Claudia Mazzuca (she/her)
@claudiamazzuca.bsky.social
Post-Doc CogSci @Sapienza University of Rome @ballabrome.bsky.social. Interested in concepts, language, culture, and perception; soft spot for #rstats, #OpenScience, gender studies & dinosaurs🏳️🌈
Great to see this brilliant work led by @ileniafalcinelli.bsky.social finally published and #OA. Our results add further layers to the study of conceptual abstractness, showing differences in the representation of technological&ecological concepts across two age cohorts (65yo+ and younger adults)👵
Our multitask, multisetting investigation on ecological concepts is now online 🌍📄.
Findings indicate that these concepts are characterized predominantly by abstractness, with a clear age-dependent pattern: older adults represent them more concretely than younger adults 👥.
doi.org/10.1186/s412...
Findings indicate that these concepts are characterized predominantly by abstractness, with a clear age-dependent pattern: older adults represent them more concretely than younger adults 👥.
doi.org/10.1186/s412...
Thinking climate change through the lens of abstractness: a multi-task and multi-setting investigation into generational differences in the conceptualization of ecology - Cognitive Research: Principle...
To face ecological disasters, one of the major emergencies of modern times, fostering pro-environmental behaviors appears crucial. While research explored various behavioral drivers, few studies addre...
doi.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Great to see this brilliant work led by @ileniafalcinelli.bsky.social finally published and #OA. Our results add further layers to the study of conceptual abstractness, showing differences in the representation of technological&ecological concepts across two age cohorts (65yo+ and younger adults)👵
Reposted by Claudia Mazzuca (she/her)
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
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!
Truly honoured to have been given the chance to present my work in my first keynote talk as the 2024 winner of Best Young Researcher from the Italian Association of Cognitive Science at #AISC2025 in the wonderful IMT of Lucca
September 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Truly honoured to have been given the chance to present my work in my first keynote talk as the 2024 winner of Best Young Researcher from the Italian Association of Cognitive Science at #AISC2025 in the wonderful IMT of Lucca
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Wonderful talk by @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social at AISC, Italian Association of Cognitive Science, in Lucca, IMT, on "the worlds within words" - on the importance of considering diversity in language/culture, gender, age, and expertise in research on cognition. @ballabrome.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Wonderful talk by @claudiamazzuca.bsky.social at AISC, Italian Association of Cognitive Science, in Lucca, IMT, on "the worlds within words" - on the importance of considering diversity in language/culture, gender, age, and expertise in research on cognition. @ballabrome.bsky.social
🧪🧑🔬 Do chemists think of water differently from laypeople? In this #preregistered #OpenAccess study we find that this is partly so, showing that their conceptual representation of water is more “essentialised” compared to that of laypeople onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Water Is and Is Not H2O, Depending on Who You Ask: Conceptualizations of Water Vary Across Chemists and Laypeople
Conceptual representations can be shaped by multiple factors, including expertise. In this study, we tested whether the concept of water is represented differently across laypeople and chemists, focu...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 11, 2025 at 7:35 AM
🧪🧑🔬 Do chemists think of water differently from laypeople? In this #preregistered #OpenAccess study we find that this is partly so, showing that their conceptual representation of water is more “essentialised” compared to that of laypeople onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Our new paper is now online at @natrevpsychol.nature.com, with some of our latest perspectives on conceptual #abstractness and its relation with #vagueness and social interaction. Check it out at rdcu.be/elbbT
May 8, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Our new paper is now online at @natrevpsychol.nature.com, with some of our latest perspectives on conceptual #abstractness and its relation with #vagueness and social interaction. Check it out at rdcu.be/elbbT
Reposted by Claudia Mazzuca (she/her)
Join the conference tomorrow!
🗓 February 25 | 3:15–6:00 PM CET
💡 Gender & Ecological Concepts: (un)consciousness, cognition, and politics
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@Emma Renström
@annalisa-setti.bsky.social
@glupyan.bsky.social
Be part of the conversation—participate & spread the word!
🗓 February 25 | 3:15–6:00 PM CET
💡 Gender & Ecological Concepts: (un)consciousness, cognition, and politics
www.youtube.com/live/QDTBFWc...
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@Emma Renström
@annalisa-setti.bsky.social
@glupyan.bsky.social
Be part of the conversation—participate & spread the word!
February 24, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Join the conference tomorrow!
🗓 February 25 | 3:15–6:00 PM CET
💡 Gender & Ecological Concepts: (un)consciousness, cognition, and politics
www.youtube.com/live/QDTBFWc...
w/
@Emma Renström
@annalisa-setti.bsky.social
@glupyan.bsky.social
Be part of the conversation—participate & spread the word!
🗓 February 25 | 3:15–6:00 PM CET
💡 Gender & Ecological Concepts: (un)consciousness, cognition, and politics
www.youtube.com/live/QDTBFWc...
w/
@Emma Renström
@annalisa-setti.bsky.social
@glupyan.bsky.social
Be part of the conversation—participate & spread the word!
🗣️New paper out and #openaccess in Cognition w/@abstractionerc.bsky.social on conversation dynamics afforded by abstract vs concrete sentences. Some insights on interactive repairs too and their relation with abstractness. Thanks to all the people that collaborated to this exciting project! 🗣️
Does sentences’ abstractness affect conversation dynamics? In three preregistered studies with @abstractionerc.bsky.social we found this is so, with abstract sentences eliciting more uncertainty and curiosity than concrete sentences. Just out on Cognition!
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February 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM
🗣️New paper out and #openaccess in Cognition w/@abstractionerc.bsky.social on conversation dynamics afforded by abstract vs concrete sentences. Some insights on interactive repairs too and their relation with abstractness. Thanks to all the people that collaborated to this exciting project! 🗣️