Carolina Pletti, PhD
Contact
Contact
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow
T: +43-1-4277-47471
E: carolina.pletti@univie.ac.at
Office: 01.53
Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology
Liebiggasse 5
1010 Vienna
Research Interests
- Neural and behavioral mechanism and correlates of laughter
- Neural correlates of moral judgment
- Social and moral development
Professional Experience
| Seit 1/2022 | University of Vienna Research associate (Postdoc), Developmental Psychology |
| 2016 - 2021 | LMU Munich, Research associate (PostDoc), Developmental Psychology Unit (Lehrstuhl für Entwicklungspsychologie) |
| 2015 | University of Vienna |
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| 2013 - 2015 | University of Padova, Predoctoral researcher, Department of General Psychology |
Education
| 2016 | Ph.D., Psychology University of Padova |
| 2011 | Master degree in Neuroscience and Neuropsychological Rehabilitation University of Padova |
| 2009 | Bachelor degree in Psychology of Personality and Interpersonal Relationships |
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Awards and Stipends
| 02/2021 | Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship European Commission |
| 11/2019 | Junior Researcher Fund LMU Excellent Initiative |
| 07/2019 | Mission Award for improving psychological science in the face of challende, as contributor to the ManyBabies1- Collaboration Society for Improvement of Psychological Science |
| 09/2014 | Best Presentation Award for Young Researchers Italian Psychological Association, Experimental Psychology Branch |
| 11/2012 | Pre-Doctoral Scholarship Italian Ministry of Education |
Publications
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2023
Becher T, Essler S, Pletti C, Paulus M. Compliance or empathy—What links maternal sensitivity and toddlers’ emotional helping? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 2023 Feb;226. 105547. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2022.105547
2022
Pletti C, Paulus M, Decety J. Neural processing of moral content reflects moral identity in 10‐year‐old children. Developmental Science. 2022 Jul;25(4). e13232. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13232
Christner N, Pletti C, Paulus M. How does the moral self-concept relate to prosocial behaviour? Investigating the role of emotions and consistency preference. Cognition and Emotion. 2022 May 10;36(5):894-911. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2022.2067133
2021
Nijssen SRR, Pletti C, Paulus M, Muller BCN. Does agency matter? Neural processing of robotic movements in 4-and 8-year olds. Neuropsychologia. 2021 Jul 16;157. 107853. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107853
Sticker R, Christner N, Pletti C, Paulus M. The moral self-concept in preschool children: Its dimensions and relation to prosocial behaviors. Cognitive Development. 2021 Apr;58. 101033. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2021.101033
Rütgen M, Pfabigan D, Tik M, Kraus C, Pletti C, Sladky R et al. Detached empathic experience of others’ pain in remitted states of depression – An fMRI study. NeuroImage: Clinical. 2021;31. 102699. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nicl.2021.102699
2020
Pletti C, Paulus M. Neural processing of equitable and inequitable distributions in 5-year-old children. Social Neuroscience. 2020 Sep 2;15(5):584-599. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2020.1816578
Christner N, Pletti C, Paulus M. Emotion understanding and the moral self-concept as motivators of prosocial behavior in middle childhood. Cognitive Development. 2020 Jul 1;55. 100893. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.100893
The ManyBabies Consortium. Quantifying Sources of Variability in Infancy Research Using the Infant-Directed-Speech Preference. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 2020 Mar 16;3(1):24 - 52. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245919900809
2019
Rütgen M, Pletti C, Tik M, Kraus C, Pfabigan D, Sladky R et al. Antidepressant treatment, not depression, leads to reductions in behavioral and neural responses to pain empathy. Translational Psychiatry. 2019 Jun 7;9(1). 164. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-019-0496-4
Pletti C, Decety J, Paulus M. Moral identity relates to the neural processing of third-party moral behavior. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 2019 Apr;14(4):435–445. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsz016
2018
Rütgen M, Seidel E-M, Pletti C, Riečanský I, Gartus A, Eisenegger C et al. Psychopharmacological modulation of event-related potentials suggests that first-hand pain and empathy for pain rely on similar opioidergic processes. Neuropsychologia. 2018 Jul 31;116(A):5-14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.04.023
2017
Pletti C, Scheel A, Paulus M. Intrinsic Altruism or Social Motivation—What Does Pupil Dilation Tell Us about Children's Helping Behavior? Frontiers in Psychology. 2017 Dec 5;8. 2089. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02089
Cellini N, Lotto L, Pletti C, Sarlo M. Daytime REM sleep affects emotional experience but not decision choices in moral dilemmas. Scientific Reports. 2017 Sep 11;7(1). 11059. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-11530-4
Pletti C, Lotto L, Buodo G, Sarlo M. It's immoral, but I'd do it! Psychopathy traits affect decision-making in sacrificial dilemmas and in everyday moral situations. British Journal of Psychology. 2017 May;108(2):351-368. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12205
2016
Pletti C, Lotto L, Tasso A, Sarlo M. Will I Regret It? Anticipated Negative Emotions Modulate Choices in Moral Dilemmas. Frontiers in Psychology. 2016 Dec 6;7. 1918. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01918
2015
Pletti C, Dalmaso M, Sarlo M, Galfano G. Gaze cuing of attention in snake phobic women: the influence of facial expression. Frontiers in Psychology. 2015 Apr 20;6. 454. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00454
Pletti C, Sarlo M, Palomba D, Rumiati R, Lotto L. Evaluation of the legal consequences of action affects neural activity and emotional experience during the resolution of moral dilemmas. Brain and Cognition. 2015 Mar;94:24-31. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2015.01.004