Rate My Professor Paola Paola Castelli

Castelli's research specializations encompass cognitive development and psychology and law. She investigates the development of psychological processes underlying children’s memory accuracy, with a particular emphasis on memorial and metamemorial processes involved in the formation and rejection of false memories. Her work aims to clarify the conditions through which existing memories are more or less likely to become distorted. This line of investigation also highlights the conditions under which children’s accuracy as witnesses can be compromised or maintained. Key publications include "Resisting imagination and confabulation: Effects of metacognitive training" (Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2014, co-authored with Simona Ghetti), "Children's perceived emotional behavior at disclosure and short-term disclosure consequences" (2014), "Hearsay versus children's testimony: Does it make a difference in the eyes of the jury?" (Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 2005), and "Principal component analysis-based latent-space modeling of repetition priming in picture naming" (2023, co-authored with T. M. H. Hope and others). Her scholarship contributes to understanding memory distortions and implications for forensic psychology, particularly regarding child witnesses.