Dr. Alessandro Brunelli: passion is my motivation

Passion and Intrinsic Motivation in Digital Gaming

Digital gaming is fast becoming a favorite activity all over the world. Yet very few studies have examined the underlying motivational processes involved in digital gaming. One motivational force that receives little attention in psychology is passion, which could help us understand the motivation of gamers. The purpose of the present study was to identify subgroups of young people with distinc...

What is privacy worth ? Alessandro

We investigate individual privacy valuations in a series of experiments informed by theories from behavioral economics and decision research. We find evidence of order and endowment effects and nonnormal distributions of valuations. In particular, we find that individuals assign markedly different values to the privacy of their data depending on the order in which they consider different offers...

Is passion contagious? The transference of entrepreneurial passion to employees

The scholarly entrepreneurship community is coming to recognize what practicing entrepreneurs have known for some time — that passion is a central element of the entrepreneurial process. Recent developments have more carefully defined the construct of entrepreneurial passion and modeled its impact on entrepreneurial behaviors. This paper takes the next step by building a model of how that passi...

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Alessandro TREVES

The CA3 and CA1 fields of the mammalian hippocampus are strikingly different in their network architecture: massively recurrent the former, essentially feed-forward the latter. The functional significance of this structural differentiation is not clear, in that neural activity in the two fields shows qualitatively similar features, and computational models generally succeed in mimicking hippoca...