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Matteo Lisi

Affiliated Researcher
Neuroscience and society
Research center
Biografia

Currently I am investigating how the embodiment of virtuous characters in virtual reality can affect prosocial behavior and civic engagement. Previously, I investigated the role of the participants' gender, sexual orientation and ethnicity in shaping behavioral and psychophysiological reactions  to social and intimate touch in immersive virtual environments, combining the full body ownership illusion and the vicarious perception of touch to investigate intimate and social touch in a controlled experimental setting.
In my past activity I also investigated how people regulated interpersonal distance toward virtual agents and specifically how: a) sexual orientation and sexual prejudice affect comfort-distance judgments toward male and female avatars; b) how dispositional and situation factors influenced the adherence to the physical distancing measure during the first COVID-19 outbreak.
More broadly, I am interested in combining ecological paradigms, motion tracking and physiological recordings to ultimately develop evidence-based protocols for attitudinal and behavioral change.

Education

Title: Ph.D. in Cognitive, Social and Affective Neuroscience
Institute: La Sapienza University of Rome
Location: Rome
Country: Italy
From: 2018 To: 2022

Title: M.Sc. in Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychological Rehabilitation
Institute: La Sapienza University of Rome
Location: Rome
Country: Italy
From: 2015 To: 2017

Experience External

Title: Internship
Institute: Fondazione Santa Lucia IRCCS
Location: Rome
Country: Italy
From: 2018 To: 2019

All Publications
2025
Placidi V., Lisi M.P., Aglioti S.M.
Explicit and implicit anti-mafia collective action intentions and mafia-related knowledge are predicted by demographics, personality traits, social attitudes and contextual factors
PsyArXiv Preprints
Article E-print Archive
2025
Verga C., Di Marco S., Giove F., Aglioti S.M., Lisi M.P.
Temporal dynamics of full-body ownership and vicarious touch sensations as inferred from embodying a virtual avatar
PsyArXiv Preprints
Article E-print Archive
2025
Verga C., Lisi M.P., Aglioti S.M., Fusaro M.
Translating, adapting and validating the Touch Experiences and Attitudes Questionnaire (TEAQ) for the Italian population
PsyArXiv Preprints
Article E-print Archive
2024
Nicolardi V., Tieri G., Lisi M.P., Mello M., Fusaro M., Aglioti S.M.
Taking the perspective of an embodied avatar modulates the temporal dynamics of vicarious pain and pleasure: a combined Immersive Virtual Reality and EEG study
bioRxiv
Article Journal
2024
Lisi M.P., Fusaro M., Aglioti S.M.
Visual perspective and body ownership modulate vicarious pain and touch: A systematic review
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
Review Journal
Organized Events
2024
Placidi V., Lisi M., Vabba A., Frisanco A., Aglioti S.M.
Anti-mafia hero embodiment as a tool to fight mafias: an immersive virtual reality study
2024
Lisi M., Fusaro M., Aglioti S.M.
Artificial agents delivering pain and touch on the embodied avatar of human participants are socially evaluated depending on the stimulus valence
2024
Provenzano L., Frisanco A., Lisi M., Scattolin M., Fusaro M., Aglioti S.M.
Cambia il Corpo, Cambia la Mente
2024
Vabba A., Placidi V., Lisi M., Aglioti S.M.
Cracking the “law of silence”: immersive virtual reality to study behavioral and neurophysiological response to mafia-type crime.
2023
Provenzano L., Frisanco A., Lisi M., Scattolin M., Fusaro M., Aglioti S.M.
The body inside the metaverse