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  1. Blue Eyes Help Men Reduce the Cost of Cuckoldry

    Article • Archives of Sexual Behavior, September 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paola Bressan

  2. Strangers look sicker (with implications in times of COVID-19)

    Article • July 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Paola Bressan

  3. Most Findings Obtained With Untimed Visual Illusions Are Confounded

    Article • Psychological Science, July 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paola Bressan

  4. Short term, long term: an unexpected confound in human-mating research

    Article • May 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Paola Bressan

  5. Mental health, mitochondria, and the battle of the sexes

    Article • April 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Paola Bressan

  6. Humans as superorganisms: how microbes, viruses, imprinted genes, and other selfish entities shape our behavior

    Article • April 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Paola Bressan

  7. Infection threat shapes our social instincts

    Article • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paola Bressan

  8. Infection threat shapes our social instincts

    Article • February 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Paola Bressan

  9. Mental health, mitochondria, and the battle of the sexes

    Article • Biomedicines, January 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Paola Bressan, Dr Peter Kramer

  10. Progesterone does raise disgust

    Article • January 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Paola Bressan

  11. Most findings obtained with untimed visual illusions are confounded

    Article • January 2021, Center for Open Science

    Dr Paola Bressan

  12. Strangers look sicker

    Article • BioEssays, November 2020, Wiley

    Dr Paola Bressan

  13. Human kin detection

    Article • November 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Paola Bressan

  14. Only attractive women reap the benefits of sexual imprinting

    Article • Scientific Reports, April 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paola Bressan

  15. Confounds in “failed” replications

    Article • January 2020, Center for Open Science

    Dr Paola Bressan

  16. Confounds in “failed” replications

    Article • December 2019, Center for Open Science

    Dr Paola Bressan

  17. Confounds in “failed” replications

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, September 2019, Frontiers

    Dr Paola Bressan

  18. Mitochondria inspire a lifestyle

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paola Bressan

  19. Mitochondria Inspire a Lifestyle

    Article • December 2018, Center for Open Science

    Dr Paola Bressan

  20. Systemisers are better at maths

    Article • Scientific Reports, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paola Bressan

  21. The SNARC effect is associated with worse mathematical intelligence and poorer time estimation

    Article • Royal Society Open Science, August 2018, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Paola Bressan

  22. Daughters of blue-eyed fathers prefer blue-eyed men

    Article • Scientific Reports, April 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paola Bressan

  23. Our (mother’s) mitochondria and our mind

    Article • Perspectives on Psychological Science, September 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr Peter Kramer, Dr Paola Bressan

  24. The Dungeon Illusion

    Article • June 2017, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Paola Bressan

  25. Commentary: From ‘sense of number’ to ‘sense of magnitude’ – The role of continuous magnitudes in numerical cognition

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, January 2017, Frontiers

    Dr Paola Bressan

  26. Bread and Other Edible Agents of Mental Disease

    Article • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, March 2016, Frontiers

    Dr Paola Bressan

  27. Humans as superorganisms: How microbes, viruses, and other selfish entities shape our behavior

    Article • Perspectives on Psychological Science, July 2015, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paola Bressan, Dr Peter Kramer

  28. How we recognize kin

    Article • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science, March 2015, Wiley

    Dr Paola Bressan

  29. Stereokinetic Effect, Kinetic Depth Effect, and Structure from Motion

    Article • November 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Paola Bressan

  30. The relation between cognitive-perceptual schizotypal traits and the Ebbinghaus size-illusion is mediated by judgment time

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, January 2013, Frontiers

    Dr Paola Bressan

  31. Motion-induced blindness measured objectively

    Article • Behavior Research Methods, August 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paola Bressan

  32. Fathers See Stronger Family Resemblances than Non-Fathers in Unrelated Children’s Faces

    Article • Archives of Sexual Behavior, June 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paola Bressan

  33. Time Estimation Predicts Mathematical Intelligence

    Article • PLoS ONE, December 2011, PLOS

    Dr Paola Bressan

  34. Belief in God and in strong government as accidental cognitive by-products

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, February 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Paola Bressan

  35. Paradoxical lightness contrast

    Article • Vision Research, January 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Paola Bressan

  36. Human kin recognition is self- rather than family-referential

    Article • Biology Letters, February 2009, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Paola Bressan

  37. Visual attentional capture predicts belief in a meaningful world

    Article • Cortex, November 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Paola Bressan

  38. Men Do not Have a Stronger Preference than Women for Self-resemblant Child Faces

    Article • Archives of Sexual Behavior, March 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Marco Bertamini, Dr Paola Bressan

  39. Gating of remote effects on lightness

    Article • Journal of Vision, February 2008, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)

    Dr Paola Bressan

  40. The best men are not always already taken

    Article • Psychological Science, February 2008, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paola Bressan

  41. The attentional cost of inattentional blindness

    Article • Cognition, January 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Paola Bressan

  42. Auditory Attention Causes Visual Inattentional Blindness

    Article • Perception, January 2008, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paola Bressan

  43. Dungeons, gratings, and black rooms: A defense of double-anchoring theory and a reply to Howe et al. (2007).

    Article • Psychological Review, January 2007, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Paola Bressan

  44. Postscript: The prejudice against frameworks.

    Article • Psychological Review, January 2007, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Paola Bressan

  45. Simultaneous Lightness Contrast on Plain and Articulated Surrounds

    Article • Perception, April 2006, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paola Bressan, Rossana Actis-Grosso

  46. Inhomogeneous surrounds, conflicting frameworks, and the double-anchoring theory of lightness

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, February 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paola Bressan

  47. The place of white in a world of grays: A double-anchoring theory of lightness perception.

    Article • Psychological Review, January 2006, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Dr Paola Bressan

  48. The dark shade of the moon

    Article • Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology, December 2005, Wiley

    Dr Paola Bressan

  49. Parental resemblance in 1-year-olds and the Gaussian curve

    Article • Evolution and Human Behavior, May 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Paola Bressan

  50. Antigravity hills are visual illusions

    Article • Psychological Science, September 2003, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paola Bressan, Luigi Garlaschelli

  51. Chromatic induction in neon colour spreading

    Article • Vision Research, March 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Paola Bressan

  52. Talis Pater, Talis Filius: Perceived Resemblance and the Belief in Genetic Relatedness

    Article • Psychological Science, May 2002, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paola Bressan

  53. Why babies look like their daddies: paternity uncertainty and the evolution of self-deception in evaluating family resemblance

    Article • acta ethologica, February 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paola Bressan

  54. Going round in circles: shape effects in the Ebbinghaus illusion

    Article • Spatial Vision, January 2002, Brill

    Dr Paola Bressan

  55. Why people who believe in the paranormal come across more coincidences

    Article • Applied Cognitive Psychology, January 2002, Wiley

    Dr Paola Bressan

  56. Explaining Lightness Illusions

    Article • Perception, September 2001, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paola Bressan

  57. Simultaneous Lightness Contrast with Double Increments

    Article • Perception, July 2001, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paola Bressan, Rossana Actis-Grosso

  58. Neon Color Spreading: A Review

    Article • Perception, November 1997, SAGE Publications

    Fred M Seed Professor Takeo Watanabe, Dr Paola Bressan

  59. Contextual Effects on Colour Appearance: Lightness and Colour Induction, Transparency, and Illumination

    Article • Perception, April 1997, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paola Bressan

  60. A New Motion Illusion Related to the Aperture Problem

    Article • Perception, October 1995, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paola Bressan

  61. Solving Occlusion Indeterminacy in Chromatically Homogeneous Patterns

    Article • Perception, April 1995, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paola Bressan

  62. A closer look at the dependence of neon colour spreading on wavelength and illuminance

    Article • Vision Research, February 1995, Elsevier

    Dr Paola Bressan

  63. Occlusion, transparency, and stereopsis: A new explanation for stereo capture

    Article • Vision Research, November 1994, Elsevier

    Dr Paola Bressan

  64. What induces capture in motion capture?

    Article • Vision Research, October 1993, Elsevier

    Dr Paola Bressan

  65. Neon Colour Spreading with and without its Figural Prerequisites

    Article • Perception, March 1993, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paola Bressan

  66. The Role of Depth Stratification in the Solution of the Aperture Problem

    Article • Perception, February 1993, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paola Bressan

  67. Revisitation of the luminance conditions for the occurrence of the achromatic neon color spreading illusion

    Article • Perception & Psychophysics, January 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paola Bressan

  68. Motion aftereffects with rotating ellipses

    Article • Psychological Research, December 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paola Bressan

  69. Illusory Depth from Moving Subjective Figures and Neon Colour Spreading

    Article • Perception, October 1991, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paola Bressan

  70. A context-dependent illusion in the perception of velocity

    Article • Vision Research, January 1991, Elsevier

    Dr Paola Bressan

  71. Occlusion and the perception of coherent motion

    Article • Vision Research, January 1991, Elsevier

    Dr Paola Bressan

  72. The perception of 3-dimensional affine structure from minimal apparent motion sequences

    Article • Perception & Psychophysics, September 1990, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Paola Bressan

  73. Wheels: A New Illusion in the Perception of Rolling Objects

    Article • Perception, February 1990, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paola Bressan

  74. Perceptual Alternations in Stereokinesis

    Article • Perception, February 1988, SAGE Publications

    Marco Bertamini, Dr Paola Bressan

  75. Vicario's Illusion of Sloping Steps Reexamined

    Article • Perception, October 1987, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paola Bressan

  76. Subjective Rarefaction in Illusory Figures: The Inadequacy of Apparent Lightness as an Explanation

    Article • Perception, August 1987, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paola Bressan

  77. Learning to See Stereokinetic Effects

    Article • Perception, April 1987, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paola Bressan

  78. Stereokinesis with Moving Visual Phantoms

    Article • Perception, February 1987, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paola Bressan

  79. Multiple 3-D Interpretations in a Classic Stereokinetic Effect

    Article • Perception, August 1986, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paola Bressan

  80. Subjective Contours Can Produce Stereokinetic Effects

    Article • Perception, August 1986, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paola Bressan

  81. The saturn illusion: A new stereokinetic effect

    Article • Vision Research, January 1986, Elsevier

    Dr Paola Bressan

  82. Revisitation of the Family Tie between Münsterberg and Taylor-Woodhouse Illusions

    Article • Perception, October 1985, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paola Bressan

  83. On Misoriented Letters

    Article • Perception, December 1984, SAGE Publications

    Dr Paola Bressan