Date of Birth: May 3, 1977
Place of Birth: Novellara (Reggio Emilia)- Italy
Elisa Barilli
Permanent Address: Via Massimo D’ Azeglio, 39 - 42017, Novellara (RE) - Italy
Nationality: Italian
Contacts: UK Mobile number: + 44 (0) 753 13 15 423
E-mail: [email protected]
ACTUAL POSITION
Oct 2006- Present:
PhD student (end of 2ndYear) at the Doctoral School in Cognition Science and Education at
the University of Trento (Italy).
July 2004- Present:
Research Fellow in Psycho-social aspects of non-invasive prenatal diagnosis and neonatal
screening
(http://www.safenoe.org/workpackages/five),
European
NoE
“SAFE”
(Special
Advances in Foetal and Neonatal Evaluation Network), Project N°: LSHB-CT-2004-503243.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Psychology of Judgment and Decision-Making, Risk Perception in Health and in the clinical field, Consumer
Psychology.
EDUCATION
1996- 2002: School of Communication Science (5 Year Course) at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Padua
(Italy), with one Year abroad (“Erasmus” Programme).
Main Subjects: Psychology, Mass-media, Marketing, Economics, Politics, History, Humanities.
Dissertation Topic: The Informative- Persuasive message. The Campaign for early diagnosis of Breast
Cancer in the Emilia- Romagna Region. Final mark: 105/110.
1999- 2000: School of Politics (1 Year) at the University of Exeter (UK) – “Erasmus” Program.
Main Subjects: European Political Integration, Social Analysis Research Methods, Consumer Psychology.
2000:
CAE- Cambridge Certificate of Advanced English (August 2000).
RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2005:
DEMOSKOPEA Spa, Milan (Italy).
Market surveys (luxury goods).
2004:
ECONET Srl, Padua (Italy).
Creation of data- bases of clients, PR for the realisation of International events, e.g. fairs: the Nautic & Boat
Fair in Venice, the WEBbit Internet Fair in Padua, Italy.
2003:
S.A.R.I. Ltd Management Consultants, Brussels (Belgium).
Ideation and realisation of an informative brochure about the Company, which is active in the International
Co- operation sector, and its World associates. Collaboration in the documents preparation for EU calls for
tender, e.g., experts data- base search.
2001:
SdV Marketing, Padua (Italy).
Market surveys (supermarket goods).
SKILLS PROFILE
Language: Italian: native language; English: fluent (CAE certificate); French, Spanish: sound knowledge
(basic certificate).
Computer: Software for statistic analysis (SPSS, R): basic knowledge; HTML: basic knowledge.
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ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Savadori, L., Barilli, E., Pighin, S., Rumiati, R., Bonalumi, S., Ferrari, M., Ferrari, A., and Cremonesi, L. (2008). Using
Comparison scenarios to improve risk communication: A verbal risk scale technique. (Accepted for publication on
Medical Decision Making).
Barilli, E., Pighin, S., Savadori, L., and Rumiati, R. (2005). Comunicare il rischio in ambito medico. In Lorella Lotto, Rino
Rumiati, and Lucia Savadori (Eds.), Rischi e comunicazione dei rischi. (pp.91-127). Cleup: Padova (Italy).
Barilli, E., and Savadori, L. (2005). The use of simulation heuristic to increase numerical risk comprehension. Clinical
Chemistry, 51(10). DOI: 10.1373/ccj.2005.103.
Barilli, E., Savadori, L., and Rumiati, R. (2005). Using comparison scenarios to increase risk comprehension.
Psychology and Health, 20(4).
Girotto, V., Savadori, L., and Barilli, E. (2005) How to achieve a better understanding of test accuracy in prenatal
diagnosis. Clinical Chemistry, 51(10). DOI: 10.1373/ccj.2005.103.
PRIZES
2008: Prize for researchers in Psychology of Thinking and Decision- Making (in honour of A. Mazzocco) with the
project: “An inverse Ratio-Bias in the perception of mathematically equivalent probabilistic formats: when 1/200 is
higher than 5/1000.”, AIP 2008 Italian Psychology Association, Section of Experimental Psychology, Padua (Italy).
REFEREED CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS
Savadori, L., Barilli E, Pighin S. (2008). Influence of the perceived severity of disease on probability perception. 2008
Annual SRA Meeting, Risk Analysis: The Science and the Art., Boston (Massachusetts), USA, December 7-10, 2008.
(oral communication) – Forthcoming
Savadori, L., Barilli, E., et al. (2008). RISK COMMUNICATION AID. Un corso on-line di comunicazione del rischio nella
diagnosi prenatale. AIP 2008 Italian Psychology Association Annual Congress –Experimental Psychology, Padua
(Italy), September 18- 20, 2008. (poster)
Savadori, L., Barilli, E., et al. (2008). RISK COMMUNICATION AID. A free web tutorial for communicating risk in
prenatal diagnosis. 6th International Conference on Thinking, San Servolo, Venice (Italy), August 21- 23, 2008. (poster)
Barilli, E., Savadori, L., and Pighin, S. (2008). Informing patients about risks. Fourth SAFE NoE General Assembly,
Hotel Imperial Tarraco, Tarragona (Spain), May 29-30, 2008. (oral communication).
Savadori, L., Barilli, E., et al. (2008). RISK COMMUNICATION AID. A free web tutorial for communicating risk in
prenatal diagnosis. Fourth SAFE NoE General Assembly, Hotel Imperial Tarraco, Tarragona (Spain), May 29-30,
2008. (poster).
Barilli, E. (2008). Risk Communication. Workshop “Communication skills”. 20th European Congress of Obstetrics and
Gynecology (EBCOG) and 18th Portuguese Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Lisboa (Portugal), March 4-8,
2008. (oral communication and poster)
Savadori, L., Barilli, E., et al. (2007). Un inverso Ratio Bias nella percezione del rischio: quando “1 su 200” è più
probabile di “5 su 1000”. AIP 2007 Italian Psychology Association Annual Congress –Experimental Psychology, Como
(Italy), September 17- 19, 2007. (oral communication)
Savadori, L., Barilli, E., et al. (2007). Come comunicare il rischio ai pazienti? Un tutorial on-line. AIP 2007 Italian
Psychology Association Annual Congress –Experimental Psychology, Como (Italy), September 17- 19, 2007. (poster)
Savadori, L., Barilli, E., et al. (2007). Ratio bias in clinical risk perception: When 1 in 200 is riskier than 5 in 1,000. 16th
E-SRA Annual Meeting 2007, The Hague (Netherlands), June 17- 19, 2007. (oral communication)
Savadori, L., Barilli, E., et al. (2007). How to communicate risk to patients? A Web Based Training Tool. 16th E-SRA
Annual Meeting 2007, The Hague (Netherlands), June 17- 19, 2007. (poster)
Barilli, E., Savadori, L., and Pighin, S. (2006). Using a simulation heuristic in risk communication: benefits and pitfalls.
Affect, Motivation, and Decision Making conference, The Dead Sea (Israel), December 12- 15, 2006. (poster)
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Barilli, E., Savadori, L., and Pighin, S. (2006). L’uso di un’analogia visiva nella comunicazione del rischio: implicazioni
pratiche. AIP 2006 Italian Psychology Association Annual Congress –Experimental Psychology, Rovereto (Italy),
September 14-17, 2006. (oral communication)
Barilli, E., Savadori, L., and Pighin, S. (2006). Using a simulation heuristic in risk communication: benefits and pitfalls.
RiskCom2006 Conference- New Perspectives on Risk Communication: Uncertainty in a Complex Society, Göteborg
(Sweden), August 31- September 2, 2006. (oral communication)
Savadori, L., Pighin, S., Barilli, E., and Rumiati, R. (2006). Using comparison scenarios to increase risk comprehension.
Workshop Emotional and Cognitive Aspects in Clinical and Economic Decisions, Rovereto (Italy), 5 June 2006. (oral
communication)
Pighin, S., Girotto, V., Savadori, L., Barilli, E., and Gonzales, M. (2005). How to achieve a better understanding of test
accuracy in prenatal diagnosis. Society for Judgment and Decision-Making- 2005 SJDM Annual Conference, Toronto
(Canada), November 11-14, 2005. (poster)
Pighin, S., Girotto, V., Savadori, L., and Barilli, E. (2005). How to achieve a better understanding of test accuracy in
prenatal diagnosis. CNAPS- Fourth International Conference on Circulating Nucleic Acids in Plasma and Serum,
London (UK), September 4-6, 2005. (poster)
Savadori, L., Pighin, S., Barilli, E., and Rumiati, R. (2005). Using Comparison Scenarios to Increase Risk
Comprehension. CNAPS- Fourth International Conference on Circulating Nucleic Acids in Plasma and Serum, London
(UK), September 4-6, 2005. (poster)
Barilli, E., Savadori, L., Pighin, S., and Rumiati, R. (2005). The use of simulation heuristic to increase numerical risk
comprehension. CNAPS- Fourth International Conference on Circulating Nucleic Acids in Plasma and Serum, London
(UK), September 4-6, 2005. (poster)
Savadori, L., Pighin, S., Barilli, E., and Rumiati, R. (2005). Using Comparison Scenarios to Increase Risk
Comprehension. EHPS- 19th Annual Conference of the European Health Psychology Society- Enhancing Individual,
Family & Community Health, Galway (Ireland), August 31 - September 3, 2005. (poster)
Savadori, L., Pighin, S., Barilli, E., Rumiati, R., and Tentori, K. (2005). Using Comparison Scenarios to Increase Risk
Comprehension. SPUDM 20- Biennial Conference on Subjective Probability, Utility and Decision Making, Stockholm
(Sweden), August 22- 24, 2005. (poster)
Savadori, L., and Barilli, E. (2005). Using Comparison Scenarios to Increase Risk Comprehension. The 7th ALPSADRIA Conference in Psychology, Zadar (Croatia), June 2-4, 2005. (oral communication)
Barilli, E., Pighin, S., Savadori, L., and Rumiati, R. (2005). Comunicare il rischio in ambito clinico. Conference on Risks
and risk communication, Padua (Italy), 13 May 2005. (oral communication)
PARTICIPATION IN other MEETINGS, WORKSHOPS, and COURSES
Summer School on Decision Processes, First Edition. Rationality and irrationality in decision making: The role of
intuition and emotion, Milano (Italy), 30 June- 3 July 2008.
CAOs Workshop on Concepts, Actions, and Objects: Functional and Neural Perspectives, Rovereto (Italy), April 192219- 22, 2007.
Mind/ Brain Sciences in the 21st Century, Rovereto (Italy), March 13-14, 2007.
Workshop on Methodological Perplexities in Experimental Economics, Trento (Italy), May 29-30, 2006.
Special Non-Invasive Advances in Fetal and Neo-Natal Evaluation. Policies and practices of sex selection: anticipating
the impact of early non- invasive testing, London (UK), 6 July 2005.
EGPROC 2005- 24th Meeting of the European Group for Process Tracing Studies in Decision Making, Rovereto (Italy),
May 27-29, 2005.
Happiness, economics and interpersonal relationships, Trento (Italy), December 3- 4, 2004.
SCIENTIFIC MEMBERSHIP
SRA (Society for Risk Analysis).
SJDM (Society of Judgment and Decision Making).
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EADM (European Association for Decision Making).
EHPS (European Health Psychology Society).
AIP (Italian Psychology Association).
Leeds (UK), September 2008.
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