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., 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

  • 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., Bolis, M., Lapomarda, L., Roselli, C., Datteri, E. (2026). Are social robots inherently deceptive?. SISTEMI INTELLIGENTI, 38(1/2026, aprile), 203-225 [10.1422/120420]. Detail

  • Pugi, L., Fiorini, L., Buttari, G., Borghese, N., Ciardo, F., Ricciardelli, P., et al. (2025). How are you feeling? Design and testing emotional dictionary for NAO robot to be used with children. In 9th Congress of the National Group of Bioengineering, GNB 2025. Patron Editore S.r.l.. 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 - RWTH Aachen University, 2016
  • Ricercatore/Ricercatrice universitario a t.d. - Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, 2023 - 2024
  • Visiting Researcher - University of Western Sydney, 2022
  • 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