Dr Marta Mangiarulo

I hold a BA and MSc in Social Psychology from the University of Milano-Bicocca (IT) and a PhD in Cognitive and Brain Science awarded by the University of Trento (IT). I am a member of the Judgment and Decision Making research group. As a RA in the JDM lab I am involved in studies focusing on the use of confidence in competitive games and confidence in visual perception tasks.

My main research interests involve probabilistic inference, social hypothesis testing, and reasoning biases. Additionally I am passionate about science communication and research dissemination and interested in replicability, open science issues, and the interface between cognitive and social aspects in social psychology topics like intergroup relations and impression formation.

• Rawers, C., Mangiarulo, M., Shevlin, M., & McElroy, E. (Accepted/In press). Is time of the essence? The impact of different recall periods on participant responses to the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Questionnaire (DASS-21). Translational Issues in Psychological Science.

• Bussu, A., Pulina, M., Ashton, S. A., & Mangiarulo, M. (2023). Exploring the impact of cyberbullying and cyberstalking on victims' behavioural changes in higher education during COVID-19: A case study. International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice.

• Bussu, A., Ashton, S. A., Pulina, M., & Mangiarulo, M. (2023). An explorative qualitative study of cyberbullying and cyberstalking in a higher education community. Crime Prevention and Community Safety, 25(4).

• Colman, A.M., Pulford., B.D., Frosch C.A., Mangiarulo, M., Miles. J.N.V. (2022) Does competitive winning increase subsequent cheating? Royal Society Open Science. 9: 202197.

• Mangiarulo, M., Pighin, S., Polonio, L., & Tentori, K. (2021). The effect of evidential impact on perceptual probabilistic judgments. Cognitive Science, 45(1), e12919.

• Mangiarulo, M., Rusconi, P., & Sacchi, S. (2016). Status e processo di selezione di informazioni. Gli effetti dell'asimmetria sociale sull'asimmetria delle strategie di controllo di ipotesi [Status and information-search process: Social asymmetry leads to asymmetric strategies in social hypothesis testing]. Psicologia sociale, 11(1), 89-101.

PS1101 Historical Perspectives in Psychology
PS1104 Thinking and Communicating like a Psychologists (tutorials)
PS3108 Advanced Social and Developmental Psychology
PS3109 Individual and Interactive Decision Making

I am a social psychologist and my job is to ask (and possibly answer) questions such as: how do we make decisions? How do we interact with others and form impressions of them? I have a soft spot for equality issues and scientific outreach.

• Twitter: @Marta_Mang
• Linkedin: Marta Mangiarulo
• OSF: https://osf.io/7eyrd/
• Personal page: https://marta-mm.github.io/

• Sept 2023-May 2024: Leicester Pint of Science city coordinator (with Dr S. Tyler and Dr I. Butnaru)
• Apr-Sept 2023: Warwick-Leicester Interdisciplinary symposium co-organiser
• Oct 2022-May 2023: Pint of Science event manager
• June-Oct 2022: School of Psychology and Vision Sciences PGR Research Day organiser 
• May-Sept 2022: College of Life Sciences PDRSA symposium co-organiser
• Feb-May 2022: Leicester Pint of Science team member and 'Our Society' theme speaker
• Sept 2021-ongoing: European Association for Decision Making associate board member
• June-July 2021: NPB PGR Research Day organizer and keynote speaker 
• February-May 2021: Leicester Pint of Science team member and Youtube administrator for the virtual event
• June 2020-Dec 2022: NPB ECR representative in the College of Life Sciences Early Career Researcher Development Group
• March 2020: Speaker at International Women’s Day soapbox event University of Leicester
• Mar 2020-Jun 2020: NPB PGR Research Day organization (online conference, 20 posters, 6 talk sessions)
• Nov 2019-ongoing: UoL college of Life Sciences PDRSA committee member

Talks:

• Mangiarulo, M., Pulford, B., Colman, A. Can people use confidence to deceive others?  SPUDM 2023, Aug 20-24, Vienna, Austria.
• Mangiarulo, M., Pulford, B., Colman, A.  The dark side of confidence: Can people use confidence to deceive others? 18th Annual Conference of the Italian Association of Cognitive Sciences , 2022 Dec 15-16, Rovereto, Italy.
• Mangiarulo, M., Brand, C. Improving student user experience of Blackboard VLE. DART-P annual conference, 2022, Nov 24-25.
• Bussu, A., Molloy, E., Mangiarulo, M., Pulina, M., Ashton, S-A. Cyberbullying and cyberstalking in Higher Education: A Systematic Review. Eurocrim e-conference 2021, Sept 8-10.
• Mangiarulo, M. Caring for your mental health and career as a foreign researcher, NPB PGR day 2021 Keynote talk, Jul 29.
• Mangiarulo, M., Pighin, S., Polonio, L., & Tentori, K.. The effect of evidential impact on perceptual probabilistic judgments, SPUDM 2019, Aug 18-22, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• Mangiarulo, M., Polonio, L., Coricelli, G., & Tentori, K. (2018). Confirmation relations affect perceptual probabilistic reasoning. Cognitive Science Arena, 2018 Feb 23, Bressanone, Italy.
• Mangiarulo, M. (2016). How evidential impact influences probability judgements: A preliminary study. Young Scientists’ Forum, Sep 2016, Aurich, Germany.

• 04/2024: LJDM grant. Project title: “Determinants and implications of confidence in individual and dyadic decisions”. Team: C. Frosch (PI), M. Mangiarulo (CO-I). (£46,066)

• 08/2023: LJDME grant. Project title: “Counterfactual thinking in experimental mixed-motive games”. Team: C. Frosch (PI), M. Mangiarulo (CO-I). (£19,359).

• 03/2023: Internal grant for co-created pedagogical research. Project title: “Student and staff perceptions and views on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in their studies and work”. Team: M. Mangiarulo; C. Brand; N. Ranaweera

• 09/2022: Wellcome Trust ISSF Research Culture Improvement Call 2022. Project Title: “School of Psychology and Vision Sciences PGR Conference and PGR Open Science meetings”. Team: M. Mangiarulo, R. Hatcher. (£1222.75).

• 07/2022: Postdoc Appreciation Week (PAW) with Pint of Science and Proteintech: budget for refreshments and support with event organisation and dissemination (£100).

• 07/2022: Wellcome Trust ISSF Research Culture Improvement Call 2022. Project title: Early Career Researcher One-day Symposium Research culture and Interdisciplinarity at the Space Park”. Team: R. Turnbull; M. Mangiarulo; H. Marshall; B. Warren. (£2,815.95).

• 03/2022: Internal grant for co-created pedagogical research. Project title: “Improving student user experience of Blackboard through student involvement”. Team: M. Mangiarulo; C. Brand. (£900)

• ICT 2024, June 10-12, Milan, Italy.
• SPUDM 2023, Aug 20-24, Vienna, Austria.
• 18th Annual Conference of the Italian Association of Cognitive Sciences, 2022 Dec 15-18, Rovereto, Italy.
• SJDM Annual Meeting, 2022 Feb 10-12, online conference.
• SPUDM 2021 Aug 21-24, online conference.
• Virtual Psychonomics 2020 Annual Meeting, 2020 November 19-21.
• Think Open Rovereto Workshop, 2020 July 10-11.
• SPUDM 2019, Aug 18-22, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• London Reasoning Workshop, 2019 July 18-19, London, UK.
• Seminar on Models of Causal Reasoning (lecturer: M. Waldmann), 2016 Sept-Oct, Rovereto, Italy.
• International Rationality Summer Institute, 2016 Sept 4-16, Aurich, Germany.

1. Mangiarulo, M. “Nice guys might finish last, but they make better impressions”. Posted on the Pint of Science Blog, 22.7.2020
2. Third, L., Vittles, P, & Mangiarulo, M. (June 2021): COVID-19 Impact on Local Democracy Citizens’ Participation in Local Decision-Making - A research project conducted by Speakers’ Corner Trust
3. The Turing Way Community, Becky Arnold, Louise Bowler, Sarah Gibson, Patricia Herterich, Rosie Higman, Anna Krystalli, Alexander Morley, Martin O’Reilly, & Kirstie Whitaker. (2021). The Turing Way: A Handbook for Reproducible Data Science (v0.0.4). Zenodo.

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

PhD (Cognitive and Brain Sciences)

MSc (Social Psychology)

BA (Communication and Psychology)