Paolo Riva

Department of Psychology,

University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Email: [email protected]

Qualifications

2011 Ph.D., University of Milano-Bicocca, Social Psychology

2006 M.S., University of Milano-Bicocca, Psychology

Publications (Selected)

1. Riva, P., Marinucci, M., Telari, A., & Pancani, L. (2026). Updating the temporal need-threat model of ostracism: challenges and future directions. The Journal of Social Psychology, 166(1), 26-38.
2. Gerra, M. L., Ardizzi, M., Ossola, P., Martorana, S., Leoni, V., Riva, P., ... & Gallese, V. (2026). A Cross-Sectional Study of Social Exclusion in Schizophrenia: Emotional Blunting and Autonomic Arousal in Response to Cyberball. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 214(1), 18-24.
3. Schokkenbroek, J. M., Telari, A., Pancani, L., & Riva, P. (2025). What is (not) ghosting? A theoretical analysis via three key pillars. Computers in Human Behavior, 168, 108637.
4. Waldeck, D., Berman-Roberts, E., Smyth, C., Riva, P., Adie, J., Holliman, A. J., & Tyndall, I. (2025). Unraveling perceived ostracism: the role of antagonistic traits and attachment orientation. The Journal of Psychology, 159(3), 207-225.
5. Marinucci, M., Pagliaro, S., Teresi, M., Ballone, C., & Riva, P. (2025). How low can you still go? Observing an ostracized robot is sufficient to hurt humans’ feelings. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 28(3), 695-718.
6. Telesca, A., Telari, A., Consonni, M., De Panfilis, C., & Riva, P. (2024). On the other side of ostracism: A systematic literature review of the cyberball overinclusion condition. Cogent Psychology, 11(1), 2336362.
7. Büttner, C. M., Jauch, M., Marinucci, M., Williams, K. D., Greifeneder, R., Riva, P., & Rudert, S. C. (2024). It will (never) stop hurting: Do repeated or chronic experiences of exclusion lead to hyper-or hyposensitive psychological responses?. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 27(2), 256-277.
8. Zampini, L., Zanchi, P., Riva, P., & Tobia, V. (2024). Associations between social isolation and parenting stress during the first wave of COVID-19 in Italian children with special educational needs. International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 70(1), 100-109.
9. Marinucci, M., & Riva, P. (2024). Chronic social exclusion, radicalization, and extremism. In Exclusion and Extermism: A Psychological Perspective (pp. 263-286). Cambridge University Press.
10. Waldeck, D., Smyth, C., Riva, P., Adie, J., Holliman, A. J., & Tyndall, I. (2023). Who is more likely to feel ostracized? A latent class analysis of personality traits. Personality and Individual Differences, 213, 112325.
11. Marinucci, M., Riva, P., Lenzi, M., Lasagna, C., Waldeck, D., Tyndall, I., & Volpato, C. (2023). On the lowest rung of the ladder: How social exclusion, perceived economic inequality and stigma increase homeless people's resignation. British Journal of Social Psychology, 62(4), 1817-1838.
12. Spaccatini, F., Riva, P., Richetin, J., Porcelli, E., Pancani, L., Capellini, R., & Sacchi, S. (2023). From past to present (for a better future): The moderating role of cognitive mindset on spillover effects in environmental behaviors. Current Psychology, 42(18), 15858-15873.
13. Riva, P., Aureli, N., & Silvestrini, F. (2022). Social influences in the digital era: When do people conform more to a human being or an artificial intelligence?. Acta Psychologica, 229, 103681.
14. Marinucci, M., Pancani, L., Aureli, N., & Riva, P. (2022). Online social connections as surrogates of face-to-face interactions: A longitudinal study under Covid-19 isolation. Computers in Human Behavior, 128, 107102.
15. Pancani, L., Mazzoni, D., Aureli, N., & Riva, P. (2021). Ghosting and orbiting: An analysis of victims’ experiences. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 38(7), 1987-2007.
16. Marinucci, M., & Riva, P. (2021). How intergroup social connections shape immigrants’ responses to social exclusion. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 24(3), 411-435.
17. Pancani, L., Gerosa, T., Gui, M., & Riva, P. (2021). “Mom, dad, look at me”: The development of the Parental Phubbing Scale. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 38(2), 435-458.
18. Timeo, S., Riva, P., & Paladino, M. P. (2020). Being liked or not being liked: A study on social-media exclusion in a preadolescent population. Journal of adolescence, 80, 173-181.
19. Gallucci, A., Riva, P., Lauro, L. J. R., & Bushman, B. J. (2020). Stimulating the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (VLPFC) modulates frustration-induced aggression: A tDCS experiment. Brain stimulation, 13(2), 302-309.
20. Andrighetto, L., Riva, P., & Gabbiadini, A. (2019). Lonely hearts and angry minds: Online dating rejection increases male (but not female) hostility. Aggressive behavior, 45(5), 571-581.
21. Kelley, N. J., Gallucci, A., Riva, P., Romero Lauro, L. J., & Schmeichel, B. J. (2019). Stimulating self-regulation: a review of non-invasive brain stimulation studies of goal-directed behavior. Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience, 12, 337.
22. Vergallito, A., Riva, P., Pisoni, A., & Lauro, L. J. R. (2018). Modulation of negative emotions through anodal tDCS over the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex. Neuropsychologia, 119, 128-135.
23. Tyndall, I., Waldeck, D., Riva, P., Wesselmann, E. D., & Pancani, L. (2018). Psychological flexibility and ostracism: Experiential avoidance rather than cognitive fusion moderates distress from perceived ostracism over time. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, 7, 72-80.

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WoS Researcher ID: D-8130-2011