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Affect Recall Bias: Being Resilient by Distorting Reality
Colombo, Desirée; Suso-Ribera, Carlos; Fernández-Álvarez, Javier; Cipresso, Pietro; García-Palacios, Azucena; Riva, Giuseppe; Botella, Cristina Springer (2020-06-11)Background: According to a growing body of literature, people are quite inaccurate in recalling past affective experiences. Nevertheless, the mechanism underlying this recall bias (i.e., the tendency to overestimate and/or ... -
An Overview of Factors Associated with Adherence and Dropout to Ecological Momentary Assessments in Depression
Colombo, Desirée; Cipresso, Pietro; Fernández-Álvarez, Javier; Díaz-García, Amanda; Riva, Giuseppe; Botella, Cristina International Association of CyberPsychology, Training, and Rehabilitation (iACToR) (2018)The use of technology-based Ecological Momentary Assessments (EMAs) allows to repeatedly assess patients during daily life, in naturalistic settings and in precise moments of the day. To date, EMAs have been broadly adopted ... -
Assessment of Unilateral Spatial Neglect using a free mobile application for Italian clinicians
Cipresso, Pietro; Pedroli, Elisa; Serino, Silvia; Semonella, Michelle; Tuena, Cosimo; Colombo, Desirée; Pallavicini, Federica; Riva, Giuseppe Frontiers Media (2018-11-22)Background: Unilateral Spatial Neglect (USN) is traditionally assessed with paper-andpencil tests or computer-based tests. Thanks to the wide-spreading of mobile devices, and the extensive capabilities that they have in ... -
Biased Affective Forecasting: A Potential Mechanism That Enhances Resilience and Well-Being
Colombo, Desirée; Fernández-Álvarez, Javier; Suso-Ribera, Carlos; Cipresso, Pietro; García-Palacios, Azucena; Riva, Giuseppe; Botella, Cristina Frontiers Media (2020-06)According to a growing body of studies, people’s ability to forecast future emotional experiences is generally biased. Nonetheless, the existing literature has mainly explored affective forecasting in relation to specific ... -
Cerebellar Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS), leaves virtual navigation performance unchanged
Ferrucci, Roberta; Serino, Silvia; Ruggiero, Fabiana; Repetto, Claudia; Colombo, Desirée; Pedroli, Elisa; Marceglia, Sara; Riva, Giuseppe; Priori, Alberto Frontiers Media (2019-03-12)Spatial cognition is an umbrella term used to refer to the complex set of abilities necessary to encode, categorize, and use spatial information from the surrounding environment to move effectively and orient within it. ... -
Characteristics, Usability, and Users Experience of a System Combining Cognitive and Physical Therapy in a Virtual Environment: Positive Bike
Pedroli, Elisa; Greci, Luca; Colombo, Desirée; Serino, Silvia; Cipresso, Pietro; Arlati, Sara; Mondellini, Marta; Boilini, Lorenzo; Giussani, Valentina; Goulene, Karine; Agostoni, Monica; Sacco, Marco; Stramba-Badiale, Marco; Riva, Giuseppe; Gaggioli, Andrea MDPI (2018)We present the architecture and usability evaluation of virtual reality system—“Positive Bike”—designed for improving cognitive and motor conditions in frail elderly patients. The system consists of a cycle-ergometer ... -
Clients'Experiences With Internet-Based Psychological Treatments for Mental Disorders: Protocol for a Metasynthesis of Qualitative Studies
Fernández-Álvarez, Javier; Díaz-García, Amanda; Vara, Mª Dolores; Molinari, Guadalupe; Colombo, Desirée; Riva, Giuseppe; Baños, Rosa Maria; Botella, Cristina JMIR (2018-11)Background Given the rise of internet-based treatments as an effective therapeutic tool for psychological disorders, it is necessary to carry out research that examines clients’ experiences with this type of intervention. ... -
Computational Psychometrics Using Psychophysiological Measures for the Assessment of Acute Mental Stress
Cipresso, Pietro; Colombo, Desirée; Riva, Giuseppe MDPI (2019)The goal of this study was to provide reliable quantitative analyses of psycho-physiological measures during acute mental stress. Acute, time-limited stressors are used extensively as experimental stimuli in psychophysiological ... -
Current State and Future Directions of Technology-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment and Intervention for Major Depressive Disorder: A Systematic Review
Colombo, Desirée; Fernández-Álvarez, Javier; Patané, Andrea; Semonella, Michelle; Kwiatkowska, Marta; Díaz-García, Amanda; Cipresso, Pietro; Riva, Giuseppe; Botella, Cristina MDPI (2019-04)Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) and ecological momentary intervention (EMI) are alternative approaches to retrospective self-reports and face-to-face treatments, and they make it possible to repeatedly assess patients ... -
Current state and future directions of technology-based ecological momentary assessments and interventions for major depressive disorder: protocol for a systematic review
Colombo, Desirée; Díaz-García, Amanda; Fernández-Álvarez, Javier; Patané, Andrea; Semonella, Michelle; Cipresso, Pietro; Kwiatkowska, Marta; Riva, Giuseppe; Botella, Cristina BMC (2018)Background:Ecological momentary assessments (EMAs) and ecological momentary interventions (EMIs) representa novel approach for the assessment and delivery of psychological support to depressed patients in daily life.Beyond ... -
Deterioration rates in Virtual Reality Therapy: An individual patient data level meta-analysis
Fernández-Álvarez, Javier; Rozental, Alexander; Carlbring, Per; Colombo, Desirée; Riva, Giuseppe; Anderson, Page L.; Baños, Rosa Maria; Benbow, Amanda A.; Bouchard, Stéphane; Bretón-López, Juana; Cárdenas, Georgina; Difede, JoAnn; Emmelkamp, Paul; Díaz-García, Amanda; Guillen, Veronica; hoffman, hunter; Kampann, Isabel; Moldovan, Ramona; Mühlberger, Andreas; North, Max; Pauli, Paul; Peñate Castro, Wenceslao; Quero, Soledad; Tortella Feliu, Miquel; Wyka, Kataryzna; Botella, Cristina Elsevier (2019)Ample evidence supports the use of Virtual Reality (VR) for anxiety disorders. Nonetheless, currently there is no evidence about moderators or potential negative effects of VR treatment strategies. An Individual Patient ... -
Disentangling the Contribution of Spatial Reference Frames to Executive Functioning in Healthy and Pathological Aging: An Experimental Study with Virtual Reality
Serino, Silvia; Morganti, Francesca; Colombo, Desirée; Pedroli, Elisa; Cipresso, Pietro; Riva, Giuseppe MDPI (2018)A growing body of evidence pointed out that a decline in effectively using spatial reference frames for categorizing information occurs both in normal and pathological aging. Moreover, it is also known that executive ... -
Efficacy of bio- and neurofeedback for depression: a meta-analysis
Fernández Kirszman, Javier; Grassi, Massimiliano; Colombo, Desirée; Botella, Cristina; Cipresso, Pietro; Perna, Giampaolo; Riva, Giuseppe Cambridge University Press (2021-11-15)Background: For many years, biofeedback and neurofeedback have been implemented in the treatment of depression. However, the effectiveness of these techniques on depressive symptomatology is still controversial. Hence, ... -
Exploring affect recall bias and the impact of mild depressive symptoms: An ecological momentary study
Colombo, Desirée; Suso-Ribera, Carlos; Fernández-Álvarez, Javier; Fernández-Felipe, Isabel; Cipresso, Pietro; García-Palacios, Azucena; Riva, Giuseppe; Botella, Cristina Springer (2019-07-11)Traditional clinical and research assessments rely on retrospective questionnaires, that ask individuals to retrospectively summarize how they felt during the last period. Nevertheless, people are not accurate at recalling ... -
Gulliver’s virtual travels: active embodiment in extreme body sizes for modulating our body representations
Serino, Silvia; Scarpina, Federica; CHIRICO, Alice; Dakanalis Αντώνιος Ντακανάλης, MD, MSc, PsyD, PhD, FNASc, Antonios; Di Lernia, Daniele; Colombo, Desirée; Catallo, Valentina; Pedroli, Elisa; Riva, Giuseppe 1612-4782 (2020-06-06)It is noted that the perceptual experience of body and space can be modulated by changing the action capabilities or by manipulating the perceived body dimensions through a multisensory stimulation. This study adds to ... -
How Does It Feel to Be a Woman Victim of Sexual Harassment? The Effect of 360 degrees-Video-Based Virtual Reality on Empathy and Related Variable
Ventura, Sara; Cárdenas-López, Georgina; Miragall, Marta; Riva, Giuseppe; Baños, Rosa Maria Mary Ann Liebert (2021-04-09)Sexual harassment (SH) occurs when people—mostly women—are targets of unwanted sexual comments, gestures, or actions associated with a lack of empathy on the part of the offender. Virtual Reality (VR) has been defined as ... -
Mental Time Travel: The role of Positive Rumination
Colombo, Desirée; Suso-Ribera, Carlos; Fernández-Álvarez, Javier; Cipresso, Pietro; García-Palacios, Azucena; Riva, Giuseppe; Botella, Cristina Interactive Media Institute (IMI) (2020)According to a long tradition of research, people are used to mentally time travel: That is, to recreate memories from the past and envision future scenarios. To date, a growing body of evidence has revealed that people’s ... -
New Technologies for the Understanding, Assessment, and Intervention of Emotion Regulation
Colombo, Desirée; Fernández-Álvarez, Javier; Díaz-García, Amanda; Cipresso, Pietro; Botella, Cristina; Riva, Giuseppe Frontiers Media (2019-06-19)In the last decades, emotion regulation (ER) received increasing attention and became one of the most studied topics within the psychological field. Nevertheless, this construct has not been fully updated with the latest ... -
Online Positive Interventions to Promote Well-being and Resilience in the Adolescent Population: A Narrative Review
Baños, Rosa Maria; Etchemendy, Ernestina; Mira Pastor, Ernestina; Riva, Giuseppe; Gaggioli, Andrea; Botella, Cristina Frontiers Media (2017-01)Numerous studies have shown an alarming prevalence of depression, anxiety, and behavior disorders in youth. Thus, prevention of psychological problems in this population becomes crucial. According to the World Health ... -
Positive Technology: Using Interactive Technologies to Promote Positive Functioning
Riva, Giuseppe; Baños, Rosa Maria; Botella, Cristina; Wiederhold, Brenda K.; Gaggioli, Andrea Mary Ann Liebert (2012)It is generally assumed that technology assists individuals in improving the quality of their lives. However, the impact of new technologies and media on well-being and positive functioning is still somewhat controversial. ...