Alice Chirico

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
81 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Alice Chirico is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alice Chirico has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 26 papers in Social Psychology and 18 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Alice Chirico's work include Media Influence and Health (15 papers), Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts (13 papers) and Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (10 papers). Alice Chirico is often cited by papers focused on Media Influence and Health (15 papers), Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts (13 papers) and Creativity in Education and Neuroscience (10 papers). Alice Chirico collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Canada. Alice Chirico's co-authors include Andrea Gaggioli, Giuseppe Riva, Pietro Cipresso, David B. Yaden, Francesco Ferrise, Silvia Serino, Stefano Triberti, Elisa Pedroli, Federica Biassoni and Elizabeth Hyde and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Scientific Reports and Computers in Human Behavior.

In The Last Decade

Alice Chirico

74 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The development of the Awe Experience Scale (AWE-S): A multifactorial measure for a complex emotion

2018 208 citations Alice Chirico, Andrea Gaggioli et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alice Chirico Italy	23	655	555	472	408	362	81	2.0k
Daniela Villani Italy	26	819 1.3×	1.0k 1.8×	231 0.5×	410 1.0×	601 1.7×	93	3.3k
Anna Felnhofer Austria	23	451 0.7×	492 0.9×	108 0.2×	216 0.5×	305 0.8×	63	1.6k
James J. Cummings United States	14	354 0.5×	885 1.6×	312 0.7×	250 0.6×	456 1.3×	36	1.9k
Mikko Salminen Finland	18	386 0.6×	480 0.9×	243 0.5×	416 1.0×	380 1.0×	45	1.5k
Jennifer L. Goetz United States	14	1.9k 2.9×	208 0.4×	166 0.4×	578 1.4×	762 2.1×	22	3.5k
Carrie Heeter United States	19	468 0.7×	872 1.6×	350 0.7×	270 0.7×	772 2.1×	57	2.3k
Greg Wadley Australia	26	382 0.6×	544 1.0×	141 0.3×	186 0.5×	718 2.0×	91	2.3k
Cade McCall United Kingdom	27	754 1.2×	340 0.6×	116 0.2×	500 1.2×	338 0.9×	58	1.8k
Patrice Renaud Canada	19	409 0.6×	562 1.0×	76 0.2×	382 0.9×	163 0.5×	49	1.7k
Katinka Dijkstra Netherlands	25	437 0.7×	113 0.2×	118 0.3×	597 1.5×	308 0.9×	61	2.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alice Chirico

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Mancuso, Valentina, et al.. (2025). Applying the networked flow model in a real-world music contest. Musicae Scientiae. 29(3). 449–469.

Mancuso, Valentina, et al.. (2025). A new method of exploring affect dynamics in music: A psychometric model based on stochastic processes. Musicae Scientiae. 29(3). 405–424.

Bartolotta, Sabrina, et al.. (2025). Shaping kindness: Does symmetry in architecture promote prosocial behavior?. Social Sciences & Humanities Open. 11. 101540–101540. 1 indexed citations

Chirico, Alice, et al.. (2024). In Medio Stat Virtus: Moderate Cognitive Flexibility as a Key to Affective Flexibility Responses in Long-Term HRV. Sensors. 24(24). 8047–8047. 2 indexed citations

Mancuso, Valentina, et al.. (2024). IAVRS—International Affective Virtual Reality System: Psychometric Assessment of 360° Images by Using Psychophysiological Data. Sensors. 24(13). 4204–4204. 1 indexed citations

Chirico, Alice, et al.. (2024). Enjoying art: an evolutionary perspective on the esthetic experience from emotion elicitors. Frontiers in Psychology. 15. 1341122–1341122. 4 indexed citations

Benvenuti, Martina, Claudia Scorolli, Angelo Di Iorio, Matthew Pelowski, & Alice Chirico. (2023). Emerging technologies in varied domains: Perspectives and future research directions. Computers in Human Behavior. 151. 108016–108016. 1 indexed citations

Cipresso, Pietro, et al.. (2023). Affects affect affects: A Markov Chain. Frontiers in Psychology. 14. 1162655–1162655. 9 indexed citations

Mancuso, Valentina, Riccardo Cremascoli, Laura Bianchi, et al.. (2023). Mental flexibility assessment: A research protocol for patients with Parkinson’s Disease and Anorexia Nervosa. PLoS ONE. 18(12). e0293921–e0293921. 6 indexed citations

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Chirico, Alice, et al.. (2023). Exploring Biomarkers of Mental Flexibility in Healthy Aging: A Computational Psychometric Study. Sensors. 23(15). 6983–6983. 9 indexed citations

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Amanzio, Martina, et al.. (2023). The neuropsychology of healthy aging: the positive context of the University of the Third Age during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 6355–6355. 4 indexed citations

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Amanzio, Martina, et al.. (2023). A unique neuropsychophysiological approach to objectify emotion (dys)regulation in healthy older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 23093–23093. 2 indexed citations

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Manzoni, Gian Mauro, Alessandro Rossi, Giada Pietrabissa, et al.. (2022). A post hoc comparison between inpatients with obesity and healthy-weight subjects in the size estimation accuracy of shoulders, waist, and hips widths and circumferences. Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia Bulimia and Obesity. 27(8). 3787–3791. 1 indexed citations

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Gaggioli, Andrea, Alice Chirico, Daniele Di Lernia, et al.. (2021). Machines Like Us and People Like You: Toward Human–Robot Shared Experience. Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking. 24(5). 357–361. 12 indexed citations

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Chirico, Alice & Andrea Gaggioli. (2021). The Potential Role of Awe for Depression: Reassembling the Puzzle. Frontiers in Psychology. 12. 617715–617715. 27 indexed citations

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Tuena, Cosimo, Valentina Mancuso, Ilaria Maria Antonietta Benzi, et al.. (2020). Executive Functions Are Associated with Fall Risk but not Balance in Chronic Cerebrovascular Disease. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 9(11). 3405–3405. 4 indexed citations

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Zanchettin, Andrea Maria, et al.. (2020). On the Effects of Leader–Follower Roles in Dyadic Human–Robot Synchronization. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems. 15(2). 434–443. 17 indexed citations

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Gaggioli, Andrea, Elvis Mazzoni, Martina Benvenuti, et al.. (2020). Networked Flow in Creative Collaboration. 68–95.

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Scarpina, Federica, Silvia Serino, Anouk Keizer, et al.. (2019). The Effect of a Virtual-Reality Full-Body Illusion on Body Representation in Obesity. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 8(9). 1330–1330. 23 indexed citations

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Chirico, Alice & Andrea Gaggioli. (2018). The continuum of self-transcendence: flow experience and the emotion of awe. 2018(16). 67–79. 2 indexed citations

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