Selected Publications

2025

  • Dumitru, E. P., Cardoș, R. A. I., Milea, I., Gambarota, F., Altoè, G., David, D. O., & Cristea, I. A. (2025). A meta-analysis of the association of death anxiety with psychological distress and psychopathology. Nature Human Behaviour, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02115-7
  • Menghini, L., Perinelli, E., & Balducci, C. (2025). Manipulation of intensive longitudinal data: A tutorial in R with applications on the job demand-control model. International Journal of Psychology: Journal International de Psychologie, 60(2), e70040. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.70040

2024

  • Calignano, G., Girardi, P., & Altoè, G. (2024). First steps into the pupillometry multiverse of developmental science. Behavior Research Methods, 56(4), 3346–3365. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02172-8
  • Ciocca, G., Giorgini, R., Petrocchi, L., Origlia, G., Occhiuto, G., Aversa, A., & Liuzza, M. T. (2024). Psychometric characteristics of the Italian version of the revised Sociosexual Orientation Inventory. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 53(8), 3267–3283. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-024-02882-w
  • Epifania, O. M., Anselmi, P., & Robusto, E. (2024). A guided tutorial on linear mixed-effects models for the analysis of accuracies and response times in experiments with fully crossed design. Psychological Methods. https://doi.org/10.1037/met0000708
  • Feraco, T., & Toffalini, E. (2024). SEMbeddings: How to evaluate model misfit before data collection using large-language models. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1433339. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1433339
  • Gambarota, F., & Altoè, G. (2024). Ordinal regression models made easy: A tutorial on parameter interpretation, data simulation and power analysis. International Journal of Psychology: Journal International de Psychologie, 59(6), 1263–1292. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.13243
  • Gambarota, F., & Altoè, G. (2024). Understanding meta-analysis through data simulation with applications to power analysis. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459231209330
  • Liuzza, M. T., Tolomeo, E., Occhiuto, G., Cilurzo, M., Martino, I., & Cerasa, A. (2024). Italian adaptation of the Multidimensional Iowa Suggestibility Scale (MISS). PeerJ, 12, e17145. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17145
  • Toffalini, E., Gambarota, F., Perugini, A., Girardi, P., Tobia, V., Altoè, G., Giofrè, D., Psicostat Core Team, & Feraco, T. (2024). Clusters that are not there: An R tutorial and a Shiny app to quantify a priori inferential risks when using clustering methods. International Journal of Psychology: Journal International de Psychologie, 59(6), 1183–1198. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.13246

2023

  • Aloi, M., Moniaci, M., Rania, M., Carbone, E. A., Martino, G., Segura-Garcia, C., & Liuzza, M. T. (2023). Relationship between disgust and orthorexia nervosa and psychometric properties of the Italian Dusseldorf orthorexia scale in a general population sample. Journal of Eating Disorders, 11(1), 174. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-023-00899-5
  • Epifania, O. M., Anselmi, P., & Robusto, E. (2023). Pauci sed boni: An Item Response Theory Approach for Shortening Tests. In Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics (pp. 75–83). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27781-8_7
  • Epifania, O. M., Robusto, E., & Anselmi, P. (2023). Is the performance at the implicit association test sensitive to feedback presentation? A Rasch-based analysis. Psychological Research, 87(3), 737–750. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-022-01703-w
  • Sirois, S., Brisson, J., Blaser, E., Calignano, G., Donenfeld, J., Hepach, R., Hochmann, J.-R., Kaldy, Z., Liszkowski, U., Mayer, M., Ross-Sheehy, S., Russo, S., & Valenza, E. (2023). The pupil collaboration: A multi-lab, multi-method analysis of goal attribution in infants. Infant Behavior & Development, 73(101890), 101890. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2023.101890
  • Zakrzewska, M. Z., Challma, S., Lindholm, T., Cancino-Montecinos, S., Olofsson, J. K., & Liuzza, M. T. (2023). Body odour disgust sensitivity is associated with xenophobia: Evidence from nine countries across five continents. Royal Society Open Science, 10(4), 221407. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.221407

2022

  • Bago, B., Kovacs, M., Protzko, J., Nagy, T., Kekecs, Z., Palfi, B., Adamkovic, M., Adamus, S., Albalooshi, S., Albayrak-Aydemir, N., Alfian, I. N., Alper, S., Alvarez-Solas, S., Alves, S. G., Amaya, S., Andresen, P. K., Anjum, G., Ansari, D., Arriaga, P., … Aczel, B. (2022). Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample. Nature Human Behaviour, 6(6), 880–895. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01319-5
  • Coles, N. A., March, D. S., Marmolejo-Ramos, F., Larsen, J. T., Arinze, N. C., Ndukaihe, I. L. G., Willis, M. L., Foroni, F., Reggev, N., Mokady, A., Forscher, P. S., Hunter, J. F., Kaminski, G., Yüvrük, E., Kapucu, A., Nagy, T., Hajdu, N., Tejada, J., Freitag, R. M. K., … Liuzza, M. T. (2022). A multi-lab test of the facial feedback hypothesis by the Many Smiles Collaboration. Nature Human Behaviour, 6(12), 1731–1742. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01458-9

2021

  • Jones, B. C., DeBruine, L. M., Flake, J. K., Liuzza, M. T., Antfolk, J., Arinze, N. C., Ndukaihe, I. L. G., Bloxsom, N. G., Lewis, S. C., Foroni, F., Willis, M. L., Cubillas, C. P., Vadillo, M. A., Turiegano, E., Gilead, M., Simchon, A., Saribay, S. A., Owsley, N. C., Jang, C., … Coles, N. A. (2021). To which world regions does the valence-dominance model of social perception apply? Nature Human Behaviour, 5(1), 159–169. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-01007-2
  • Liuzza, M. T., Spagnuolo, R., Antonucci, G., Grembiale, R. D., Cosco, C., Iaquinta, F. S., Funari, V., Dastoli, S., Nistico, S., & Doldo, P. (2021). Psychometric evaluation of an Italian custom 4-item short form of the PROMIS anxiety item bank in immune-mediated inflammatory diseases: An item response theory analysis. PeerJ, 9(e12100), e12100. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12100

2020

  • Zakrzewska, M. Z., Liuzza, M. T., Lindholm, T., Blomkvist, A., Larsson, M., & Olofsson, J. K. (2020). An overprotective nose? Implicit bias is positively related to individual differences in body odor disgust sensitivity. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 301. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00301

2019

  • Liuzza, M. T., Olofsson, J. K., Cancino-Montecinos, S., & Lindholm, T. (2019). Body odor disgust sensitivity predicts moral harshness toward moral violations of purity. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 458. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00458
  • Zakrzewska, M., Olofsson, J. K., Lindholm, T., Blomkvist, A., & Liuzza, M. T. (2019). Body odor disgust sensitivity is associated with prejudice towards a fictive group of immigrants. Physiology & Behavior, 201, 221–227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physbeh.2019.01.006

2018

  • Liuzza, M. T., Lindholm, T., Hawley, C. B., Gustafsson Sendén, M., Ekström, I., Olsson, M. J., & Olofsson, J. K. (2018). Body odour disgust sensitivity predicts authoritarian attitudes. Royal Society Open Science, 5(2), 171091. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.171091

2017

  • Liuzza, M. T., Lindholm, T., Hawley, C., Sendén, M. G., Ekström, I., Olsson, M. J., Larsson, M., & Olofsson, J. K. (2017). The body odor disgust scale (BODS): Development and validation of a novel olfactory disgust assessment. Chemical Senses, 42(6), 499–508.
  • Liuzza, M. T., Olofsson, J. K., Sabiniewicz, A., & Sorokowska, A. (2017). Body odor trait disgust sensitivity predicts perception of sweat biosamples. Chemical Senses, 42(6), 479–485. https://doi.org/10.1093/chemse/bjx026