Nicola Petrocchi

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
60 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

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Nicola Petrocchi is a scholar working on Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicola Petrocchi has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Clinical Psychology, 26 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 22 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Nicola Petrocchi's work include Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions (29 papers), Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (21 papers) and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (16 papers). Nicola Petrocchi is often cited by papers focused on Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions (29 papers), Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (21 papers) and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (16 papers). Nicola Petrocchi collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Portugal and United Kingdom. Nicola Petrocchi's co-authors include Peter Muris, Cristina Ottaviani, Alessandro Couyoumdjian, Paul Gilbert, Simone Cheli, James N. Kirby, Marcela Matos, Henry Otgaar, James R. Doty and Jaskaran Basran and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Nicola Petrocchi

56 papers receiving 2.0k citations

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Protection or Vulnerability? A Meta‐Analysis of the Relations Between the Positive and Negative Components of Self‐Compassion and Psychopathology

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicola Petrocchi Italy	25	1.6k	699	663	210	169	60	2.1k
Bethany E. Kok Germany	13	727 0.5×	489 0.7×	496 0.7×	144 0.7×	195 1.2×	18	1.4k
Allison S. Troy United States	16	1.3k 0.8×	987 1.4×	755 1.1×	146 0.7×	68 0.4×	19	2.2k
Peggilee Wupperman United States	19	1.7k 1.0×	910 1.3×	516 0.8×	315 1.5×	49 0.3×	28	2.2k
Henning Schauenburg Germany	29	2.0k 1.3×	516 0.7×	809 1.2×	377 1.8×	59 0.3×	123	2.6k
Katherine Bonus United States	5	2.0k 1.2×	703 1.0×	683 1.0×	206 1.0×	109 0.6×	5	2.6k
E. Samuel Winer United States	21	862 0.5×	906 1.3×	429 0.6×	178 0.8×	62 0.4×	58	1.7k
Saki Santorelli United States	4	1.3k 0.8×	489 0.7×	475 0.7×	188 0.9×	85 0.5×	10	1.8k
Edo Shonin United Kingdom	31	2.1k 1.3×	561 0.8×	735 1.1×	292 1.4×	52 0.3×	86	2.6k
Greg Carey United States	4	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 1.6×	733 1.1×	186 0.9×	64 0.4×	12	2.3k
Jeremy G. Stewart United States	26	1.3k 0.8×	414 0.6×	383 0.6×	288 1.4×	49 0.3×	60	1.9k

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Petrocchi, Nicola, et al.. (2024). Essentials of Compassion Focused Therapy. 7 indexed citations

Seabra, D., Jorge Gato, Nicola Petrocchi, et al.. (2023). Everyday Discrimination Scale: Dimensionality in a Portuguese community sample and specific versions for sexual and gender minority. Current Psychology. 43(12). 10850–10861. 5 indexed citations

Seabra, D., Jorge Gato, Nicola Petrocchi, & María do Céu Salvador. (2023). Shame Experiences And Psychopathology: The Mediating Role Of Self-compassion And Social Support In Sexual Minority Individuals. Journal of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies. 22(1). 137–152.

Naismith, Iona, et al.. (2023). Physiological response to self-compassion versus relaxation in a clinical population. PLoS ONE. 18(2). e0272198–e0272198. 2 indexed citations

Silva, Diana Ribeiro da, et al.. (2023). At the heart of change: Differences in young offenders’ HRV patterns after the delivery of the PSYCHOPATHY.COMP program. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 13. 1032011–1032011. 5 indexed citations

Barcaccia, Barbara, et al.. (2022). Mindfulness, Social Safeness and Self-Reassurance as Protective Factors and Self-Criticism and Revenge as Risk Factors for Depression and Anxiety Symptoms in Youth. Mindfulness. 13(3). 674–684. 14 indexed citations

Petrocchi, Nicola, et al.. (2022). Unveiling the heart of young offenders: Testing the tripartite model of affect regulation in community and forensic male adolescents. Journal of Criminal Justice. 82. 101970–101970. 9 indexed citations

Petrocchi, Nicola, et al.. (2022). Modulatory effects of transcranial direct current stimulation of right insula on compassion motivation. International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology. 23(3). 100362–100362. 9 indexed citations

Matos, Marcela, Cristiana Duarte, Joana Duarte, et al.. (2021). Cultivating the Compassionate Self: an Exploration of the Mechanisms of Change in Compassionate Mind Training. Mindfulness. 13(1). 66–79. 21 indexed citations

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Ottaviani, Cristina, et al.. (2021). Compassion Is Not a Benzo: Distinctive Associations of Heart Rate Variability With Its Empathic and Action Components. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 15. 617443–617443. 19 indexed citations

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Petrocchi, Nicola, et al.. (2021). HRV patterns associated with different affect regulation systems: Sex differences in adolescents. International Journal of Psychophysiology. 170. 156–167. 12 indexed citations

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Makovac, Elena, et al.. (2021). Safe in my heart: resting heart rate variability longitudinally predicts emotion regulation, worry, and sense of safeness during COVID-19 lockdown. Stress. 25(1). 9–13. 15 indexed citations

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Petrocchi, Nicola, Jessica Pistella, Marco Salvati, et al.. (2019). I Embrace My LGB Identity: Self-Reassurance, Social Safeness, and the Distinctive Relevance of Authenticity to Well-Being in Italian Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexual People. Sexuality Research and Social Policy. 17(1). 75–86. 54 indexed citations

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Petrocchi, Nicola, et al.. (2017). Transcranial direct current stimulation enhances soothing positive affect and vagal tone. Neuropsychologia. 96. 256–261. 28 indexed citations

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Petrocchi, Nicola, Cristina Ottaviani, & Alessandro Couyoumdjian. (2016). Compassion at the mirror: Exposure to a mirror increases the efficacy of a self-compassion manipulation in enhancing soothing positive affect and heart rate variability. The Journal of Positive Psychology. 12(6). 525–536. 53 indexed citations

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Petrocchi, Nicola, Marcela Matos, Sérgio A. Carvalho, & Roberto Baiocco. (2016). Compassion-Focused Therapy in the Treatment of Shame-Based Difficulties in Gender and Sexual Minorities. Estudo Geral (Universidade de Coimbra). 69–86. 4 indexed citations

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Couyoumdjian, Alessandro, et al.. (2016). Reducing the Meta-Emotional Problem Decreases Physiological Fear Response during Exposure in Phobics. Frontiers in Psychology. 7. 1105–1105. 11 indexed citations

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Colonnello, Valentina, et al.. (2016). Positive Social Interactions in a Lifespan Perspective with a Focus on Opioidergic and Oxytocinergic Systems: Implications for Neuroprotection. Current Neuropharmacology. 15(4). 543–561. 29 indexed citations

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Au, Teresa, Shannon Sauer‐Zavala, M. King, et al.. (2016). Compassion-Based Therapy for Trauma-Related Shame and Posttraumatic Stress: Initial Evaluation Using a Multiple Baseline Design. Behavior Therapy. 48(2). 207–221. 98 indexed citations

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Gilbert, Paul & Nicola Petrocchi. (2012). La terapia focalizzata sulla compassione : caratteristiche distintive. 1–208.

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