Davide Massaro

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
100 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Davide Massaro is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Davide Massaro has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 41 papers in Social Psychology and 36 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Davide Massaro's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (33 papers), Social Robot Interaction and HRI (19 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (16 papers). Davide Massaro is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (33 papers), Social Robot Interaction and HRI (19 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (16 papers). Davide Massaro collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and United States. Davide Massaro's co-authors include Antonella Marchetti, Ilaria Castelli, Annalisa Valle, Cinzia Di Dio, Elisabetta Lombardi, Federico Manzi, Francesca Sangiuliano Intra, Edoardo Alfredo Bracaglia, Francesca Baglio and Gabriella Gilli and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Davide Massaro

95 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Promoting Mentalizing in Pupils by Acting on Teachers: Preliminary Italian Evidence of the “Thought in Mind” Project

2016 377 citations Annalisa Valle, Davide Massaro et al. Frontiers in Psychology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Davide Massaro Italy	23	785	673	480	315	264	100	1.9k
Ralf F. A. Cox Netherlands	22	557 0.7×	468 0.7×	381 0.8×	258 0.8×	291 1.1×	85	1.8k
Daniel C. Krawczyk United States	29	1.6k 2.1×	407 0.6×	556 1.2×	575 1.8×	464 1.8×	70	3.0k
Miguel A. Vadillo Spain	29	1.4k 1.8×	606 0.9×	647 1.3×	568 1.8×	272 1.0×	137	3.0k
Diana Tamir United States	25	1.0k 1.3×	789 1.2×	247 0.5×	584 1.9×	243 0.9×	64	2.5k
Anne M. Scheel Netherlands	8	439 0.6×	349 0.5×	213 0.4×	352 1.1×	220 0.8×	11	1.9k
Jodie A. Baird United States	13	915 1.2×	731 1.1×	804 1.7×	354 1.1×	155 0.6×	18	1.8k
Julian Kiverstein Netherlands	26	1.8k 2.3×	1.0k 1.5×	352 0.7×	415 1.3×	138 0.5×	71	2.7k
Jonathon Love Netherlands	10	878 1.1×	306 0.5×	237 0.5×	441 1.4×	172 0.7×	14	2.2k
Mircea Miclea Romania	23	450 0.6×	389 0.6×	175 0.4×	467 1.5×	503 1.9×	81	1.7k
Sebastian Pintea Romania	18	589 0.8×	366 0.5×	137 0.3×	215 0.7×	380 1.4×	57	1.6k

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Sacco, Federica, Federico Manzi, Cinzia Di Dio, et al.. (2025). Validation of the general attitudes towards Artificial Intelligence Scale in the Italian context and the role of trust. Computers in Human Behavior Reports. 19. 100751–100751.

Marchetti, Antonella, et al.. (2025). Artificial Intelligence and the Illusion of Understanding: A Systematic Review of Theory of Mind and Large Language Models. Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking. 28(7). 505–514. 1 indexed citations

Manzi, Fatuma, et al.. (2025). “Tom and Pepper Lab”. Robotics for cognitive stimulation and social skills: A preliminary study. Asian Journal of Psychiatry. 104. 104375–104375. 2 indexed citations

Manzi, Federico, Cinzia Di Dio, Shoji Itakura, et al.. (2025). Cross-cultural moral judgments and emotions in preschoolers: human and robot transgressions in Japan and Italy. Behaviour and Information Technology. 44(14). 3484–3500.

Manzi, Federico, et al.. (2024). The Importance of Being Consistent: Attribution of Mental States in Strategic Human–Robot Interactions. Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking. 27(7). 498–506. 2 indexed citations

Manzi, Federico, et al.. (2024). Towards a computational model for higher orders of Theory of Mind in social agents. Frontiers in Robotics and AI. 11. 1468756–1468756. 1 indexed citations

Marchetti, Antonella, Cinzia Di Dio, Angelo Cangelosi, Federico Manzi, & Davide Massaro. (2023). Developing ChatGPT’s Theory of Mind. Frontiers in Robotics and AI. 10. 1189525–1189525. 16 indexed citations

Dio, Cinzia Di, Federico Manzi, Takayuki Kanda, et al.. (2023). Shared Knowledge in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). International Journal of Social Robotics. 16(1). 59–75. 4 indexed citations

Bianco, Federica, Elisabetta Lombardi, Serena Lecce, et al.. (2021). Supporting Children’s Second-order Recursive Thinking and Advanced ToM Abilities: A Training Study. Journal of Cognition and Development. 22(4). 561–584. 12 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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Søraa, Roger A., Federico Manzi, Antonella Marchetti, et al.. (2020). Othering and deprioritizing older adults’ lives: Ageist discourses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Europe’s Journal of Psychology. 16(4). 532–541. 18 indexed citations

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Dio, Cinzia Di, Federico Manzi, Angelo Cangelosi, et al.. (2020). Come i bambini pensano alla mente del robot. Il ruolo dell’attaccamento e della Teoria della Mente nell’attribuzione di stati mentali ad un agente robotico (How children think about the robot’s mind. The role of attachment and Theory of Mind in the attribution of mental states to a robotic agent). 41–56. 9 indexed citations

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Marchetti, Antonella, Cinzia Di Dio, Davide Massaro, & Federico Manzi. (2020). The Psychosocial Fuzziness of Fear in the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Era and the Role of Robots. Frontiers in Psychology. 11. 2245–2245. 9 indexed citations

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Intra, Francesca Sangiuliano, Semira Tagliabue, Cinzia Di Dio, Antonella Marchetti, & Davide Massaro. (2018). Psychometric Properties of Mind-reading Belief Scale on an Italian Sample and Correlation with the Self-Construal. Studia Psychologica. 60(2). 94–107.

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Dio, Cinzia Di, Martina Ardizzi, Davide Massaro, et al.. (2016). Human, Nature, Dynamism: The Effects of Content and Movement Perception on Brain Activations during the Aesthetic Judgment of Representational Paintings. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 9. 705–705. 56 indexed citations

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Savazzi, Federica, Davide Massaro, Cinzia Di Dio, et al.. (2014). Exploring Responses to Art in Adolescence: A Behavioral and Eye-Tracking Study. PLoS ONE. 9(7). e102888–e102888. 29 indexed citations

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Massaro, Davide, Federica Savazzi, Cinzia Di Dio, et al.. (2012). When Art Moves the Eyes: A Behavioral and Eye-Tracking Study. PLoS ONE. 7(5). e37285–e37285. 137 indexed citations

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Marchetti, Antonella, Ilaria Castelli, & Davide Massaro. (2009). Negoziazione e adozione: fenomeni meramente intrapersonali?. Giornale italiano di psicologia. 2(2). 483–487. 2 indexed citations

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Lillard, Angeline S., Tracy K. Nishida, Davide Massaro, et al.. (2007). Signs of Pretense Across Age and Scenario. Infancy. 11(1). 1–30. 35 indexed citations

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Shatz, Marilyn, Jennifer Dyer-Seymour, Antonella Marchetti, & Davide Massaro. (2006). Culture and Mental States: A Comparison of English and Italian Versions of Children's Books. Physical review. E. 94(6-1). 93–106. 4 indexed citations

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