Curriculum Vitae
| 2025-ongoing | Postdoc at the Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich (Zurich, CH) |
| 2024-2025 | Postdoc at Yale Program on Climate Change Communication at Yale University (New Haven, CT, US) |
| 2021-2024 | Ph.D. in Psychological Sciences, University of Padua (Padua, IT) |
| 2023-2024 | Visiting research at Boston College (Boston, MA, US) |
| 2018-2020 | M.Sc. in Applied Cognitive Psychology, University of Padua (Padua, IT) |
| 2015-2018 | B.Sc. in Cognitive Psychology and Psychobiology, University of Padua (Padua, IT) |
Research Interests
- Climate change communication
- Environmental decision-making
- Behavior change
- Cross-cultural Psychology
Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLES
10. Acierno, J.*, Tedaldi, E.*, Ginn, J., Goldwert, D., Vlasceanu, M., Geiger, S., Sparkman, G., and Constantino, S.M. (2026) Conformity to social norm interventions is not amplified in tighter nations. Communications Psychology. Link
9. Thomas-Walters, L., Goldberg, M.H., Tedaldi, E., Kohmoto, K., Rosenthal, S.A., and Leiserowitz, A. (2025). The role of emotion in climate change communication. Environmental Communication. Link
8. Caserotti, M.*, Tedaldi, E.*, Conte, B., and Rubaltelli, E. (2025) How does the moral imperative mediate the effect of perceived threat in the acceptance of immigrants? Journal of Risk Research. Link
7. Tedaldi*, E., Caserotti*, M., Girardi, P., Gavaruzzi, T., Tasso, A., Lotto, L., Rubaltelli, E., & Sellaro, R. (2025). Promoting the energy transition: The role of decision context and climate risk in the investment in solar versus nuclear energy. Risk Analysis. Link
6. Doell, K. C., Todorova, B., Vlasceanu, M., …, Tedaldi, E., …, Van Bavel, J. J. (2024). The international climate psychology collaboration: Climate change-related data collected from 63 countries. Scientific Data, 11(1), 1066. Link
5. Mastromatteo, L.Y., Tedaldi, E., Scrimin, S., and Rubaltelli, E. (2024) The impact of partially covered faces on trust attribution, sharing resources and perceived fairness of one’s own choices in Ultimatum Game. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 78(8), 1721-1739. Link
4. Tedaldi, E., Syropoulos, S., and Markowitz, E.A. (2024) Re-examining perceived responsibility to address climate change as a predictor of pro-environmentalism: A replication across 31 countries. Journal of Environmental Psychology. Link
3. Vlasceanu*, M., Doell*, K. C., Bak Coleman*, J. B., …, Tedaldi, E., …, Van Bavel, J. J. (2024). Addressing climate change with behavioral science: a global intervention tournament in 63 countries. Science Advances. Link
2. Tedaldi, E.*, Orabona, N.*, Hovnanyan, A., Scrimin, S., and Rubaltelli, E. (2022) Trends in state anxiety during the full lockdown in Italy: The role played by covid-19 risk perception and trait emotional intelligence. Trauma Care, 2(3), 418-426. Link
1. Rubaltelli, E., Tedaldi, E., Orabona, N., and Scrimin, S. (2020) Environmental and psychological variables influencing reactions to the COVID 19 outbreak. British Journal of Health Psychology, 25(4), 1020-1038. Link
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
13. Tedaldi, E., Verner, M., Goldberg, M.H., O’Neil, S., Ong, A., Ballew, M.T., Lub, J., Velasquez-Rose, S., Alcantar, E., Lopez, L., Kirby, E., Straathof, J., Marshall, J., and Leiserowitz, A. (accepted). Meta-analysis of messages to build support for government action on climate change [Blitz talk]. APA Division 34 Annual Virtual Conference.
12. Tedaldi, E., and Sparkman, G. (accepted). Behavior change categories influence climate action willingness: psychological foundations for the Avoid-Shift-Improve (ASI) framework [Oral presentation]. International Association for People-Environment Studies (IAPS) Conference 2026, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom.
11. Tedaldi, E., and Sparkman, G. (2025, September 18-19). How to frame sustainable diets behavior change to reduce the perceived effort [Oral presentation]. Convegno nazionale promuovere diete sane e sostenibili: dalla teoria alla pratica, Milano, Italy. Link
10. Tedaldi, E., Girardi, P., Gavaruzzi, T., Sellaro, R., Tasso, A., Rubaltelli, E., Lotto, L., and Caserotti, C., (2025, August 31-September 4). Sun vs. Atom: what moderates risk perception and willingness to invest in solar farms vs. nuclear power plants? [Oral presentation]. SPUDM 2025, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy. Link
9. Tedaldi, E., and Sparkman, G., (2024, November 22-25) Avoid, Shift or Improve? How types of change shape willingness to be sustainable [Poster presentation]. SJDM 2024 Conference, New York City, NY, United States. Link
8. Tedaldi, E., Caserotti, C., Sellaro, R., Girardi, P., Gavaruzzi, T., Tasso, A., Lotto, L., and Rubaltelli, E. (2024, June 2-5). Does climate change risk perception influence people’s intention to invest in solar farms vs. nuclear power plants? [Oral presentation]. SRA-Europe 2024 Conference, Athens, Greece. Link
7. Tedaldi, E., Sparkman, G., Carraro, L., Lenzi, M., and Rubaltelli, E. (2023, November 17-20). How Food Neophobia influences the decision to consume conventional meat and meat alternatives [Poster presentation]. SJDM 2023 Conference, San Francisco, CA, United States. Link
6. Tedaldi, E., Cologna, V., and Syropoulos, S. (2023, October 19-20) The role of different types of trust in attitudes towards climate change in 26 European countries [Blitz-talk]. SEPCP Virtual Conference. Link
5. Stablum, F., Tedaldi, E., Rubaltelli, E., and Treccani, B. (2023, June 20-23). The role of climate anxiety in motivating pro-environmental behaviour (PEB) [Poster presentation]. ICEP, Aarhus, Denmark. Link
5. Tedaldi, E., Orabona, N., Scrimin, S., Rubaltelli, E. (2022, November 10-13). Trait emotional intelligence and inhibitory control interaction in risk perception [Poster presentation]. SJDM, San Diego, CA, United States. Link
4. Tedaldi, E., Conte, B., and Rubaltelli, E. (2022, September 27-29) Climate change vs. the pandemics: how much do people cooperate? [Oral presentation]. SRA-Europe Nordic Chapter, Bergen, Norway. Link
3. Mastromatteo, L.Y., Tedaldi, E., Scrimin, S., Rubaltelli, E. (2022, July 19-22). The impact of face-masks on trust attribution, sharing resources and perceived fairness of oneâs own choices in Ultimatum Game [Poster presentation]. ICSD, Copenhagen, Denmark. Link
2. Girardi, P., Scrimin, S., Tedaldi, E., Finos, L., Rubaltelli, E. (2021, September 8-10). Heart rate responses to emotional pictorial stimuli and habituation [Oral presentation]. XXVII Congresso AIP Sezione Sperimentale, Lecce, Italy. Link
1. Tedaldi, E., Orabona, N., Scrimin, S., Rubaltelli, E. (2021, July 9). What you wear is not what you get: misperception of how masks work [Poster presentation]. Open Conference, jSchool of Junior Researcher Programme, Virtual Conference. Link
INVITED TALKS
- Tedaldi, E. (2026, March 30) Climate change communication and behavior change. [Invited talk]. Science Atelier, Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
- Tedaldi, E. (2025, June 11) Sustainable behavior change: what and how can we ask people to change? [Invited talk]. Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.
- Tedaldi, E. (2025, June 5) Navigating the transition from PhD to postdoc: challenges, choices, and lessons learned. [Invited talk]. Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
- Tedaldi, E. (2025, February 5) Climate change communication: A matter of what you say or how you say it? [Invited talk]. Biomes Seminar Series, Environmental Insights from YSE Post-Docs, School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven (CT), United States.