chiarafini.bsky.social
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🚁ALERT!! 🧨💥Can you believe that just five minutes of online written conversation 🖥️—no matter the topic—can be enough to create a psychological intersubjective space?

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Digital connection, real bonding: Brief online chats boost interpersonal closeness regardless of the conversational topic
This study explores how the quality of brief dyadic written exchanges (lasting under 5 min) on a virtual platform and the nature of the conversational…
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If you are interested, you can read more about the study on ecological concepts led by @ileniafalcinelli.bsky.social at osf.io/preprints/os...; for details about the conversations study led by @chiarafini.bsky.social please get in touch with her!
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October 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Snapshots from today's conference (age.it) in Neaples where Italian experts on aging have gathered to discuss their results. Below @annaborghi.bsky.social presenting studies investigating how abstractness impacts ecological concepts and conversation dynamics across different age cohorts
October 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Very proud of the members of BALLAB who are presenting at conferences! @mattiagervasi at Embodied and Situated Language Processing (ESLP) on inner speech and action learning. @chiaradelivio.bsky.social at SWECOG25 on an interactive study on abstract and vague concepts.🙃 @ballabrome.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Very proud of the PhD defense of @ileniafalcinelli.bsky.social. Her dissertation focuses on ecological concepts (e.g., pollution), with various tasks, in older and younger adults. This work shows how studies on abstract concepts can help improve pro-environmental behaviors. @ballabrome.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Just out our paper on technological concepts on our SI in Topoi.
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Technological Concepts: Object and Tool of Knowledge Outsourcing at Different Ages - Topoi
Technological devices and the Internet have profoundly transformed people’s lives. Among their impacts, one of the most significant is knowledge outsourcing. This article explores this phenomenon from...
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May 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Very happy to share this Perspective w/@claudiamazzuca.bsky.social, @ideeverdi.bsky.social.
on abstract concepts and social interaction. We address vagueness and the relation of abstract concepts to knowledge outsourcing, crosscultural differences, and LLMs. @ballabrome.bsky.social
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The role of social interaction in the formation and use of abstract concepts
Nature Reviews Psychology - The capability to use abstract concepts such as ‘justice’ is a key part of human cognition. In this Perspective, Borghi et al. highlight distinct levels of...
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May 8, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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On the 25th of February we are hosting an exciting online conference with plenty of brilliant speakers that will discuss with us about concepts, language, consciousness and politicisation. Don’t miss it!

Link here: www.youtube.com/live/QDTBFWc...
February 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
🙌 We are conducting and innovative study on how abstract and concrete concepts are represented in aphantasic people! We are looking for 16 pps between the ages of 40 and 50, english mother tongue. Write to cella.1813889@studenti.uniroma1.it. thanks for helping and for sharing this!🤗☄️
February 12, 2025 at 12:20 PM
🚁ALERT!! 🧨💥Can you believe that just five minutes of online written conversation 🖥️—no matter the topic—can be enough to create a psychological intersubjective space?

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Digital connection, real bonding: Brief online chats boost interpersonal closeness regardless of the conversational topic
This study explores how the quality of brief dyadic written exchanges (lasting under 5 min) on a virtual platform and the nature of the conversational…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM