Useful papers

Author

Massimiliano Pastore

My Bayesian papers

  • Atzeni, L., Galfano, G., Pastore M. (2025). Un approccio simulativo alla power analysis con tempi di reazione ed ipotesi formalizzate. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 52, 417–419. [web]

  • Toffoli L., Calderan M., Del Popolo Cristaldi F., Duma G.M., Calcagnì A., Pastore M., Tarantino V., Mento G. (2025). Can I afford one more candy? How motivational contexts shape adaptive cognitive control in children. Developmental Psychology. [web]

  • Lionetti, F., Calcagnì, A., D’Urso, G., Spinelli, M., Fasolo, M., Pluess, M., Pastore M. (2024). A Bayesian approach for exploring person × environment interaction within the environmental sensitivity meta-framework. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. [web]

  • Toffoli, L., Zdorovtsova, N., Epihova, G., Duma, G.M., Del Popolo Cristaldi, F., Pastore, M., Astle, D.E., Mento, G. (2024). Dynamic transient brain states in preschoolers mirror parental report of behavior and emotion regulation. Human Brain Mapping, 45, e70011. [web]

  • Mariani Wigley I.L.C., Nazzari S., Pastore, M., Provenzi L., Barello, S. (2024). The contribution of environmental sensitivity and connectedness to nature to mental health: Does nature view count? Journal of Environmental Psychology. [web]

  • Mariani Wigley I.L.C., Nazzari S., Pastore, M., Grumi S., Provenzi L. (2024). Exclusive breastfeeding mitigates the association between prenatal maternal pandemic-related stress and children sleep problems at 24 months of age. Development and Psychopathology, 1-11. [web]

  • Schachner, M.K., Hölscher, S., Moscardino, U., Ceccon, C., Juang, L., Pastore, M. (2024). Adolescent Cultural Identity Development in Context: The Dynamic Interplay of the Identity Project With Classroom Cultural Diversity Climate in Italy and Germany. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 53, 2480-2498. [web]

  • Mariani Wigley, I.L.C., Mustonen, P., Karlsson, L., Nolvi, S., Scheinin, N., Kortesluoma, S., Pastore, M., Tervahartiala, K., Coimbra, B., Rodrigues, A.J., Sousa, N., Karlsson, H., Tuulari, J.J. (2024). Association between maternal depressive symptoms and hair cortisol concentration during pregnancy with corpus callosum integrity in newborns. bioRxiv, 2024.09.06.610927. [web]

  • De Luca, L., Pastore, M., Palladino, B. E., Reime, B., Warth, P., Menesini, E. (2023). The development of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) during adolescence: a systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis. Journal of affective disorders, 339, 648-659. [web]

  • Ceccon, C., Schachner, M. K., Lionetti, F., Pastore, M., Umana-Taylor, A. J., Moscardino, U. M. M. (2023). Efficacy of a cultural adaptation of the Identity Project intervention among adolescents attending multiethnic classrooms in Italy: A randomized controlled trial. Child Development, 94, 1162-1180. [web]

  • Florean, I., Penolazzi, B., Menichelli, A., Pastore, M., Cattaruzza, T., Mazzon, G., Manganotti, P. (2022). Using the ATN system as a guide for the neuropsychological assessment of Alzheimer’s disease. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 43, 926-943. [web]

  • Lionetti, F., Klein, D.N., Pastore, M., Aron, E.N., Aron, A., Pluess, M. (2022). The role of environmental sensitivity in the development of rumination and depressive symptoms in childhood: a longitudinal study. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 31, 1815-1825. [web]

  • ter Bogt, T., Hale, W.W., Canale, N., Pastore, M., Vieno, A. (2020). Goth Music and Depressive Symptoms among Adolescents: A Longitudinal Study, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 50, 1925-1936. [web]

  • Lionetti, F., Pastore, M., Moscardino, U., Nocentini, A., Pluess, K., Pluess, M. (2019). Sensory Processing Sensitivity and its Association with Personality Traits and Affect: A Meta-Analysis. Journal of Research in Personality, 81, 138-152. [web]

  • Pastore, M., Nucci, M., & Bobbio, A. (2015). Vita di P: 16 anni di statistiche sul GIP. Giornale italiano di psicologia, 42(1-2), 303-328. [web]

  • Lionetti, F., Pastore, M., Barone, L. (2015). Attachment in institutionalized children: A review and meta-analysis. Child Abuse & Neglect, 42, 135-145. [web]

  • Pastore, M., Altoè, G. (2013). Bayes Factor e \(p\)-value: così vicini, così lontani. Giornale Italiano di Psicologia, 40, 175-193. [web]

A sample of my favourite papers

  • Cohen, J. (1994). The earth is round (\(p<.05\)). American psychologist, 49(12), 997. [web]

  • Wilkinson, L. (1999). Statistical methods in psychology journals: Guidelines and explanations. American psychologist, 54(8), 594. [web]

  • Wagenmakers, E. J. (2007). A practical solution to the pervasive problems of \(p\) values. Psychonomic bulletin & review, 14(5), 779-804. [web]

  • Rouder, J. N., Speckman, P. L., Sun, D., Morey, R. D., & Iverson, G. (2009). Bayesian \(t\) tests for accepting and rejecting the null hypothesis. Psychonomic bulletin & review, 16, 225-237. [web]

  • Simmons, J. P., Nelson, L. D., & Simonsohn, U. (2011). False-positive psychology: Undisclosed flexibility in data collection and analysis allows presenting anything as significant. Psychological science, 22(11), 1359-1366. [web]

  • Gelman, A., Carlin, J. (2014). Beyond power calculations: Assessing type S (sign) and type M (magnitude) errors. Perspectives on psychological science, 9, 641-651. [web]

  • Hoekstra, R., Morey, R. D., Rouder, J. N., Wagenmakers, E. J. (2014). Robust misinterpretation of confidence intervals. Psychonomic bulletin & review, 21, 1157-1164. [web]

  • Open Science Collaboration. (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psychological science. Science, 349(6251), aac4716. [web]

  • Smaldino, P. E., McElreath, R. (2016). The natural selection of bad science. Royal Society open science, 3(9), 160384. [web]

  • Fawcett, J. M., Lawrence, M. A., & Taylor, T. L. (2016). The representational consequences of intentional forgetting: Impairments to both the probability and fidelity of long-term memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145(1), 56. [web]

  • Depaoli, S., & Van de Schoot, R. (2017). Improving transparency and replication in Bayesian statistics: The WAMBS-Checklist. Psychological methods, 22(2), 240. [web]

  • Wasserstein, R. L., Schirm, A. L., & Lazar, N. A. (2019). Moving to a World Beyond \(p<0.05\). The American Statistician, 73(sup1), 1–19. [web]

  • McShane, B. B., Gal, D., Gelman, A., Robert, C., & Tackett, J. L. (2019). Abandon statistical significance. The American Statistician, 73(sup1), 235-245. [web]

  • Amrhein, V., Greenland, S., McShane, B. (2019). Scientists rise up against statistical significance. Nature, 567, 305–307. [web]

  • Amrhein, V., Trafimow, D., Greenland, S. (2019) Inferential Statistics as Descriptive Statistics: There Is No Replication Crisis if We Don’t Expect Replication, The American Statistician, 73:sup1, 262-270, [web]

  • Wasserstein, R. L., & Lazar, N. A. (2020). ASA statement on statistical significance and \(p\)-values. The American Statistician, 129-133. [web]

  • Gelman, A., Vehtari, A., Simpson, D., Margossian, C. C., Carpenter, B., Yao, Y., Kennedy, L., Gabry, J., Burkner, P., & Modrák, M. (2020). Bayesian workflow. arXiv preprint [arXiv:2011.01808].

  • Lakens, D. (2021). The practical alternative to the \(p\) value is the correctly used \(p\) value. Perspectives on psychological science, 16, 639–648. [web]