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
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01918