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Puntiroli, Michael
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Puntiroli, Michael
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michael.puntiroli@unine.ch
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- PublicationAccès libreSeeing Through the Fog: The Ability to Resolve Ambiguity Reduces Dishonesty(2025)
; ; ; Ambiguity acts as a veil that can help conceal and justify dishonest behavior. While an individual’s ability to disambiguate information in a task may help remove the veil of ambiguity and thus promote honesty, the relationship between ambiguity, ability, and dishonesty is currently unexplored. To investigate this, we employed an experimental design where participants attempted to resolve an ambiguous task and reported their performance. Results showed that ambiguity and dishonesty increase in unison. Importantly, the participants who resolved ambiguity acted less dishonestly (Study 1). In Studies 2a, 2b, and 3, we increased participants’ ability by briefly training them to disambiguate the information presented in the task. The results showed that participants acted less dishonestly when their ability levels were increased. Overall, the findings indicate that dishonesty can be reduced not only by making tasks less ambiguous but also by enhancing an individual’s ability to successfully resolve ambiguity. - PublicationAccès libreNot my responsibility: The framing of autonomous systems impacts sustainable choices(2025)
; ; ; Autonomous systems, such as autonomous lawnmowers, cars, and drones, are known to reduce users’ sense of responsibility towards the tasks these systems carry out. However, no research to date has examined whether a reduced sense of responsibility may affect the sustainable choices users make when presented with such systems. We seek to investigate whether the framing of autonomous systems, meaning how the key characteristics of such systems are communicated to the user, can affect the user’s sense of responsibility and in turn their sustainable product choices. Across three studies, we show that when autonomous systems are presented with an "autonomy frame”, emphasizing their ability to handle tasks on the user’s behalf, users feel a diminished sense of responsibility for the system’s environmental impact. Crucially, we see that such a reduction in responsibility leads to a preference for less sustainable versions of the system (Studies 1 & 2). Instead, when employing an "energy efficiency frame”, highlighting the system’s ability to optimally manage energy consumption, users still feel a reduced sense of responsibility and yet they make more sustainable product choices, due to the activation of a prosocial focus (Study 3). This mechanism behind the energy efficiency frame’s success offers a solution to counteract the negative effects observed when autonomous systems are given an autonomy frame. - PublicationAccès libreAre consumers consistent in their sustainable behaviours? A longitudinal study on consistency and spillover(2022-4-26)
; - PublicationAccès libreApplied Sectors for Psychologists(2020-9-25)Invited to give an annual talk on "Applied Sectors for Psychologists" aimed at inspiring psychology Masters students on how they can make use of their psychology knowledge to help solve concrete world problems as part of governmental projects or within business.
- PublicationAccès libreWhen saving the planet is worth more than avoiding destruction. The importance of message framing when speaking to egoistic individuals(2020-9-1)
; - PublicationAccès libreFeedback devices help only environmentally concerned people act pro-environmentally over time(2020-6-6)
; Technological advancements spawn products that tend to be useful when placed in the appropriate hands. Here we investigated whether potential benefits of owning a feedback device were driven by individual differences in environmental values (i.e. biospherism), or whether the device alone is sufficient to reduce energy over time. We examined a total of 276 households, 138 equipped with a feedback device formed our treatment group, and 138 control households selected from a wider pool of households (+2000) based on their similarity to the treatment households, according to a statistical matching procedure. The results indicated that individuals with low biospheric values fail to decrease their electricity expenditure when paired with a feedback device. Conversely, highly biospheric individuals do engage in more pro-environmental behaviour when they receive feedback, but only when they have owned the device for about three years or more. We obtained additional insights, by focusing on differences within the treatment group that suggest, once again, that only highly biospheric individuals who owned the device for over three years successfully implement changes in the household. Overall, these results indicate that feedback devices such as smart meters can be important tools in achieving energy reductions only when paired with environmentally concerned individuals. Given the current trend towards increased feedback technology, policy implications for decision makers are discussed. - PublicationAccès libreThe spread of presaccadic attention depends on the spatial configuration of the visual scene(2019-10-1)
; Deubel, HeinerWhen preparing a saccade, attentional resources are focused at the saccade target and its immediate vicinity. Here we show that this does not hold true when saccades are prepared toward a recently extinguished target. We obtained detailed maps of orientation sensitivity when participants prepared a saccade toward a target that either remained on the screen or disappeared before the eyes moved. We found that attention was mainly focused on the immediate surround of the visible target and spread to more peripheral locations as a function of the distance from the cue and the delay between the target’s disappearance and the saccade. Interestingly, this spread was not accompanied with a spread of the saccade endpoint. These results suggest that presaccadic attention and saccade programming are two distinct processes that can be dissociated as a function of their interaction with the spatial configuration of the visual scene. - PublicationAccès libre
- PublicationAccès libreSwiss Household Energy Demand Survey (SHEDS): Objectives, design, and implementation(SCCER CREST Work Package 2: Change of Behavior, 2017)
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