Cinzia Cecchetto

@dpg.unipd.it

Assistant Professor (RTDa)
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Sensory Systems
36

Scopus Publications

1786

Scholar Citations

20

Scholar h-index

29

Scholar i10-index

Scopus Publications

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • A quasi-randomised pilot study on the efficacy and perceived usefulness of adding chemosignals to mindfulness practice for women with social anxiety
    ET Eliasson, E Vigna, E Dal Bò, C Cecchetto, L Zurlo, C Gentili, ...
    Scientific Reports 15 (1), 32459 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Sniffing out a solution: How emotional body odors can improve mindfulness therapy for social anxiety
    C Cecchetto, E Dal Bo, ET Eliasson, E Vigna, L Natali, EP Scilingo, ...
    Journal of affective disorders 369, 1082-1089 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 8
  • Scented emotions: the role of emotional human chemosignals in social and emotional exchange
    C Cecchetto
    CHEMICAL SENSES 50 , 2025
    2025
  • Neural insights into emotional body odors processing in affective disorders
    E Dal Bo, C Cecchetto, AL Callara, S Ferdowski, A Greco, L Citi, ...
    CHEMICAL SENSES 50 , 2025
    2025
  • Effects of olfactory stimuli on the recognition of facial expressions in individuals with depressive symptoms: an event-related potential EEG study
    L Zurlo, E Dal Bo, C Gentili, C Cecchetto
    CHEMICAL SENSES 50 , 2025
    2025
  • Olfactory dysfunction in schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders: A comprehensive and updated meta-analysis
    L Zurlo, E Dal Bo, C Gentili, C Cecchetto
    Schizophrenia research 275, 62-75 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 9
  • DISTINGUISHING DEPRESSIVE AND SOCIAL ANXIETY SYMPTOMS THROUGH EEG MICROSTATE ANALYSIS
    E Dal Bo, F Mura, C Cecchetto, L Zurlo, EP Scilingo, C Gentili
    PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY 61, S225-S225 , 2024
    2024
  • Emotion perception through the nose: how olfactory emotional cues modulate the perception of neutral facial expressions in affective disorders
    E Dal Bò, C Cecchetto, AL Callara, A Greco, F Mura, N Vanello, ...
    Translational psychiatry 14 (1), 342 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 12
  • Exploring the Brain’s Response to Food Stimuli in Anorexia Nervosa: A Comprehensive Meta-Analysis of Neuroimaging Studies
    E Dal Bò, L Zurlo, C Cecchetto, C Gentili
    2024
  • Olfactory Dysfunction in Schizophrenia and Psychotic Disorders: A Comprehensive and Updated Meta-Analysis
    L Zurloa, E Dal Bòa, C Gentilia, C Cecchettoa, C Cecchetto
    PsyArXiv , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 1
  • Catalyst effect of human body odours in social anxiety treatment–a pilot study.
    E Vigna, V Carli, C Cecchetto, E Dal Bò
    European Psychiatry 67 (S1), S9-S9 , 2024
    2024
  • Combining electrodermal activity analysis and dynamic causal modeling to investigate the visual-odor multimodal integration during face perception
    G Rho, AL Callara, F Bossi, D Ognibene, C Cecchetto, T Lomonaco, ...
    Journal of Neural Engineering 21 (1), 016020 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 5
  • Emotion perception through the nose: How olfactory emotional cues modulate the perception of neutral facial expressions in affective disorders
    ED Bò, C Cecchetto, A Callara, A Greco, F Mura, N Vanello, ...
    2024
    Citations: 2
  • Consistent social odor representation across 7 languages: the Social Odor Scale translation and validation
    C Cecchetto, A Leleu, RP Calce, S Arnhardt, V Parma, JHB De Groot, ...
    Chemical senses 49, bjae035 , 2024
    2024
  • Low odor awareness predicts reduced olfactory abilities in women with depressive symptoms, but not with anxiety symptoms
    E Dal Bo, L Natali, C Gentili, C Cecchetto
    Journal of affective disorders 338, 171-179 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 7
  • Multimodal Integration of Olfactory and Visual Processing through DCM analysis: Contextual Modulation of Facial Perception
    G Rho, AL Callara, F Bossi, D Ognibene, C Cecchetto, T Lomonaco, ...
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.03536 , 2023
    2023
  • LATE-BREAKING THE PROCESSING OF EMOTIONAL BODY ODORS IN INDIVIDUALS WITH DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS: A HIGH-DENSITY EEG STUDY
    E Dal Bo, C Cecchetto, A Callara, F Mura, A Greco, N Vanello, E Scilingo, ...
    PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY 60, S137-S137 , 2023
    2023
  • Alexithymia modulates the attitudes towards odors but not the olfactory abilities or the affective reactions to odors
    C Cecchetto, E Dal Bò, M Aiello, FPS Fischmeister, C Gentili, SA Osimo
    Plos one 18 (6), e0278496 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 7
  • Affective and physiological responses to human body odors in social anxiety–a pilot study on the possible effects as catalyst for treatment
    E Vigna, C Cecchetto, E Dal Bò, G Hadlaczky, D Wasserman, V Carli
    European Psychiatry 66 (Suppl 1), S73 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 3
  • EMOTIONAL CHEMOSIGNALS PROCESSING IN AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
    E Dal Bo, C Cecchetto, AL Callara, F Mura, A Greco, N Vanello, ...
    CHEMICAL SENSES 48 , 2023
    2023

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Increased emotional eating during COVID-19 associated with lockdown, psychological and social distress
    C Cecchetto, M Aiello, C Gentili, S Ionta, SA Osimo
    Appetite 160, 105122 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 367
  • Recent smell loss is the best predictor of COVID-19 among individuals with recent respiratory symptoms
    RC Gerkin, K Ohla, MG Veldhuizen, PV Joseph, CE Kelly, AJ Bakke, ...
    Chemical senses 46, bjaa081 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 205
  • The influence of personality, resilience, and alexithymia on mental health during COVID-19 pandemic
    SA Osimo, M Aiello, C Gentili, S Ionta, C Cecchetto
    Frontiers in psychology 12, 630751 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 133
  • Influence of 4-week multi-strain probiotic administration on resting-state functional connectivity in healthy volunteers
    D Bagga, CS Aigner, JL Reichert, C Cecchetto, FPS Fischmeister, ...
    European Journal of Nutrition 58 (5), 1821-1827 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 121
  • A follow-up on quantitative and qualitative olfactory dysfunction and other symptoms in patients recovering from COVID-19 smell loss
    K Ohla, MG Veldhuizen, T Green, ME Hannum, AJ Bakke, ST Moein, ...
    Rhinology 60 (3), 207 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 112
  • Emotional reactions in moral decision-making are influenced by empathy and alexithymia
    C Cecchetto, S Korb, RI Rumiati, M Aiello
    Social neuroscience 13 (2), 226-240 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 93
  • Facial and bodily emotion recognition in multiple sclerosis: the role of alexithymia and other characteristics of the disease
    C Cecchetto, M Aiello, D D’Amico, D Cutuli, D Cargnelutti, R Eleopra, ...
    Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 20 (10), 1004-1014 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 74
  • Human Chemosignals and Brain Activity: A Preliminary Meta-analysis of the Processing of Human Body Odors
    E Dal Bò, C Gentili, C Cecchetto
    Chemical Senses 45 (9), 855–864 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 69
  • On-line changing of thinking about words: the effect of cognitive context on neural responses to verb reading
    L Papeo, RI Rumiati, C Cecchetto, B Tomasino
    Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 24 (12), 2348-2362 , 2012
    2012
    Citations: 62
  • The processing of actions and action-words in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients
    L Papeo, C Cecchetto, G Mazzon, G Granello, T Cattaruzza, L Verriello, ...
    Cortex 64, 136-147 , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 49
  • Alexithymia and emotional reactions to odors
    C Cecchetto, RI Rumiati, M Aiello
    Scientific Reports 7 (1), 14097 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 44
  • Body odors (even when masked) make you more emotional: behavioral and neural insights
    C Cecchetto, E Lancini, D Bueti, RI Rumiati, V Parma
    Scientific Reports 9 (1), 5489 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 41
  • Human body odor increases familiarity for faces during encoding‐retrieval task
    C Cecchetto, FPS Fischmeister, S Gorkiewicz, W Schuehly, D Bagga, ...
    Human Brain Mapping 41 (7), 1904-1919 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 36
  • Assessing the extent and timing of chemosensory impairments during COVID-19 pandemic
    C Cecchetto, A Di Pizio, F Genovese, O Calcinoni, A Macchi, A Dunkel, ...
    Scientific reports 11 (1), 17504 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 32
  • Increasing incidence of parosmia and phantosmia in patients recovering from COVID-19 smell loss
    K Ohla, MG Veldhuizen, T Green, ME Hannum, AJ Bakke, ST Moein, ...
    MedRxiv, 2021.08. 28.21262763 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 29
  • The best COVID-19 predictor is recent smell loss: a cross-sectional study
    RC Gerkin, K Ohla, MG Veldhuizen, PV Joseph, CE Kelly, AJ Bakke, ...
    MedRxiv , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 28
  • Relative contribution of odour intensity and valence to moral decisions
    C Cecchetto, RI Rumiati, V Parma
    Perception 46 (3-4), 447-474 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 28
  • When to collect resting-state data: The influence of odor on post-task resting-state connectivity
    C Cecchetto, FPS Fischmeister, JL Reichert, D Bagga, V Schöpf
    Neuroimage 191, 361-366 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 27
  • Olfactory meta-cognition in individuals with depressive and anxiety symptoms: the differential role of common and social odors
    E Dal Bò, C Gentili, A Castellani, C Tripodi, FPS Fischmeister, ...
    Journal of affective disorders 308, 259-267 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 23
  • Recent smell loss is the best predictor of COVID-19: a preregistered, cross-sectional study
    RC Gerkin, K Ohla, MG Veldhuizen, PV Joseph, CE Kelly, AJ Bakke, ...
    2020
    Citations: 21