Email: [email protected], [email protected]

Qualifications

1989 Ph.D., Experimental/Cognitive Psychology, University of Kansas, USA

1986 M.A., Experimental/Cognitive Psychology, University of Kansas, USA

1982 B.A., Psychology, State University of New York (SUNY) at Potsdam, USA

Publications (Selected)

1. Breckenridge-Trotter, T., Denny, D. L., Evanson, T., Ferraro, F. R., O’Malley, P., & Bottomley, M. (2025). Stroke survivors’ and informal caregivers’ perceptions of depressive symptoms after stroke: an explanatory sequential mixed-methods study. Current Psychology, 44(10), 9312-9330.
2. Sawaya, H., Ferraro, F. R., & Marsh, R. A. (2024). Negative and positive attention bias in anhedonia and anxious arousal: Can depression and anxiety be distinguished by patterns of engagement and disengagement bias?. Current Psychology, 43(21), 19005-19018.
3. Ferraro, F. R. (2023). Introduction to special issue on Parents & Children. Current Psychology, 42(19), 15913-15913.
4. Holte, A. J., & Ferraro, F. R. (2023). True colors: Grayscale setting reduces screen time in college students. The Social Science Journal, 60(2), 274-290.
5. Holte, A. J., Giesen, D. T., & Ferraro, F. R. (2023). Color me calm: Grayscale phone setting reduces anxiety and problematic smartphone use. Current Psychology, 42(8), 6778-6790.
6. Rezapour, M., Ferraro, F. R., & Alsubaiei, S. (2022). Behavioral and emotional adaptations of obese and underweight students in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 9(1), 1-9.
7. Holte, A. J., Fisher, W. N., & Ferraro, F. R. (2022). Afraid of social exclusion: Fear of missing out predicts cyberball-induced ostracism. Journal of technology in behavioral science, 7(3), 315-324.
8. Ferraro, F. R., Holte, A. J., & Giesen, D. (2022). Does texting make you slower?. Current Psychology, 41(5), 2980-2984.
9. Rezapour, M., & Ferraro, F. R. (2021). Rail transport delay and its effects on the perceived importance of a real-time information. Frontiers in psychology, 12, 619308.
10. Holte, A. J., & Richard Ferraro, F. (2021). Tethered to texting: Reliance on texting and emotional attachment to cell phones. Current Psychology, 40(1), 1-8.
11. Holte, A. J., & Ferraro, F. R. (2020). Anxious, bored, and (maybe) missing out: Evaluation of anxiety attachment, boredom proneness, and fear of missing out (FoMO). Computers in Human Behavior, 112, 106465.
12. Ferraro, F. R. (2019). Males tend to die, females tend to pass away. Death studies, 43(10), 665-667.
13. Hijazi, A., Ferguson, C. J., Richard Ferraro, F., Hall, H., Hovee, M., & Wilcox, S. (2019). Psychological dimensions of drone warfare. Current Psychology, 38(5), 1285-1296.
14. Bernhardt, K. A., Poltavski, D., Petros, T., Ferraro, F. R., Jorgenson, T., Carlson, C., ... & Iseminger, C. (2019). The effects of dynamic workload and experience on commercially available EEG cognitive state metrics in a high-fidelity air traffic control environment. Applied ergonomics, 77, 83-91.
15. Ferraro, F. R. (2018). Does Age Impact Text-Message Dependence?. The Journal of General Psychology, 145(2), 199-207.
16. Ferraro, F. R., Hansen, R., & Deling, L. (2018). Executive Function Index (EFI) performance in nonclinical individuals with high levels of autistic traits. Applied Neuropsychology: Adult, 25(2), 149-154.
17. Krumm, A., Ferraro, F. R., & Ingvalson, B. (2017). Exploring the relationship between autistic traits and body image, body satisfaction, and body competence. The Journal of Psychology, 151(6), 566-579.

Profile Details

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https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Tx0jlN8AAAAJ&hl=en

https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/F-Richard-Ferraro-2141102239