Publications

Preprints

Michael, J., Kaushik, S., Jamaloodeen, B., & Székely, M. (in press). The Sense of Commitment in Joint Action: A Cross-Cultural Study Comparing India and the UK. Review of Philosophy and Psychology. Pre-print

Kaufmann, A. & Viera, G. (in press). Temporal Cognition in Apes. Australasian Journal of Philosophy. Pre-print

Kaufmann, A. (in press). Evolutionarily Primitive Social Entities. Philosophia. Pre-print

Kaufmann, A., Brooks, J., Samuni, L., and Michael, J. (in press). What Holds Groups Together? How Interdependence Shapes Group Living. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Pre-Print

Genovese, F., Fanghella, M., Sinigaglia, C., & Barchiesi, G. Does experience modulate automatic imitation? A new look. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.17.589868

Parmigiani, S., Rossi Sebastiano, A., Romeo, M., Cattaneo, L., Garbarini, F., Sinigaglia, C. Human and clock hands. How biomechanical constraints shape human motion perception. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4514226

2025

Michael, J., & Székely, M. (2025). Weighting and Integrating Heterogeneous Behavioral Cues Comment on ‘Kinematic coding: Measuring information in naturalistic behaviour’. Physics of Life Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2025.03.006

Tramacere, A., & Kaufmann, A. (2025). Perception in the mirror: the influence of self-beliefs. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-025-10058-7

Mattei, M. (2025). Joint Guidance: A Capacity to Jointly Guide. Review of Philosophy and Psychologyhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-025-00766-z

Zickfeld, J., Scigala, K., Elbaek, C. T., Michael, J., Tønnesen, M. T., Levy, G., et al. (2025). Effectiveness of ex-ante honesty oaths in reducing dishonesty depends on content. Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-02009-0

2024

Arioli Montanari, F. (2024). Situational Assessment as a Turning Point for Improving Moral Training and Counteracting Ethical Stumbles.
Notizie di Politeia, 40(156), 69-90. [link]

Zickfeld, J. H., Karg, S. T. S., Engen, S. S., Gonzalez, A. S. R., Michael, J., & Mitkidis, P. (2024). Committed (dis)honesty: A systematic meta-analytic review of the divergent effects of social commitment to individuals or honesty oaths on dishonest behavior. Psychological Bulletin, 150(5), 586–620. https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000429

Pascarelli, M.T., Quarona, D., Barchiesi, G., Riva, G., Butterfill S.A., & Sinigaglia, C. (2024). Principles of belief acquisition. How we read other minds. Consciousness and Cognition, 117, 103625 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2023.103625

Kaufmann, A. (2024), All Animals are Conscious in their Own Way: Comparing the Markers Hypothesis with the Universal Consciousness Hypothesis, Frontiers in Psychology. DOI: doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1405394.

Székely, M., Butterfill, S, & Michael, J. (2024). Effort-Based Decision Making in Joint Action: Evidence of a Sense of Fairness, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, V. 112, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104601. 

Michael, J. (2024). Using TMS to test hypotheses about the causal roles of specific brain regions. Advances in Neurophilosophy, 133. 10.5040/9781350349513.0011

2023

Derchi, C. C., Mikulan, E., Mazza, A., Casarotto, S., Comanducci, A., Fecchio, M., Navarro, J., Devalle, G., Massimini, M., & Sinigaglia, C. (2023). Distinguishing intentional from nonintentional actions through EEG and kinematic markers. Scientific Reports, 13, 8496. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-34604-y

Butterfill, S., & Sinigaglia, C. (2023). Towards a mechanistically neutral account of acting jointly: The notion of a collective goal. Mind. https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzab096

Rizzolatti, G., & Sinigaglia, C. (2023). Mirroring brains. Oxford University Press.

Kaufmann, A., Parmigiani, S., Kawagoe, T., et al. (2023). Two Models of Mind Blanking. European Journal of Neuroscience. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.16164.

Kaufmann, A. (2023). Introducing individual sentience profiles in non-human primate neuroscience research. Current Research in Neurobiology. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crneur.2023.100104

Kaufmann, A., & Newen, A. (2023). Animal Thought Exceeds Language of Thought. Behavioural and Brain Sciences. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23002017.

Zickfeld, J.H., Ścigała, K.A., Weiss, A. et al. (2023). Commitment to honesty oaths decreases dishonesty, but commitment to another individual does not affect dishonesty, Communications Psychology 1, 27 https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-023-00028-7 

Bonalumi, F., Siposova, B., Christensen, W., Michael, J. (2023). Should I stay or should I go? Three-year-olds’ reactions to appropriate motives to interrupt a joint activity. PLoS ONE 18(7): e0288401. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0288401 

Székely, M., & Michael, J. (2023). Perceiving others’ cognitive effort through movement: Path length, speed, and time. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218231183963 

 Szekely, M., & Michael, J. (2023). In it together: evidence of a preference for the fair distribution of effort in joint action, Evolution and Human Behavior. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090513823000429?dgcid=author 

Brozzo, C., & Michael, J. (2023). Sense of Commitment to Activity on Facebook: Evidence from a web-based paradigm, PLoS One. 18(4): e0271798.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0271798 

 McEllin, L., Felber, A., & Michael, J. (2023). The fruits of our labour: Interpersonal coordination generates commitment by signalling a willingness to adapt. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76(1), 147-159.doi: 10.1177/17470218221079830 

Low, J., Butterfill, S. A., & Michael, J. (2023). A view from mindreading on fast-and-slow thinking. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 46. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X22002898

Zarwi, M., Marchand, S., Kennard, B., & Michael, J. (2023). Millennials and organisational commitment: current and future perspectives. Human Resource Development International, 26(5), 642-654. https://doi.org/10.1080/13678868.2022.2157236

Guidali, G., Zazio, A., Lucarelli, D., Marcantoni, E., Stango, A., Barchiesi, G., & Bortoletto, M. (2023). Effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) current direction and pulse waveform on cortico-cortical connectivity: A registered report TMS-EEG study. European Journal of Neuroscience, 58(8), 3785–3809. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.16127

2022

Barchiesi, G., Zazio, E., Marcantoni, M., Bulgari, M., Barattieri di San Pietro, C., Sinigaglia, C., & Bortoletto, M. (2022). Sharing motor plans while acting jointly: A TMS study. Cortex, 151, 224-239. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2022.03.007

Zazio, A., Barchiesi, G., Ferrari, C., Marcantoni, E., & Bortoletto, M. (2022). M1-P15 as a cortical marker for transcallosal inhibition: A preregistered TMS-EEG study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, vol. 16, ISSN: 1662-5161, https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.937515

Sinigaglia, C., & Butterfill, S. (2022). Motor representation in acting together. Synthese. 10.1007/s11229-022-03539-8

McEllin, L. & Michael, J. (2022) Sensorimotor communication fosters trust and generosity: The role of effort and signal utility, Cognition https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027722000543?via%3Dihub 

Michael, J., Green, A., Siposova, B., Jensen, K., & Kita, S. (2022), Finish what you started: Two-year-olds motivated by a preference for completing others’ unfinished actions in instrumental helping contexts. Cognitive Science,  https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13160. 

Chennells, M. & Michael, J. (2022). Breaking the Right Way: A Closer Look at How We Dissolve Commitments. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, DOI: 10.1007/s11097-022-09805-x 

Hattersley M., Brown, G., Michael, J., Ludvig, E. (2022), Of Tinfoil Hats and Thinking Caps: Reasoning is More Strongly Related to Implausible than Plausible Conspiracy Beliefs. Cognition, Volume 218, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104956 

Michael, J. & Butterfill, S. (2022), Intuitions about Joint Action. Philosophical Psychology, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2022.2153659 

Bonalumi, F., Michael, J., & Heintz, C. (2022). Perceiving commitments: When we both know that you are counting on me. Mind & Language, 37(4), 502-524. https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12333

Scarafone, A., & Michael, J. (2022). Getting Ready to Share Commitments. Philosophical Topics, 50(1), 135-160. DOI: 10.5840/philtopics20225017

Chennells, M., Woźniak, M., Butterfill, S., Michael, J. (2022). Coordinated decision-making boosts altruistic motivation—But not trust. PLoS ONE 17(10): e0272453. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272453 

Zhang, N., Michael, J., Bogart, K., & McEllin, L. (2022). Web-Based Sensitivity Training for Interacting with Facial Paralysis”. PLoS One, 17(1), e0261157. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261157

Fanghella, M., Colombo, C. F., Pascarelli, M. T., Guala, F., & Sinigaglia, C. (2022). Il ruolo dell’informazione motoria e del ragionamento strategico nella coordinazione interpersonale. Sistemi intelligenti, 2, 235–251. https://doi.org/10.1422/105038

Zickfeld, J., Ścigała, K. A., Weiss, A., Michael, J., & Mitkidis, P. (2022). Investigating the Impact of Social Commitment on Dishonest Behavior. PsyArXiv https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/9drcn

Alhazmi, A.A., & Kaufmann, A. (2022). Phenomenological qualitative methods applied to the analysis of cross-cultural experience in novel educational social contexts, Frontiers in Psychology. DOI: https://doi.org /10.3389/fpsyg.2022.785134.

Fanghella, M., Gaigg, S. B., Candidi, M., Forster, B., & Calvo-Merino, B. (2022). Somatosensory evoked potentials reveal reduced embodiment of emotions in autism. Journal of Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0706-21.2022 

2021

Rossi, S., Salvietti, G., Neri, F., Romanella, S. M., Cinti, A., Sinigaglia, C., Ulivelli, M., Lisini Baldi, T., Santarnecchi, E., & Prattichizzo, D. (2021). Emerging of new bioartificial corticospinal motor synergies using a robotic additional thumb. Scientific Reports, 11, 18487. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-97876-2

Sarasso, S., Girardi Casali, A., Casarotto, S., Rosanova, M., Sinigaglia, C., & Massimini, M. (2021). Consciousness and complexity: A consilience of evidence. Neuroscience of Consciousness, niab023. https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niab023

Costantini, M., Quarona, D., & Sinigaglia, C. (2021). Handles and colours. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2021.628001

Kaufmann, A. (2021). Experience-specific dimensions of consciousness (observable in flexible and spontaneous action planning among animals)”, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. DOI:  https://doi.org/10.3389/fnsys.2021.741579.

Fanghella, M., Era, V., & Candidi, M. (2021). Interpersonal Motor Interactions Shape Multisensory Representations of the Peripersonal Space. Brain Sciences, 11(2), 255. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11020255

2020

Quarona, D., Raffuzzi, M., Costantini, M., & Sinigaglia, C. (2020). Preventing action slows down performance in perceptual judgment. Experimental Brain Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-020-05948-y

Kaufmann, A. (2020). Is that all there is? Or is chimpanzees group hunt “fair” enough? Behavioural and Brain Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X19002309

Casartelli, L., Federici, A., Fumagalli, L., Cesareo, A., Nicoli, M., Ronconi, L., Vitale, A., Molteni, M., Rizzolatti, G., & Sinigaglia, C. (2020). Neurotypical individuals fail to understand action vitality form in children with autism spectrum disorder. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2011311117

Casartelli, L., Cesareo, A., Biffi, E., Campione, G. C., Villa, L., Molteni, M., & Sinigaglia, C. (2020). Vitality form expression in autism. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73364-x

Sinigaglia, C., & Butterfill, S. (2020). Motor representation and knowledge of skilled action. In E. Fridland & C. Pavese (Eds.), Routledge Handbook on Skill and Expertise (Chapter 22, pp. 292-305). Routledge.

Sinigaglia, C., & Butterfill, S. (2020). Motor representation and action experience in joint action. In A. Fiebich (Ed.), Minimal Cooperation and Shared Agency (Chapter 11, pp. 181-193). Springer.