Giuliana Mazzoni
Giuliana Mazzoni (born January 29, 1955 in Savona) is Professor of psychology and an expert in cognitive science.
She is Emeritus in neuroscience and psychology from the University of Hull (UK) and retired in November 2025 as full professor from the Sapienza University of Rome (Italy).[1]. She is best known for her work and research in human memory and its applications in eyewitness testimony. Her work has influenced the legal practice, especially in Italy and Spanish speaking countries.
Biography
Giuliana Mazzoni graduated and completed her PhD at the University of Padua (Italy) and her post-doctorate at the University of Washington (USA). She later became assistant professor at the University of Florence and associate professor at the University of Calabria, before moving to the United States as associate professor (Seton Hall University) and the UK as full professor (Plymouth University & University of Hull). In 2018 she was asked to join the faculty at the Sapienza University in Rome, where she worked until 2025. Since 2019, she has been an European Research Council (ERC) SH4 panelist; since 2024, she is Chair of the National Executive Committee in Forensic Psychology and member of the Board of Directors of AISP (Associazione Italiana Studiosi della Prova).
Bibliography
Her publications consist of 8 books (1 in English, 2 translated in Spanish), more than 250 scientific articles, including articles in top journals (e.g. Psychological Science & Journal of Experimental Psychology: General), 35 book chapters (12 in English, 1 in French, 22 in Italian, 1 in Portuguese), 47 external grants and more than 270 talks, including keynote lectures and invited talks. In Italian, she published 3 books on eyewitness testimony: "Si può credere a un testimone?" (Il Mulino editore)[2], "Psicologia della testimonianza" (Carocci editore)[3], both translated in Spanish, and "La testimonianza nei casi di abuso sessuale sui minori" (Giuffrè editore)[4].
Human Memory
Her research focuses on memory fallibility and the unintentional creation of false autobiographical memories [5]. She also discovered that people commonly hold memories they no longer believe in, thus theoretically dissociating the phenomenological experience of remembering from the belief in the occurrence of the experience [6]. More recently, she is known for her research on HSAM (Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory)[7].
Hypnosis
Her research developed within the non-state theory perspective of hypnosis (hypnosis is not necessarily and altered state of consciousness), observing specific patterns of activation for extreme visual hallucinations [8].
Suggestibility
The human mind is prone to the influence of suggestions that can affect behavior, personal experiences, thoughts and memories. Her studies regarding suggestibility include work on human memory, hypnosis and the placebo/nocebo effects[9][10][11]
Media
Giuliana Mazzoni's work has been featured by many media including The Sunday Times, The Times, El Pais, Repubblica, BBC3, BBC4, Radio 3 Scienza, National Swedish TV, Swiss TV and Channel 4.
References
- ↑ https://dpdcs.web.uniroma1.it/it/mazzoni-giuliana
- ↑ "il Mulino - Libri - GIULIANA MAZZONI, Si può credere a un testimone?". mulino.it.
- ↑ "Psicologia della testimonianza".
- ↑ "La testimonianza nei casi di abuso sessuale sui minori. | Lefebvre Giuffrè". shop.giuffre.it.
- ↑ Mazzoni, Giuliana; Memon, Amina (March 1, 2003). "Imagination Can Create False Autobiographical Memories". Psychological Science. 14 (2): 186–188. doi:10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00020.x – via SAGE Journals.
- ↑ Mazzoni, Giuliana; Scoboria, Alan; Harvey, Lucy (September 1, 2010). "Nonbelieved Memories". Psychological Science. 21 (9): 1334–1340. doi:10.1177/0956797610379865 – via SAGE Journals.
- ↑ Talbot, Jessica; Convertino, Gianmarco; De Marco, Matteo; Venneri, Annalena; Mazzoni, Giuliana (March 1, 2025). "Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory (HSAM): A Systematic Review". Neuropsychology Review. 35 (1): 54–76. doi:10.1007/s11065-024-09632-8. PMC 11965258 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 38393540 Check|pmid=value (help) – via Springer Link. - ↑ McGeown, William J.; Venneri, Annalena; Kirsch, Irving; Nocetti, Luca; Roberts, Kathrine; Foan, Lisa; Mazzoni, Giuliana (March 1, 2012). "Suggested visual hallucination without hypnosis enhances activity in visual areas of the brain". Consciousness and Cognition. 21 (1): 100–116. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2011.10.015 – via ScienceDirect.
- ↑ Scoboria, Alan; Mazzoni, Giuliana; Jarry, Josée L.; Bernstein, Daniel M. (January 1, 2012). "Personalized and not general suggestion produces false autobiographical memories and suggestion-consistent behavior". Acta Psychologica. 139 (1): 225–232. doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2011.10.008 – via ScienceDirect.
- ↑ McGeown, William Jonathan; Mazzoni, Giuliana; Vannucci, Manila; Venneri, Annalena (February 28, 2015). "Structural and functional correlates of hypnotic depth and suggestibility". Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging. 231 (2): 151–159. doi:10.1016/j.pscychresns.2014.11.015 – via ScienceDirect.
- ↑ Coleshill, Matthew J.; George, David N.; Mazzoni, Giuliana (September 1, 2017). "Placebo Analgesia From a Rubber Hand". The Journal of Pain. 18 (9): 1067–1077. doi:10.1016/j.jpain.2017.04.004 – via ScienceDirect.
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