ARTICOLI SCIENTIFICI IN RIVISTE PEER-REVIEWED

Paoletti, M., Focaroli, V., Pecora, G., Barr, R., Chiarotti, F., Caravale, B., Gasparini, C., Sacco, G., Gastaldi, S., Addessi, E., & Bellagamba, F. (2025). Maternal media use and infant media exposure are associated with developmental outcomes at 4 and 8 months. Parenting, 25(1), 66-101. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295192.2024.2437156

Sette, S., Brunetti, M., Pecora, G., Laghi, F., Longobardi, E., & Coplan, R. (2024). Examining links between motivations for social withdrawal, time spent alone, and indices of internalizing problems in childhood and early adolescence. Journal of Early Adolescence, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/02724316241279003

Pecora, G., Laghi, F., Baumgartner, E., Di Norcia, A., & Sette, S. (2024). The role of loneliness and positivity on adolescents’ mental health and sleep quality during the COVID-19 pandemic. Current Psychology, 43, 23352–23365. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-024-05805-z

Sette, S., Pecora, G., Laghi, F., & Coplan, R. (2023). Motivations for social withdrawal, mental health, and well-being in emerging adulthood: A person-oriented approach. Behavioral Sciences, 13(12), 977. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13120977

Di Prete, A., Del Grosso, D., Focaroli, V., Paoletti, M., Pecora, G., Hodges, E., Galloway, A., Farrow, C., Chiarotti, F., Caravale, B., Gasparini, C., Gastaldi, S., Bellagamba, F., & Addessi, E. (2023). Complementary feeding approach and maternal responsiveness in 8- and 12-month-old Italian infants: A longitudinal study. Appetite, 190, 107028. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2023.107028

Bellagamba, F., Borghi, A. M., Mazzuca, C., Pecora, G., Ferrara, F., & Fogel, A. (2022). Abstractness emerges progressively over the second year of life. Scientific Reports, 12, 20940. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25426-5

Pecora, G., Focaroli, V., Paoletti, M., Barca, L., Chiarotti, F., Borghi, A. M., Gasparini, C., Caravale, B., Bombaci, I. Gastaldi, S., Bellagamba, F., & Addessi, E. (2022). Infant sleep and development: Concurrent and longitudinal relations during the first 8 months of life. Infant Behavior and Development, 67, 101719. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2022.101719

Gasparini, C., Caravale, B., Focaroli, V., Paoletti, M., Pecora, G., Bellagamba, F., Chiarotti, F., Gastaldi, S., & Addessi, E. (2022). Online assessment of motor, cognitive, and communicative achievements in 4-month-old infants. Children, 9, https://doi.org/10.3390/children903042

Goodwin, A., Jones, E. J. H., Salomone S., Mason, L., Holman, R., Begum-Ali, J., Hunt, A., Ruddock, M., Vamvakas, G., Robinson, E., Holden, C. J., Taylor, C., Smith, T. J., Sonuga-Barke, E., Bolton, P., Charman, T., Pickles, A., Wass, S., Johnson, M. H.; & the INTERSTAARS team (2021). INTERSTAARS: Attention training for infants with elevated likelihood of developing ADHD: A proof-of-concept randomised controlled trial. Translational Psychiatry, 11(1), 644.  https://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-021-01698-9

Pecora, G., Bellagamba, F., Paoletti, M., Castano, M.L., & Addessi, E. (2019). The effect of symbolic distancing on delay tolerance across the preschool period. Journal of Cognition and Development, 21(1), 92-103.  https://doi.org/10.1080/15248372.2019.1693374

Longobardi, E., Spataro, P., Pecora, G., & Bellagamba, F. (2019). Indices of social knowledge in Italian-speaking children: Relations between personal pronouns, verb conjugations and mental state language. First Language, 39(4), 396-411. https://doi.org/10.1177/0142723719840514

Pecora, G., Addessi, E., Paoletti, M., & Bellagamba, F. (2018). Relations between temperament and false belief understanding in the preschool age. Journal of Child and Family Studies 27, 1682–1691. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-017-0981-4

Pecora G., Zoratto F., Paoletti M., Bellagamba F., Paglieri F., & Addessi E. (2017). Executive Function. In: Vonk J., Shackelford T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior. Springer, Cham.  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_1048-1

Pecora, G., Addessi, E., Schino, G., & Bellagamba, F. (2015). Attività di spostamento e interiorizzazione di un divieto in bambini in età prescolare durante un compito di ritardo della gratificazione. Infanzia e Adolescenza, 14, 232-249.   https://doi.org/10.1710/2124.23002

Pecora, G., Sette, S.,  Baumgartner, E., Laghi, F., & Spinrad, T. L. (2015). The moderating role of internalizing negative emotionality in the relation of self-regulation to social adjustment in Italian preschool aged children. Cognition and Emotion.  30(8), 1512-1520. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2015.1074547

Bellagamba, F., Addessi, E., Focaroli, V., Pecora, G., Maggiorelli, V., Pace, B., & Paglieri, F. (2015). False belief understanding and “cool” inhibitory control in 3-and 4-year-old Italian children. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 872.  https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00872

Di Norcia, A., Pecora, G., Bombi, A. S., Baumgartner, E., & Laghi, F. (2015). Hot and cool inhibitory control in Italian toddlers: Associations with social competence and behavioural problems. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 24, 909-914. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-014- 9901- z

Pecora, G., Addessi, E., Schino, G., & Bellagamba, F. (2014). Do displacement activities help preschool children to inhibit a forbidden action? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 126, 80-90.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2014.03.008

Addessi, E., Bellagamba, F., Delfino, A., De Petrillo, F., Focaroli, V., Macchitella, L., Maggiorelli, V., Pace, B., Pecora, G., Rossi, S., Sbaffi, A., Tasselli, M.I., & Paglieri, F. (2014). Waiting by mistake: symbolic representation of rewards modulate intertemporal choice in capuchin monkeys, preschool children and adult humans. Cognition, 130, 428-441.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2013.11.019