Irene Ceccato

TL;DR: Gender (female), lower perceived economic stability, higher neuroticism, and fear and consequences of contagion were predictors of high PTSD symptomatology, extending the understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the population's mental health.

TL;DR: In this article, a fine-grained approach was adopted to disentangle between necessities and non-necessities during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and found that consumer behavior toward necessities was predicted by anxiety and COVIDrelated fear, whereas consumer behaviour toward nonnecessities were predicted by depression, personality traits, perceived economic stability and self-justifications for purchasing.

TL;DR: The view of selective age-related differences on cognitive, but not affective, ToM in normal aging is supported by a dissociable pattern of correlations with executive functions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined age-related differences in risk perception in the early stages of COVID-19 lockdown, analyzing variables that can explain the differences in perception of risk at different ages.

TL;DR: Older adults showed lower negative emotions than young and middle-aged adults and were more confident about COVID-related information received, more favorable toward the restrictive measures, and perceived lower underestimation of the emergency compared to the other age groups.