COSTANTINI GIULIO
- U06, Floor: 3, Room: 3127
Monday from 5.30pm to 6.30pm
Please, write me an email if you wish to visit me, at [email protected]
Biography
I earned my Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Milano-Bicocca in 2015, with a thesis titled “Network Analysis: A New Perspective on Personality Psychology,” under the supervision of Prof. Marco Perugini. Currently, I am an Associate Professor of Psychometrics at the same institution. My research primarily focuses on advancing network analysis as a statistical and theoretical framework for modeling personality, with particular emphasis on traits such as conscientiousness and honesty—the latter supported by a grant from Wake Forest University and the John Templeton Foundation (#61842). Additionally, I am engaged in the psychometric measurement of personality through both questionnaires and implicit measures. My broader research interests include the interplay between personality, behavior, and psychological situations, as well as topics like creative problem solving, statistical power, and scientific reproducibility. Since 2024, I have served as president of the international MSc program in Applied Experimental Psychological Sciences at the University of Milano-Bicocca and am currently the president-elect of the European Association of Personality Psychology (EAPP).
Research
Giulio Costantini completed his PhD at the Psychology Department of the University of Milano-Bicocca in 2015, with a thesis entitled “Network Analysis: A New Perspective on Personality Psychology”, supervised by prof. Marco Perugini. He is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at the same department. His main research interests span the fields of personality psychology, psychological methods, and network analysis. His research has been focused mainly on developing network analysis as a statistical and theoretical tool to model personality. Additionally, he focused on applications of the network methodology to understand the structure and processes of a specific personality trait, namely conscientiousness. He is also interested in the psychometric measurement of personality, with a keen eye on implicit measures. Other research interests include the relationships between personality, behavior, and psychological situations; the psychometric measurement of creative problem-solving skills; statistical power and scientific reproducibility.
Publications
Fatfouta, R., Leniarska, M., Costantini, G., Galkina, A., Rogoza, R., Di Pierro, R. (2025). Untangling the Many Facets of Narcissism: A Network Approach to Agentic, Antagonistic, Communal, and Neurotic Facets Across Gender. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT [10.1027/1015-5759/a000897]. Detail
Kuper, N., Andresen, P., Beck, E., Costantini, G., Hamaker, E., Wright, A., et al. (2025). From persons to general principles: Methodological decisions for idiographic and nomothetic research. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY, 39(4 (July/August 2025)), 635-661 [10.1177/08902070241278020]. Detail
Dinić, B., Costantini, G., Papageorgiou, K., Bonfá-Araujo, B., Grabovac, B., Żemojtel-Piotrowska, M., et al. (2025). The Short Dark Triad across 14 cultures: A novel network-based invariance approach. PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES, 246(November 2025) [10.1016/j.paid.2025.113321]. Detail
Lazzari, G., Costantini, G., La Rocca, S., Massironi, A., Cattaneo, L., Penhune, V., et al. (2025). Topography of Functional Organization of Beat Perception in Human Premotor Cortex: Causal Evidence From a Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Study. HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING, 46(7) [10.1002/hbm.70225]. Detail
Costantini, G., Galkina, A., Amenta, S., Di Masi, A., Zarbo, C., Perugini, M. (2024). Unraveling the motivational dynamics of honesty. Intervento presentato a: 2024 Annual convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP), San Diego, California. Detail
Research projects
Awards
Scientific fellowships
- Componente dell'Executive Commitee - European Association of Personality Psychology, 2020
Editorial boards
- Associate Editor di rivista o collana editoriale - EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT, 2022
- Associate Editor di rivista o collana editoriale - EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY, 2022
- Membro del Comitato Editoriale - EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY, 2016 - 2022
Research and teaching assignments
- Professore a contratto - Laboratorio di Metodologia - modulo quantitativo - Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, 2013
- Ricercatore universitario a t.d. - Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, 2019 - 2022
- Professore a contratto - Esercitatore per il corso di Analisi Multivariata dei Dati - Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, 2015
- Ricercatore universitario a t.d. - Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, 2017 - 2019
- Professore a contratto - Esercitatore per il corso di elementi di Psicometria - Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, 2012
- Professore a contratto - Esercitatore per il corso di "Psicometria con laboratorio di SPSS 2" - Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, 2015
Congresses/Conferences
- Revisore - 20th European Conference of Personality(Spagna), 2022
- Revisore - 19th European Conference of Personality(Croazia), 2018