Alessandro Couyoumdjian, PhD

Position: 
Joint Director
contact: 
couyoumdjian@uniroma1.it
Research Topics and Interests : 
Affective Forecasting in anxiety and depression (contact person
Cognitive and motivational mechanisms underlyng attentional biases
Compassion, self-compassion, gratitude and forgiveness
Experimental neuropsychology
Moral emotions
Motivated Cognition
Processes contributing to the onset and the perseveration of rumination
Psychophysiological Correlates of Rumination, worry and mind wandering
Risk and protective factors in adolescence
Theory of mind and empathy during childhood and adolescence
Professional and Academic Achievements: 
2004 Licensed psychotherapist. 2001-2003 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome. 2000 Visiting Scholar at the University of Helsinky, FINLAND. Mentor: Heikki Summala. 2000 Italian Association of Psychology (Experimental Psychology Division) Young Scholar Award. 1999-present Teaching appointments at University of Urbino, Potenza, L’Aquila, Rome. 1999-2003 School of Specialization in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. 1996-1999 Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology, Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome.
Academic and professional society memberships : 
European Society of Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP).
Italian Association of Psychology (AIP).
Italian Society for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapy (SITCC).
 
Pubblications: 
Tempesta D. Couyoumdjian A., Moroni F., Marzano C., De Gennaro L., Ferrara M. (2012) The impact of one night of sleep deprivation on moral judgments. Social Neuroscience, 7(3), 292-300, DOI: 10.1080/17470919.2011.614002 (Published as iFirst Sep 26, 2011) Couyoumdjian A., Sdoia S., Tempesta D., Curcio G., Rastellini E., De Gennaro L., Ferrara M. (2010) The effects of sleep and sleep deprivation on task switching performance. Journal of Sleep Research, 19, 64–70. Tempesta D., Couyoumdjian A., Curcio G., Moroni F., Marzano C., De Gennaro L., Ferrara M. (2010) Lack of sleep affects the evaluation of emotional stimuli. Brain Research Bulletin, 82, 104-108 De Gennaro, G., Marzano, C., Fratello, F., Moroni, F., Pellicciari, M. C., Ferlazzo, F., Costa, S., Couyoumdjian, A., Curcio, G., Sforza, E., Malafosse, A., Finelli, L., Pasqualetti, P., Ferrara, M., Bertini, M., Rossini, P. M. (2008) The EEG fingerprint of sleep is genetically determined: a twin study. Annals of Neurology, 64(4), 455-60. Cappucci, P., Couyoumdjian A., e Di Pace, E. (2006) How different organizations of space modulate the same-object effect. Cognitive Processing, 7(5), 121-122. Fagioli S., Couyoumdjian A. e Ferlazzo, F. (2006) Audio-visual dynamic remapping in an endogenous spatial attention task. Behavioural Brain Research, 173(1), 30-38. Di Nocera, F., Couyoumdjian, A. e Ferlazzo, F. (2006) Crossing the Pillars of Hercules: Role of the Spatial Frames of Reference in Error-Making. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59, 204-221. Fratello, F., Curcio, G., Ferrara, M., Marzano, C., Couyoumdjian, A. Petrillo, G., M., Bertini, De Gennaro, L (2005) Can an inert sleeping pill affect sleep? effects on polysomnographic, behavioral and subjective measures. Psychopharmacology, 181, 761-70. Sdoia, S., Couyoumdjian, A. e Ferlazzo, F. (2004) Opposite visual field asymmetries for egocentric and allocentric spatial judgements. Neuroreport, 15, 1303-1305. Fratello F., Curcio G., Ferrara M., Pavone G., Marzano C., Romano, A.L., Couyoumdjian, A., Petrillo G., Bertini M., De Gennaro L. Does a placebo affect sleep measures? Journal of Sleep Research, 13 (Suppl. 1): 172, 2004. Couyoumdjian, A., F. Di Nocera e F. Ferlazzo. (2003) Functional Representations of 3D space in endogenous attention shifts. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 56A (1), 155-183. Ferlazzo, F., Couyoumdjian, A., Padovani, T., Olivetti Belardinelli, M. (2002). Head centred meridian effect on auditory spatial attention. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 55A (3), 937–963.