Curriculum Vitae (March, 2010) KATYA TENTORI CURRENT AFFILIATION Department of Cognitive Sciences and Education (DiSCoF) Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) Palazzo Fedrigotti Corso Bettini, n. 31 38068 Rovereto, Italy Phone: (+39) 0464-808631 Fax: (+39) 0464-808602 E-mail: katya.tentori@unitn.it ACADEMIC POSITIONS January 2005 at present Assistant Professor ( Ricercatore ) in General Psychology (M PSI/01) Cognitive Science Faculty 2001 2005 Post Doctoral Research Fellow ( Assegnista di Ricerca ) 1999 2001 PhD student University of Genoa ACADEMIC DEGREES 12 February, 2002 Clinical Psychologist License (D.M. 13/01/92, n. 240) University of Padua 07 February, 2002 PhD in Research Methods in Psychology DiSA, University of Genoa Title of dissertation: Decision Making in Dynamic Environments: An experimental Study 21 February, 1998 Master Degree ( Laurea ) in Experimental Psychology University of Padua Title of dissertation: Age Related Effects on Asymmetric Dominance Bias (Grade: 110/110 cum laude)
AWARDS AND HONOURS September, 2002 Award for the best PhD dissertation in Psychology Italian Association of Psychology (AIP) and Rosselli Foundation February, 1998 Press dignity for the Degree dissertation in Experimental Psychology Psychology Faculty, University of Padua RESEARCH GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS 2010 2012 National coordinator and principal investigator MIUR grant Inductive reasoning: Models, behavior, and applications (PRIN, n. 20083NAH2L and 20083NAH2L_001) 2009 2010 Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (IEF), for the project INDUCT - Investigating Normative and Descriptive Uses of Confirmation Theory (project n. 221350 - European Commission) 2006 2008 Principal investigator FTU (Fondazione Trentino Università) grant for a PhD project on Medical Decision Making 2006 2008 Principal investigator SMC / Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Trento grant: Inductive Reasoning: Models, Processes and Applications (project n. 40101098) 2005 2007 Co-investigator MIUR grant Revisione di credenze e scelte in soggetti esperti e non esperti (PRIN, n. 2005117840_003) 2002 2005 Co-investigator European Commission grant TRUST Food Risk Communication and Consumers Trust in the Food Supply Chain (project n. QLK1-CT 2002-02343) 2002 2004 Co-investigator MIUR grant Linguaggio, categorizzazione e rappresentazione delle decisioni (PRIN, n. 2002132527_002) 2002 Travel fellowship awarded by the University of Genoa to attend the course Multivariate Analysis: Research Problems and Practice Summer School in Social Science and Data Analysis at the University of Essex (UK) 2000 Travel fellowship awarded by the University of Genoa to attend the Psychology Department of the Rice University (USA)
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES Occasional reviewer for the following Journals: - Cognition - European Review of Philosophy - Giornale Italiano di Psicologia - Journal of Experimental Psychology: General - Journal of Personality and Social Psychology - Memory & Cognition - Mind & Society - Synthese Occasional reviewer for the following conferences: - AIP 2006 (Italian Association of Psychology National Congress) - CogSci2005 (XXVII Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society) TEACHING EXPERIENCE Courses taught 2008-2009 General Psychology (64 hours) 2007-2008 General Psychology (64 hours) Pragmatics and Decision Making (20 hours) University of Milan Bicocca 2006-2007 General Psychology (64 hours) Pragmatics and Decision Making (20 hours) University of Milan Bicocca 2005-2006 General Psychology (64 hours) 2004-2005 Intelligence: Nature vs. Nurture (10 hours)
Courses co taught 2001-2002 Communication Psychology (8 hours) University of Milan Bicocca Experimental Economics and Cognitive Psychology (6 hours) University Carlo Cattaneo (LIUC) 2000-2001 Cognitive Psychology (4 hours) University of Milan Bicocca Courses assisted with as TA 2001-2002 Psychology for Careers Counseling (30 hours) University of Genoa 1999-2000 Statistical Models for Educational Processes (18 hours) University of Genoa OTHER ACADEMIC SERVICES Member of the Steering Committee of the following PhD programs 2006 at present Cognitive and Brain Sciences, CIMeC, 2005 2006 Cognitive Sciences and Education, DiSCoF, Supervisions: PhD students October 2007 at present Selena Russo PhD in Psychological Sciences and Education, October 2006 January 2010 Tommaso Mastropasqua PhD in Cognitive and Brain Sciences,
Supervisions: Undergraduate students November 2008 July 2009 Elisa Infanti Degree in Sciences and Techniques of Applied Cognitive Psychology, May November 2008 Giulia Torboli Degree in Sciences and Techniques of Applied Cognitive Psychology, January July 2008 Giusy Racalbuto Degree in Sciences and Techniques of Applied Cognitive Psychology, May October 2006 Mario Molinari Degree in Sciences and Techniques of Applied Cognitive Psychology, ORGANIZING SYMPOSIA, WORKSHOPS, AND CONFERENCES September, 2006 Member of the executive committee of the AIP (Italian Association of Psychology - Experimental Psychology section) National Congress, held in Rovereto on 13 15/09/2006 January, 2004 Member of the scientific committee of the "Risk, Decision and Human Error" Conference, held in Rovereto on 15 17/01/2004 OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 2002 at present Vocational training courses and professional careers guidance 2001 2006 Selection procedure for admission to the Bachelor s degree courses in Motor Sciences (University of Genoa), Developmental Psychology (University of Genoa), Architecture & Design (IUAV) December 2003 Communication skills training course for healthcare professionals S. Camillo Hospital, Cremona September 1998 March 1999 Internship in Experimental Psychology University of Padua (Supervisor: Prof. Carlo Umiltà) March 1998 September 1998 Internship in Neuropsychology Institute La Nostra Famiglia, Bosisio Parini (Supervisor: Dr. Maria Luisa Lorusso)
INVITED LECTURES/TALKS 29/01/2010 Bayesian confirmation theory: Experimental results and implications University of Leuven, Belgium 12/01/2010 Mind the gap: Physicians assessment of patients decision weights in localized prostate cancer treatment UIBEN meetings University College of London, UK 06/11/2008 Illusioni decisionali: Viaggio fra le trappole cognitive in cui possono cadere le nostre scelte quotidiane Aperitivi neuroscientifici 04/04/2008 The conjunction fallacy in perspective: Evidence and theory Workshop on Probability, Confirmation, and Fallacies University of Leuven, Belgium 14/12/2006 Scienze cognitive e tutela del consumatore: Il caso dell effetto attrazione Department of Law, University of Turin 18/05/2006 Bias decisionali Attrattivamente, 23/04/2002 Dynamic decision making LSC, 26/04/2001 L effetto di dominanza asimmetrica Psychology Department, University of Milan Bicocca 24/04/2001 Gli effetti di contesto Psychology Department, University of Milan Bicocca 19/03/2001 Modelli decisionali General Psychology Department, University of Padua 24/05/2000 L effetto attrazione Psychology Department, University of Milan Bicocca
REFEREED CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS and CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Paris, 13/11/2009 Crupi, V. & Tentori, K. Bayesian confirmation and information search decision making, SPS09 (Société de Philosophie des Sciences) Congress. Chieti, 25/09/2009 Tentori, K., Crupi, V., & Osherson, D. Perchè i giudizi di conferma induttiva non sono formali, AIP (Italian Association of Psychology - Experimental Psychology section) National Congress. Chieti, 25/09/2009 Crupi, V., Tentori, K., & Lombardi, L. La pseudodiagnosticità rivisitata, AIP (Italian Association of Psychology Experimental Psychology section) National Congress. Rovereto, 25/08/2009 Mastropasqua, T., Tentori, K. & Crupi, V. Bayesian confirmation by uncertain evidence, SPUDM22 Conference of the European Association for Decision Making (EADM). Rovereto, 24/08/2009 Tentori, K., Crupi, V., & Russo, S. Explaining the conjunction fallacy, SPUDM22 Conference of the European Association for Decision Making (EADM). Amsterdam, 30/07/2009 Tentori, K. & Crupi, V. Explaining the conjunction fallacy, CogSci2009 (Cognitive Science Society) annual meeting. Padua, 19/09/2008 Mastropasqua, T., Tentori, K., & Crupi, V. Conferma bayesiana con evidenza incerta, AIP (Italian Association of Psychology Experimental Psychology section) National Congress. Padua, 19/09/2008 Tentori, K., Crupi, V., & Russo, S. Determinanti della fallacia della congiunzione: Probabilità vs. conferma, AIP (Italian Association of Psychology Experimental Psychology section) National Congress. Venice, 20/08/2008 Crupi, V. & Tentori, K. Confirmation vs. probability as determinants of the conjunction fallacy, The Cognitive Science of Induction and Confirmation workshop. Venice, 21/08/2008 Tentori, K., Crupi, V., & Osherson, D. Determinants of confirmation, Sixth International Conference on Thinking. Venice, 21/08/2008 Crupi, V. & Tentori, K. Good questions: Inductive confirmation and the value of information, Sixth International Conference on Thinking. Venice, 23/08/2008 Tentori, K., Crupi, V., & Lombardi, L. Reassessing the evidence for pseudodiagnosticity, Sixth International Conference on Thinking. Warsaw, 20/08/2007 Tentori, K., Crupi, V., & Osherson, D. Confirmation may depend on more than probability, SPUDM 21 Conference of the European Association for Decision Making (EADM). Rome, 19/03/2007 Crupi, V. & Tentori, K. La percezione della forza induttiva: Alcuni risultati sperimentali, Le Dinamiche della Conoscenza nella Società dell Informazione, DiCSI workshop, ISTC CNR. London, 08/03/2007 Crupi, V., Fitelson, B., & Tentori, K. Probability, confirmation, and the conjunction fallacy, Confirmation, Induction and Science, London School of Economics (LSE).
Rovereto, 26/01/2007 Graffeo, M., Savadori, L., Lombardi, L., Tentori, K., Bonini, N., & Rumiati, R. Affect and choice in a food hazard context, Cognition and Emotion in Economic Decision Making, workshop of the European Association of Decision Making (EADM) and the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology (IAREP). Cesano Maderno, 29/09/2006 Crupi, V., Tentori, K., & Gonzalez, M. On the logic and psychology of evidential support, Brains, Persons, and Society (7th SIFA Conference). Rovereto, 13/09/2006 Crupi, V., Lombardi, L., & Tentori, K. Pseudo pseudodiagnosticità, AIP (Italian Association of Psychology Experimental Psychology section) National Congress. Rovereto, 13/09/2006 Tentori, K., Crupi, V., & Osherson, D. Conferma induttiva e probabilità: limiti descrittivi dell approccio bayesiano, AIP (Italian Association of Psychology Experimental Psychology section) National Congress. Toronto, 13/11/2005 Crupi, V., Tentori, K., & Osherson, D. Predicting confirmation judgments: A comparison of Bayesian measures, Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM). Prague, 21/09/2005 Bonini, N., Graffeo, M., Savadori, L., Tentori, K., & Rumiati, R. The Effects of commitment on choices in the context of food hazards, Absurdity in the Economy (30th Annual Congress IAREP). Stockholm, 22/08/2005 Tentori, K., Crupi, V., Bonini, N., & Osherson, D. On the psychology of confirmation: Inductive inferences in a probabilistic task, SPUDM 20 Conference of the European Association for Decision Making (EADM). Göteborg, 19/05/2005 Graffeo, M., Savadori, L., Tentori, K., Bonini, N., & Rumiati, R. The Effects of commitment on choices in the context of food hazards, EU RAIN Food Safety Risk Communication: The Message and Motivational Strategies conference. Sciacca, 19/09/2004 Graffeo, M., Savadori, L., Tentori, K., Bonini, N., & Rumiati, R. L effetto del senso di obbligazione (commitment) sulle scelte in un contesto di rischio alimentare, AIP (Italian Association of Psychology Experimental Psychology section) National Congress. Paris, 02/07/2004 Graffeo, M., Savadori, L., Tentori, K., Bonini, N., & Rumiati, R. The Effects of commitment on choices in the context of food hazards, 11th International Conference on the Foundations & Applications of Utility, Risk and Decision Theory (FUR XI). Bari, 24/09/2003 Tentori, K., Bonini, N., & Osherson, D. La fallacia della congiunzione: Formati a confronto, AIP (Italian Association of Psychology Experimental Psychology section) National Congress. Granada, 18/09/2003 Graffeo, M., Savadori, L., Tentori, K., Bonini, N., & Rumiati, R. Consumer trust in the food supply chain, XIII Congress of European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP). Zürich, 27/08/2003 Bonini, N., Tentori, K., & Osherson, D. A different conjunction fallacy, SPUDM 19 Conference of the European Association for Decision Making (EADM). Zürich, 27/08/2003 Tentori, K. & Osherson, D. Decision Making in Dynamic Environments: An Experimental Study, SPUDM 19 Conference of the European Association for Decision Making (EADM). Padua, 18/08/2003 Bonini, N., Tentori, K., & Osherson, D. On the reality of the conjunction fallacy, Cognition and Rationality 2nd International Conference on Reasoning and Decision Making.
Padua, 25/08/2002 Savadori, L., Tentori, K., Bonini, N., & Rumiati, R. L attraction effect nella scelta fra percorsi di specializzazione universitaria, 4 National Congress of the Society for Vocational Choices. Bellaria, 16/09/2002 Tentori, K. Presa di decisione in ambienti dinamici: Uno studio sperimentale, AIP (Italian Association of Psychology Experimental Psychology section) National Congress. Rovereto, 30/11/2001 Bonini, N. & Tentori, K. Gli effetti dell appartenenza categoriale sulla valutazione della riduzione di rischio, Decisione e Ragionamento in Ambito Medico Congress. Padua, 14/09/2001 Tentori, K., Macchi, L, Schadee, H., & Mosconi, G. Processi cognitivi nella conversione Euro Lire, L uro fra Psicologia ed Economia Congress. Alghero, 25/09/2000 Tentori, K. Effetto attrazione: Direzione arbitraria o obbligata?, AIP (Italian Association of Psychology Experimental Psychology section) National Congress.
PUBLICATIONS Articles in peer reviewed Journals Mastropasqua, T., Crupi, V., & Tentori, K. (2010). Broadening the study of inductive reasoning: Confirmation judgments with uncertain evidence, Memory & Cognition, in press. Crupi, V. & Tentori, K. (2010). Irrelevant conjunction: Statement and solution of a new paradox. Philosophy of Science, in press. Tentori, K., Crupi, V., & Osherson (2010). Second order probability affects hypothesis confirmation. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 17, 129 134. Tentori, K. & Crupi, V. (2010). How the conjunction fallacy is tied to probabilistic confirmation: Some remarks on Schupbach (2010). Synthese, DOI 10.1007/s11229-009-9701-y. Crupi, V., Tentori, K., & Lombardi, L. (2009). Pseudodiagnosticity revisited. Psychological Review, 116, 971 985. Graffeo, M., Savadori, L., Tentori, K., Bonini, N., & Rumiati, R. (2009). Consumer decision in the context of a food hazard: The effect of commitment. Mind & Society, 8, 59 76. Girotto, V. & Tentori, K. (2008). Is domain general thinking a domain specific adaptation? Mind & Society, 7, 167 175. Crupi, V., Fitelson, B., & Tentori, K. (2008). Probability, confirmation, and the conjunction fallacy. Thinking & Reasoning, 14, 182 199. Tentori, K., Crupi, V., & Osherson, D. (2007). Determinants of confirmation. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 877 883. Crupi, V., Tentori, K., & Gonzalez, M. (2007). On Bayesian measures of evidential support: Theoretical and empirical issues. Philosophy of Science, 74, 229 252. Tentori, K., Crupi, V., Bonini, N., & Osherson, D. (2007). Comparison of confirmation measures. Cognition, 103, 107 119. Tentori, K., Savadori, L., Calzà, M., Bonini, N., & Rumiati, R. (2006). MAIES: Uno strumento di orientamento finalizzato allo sviluppo delle competenze decisionali negli adolescenti. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia dell Orientamento (GIPO), 6/3, 13 20. Tentori, K., Bonini, N., & Osherson, D. (2004). The conjunction fallacy: A misunderstanding about conjunction? Cognitive Science, 28, 467 477. Bonini, N., Tentori, K., & Rumiati, R. (2004). Contingent application of the cancellation editing operation: The role of semantic relatedness between risky outcomes. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 17, 139 152. Bonini, N., Tentori, K., & Osherson, D. (2004). A different conjunction fallacy. Mind & Language, 19, 199 210. Graffeo, M., Savadori, L., Lombardi, L., Tentori, K., Bonini, N. & Rumiati, R. (2004). Trust and attitude in consumer food choices under risk. German Journal of Agricultural Economics, 8, 319 327. Tentori, K., Osherson, D., Hasher, L., & May, C. (2001). Wisdom and aging: Irrational preferences in college students but not older adults. Cognition, 81, B87 B96.
Book chapters Tentori, K. (2008). Processi decisionali dinamici, in N. Bonini, F. Del Missier, & R. Rumiati (Eds.), Giudizio e Decisione. Bologna: Il Mulino. Tentori, K. (2008). Scienze cognitive e tutela del consumatore: Il caso dell effetto attrazione. In R. Caterina (Eds.), I fondamenti Cognitivi del Diritto: Percezioni, Rappresentazioni, Comportamenti. Milano: Mondadori. Savadori, L., Graffeo, M., Bonini, N., Lombardi, L., Tentori, K., & Rumiati, R. (2007). Rebuilding consumer trust in the context of a food crisis, in M. Siegrist, T. C. Earle, & H. Gutscher (Eds.), Trust in Cooperative Risk Management: Uncertainty and Scepticism in the Public Mind. London: Earthscan. Graffeo, M., Savadori, L., Bonini, N., Lombardi, L., Tentori, K., & Rumiati, R. (2006). Food choice in the context of a food hazard: Insights from psychological experiments, in D. Romano (Eds.), How safe is eating chicken? Firenze: Florence University Press. Tentori, K. (2006). L intelligenza, in C. Cacciari & C. Papagno (Eds.), Psicologia Generale e Neuroscienze Cognitive. Bologna: Il Mulino. Tentori, K. (2002). La presa di decisione, in C. Castelli. & L. Venini (Eds.), Psicologia dell Orientamento Scolastico e Professionale. Milano: Franco Angeli. Bonini, N., Tentori, K., & Rumiati, R. (2002). Gli effetti dell appartenenza categoriale sulla valutazione della riduzione di rischio, in L. Savadori, P. Cherubini, & N. Bonini (Eds.), Decisione e Ragionamento in Ambito Medico. Trento: Provincia Autonoma di Trento Tipografia Temi. Tentori, K., Macchi, L., Schadee, H., & Mosconi, G. (2000). Processi cognitivi nella conversione Lire Euro, in R. Rumiati (Eds.), L uro tra Psicologia ed Economia. Padova: CLEUP. Submitted papers Tentori, K. & Crupi, V. (2010). On the conjunction fallacy and the meaning of and once again: A reply to Hertwig, Benz & Krauss (2008), submitted to Cognition. Working papers Tentori, K., Crupi, V., & Russo, S. (2010). Determinants of the conjunction fallacy: confirmation vs. probability. Tentori, K., Crupi, V., & Divan, C. (2010). Mind the gap: Physicians assessment of patients decision weights in localized prostate cancer treatment. Tentori, K. & Rumiati, R. (2010). The attraction effect and the role of specific attribute properties. Crupi, V. & Tentori, K. (2010). Good questions: Bayesian confirmation and the value of information. Tentori, K., Crupi, V., & Osherson, D. (2010). Decision updating: An experimental study.