Sharing a Task with a Robotic Arm. In Social Robotics + AI 17th International Conference, ICSR+AI 2025, Naples, Italy, September 10–12, 2025, Proceedings, Part I (pp.625-631). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH [10.1007/978-981-95-2379-5_55]. Detail

  • Cavicchi, S., Abubshait, A., Siri, G., Mustile, M., Ciardo, F. (2025). Can humanoid robots be used as a cognitive offloading tool?. COGNITIVE RESEARCH, 10(1) [10.1186/s41235-025-00616-7]. Detail

Awards

Scientific fellowships

  • Componente del Consiglio/Comitato Direttivo - European Society of Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2022
  • Fellow - MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF), 2020

Editorial boards

  • Guest Editor di rivista o collana editoriale - JOURNAL OF COGNITION, 2020

Research and teaching assignments

  • Docente a contratto - Docente a contratto presso il Dipartimento di Comunicazione e Economia per il corso di Psicologia Generale M-PSI01 - Università degli Studi di MODENA e REGGIO EMILIA, 2022
  • Docente a contratto - Docente a contratto presso il Dipartimento di Comunicazione e Economia per il corso di Psicologia Generale M-PSI/01 - Università degli Studi di MODENA e REGGIO EMILIA, 2023
  • Visiting Researcher - University of Western Sydney, 2022
  • Visiting Researcher - RWTH Aachen University, 2016
  • Ricercatore/Ricercatrice universitario a t.d. - Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, 2023 - 2024
  • Ricercatore/Ricercatrice universitario a t.d. - Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, 2024 - 2026

Congresses/Conferences

  • Program committee - Joint Action Meeting (JAM X)(Italia), 2025
  • Program committee - International conference of Child-Robot Interaction(Italia), 2025