PAOLA BRESSAN
Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale, Università di Padova
My main interest is scientific research. The topics I have published on include visual perception, inattentional blindness, time estimation, evolutionary psychology of altruism, kin recognition and mate choice, and how mental health is affected by microbes, viruses, cells of other humans, and food. I have written a book about how we see (Il colore della luna. Come vediamo e perché. Laterza, 2007) that has been translated into other languages and has won the 2008 Giovanni Maria Pace Award for the best Italian book of scientific popularization. I have also illustrated several children's books. Some of my other interests: reading (fiction and non-fiction), computers and new technologies, mathematical games, illustration, architecture and design, photography, cinema, plants and gardens, new ideas, and anything that hasn't been explained yet.
FEATURED PUBLICATIONS
BRESSAN-KRAMER LAB
Our Mission
Our research group focuses on how selfish entities, food components, and toxic particles shape human behavior. Our mission is to produce a collection of interdisciplinary review papers that are low in jargon and easy to read, and that will interest both specialists and the public at large.