Monica Pivetti
Papers
14
Total Citations
246
H-Index
6
About
Monica Pivetti is an Italian psychologist and researcher whose work spans two compelling and socially significant domains: educational robotics for children with special needs, and the social psychology of human-robot interaction. Her most influential contribution, a 2020 systematic review on Educational Robotics for children with neurodevelopmental disorders (69 citations), critically examined the evidence base for robot-assisted learning and has become a key reference for researchers and practitioners alike. Complementing this, her exploration of teachers' attitudes toward educational robotics — including an Italian study garnering 45 citations — has helped shape understanding of how educators perceive and adopt these tools in inclusive classroom settings. Pivetti's work on social robotics delves into how people conceptualize and relate to robots in everyday life, including how gender influences expectations of social robots. Her investigations into ontologization — the psychological process by which outgroup members are attributed non-human characteristics — reveal a broader interest in social categorization and prejudice. With a total body of work exceeding 230 citations, Pivetti has established herself as a bridge-builder between psychology, special education, and emerging technology, making her scholarship invaluable to students navigating the intersections of inclusion, cognition, and human-machine interaction.
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- 4A Training Course in Educational Robotics for Learning Support Teachers25 citations · 2017
- 5Sex differences in expectations and perception of a social robot14 citations · 2018
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- 7Brief Research Report: Teachers’ Gender-Differentiated Attributions6 citations · 2022
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