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Dr Cristina Martinelli

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

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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

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

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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

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A computational theory of evaluation processes in apathy

Rigoli, Francesco and Martinelli, Cristina, 2022, Current Psychology

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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

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A reference-dependent computational model of anorexia nervosa

Rigoli, Francesco and Martinelli, Cristina, 2021, (21), pp 269-277

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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

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The role of expecting feedback during decision-making under risk

Rigoli, Francesco, Martinelli, Cristina and Shergill, Sukhwinder S, 2019, NeuroImage (202), pp 116079

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The value of novelty in schizophrenia

Martinelli, Cristina, Rigoli, Francesco, Averbeck, Bruno and Shergill, Sukhwinder S., 2018, Schizophrenia Research (192), pp 287-293

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Decreased value-sensitivity in schizophrenia

Martinelli, Cristina, Rigoli, Francesco, Dolan, Ray J. and Shergill, Sukhwinder S., 2018, Psychiatry Research (259), pp 295-301

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Aberrant force processing in schizophrenia

Martinelli, Cristina, Rigoli, Francesco and Shergill, Sukhwinder S., 2017, Schizophrenia Bulletin (43), 2, pp 417-424

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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

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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

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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

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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

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School, cultural diversity, multiculturalism, and contact

Pagani, Camilla, Robustelli, Francesco and Martinelli, Cristina, 2011, Intercultural Education (22), 4, pp 337-349

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