Dr Cristina Martinelli
Faculties, deparments and locations
- Faculty of Business and Social Sciences
- Department of Psychology
- School of Law, Social and Behavioural Sciences
- Penrhyn Road
Senior Lecturer
- Email:
- c.martinelli@kingston.ac.uk
About
I obtained my PhD at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (King's College London) in 2016. My thesis focused on the mechanisms underlying aberrant processing of salience in schizophrenia. Subsequently, I was awarded a NIHR-BRC Bridging Award Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to investigate the neural correlates of value processing in schizophrenia.
My current research focuses on the investigation of the neuro-cognitive mechanisms that go awry in psychopathology, with a particular emphasis on schizophrenia and eating disorders. In 2008, I obtained the eligibility to practice as a Clinical Psychologist in my home country. Since 2023 I have been on the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a registered Clinical Psychologist in the UK.
Qualifications
- BSc (Hons) (Distinction Cum Laude) in Psychology (clinical route), LUMSA University, Rome
- MSc (Distinction Cum Laude) in Clinical Psychology, LUMSA University, Rome
- Eligibility to practice as a Clinical Psychologist, La Sapienza, Rome
- MSc (Distinction ) in Mental Health and Clinical Psychology, University of Sussex, Brighton
- PhD in Psychosis Studies, King's College London
- Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy
Domains
£1000 Student Consultancy Project "The use of Instagram to promote engagement in Psychology students'
Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Courses taught
Please contact me if you are interested in applying for a PhD in eating disorders or eating behaviour in the general population. Some of my current projects include:
- Sleep and disordered eating in clinical and non-clinical groups
- Cognitive biases in eating disorders and orthorexia nervosa.
- The role of interoception in the development of binge eating and disordered eating in the community
- The role of social punishment in the development and maintenance of eating disorders
Funding
- £9,950.78 British Academy/Leverhulme SRG – project title: "Disordered Eating and Sleep in Adolescents at Risk for an Eating Disorder'.
- £3,000 CResCID grant, Kingston University – project title: "The investigation of sleep and eating patterns in individuals with sub-clinical binge eating: a pilot study"
- £3,000 QR Funds Scheme, Kingston University – project title: 'Group based conspiracy theories about COVID-19 in ethnic minorities in the UK
- £2,785 CResCID grant, Kingston University – project title: 'The effects of social rejection on sense of agency and cognitive control dysregulation in clinical and subclinical anorexia nervosa'
- £9,961 1st Grant Scheme, Kingston University – project title: 'Sensing your body when overating: interoception and disordered eating in the general population'
- NIHR-BRC 1 year Postdoctoral Bridging Award Fellowship at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London
- NIHR-BRC 3+1 PhD Studentship at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London
- One year research bursary at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council, Rome, Italy
Qualified a Clinical Psychologist in Italy. Worked in the NHS as a Clinical Psychologist in adaptation period. HCPC registered Clinical Psychologist.
University responsibilities
- NSS champion
- Student engagement officer
- Faculty safeguarding officer
- Kingston academic practice standards (KAPS) assessor
Publications
Weak central coherence, cognitive rigidity and disordered eating in a community sample
Chong, Ka Ka and Martinelli, Cristina, 2024, Eating Behaviors (53), pp 101866
The investigation of biases in the evaluation and knowledge of foods' healthiness and disordered eating in a community sample
Martinelli, Cristina, Chami, Rayane and Reid, Sam, 2023, Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science (55), 1, pp 14-22
A computational theory of evaluation processes in apathy
Rigoli, Francesco and Martinelli, Cristina, 2022, Current Psychology
The half-empty/full glass in mental health : a reference-dependent computational model of evaluation in psychopathology
Rigoli, Francesco, Martinelli, Cristina and Pezzulo, Giovanni, 2021, Clinical Psychological Science (9), 6, pp 1021-1034
A reference-dependent computational model of anorexia nervosa
Rigoli, Francesco and Martinelli, Cristina, 2021, (21), pp 269-277
I want to believe : delusion, motivated reasoning, and Bayesian decision theory
Rigoli, Francesco, Martinelli, Cristina and Pezzulo, Giovanni, 2021, Cognitive Neuropsychiatry (26), 6, pp 408-420
The role of expecting feedback during decision-making under risk
Rigoli, Francesco, Martinelli, Cristina and Shergill, Sukhwinder S, 2019, NeuroImage (202), pp 116079
The value of novelty in schizophrenia
Martinelli, Cristina, Rigoli, Francesco, Averbeck, Bruno and Shergill, Sukhwinder S., 2018, Schizophrenia Research (192), pp 287-293
Decreased value-sensitivity in schizophrenia
Martinelli, Cristina, Rigoli, Francesco, Dolan, Ray J. and Shergill, Sukhwinder S., 2018, Psychiatry Research (259), pp 295-301
Aberrant force processing in schizophrenia
Martinelli, Cristina, Rigoli, Francesco and Shergill, Sukhwinder S., 2017, Schizophrenia Bulletin (43), 2, pp 417-424
A Bayesian model of context-sensitive value attribution
Rigoli, Francesco, Friston, Karl J, Martinelli, Cristina, Selakovic, Mirjana, Shergill, Sukhwinder S and Dolan, Raymond J, 2016, eLife (5), pp e16127
Clarifying the role of pattern separation in schizophrenia : the role of recognition and visual discrimination deficits
Martinelli, Cristina and Shergill, Sukhwinder S., 2015, Schizophrenia Research (166), 1-3, pp 328-333
Everything you wanted to know about neuroimaging and psychiatry, but were afraid to ask
Martinelli, Cristina and Shergill, Sukhwinder S., 2015, BJPsych Advances (21), 4, pp 251-260
The impact of rumination on state paranoid ideation in a nonclinical sample
Martinelli, Cristina, Cavanagh, Kate and Dudley, Robert E.J., 2013, Behavior Therapy (44), 3, pp 385-394
School, cultural diversity, multiculturalism, and contact
Pagani, Camilla, Robustelli, Francesco and Martinelli, Cristina, 2011, Intercultural Education (22), 4, pp 337-349