RMD - Reasoning, Memory and Decision making (Prof. Del Missier)

Research Strand:

Cognition and applied cognitive psychology (Psychology)

Fabio Del Missier

Associate professor in General Psychology (PSIC-01/A)

Tel. +39 040 5588865
Fax- +39 123 9828013
email: delmisfa@units.it

via Weiss 2 (Q building), 34128, Trieste, room T-18

Biosketch

Fabio Del Missier is Associate Professor in General Psychology, Neuropsychology and Cognitive Neurosciences, and Psychometrics at the University of Trieste.

He holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Trieste. He has been a post-doc and contract researcher at the University of Trento (now Department of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences) and ICT-IRST (now Bruno Kessler foundation, Trento), and an Assistant Professor at the University of Trieste.

He collaborated with the Cognitive Psychology group at Stockholm University (Department of Psychology) and with the Center for Decision Research - Leeds University.

He has been a member of the Graduate School Committee (PhD) in Psychological Science and Education of the University of Trento, of the Graduate School Committee in Neurosciences and Cognitive Sciences of the University of Trieste, and of the Graduate School Committee in Psychological Sciences of the University of Padova.

Fabio Del Missier heads the Memory & Decision Lab at the Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste. He is currently working on two main basic research lines:

attentional and memory processes underlying judgment and decision making;
retrieval and control processes in memory and other cognitive tasks.

He is also interested in applied cognitive psychology (decision support, memory aiding, studies on environmental psychology).

Fabio Del Missier teaches Memory and Cognitive Control and Cognitive empowerment in the psychology programs of the University of Trieste. He teaches also Environmental Psychology in the Ecology of Global Changes Program. More information is also available in other sections of this website.

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Research

Research carried out at the Memory & Decision Lab, Department of Life Sciences of the University of Trieste includes the following topics:

1) Judgment and Decision Making: attentional and memory bases of judgment and decision making, individual differences in judgment and decision making (including age-related ones), decision structuring processes;

2) Memory and Cognitive Control: facilitation and interference in memory retrieval and high-order cognitive tasks, cognitive control and strategies in memory tasks and high-order cognitive tasks.

Research also includes applied cognitive psychology studies on decision making, memory, and environmental psychology.

People

Main Research Collaborations

Timo Mäntylä (Department of Psychology, Stockholm University)
Wändi Bruine de Bruin (Department of Psychology, University of South California)
Andrew M. Park (RAND corporation)
Giovanni Galfano (University of Padova)
Barbara Penolazzi (University of Trieste)
Fabio Campanella (University of Udine)
Lucia Savadori (University of Trento)

Lab members

Marta Stragà (post doc)
Irene Florean (PhD student)

Prof. Del Missier Fabio (Research Group - Member)
delmisfa@units.it

Publications

Full list of the publications of the Principal Investigator

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Highly cited DSV papers

2013
2012
2010

Selected publications

Latest publication of the Lab

Stragà, M., Mäntylä, T., Bruine de Bruin, W., Zambon, D., & Del Missier, F. (2025). The green decision maker: Restoring decision making through exposure to environmental stimuli. Journal of Environmental Psychology, Volume 101, 102506. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102506

Memory, cognitive control, cognition.

Florean, I., Stragà, M., Mäntylä, T., & Del Missier, F. (2024). Mark it out! Spontaneous cognitive offloading in route planning. Thinking & Reasoning. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13546783.2024.2413151
Munaretto, G., Stragà, M., Mäntylä, T., Mioni, G., & Del Missier, F. (2022). External Time Monitoring in Time‐Based Prospective Memory: An Integrative Framework. Cognitive Science, 46(12), e13216. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13216
Del Missier, F., Stragà, M., Visentini, M., Munaretto, G., & Mäntylä, T. (2021). Intention framing in time-based prospective memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 47(8), 1226–1245. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000991
Kubik, V., Del Missier, F., & Mäntylä, T. (2020). Spatial ability contributes to memory for delayed intentions. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 5, 36. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-020-00229-2
Campanella, F., Del Missier, F., Shallice, T., & Skrap, M. (2018). Localizing memory functions in brain tumor patients: anatomical hotspots over 260 patients. World Neurosurgery, 120, e690-e709. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wneu.2018.08.145
Del Missier, F., Sassano, A., Coni, V., Salomonsson, M., & Mäntylä, T. (2018). Blocked vs. interleaved presentation and proactive interference in episodic memory. Memory, 26, 697-711. http://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2017.1402937
Stragà, M.*, Del Missier, F.*, Marcatto, F., Ferrante, D. (2017). Memory underpinnings of future intentions: Would you like to see the Sequel? PLoS ONE 12(4): e0176624. (* shared first authorship) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176624
Todorov, I., Del Missier, F., Konke, L. A., & Mäntylä, T. (2015). Deadlines in space: Selective effects of coordinate spatial processing in multitasking. Memory & Cognition, 43(8), 1216-1228. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-015-0529-z
Todorov, I,, Del Missier, F., & Mäntylä, T. (2014). Age-related differences in multiple task monitoring. PLoS ONE, 9(9): e107619. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0107619
Crescentini, C., Marin, D., Del Missier, F., Biasutti, E., & Shallice, T. (2011). Interference from retrieval cues in Parkinson’s disease. Neuropsychology, 25(6), 720-733. http://doi.org/10.1037/a0024674
Crescentini, C., Shallice, T., Del Missier, F., & Macaluso, E. (2010). Neural correlates of episodic retrieval: An fMRI study of the part-list cueing effect. Neuroimage, 50(2), 678-692. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2009.12.114
Mäntylä, T., Del Missier, F., & Nilsson, L. G. (2009) Age differences in multiple measures of time-based prospective memory. Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 16(6), 708-720. http://doi.org/10.1080/13825580902912721

Judgment and decision making

Del Missier, F., Mäntylä, T., Parker, A. M., Stragà, M., Weller, J., & Bruine de Bruin, W. (2024). Memory underpinnings of decision-making competence: An adult lifespan perspective. European Psychologist. https://doi.org/10.1027/1016-9040/a000532
Del Missier, F., Hansson, P., Parker, A. M., Bruine de Bruin, W., & Mäntylä, T. (2020). Decision-making competence in older adults: A rosy view from a longitudinal investigation. Psychology and Aging, 35(4), 553–564. https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000443
Del Missier, F., Galfano, G., Venerus, E., Ferrara, D., Bruine, D. B. W., & Penolazzi, B. (2020). Decision-making competence in schizophrenia. Schizophrenia research, 215, 457-459. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2019.09.009
Lind, M., Del Missier, F., Visentini, M., & Mäntylä, T. (2017). Choice-supportive memory: A new taxonomy and review. Frontiers in Cognition, 8, 2062. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02062
Del Missier, F., Hansson, P., Parker, A., Bruine de Bruin, W., Nilsson, L-G., & Mäntylä, T., (2017). Unraveling the aging skein: Disentangling sensory and cognitive predictors of age-related differences in decision making. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 30, 123–139. http://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.1926
Del Missier, F., Mäntylä, T., & Nilsson, L. G. (2015). Aging, memory, and decision making. In T. M. Hess, C. E. Loeckenhoff & J.-N. Strough (Eds.), Aging and decision-making: Empirical and applied perspectives (pp. 127-148). Elsevier Academic Press (ISBN 978-012417155-8; 978-012417148-0). https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-417148-0.00007-8
Del Missier, F., Mäntylä, T., Hansson, P., Bruine de Bruin, W., Parker, A., & Nilsson, L-G. (2013). The multifold relationship between memory and decision making: An individual-differences study. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 39(5), 1344-1364. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0032379
Del Missier, F., Mäntylä, T., & Bruine de Bruin, W. (2012). Decision-making competence, executive functioning, and general cognitive abilities. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 25(4), 331-351. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.731
Mäntylä, T., Still, J., Gullberg, S., & Del Missier, F. (2012). Decision making in adults with Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder. Journal of Attention Disorders, 16(2), 164-173. https://doi.org/10.1177/1087054709360494
Rosi, A., Bruine de Bruin, W., Del Missier, F., Cavallini, E. & Russo, R. (2019). Decision-making competence in younger and older adults: which cognitive abilities contribute to the application of decision rules?, Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition, 26(2), 174-189, http://doi.org/10.1080/13825585.2017.1418283
Del Missier, F., Mäntylä, T., & Bruine de Bruin, W. (2010). Executive functions in decision making. Thinking & Reasoning, 16(2), 69-97. https://doi.org/10.1080/13546781003630117
Del Missier, F., & Terpini, C. (2009). Part-set cuing in option generation. Memory & Cognition, 37(3), 265-276. http://doi.org/10.3758/MC.37.3.265
Del Missier, F., Visentini, M., & Mäntylä, T. (2015) Option generation in decision making: Ideation beyond memory retrieval. Frontiers in Psychology (Cognition), 5:1584. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01584
Del Missier, F., Ferrante, D., & Costantini, E. (2007). Focusing effects in predecisional information acquisition. Acta Psychologica, 125(2), 155-174. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2006.07.005

Environmental psychology

Stragà, M., Mäntylä, T., Bruine de Bruin, W., Zambon, D., & Del Missier, F. (2025). The green decision maker: Restoring decision making through exposure to environmental stimuli. Journal of Environmental Psychology, Volume 101, 102506. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102506
Savadori, L., Di Bucci, D., Dolce, M., Galvagni, A., Patacca, A., Pezzi, E., Scurci, G. & Del Missier, F. (in press). Quality of life in displaced earthquake survivors. Progress in Disaster Science. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590061724000619
Stragà, M., Miani, C., Mäntylä, T., de Bruin, W. B., Mottica, M., & Del Missier, F. (2023). Into the wild or into the library? Perceived restorativeness of natural and built environments. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 91, 102131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2023.102131
Di Bucci, D., Del Missier, F., Dolce, M., Galvagni, A., Giordano, F., Patacca, A., Pezzi, E., Scurci, G., & Savadori, L. (2023). Life satisfaction during temporary housing after an earthquake: Comparing three cases in Italy. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 103697, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103697.
Pegan, G., Del Missier, F., & De Luca, P. (2023). Antecedents of green purchase choices: Towards a value-oriented model. Journal of Cleaner Production, 399, 136633. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.136633
Rotaris, L., Del Missier, F., & Scorrano, M. (2022). Comparing children and parental preferences for active commuting to school. A focus on Italian middle-school students. Research in Transportation Economics, 101236. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.retrec.2022.101236

Economic psychology

Pietroni, D., Verdi, S. H., Giuliani, F., Rosa, A., Del Missier, F., & Palumbo, R. (2022). The interpersonal effects of emotion on rejection of severely unfair ultimatum proposal. International Journal of Conflict Management, 33(1), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCMA-03-2021-0049
Del Missier, F., Ranyard, R., Bonini, N., & Pietroni, D. (2017). The citizen's judgments of prices and inflation (pp. 156-170). In R. Ranyard (Ed.), Economic psychology. Wiley-Blackwell (ISBN: 978-1-118-92634-5) https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Economic+Psychology-p-9781118926345
Del Missier, F., Ranyard, R., & Bonini, N. (2016). Perceived inflation: The role of product accessibility and attitudes towards inflation. Journal of Economic Psychology, 56, 97-106. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2016.05.008
Ranyard, R., Del Missier, F., Bonini, N., Duxbury, D., & Summers, B. (2008). Perceptions and expectations of price changes and inflation: A review and conceptual framework. Journal of Economic Psychology, 29(4), 378-400. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2008.07.002
Amado, S., Teközel, M., Topsever, Y., Ranyard, R., Del Missier, F., & Bonini, N. (2007). Does ‘‘000,000’’ matter? Psychological effects of Turkish monetary reform. Journal of Economic Psychology, 28(2), 154–169. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.joep.2006.05.003
Del Missier, F., Bonini, N., & Ranyard, R. (2007). The Euro illusion in consumers' price estimation. Journal of Consumer Policy, 30(4), 337-354. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10603-007-9041-6

Other cognitive psychology papers and cognitive/clinical papers

Del Missier, F., Stragà, M., Galfano, G., Venerus, E., Ferrara, D., & Penolazzi, B. (2022). Creativity in Schizophrenia: Evidence Beyond Anecdotes. Creativity Research Journal, 34(1), 445-459. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2022.2134545
Penolazzi, B., Del Missier, F., Stramaccia, D. F., Monego, A. L., Castelli, L., Manzan, A., Bertoli, M., & Galfano, G. (2020). Testing the transdiagnostic hypothesis of inhibitory control deficits in addictions: An experimental study on gambling disorder. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 9(2), 339-346. https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2020.00021
Perego, E., Del Missier, F., & Stragà, M. (2018). Dubbing vs. subtitling: Complexity matters. Target, 30(1), 137-157. https://doi.org/10.1075/target.16083.per
Campanella, F., Palese, A., Del Missier, F., Moreale, R., Ius, T., Shallice, T., Fabbro, F., & Skrap, M. (2017). Long-term cognitive functioning and psychological well-being in surgically treated Low Grade Glioma patients. World Neurosurgery, 103, 799-808. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.wneu.2017.04.006
Perego, E., Del Missier, F., & Bottiroli, S. (2015). Dubbing and subtitling in young and older adults: Cognitive and evaluative aspects. Perspectives. Studies in Translatology, 23(1), 1-21. http://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2014.912343

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Cognitive offloading in spatial planning tasks
Pro-environmental behaviors related to waste reduction and disposal
Overcoming rationalizations for meat consumption

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