Orari di ricevimento

Ricevimento settimanale: In presenza: Martedì dalle ore 11:00 alle ore 12:00 On-line: Martedì dalle ore 19:00 alle ore 20:00

Curriculum

Istruzione e formazione Dottorato di ricerca in “Mind, Gender and Languages”, curriculum in Sciences of the Human Mind (Cognitive and experimental psychology), conseguito presso l’Università Federico II di Napoli e la Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli (attualmente Università degli Studi della Campania – Luigi Vanvitelli). Specializzazione in “Psicoterapia Cognitivo-Comportamentale”, conseguita presso la Scuola di Psicoterapia Cognitiva (SPC) di Napoli. Laura Magistrale in Psicologia Clinica, dello Sviluppo e Neuropsicologia, conseguita presso l’Università degli Studi di Milano – Bicocca. Laurea in Scienze e Tecniche Psicologiche, conseguita presso la Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli (attualmente Università degli Studi della Campania – Luigi Vanvitelli). Attività professionale Psicologa – psicoterapeuta cognitivo-comportamentale, specializzata nel trattamento di adolescenti. Ricercatrice a tempo determinato e definito di tipo A, in Psicologia Generale, presso l’università Gustino Fortunato. Socio Ordinario dell’AIP – Associazione Italiana di Psicologia. Membro dell’ISSBA – International Society for the Study of Behavioral Addictions Interessi e attività di ricerca Emozioni e regolazione emotiva, Adolescenza e dipendenze comportamentali, Gioco d’azzardo ricreativo e patologico in adolescenza, Shopping compulsivo, Mentalizzazione, Benessere in adolescenza, Disagio psicologico negli studenti universitari. Collaborazioni nazionali e internazionali in progetti di ricerca relativi alle tematiche sopra riportate. Relatrice a congressi e convegni scientifici nazionali ed internazionali. Autrice di numerose pubblicazioni scientifiche sulle tematiche sopra riportate. Pubblicazioni 1. Cosenza, M., Fabbri, M., Pizzini, B., Ciccarelli, M., Nigro, G. (2026). Chasing the Present: Cognitive Distortions, Time Perspective, and Alcohol use in Adolescent Gambling. Journal of Gambling Studies, 1-23. 2. Troncone, A., Affuso, G., Cosenza, M., Caldarelli, G., Sacco, M., Frisone, F., Ciccarelli, M., Pizzini, B. (2026). Italian students seeking psychological assistance from the university counseling service: Mental health problems and intentions to drop out. Current Psychology, 4 (4). 3. Caldarelli, G., Affuso, G., Cosenza, M., Picone, N., Pizzini, B., Troncone, A. (2026). Mental Health of University Students in Mediterranean Countries: An Exploratory Cross Cultural Study. Psychological Reports. 4. Fabbri, M., Cosenza, M., Sacco, M., Ciccarelli, M., Nigro, G., Pizzini, B. (2025). Perceived loneliness in subjective time perception during the COVID-19 pandemic: the mediating role of negative affective states. Timing & time perception, 1, 1-22. 5. Cosenza, M., Pizzini, B., Ciccarelli, M., Sacco, M., Nigro, G. (2025). Drivers of adolescent chasing behavior: the role of craving, decision-making, alcohol use, and gambling severity. Addictive behaviors, 108414. 6. Caldarelli, G., Pizzini, B., Cosenza, M., Affuso, G., Troncone, A. (2025). Psychological counselling services at a Southern Italian university: utilization rates and characteristics of university students asking help. Rivista di psichiatria. 7. Troncone, A., Caldarelli, G., Cosenza, M., Affuso, G.,Sacco, M., Caldarelli, G., Pizzini, B. (2025). Psychological Problems and Academic Motivation in University Students: A Cross Sectional Study One Year after the COVID-19 Lockdown in Italy. Psychiatric Quarterly. 8. Ciccarelli, M., Pizzini, B., Cosenza, M., D’Olimpio, F., Griffiths, M., Nigro, G. (2024). Chasing among older-aged gamblers: The role of mentalizing and psychological distress. Frontiers in Psychiaty, Addictive Disorders, 15. 2 9. Caldarelli, G., Pizzini, B., Cosenza, M., Troncone, A. (2024). The prevalence of mental health conditions and effectiveness of psychological interventions among university students in Italy: A systematic literature review. Psychiatry Research, 342, 116208. 10. Cosenza, M., Sacco, M., Ciccarelli, M., Pizzini, B., Jiménez-Murcia, S., Fernàndez-Aranda, F., Nigro, G. (2024). Getting even: chasing behavior, decision-making, and craving in habitual gamblers. BMC Psychology, 12(1), 445. 11. Ciccarelli, M., Pizzini, B., Griffiths, M.D., Cosenza, M., Nigro, G., D’Olimpio, F. (2024). Attentional disengagement, craving, and mentalizing: a preliminary experimental study among older-aged male gamblers. BMC Psychology, 12(1), 164. 12. Cosenza, M., Pizzini, B., Sacco, M., D’Olimpio, F., Troncone, A., Ciccarelli, M., Dimitrijevic’, A., Nigro, G. (2024). Italian validation of the mentalization scale (MentS). Current Psychology, 43(29), 24205–24215. 13. Fabbri, M., Cosenza, M., Nigro, G., Pizzini, B. (2024). The mediating role of decision-making styles in the relationship between morningness-eveningness preference and gambling involvement. Personality and Individual Differences, 221, 112541. 14. Fabbri, M., Pizzini, B., Beracci, A., Martoni, M. (2024). Time consciousness: Silence, mindfulness, and subjective time perception. Progress in Brain Research, 287, pp. 191–215. 15. Germani, A., Lopez, A., Martini, E., Cicchella, S., De Fortuna, A.M., Dragone, M., Pizzini, B., Troisi, G., De Luca Picione, R. (2023). The Relationships between Compulsive Internet Use, Alexithymia, and Dissociation: Gender Differences among Italian Adolescents. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(14), 6431. 16. Troncone, A., Cascella, C., Chianese, A., Zanfardino, A., Pizzini, B., Iafusco, D. (2023). Psychological consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in people with type 1 diabetes: A systematic literature review. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 168, 111206. 3 17. Pizzini, B., Cosenza, M., Nigro, G., Sacco, M., Ciccarelli, M. (2023). Maladaptive Personality Trait Facets and Mentalization in Youth Gambling. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction. 18. Ciccarelli, M., Nigro, G., D’Olimpio, F., Griffiths, M.D., Sacco, M., Pizzini, B., Cosenza, M. (2022). The associations between loneliness, anxiety, and problematic gaming behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of mentalization. Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology, 10 (1). 19. Troncone, A., Affuso, G., Cascella, C., Chianese, A., Pizzini, B., Iafusco, D. (2022). Prevalence of Disordered Eating Behaviors in Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes: Results of Multicenter Italian Nationwide Study. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 55(8), 1108-1119. 20. Nigro, G., Matarazzo, O., Ciccarelli, M., Pizzini, B., Sacco, M., Cosenza, M. (2022). Positive illusions: the role of cognitive distortions related to gambling and temporal perspective in chasing behavior. Journal of Gambling Studies, 38(3), 889-904. 21. Matarazzo, O., Abbamonte, L., Greco, C., Pizzini, B., Nigro, G. (2021). Regret and other emotions related to decision-making: antecedents, appraisals, and phenomenological aspects. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. 22. Buonanno, C., Iuliano, E., Grossi, E., Mancini, F., Stendardo, E., Tudisco, F., Pizzini, B. (2021). Forgiveness in the modulation of responsibility in a sample of Italian adolescents with a tendency towards conduct or obsessive-compulsive problems. Brain Sciences, 11 (10). 23. Matarazzo, O., Pizzini, B., Greco, C. (2020). Influences of a luck game on offers in Ultimatum and Dictator games: is there a mediation of emotions? Frontiers in Psychology, 1 (13). 24. Matarazzo, O., Carpentieri, M., Greco, C., Pizzini B. (2019). The gambler’s fallacy in problem and non-problem gamblers. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 8(4), 754–769. 25. Pizzini, B. (2018). The issue of fairness in strategic interactions. Doctoral thesis, fedOA Open Archive. Uri: http://www.fedoa.unina.it/id/eprint/12585 26. Matarazzo, O., Pizzini, B., Greco, C., Carpentieri, M. (2017). Effects of a chance task outcome on the offers in the ultimatum game: The mediation role of emotions. 7th IEEE 4 International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications, CogInfoCom 2016 – Proceedings, 7804564, 295-300. 27. Pizzini, B., Greco, C., Matarazzo, O. (2016). L’effetto di un falso feedback sulle offerte all’Ultimatum Game è mediato dalle emozioni? AISC mid-term 2016 - Proceedings, 156-160. 28. Matarazzo, O., Carpentieri, M., Greco, C., Pizzini, B. (2016). Are the gambler’s fallacy or the hot-hand fallacy due to an erroneous probability estimate? in A. Esposito et al. (eds.), Multidisciplinary approaches to Neural Computing, Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, 69, 353-368. 29. Ferrara, F., Esposito, A., Pizzini, B., Matarazzo, O. (2015). Evolutionary psychology and human reasoning: testing the domain-specificity hypothesis through Wason selection task. Proceedings of the EuroAsianPacific Joint Conference on Cognitive Science 4th European Conference on Cognitive Science 11th International Conference on Cognitive Science, 1419, 216- 221.