Curriculum Vitae � Angelo Romano

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Angelo RomanoUilenstede 510 1431183 DE AmsterdamThe Netherlandstel: 0682616944a.r.romano@vu.nl

In many situations individuals often pay a per-sonal cost to help others. I am interested inunderstanding the psychological processes thatproduce these costly helping behaviors. To doso, I apply theory and methods from economi-cs, evolutionary biology, and social psychology.

I joined the Amsterdam cooperation lab inApril 2015, where I work with Daniel Ballieton several exciting projects, such as the relation between ingroup favoritism andreputation-based cooperation, the role of conformity and reciprocity in promotingcooperation, and the study of multinational di�erences in intergroup discrimina-tion in trust and cooperation.

During my PhD, I also had the opportunity to further develop my mathematicalbackground applying agent-based modeling techniques and social network analysis.I applied these tools to study how minority opinions can be di�used in populationsand to the analysis of food supply chains.

Education PhD student of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and University of Turin

(2014-current).

Master's degree in mind sciences summa cum laude from the University

of Turin (2012-2014). Thesis advisor: Ugo Merlone. Thesis title: Cooperation and

Social Dilemmas: The Braess Paradox. Enrolled: October 2013

Bachelor degree in psychology cum laude from the University of Paler-

mo (2010-2012). Thesis advisor: Costanza Sca�di Abbate. Thesis title: Group-Priming and Helping Behavior: The Implicit Bystander E�ect. Enrolled: Septem-ber 2010

Publications Romano, A., & Balliet, D. (in press). Reciprocity outperformes conformity topromote cooperation. Psychological Science.

Romano, A., Balliet, D., & Wu, J. (2017). Unbounded Indirect Reciprocity: IsReputation-Based Cooperation Bounded by Group Membership? Journal ofExperimental Social Psychology, 71, 59-67. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2017.02.008

Spadaro, G., Romano, A., & Mosso, C.O. (in press). Contributo alla validazioneitaliana del CIASS. Giornale Italiano di Medicina del Lavoro ed Ergonomia.

Merlone, U., & Romano, A. (2016). Commuter Bridge: A Braess paradox simu-lation to teach social dilemmas. Simulation & Gaming, 1-17. doi:10.1177/1046878116671755

Merlone, U., Radi, D., & Romano, A. (2016). Opinion dynamics on networks.In Commendatore, P., Matilla-Garcia, M., Varela, L. M., & Canovas, J. S.(Eds.), Complex Networks and Dynamics (pp 49-63). Cham (ZG): SpringerInternational Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-40803-3_3

Merlone, U., & Romano, A. (2016). Using the Braess paradox to teach tacitnegotiation. Simulation & Gaming, 1-16. doi:10.1177/1046878116671754

Romano, A., Merlone, U., Mosso, C.O. & Spadaro, G. (2016). On the role ofgroup size in social dilemmas. Psicologia Sociale, 3-18. doi:10.1482/82878

Romano, A., Mosso, C.O., & Merlone, U. (2016). The Role of Incomplete Infor-mation and Others' Choice in Reducing Tra�c: a Pilot Study. Frontiers inPsychology, 7, 135. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00135

Merlone, U., Radi, D., & Romano, A. (2015). Minority in�uence in opinion spre-ading. In Proceedings of the 2015 Winter Simulation Conference (pp. 3997-4008). IEEE Press.

Armendariz, V., Armenia, S., Atzori, A. S., & Romano, A. (2015). AnalyzingFood Supply and Distribution Systems using complex systems methodolo-gies. Proceedings in Food System Dynamics, 36-58.

Sca�di Abbate, C., Boca, S., Spadaro, G., & Romano, A. (2014). Priming E�ectson Commitment to Help and on Real Helping Behavior. Basic and Applied

Social Psychology, 36 (4), 347-355. doi:10.1080/01973533.2014.922089

Manuscripts in

preparation

Romano, A., Balliet, D., Yamagishi, T., & Liu,J. (in prep.). The Psychology ofIngroup Favoritism Across 17 Societies.

Grants and awards 2017 Grant Erasmus Traineeship (1200e)

2015 Grant from San Paolo bank for research activities (500e)

2015 Grant Erasmus Traineeship (1200e)

2013 Merit grant from University of Turin (5600e)

2012 Merit grant from EBINPROF (private organization) (3000e)

2011 Merit grant from University of Palermo (3000e)

2010 Merit grant from EBINPROF (private organization) (1000e)

Teaching Master Theses supervision Master programs Work and Organizational Psy-chology and Social Psychology

Bachelor Theses supervision Undergraduates

Teaching assistant Psychometry

Teaching assistant Con�ict management and negotiation

Presentations Unbounded Indirect Reciprocity: Is Reputation-Based Cooperation Bounded by

Group Membership? Romano, A., Balliet, D. & Wu, J. (To be presented inJuly, 2017). Oral presentation at the European Association of Social Psy-chology (EASP) conference, Granada, Spain.

The psychology of intergroup trust across 17 countries. Romano, A., Balliet, D.,Yamagishi, T., Gil De Zuniga,H. & Liu, J. (To be presented in June, 2017).Oral presentation at International Conference of Social Dilemmas, Taormina,Italy.

Reciprocity versus cultural learning in promoting cooperation: How the Asch Con-

formity Paradigm applied to economic games can inform our understanding

of human social behavior. Romano, A., & Balliet, D. (December, 2016). Oralpresentation at the ASPO conference, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Promoting cooperation in a commons dilemma. Romano, A., Mosso, C., & Merlo-ne, U. (June, 2015). Oral presentation at the 16th International Conferenceon Social Dilemmas, Hong Kong, China.

Chronic Illness Anticipated Stigma Scale: italian version, Romano, A., Montalto,G. & Mosso, C. (September, 2015). Poster presentation at the Italian Con-gress of Social Psychology, Palermo, Italy.

Computer skills Operating systems Microsoft Windows and to some extent Mac OS.

Software z-Tree, Qualtrics.

Programming and Data Analysis LATEX, R, SPSS, Excel.

Language skills Italian: Native tongue. English: Fluent.

Job experiences 1-aug-2014 → 1-nov-2014 Employed as intern for the project `complex foodsystems dynamics' at the Food and Agriculture Organization of United Na-tions (FAO) in Rome. I was asked to develop a partnership network of re-search and training institutes on complex systems dynamics and their ap-plications to the analysis of complex food systems. My main activity wasthe �nalization of a discussion paper on how social network analysis, agent-based modeling and a system dynamics approach can help the study of foodsystems in developing countries.

Summer schools 27-jun-2016 → 2-jul-2016 Meta-analysis, the problem of replicability

and applications in R.This summer school focused on �xed and mixed models (lme4), calcula-tions of e�ect sizes (compute.es), �xed and random e�ect meta-analyses(metafor), bayesian meta-analysis (bayesmeta).

18-mar-2015 → 25-mar-2015 Advanced School of Economic Psycholo-

gy.Main topics: Research Methodology, Statistics and Psychometrics. Replicabi-lity of Results. The Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). Structural EquationModeling (SEM). Partial least square path modeling (PLS-PM). Analyzingsocial networks. Experimental economics: Real and hypothetical auction,Choice experiment, Conjoint methods. Estimating Willingness to pay: Hy-pothetical bias and calibration factors.

Workshops may-2016 Project Communication: `Successful EU Project Communication' heldby A. Manasseh, organized by Doctoral School in Human and Social Sciences(University of Turin).

apr-2016 Academic Writing: `Writing Skills for PhDs' held by K. Hewitt, or-ganized by Doctoral School in Human and Social Sciences (University ofTurin).