Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l'Éducation Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l'Éducation

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Chiara Scarampi

Maître Assistante | Research and Teaching Fellow

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Brief Curriculum Vitae

Education

2014-2018 PhD in Psychology, University of Bath, United Kingdom
2013 State Exam and Admission to practice as Psychologist in Italy
2010-2012   Master of Science (MSc) in Psychology, University of Turin, Italy
2007-2010 Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Psychology, University of Turin, Italy


Professional Experience

2023-present Research and Teaching Fellow (Maître-Assistante), Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Gerontology and Vulnerability (CIGEV) and Swiss Centre of Expertise in Life Course Research (LIVES), University of Geneva, Switzerland
2021-2023 Postdoctoral research fellow, Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Gerontology and Vulnerability (CIGEV) and NCCR “LIVES - Overcoming vulnerability: Life course perspectives”, Universities of Geneva and Lausanne, Switzerland
 2018-2021 Postdoctoral research fellow, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, United Kingdom
Feb-Oct 2018 Postdoctoral research associate, Department of Psychology, University of Bath, United Kingdom

2014-2018

PhD student and teaching assistant, Department of Psychology, University of Bath, United Kingdom
2013-2014 Research assistant, Centre of Cognitive Psychology and Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Italy

GRANTS and Awards

2023 EUCAS Aging & Cognition Conference - Poster prize
2023 LIVES Young Scholar project: Dismantling the Mechanisms of Cognitive Reserve in Old Age: The Role of Metacognitive Competence

2022

 Swiss National Science Foundation project: Intention Offloading and Aging: A Neurocognitive Investigation. Co-Investigator. PI: Matthias Kliegel
2014 South West Doctoral Training Partnership (SWDTP) ESRC funded Studentship and Research Training Support Grant (3-year award; Graduate School, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences), University of Bath, United Kingdom

 Selected publications

  1. Scarampi, C. & Kliegel, M. (Forthcoming). Metacognition for prospective memory performance in younger and older adults: Does the reference point affect our judgments? Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition.

  2. Lampraki, C., Zuber, S., Turoman, N., Joly-Burra, E., Mack, M., Laera, G., Scarampi, C., Rostekova, A., Kliegel, M., & Ihle, A. (2025). Social isolation and loneliness moderate the association between uncorrected hearing impairment and cognitive aging across 18 years. Communications Psychology, 3, 101. doi: 10.1038/s44271-025-00277-8.

  3. Teixeira, R., de Freitas, C., Sanna, L., Prina, E., Turrini, G., Brizar, A. S., Gherdan, C., Kazlauskas, E., Dumarkaite, A., Wasmus, H., Fleck, L., Reininghaus, U., Mack, M., Scarampi, C., Välimäki, M., Satamo, M., & Tol, W. A. (2025). Co-creating mental health promotion and prevention interventions with groups in vulnerable situations in Europe: A study protocol for co-creation implementation and participatory evaluation. Health Research Policy and Systems, 23(87). doi: 10.1186/s12961-025-01349-1.

  4. Mack, M., Scarampi, C., Joly-Burra, E., Zuber, S., de Freitas, C., Teixeira, R., & Kliegel, M. (2025). Enhancing Mental Health and Cognitive Function in Older Adults: A Swiss Perspective on Public Health Interventions and Stigma Mitigaon Stitrategies Informed by a Desk Review. Swiss Psychology Open, 5(1): 2, 1-24. doi: 10.5334/spo.81

  5. Décombe, A., Scarampi, C., Malleville, E., Capdevielle, D., Gilbert, S. J., Raffard, S. (2025). Non-optimal cognitive offloading in schizophrenia in a prospective memory task: Influence of both metacognitive beliefs and cognitive effort avoidance. Journal of Neuropsychology, 19(2), 216-233. doi: 10.1111/jnp.12399

  6. Hinvest, N., Ashwin, C., Carter, F., Hijazy, M., Scarampi, C., Stothart, G. & Smith, L.G.E. (2024). Inter-brain synchrony is associated with greater shared identity within naturalistic conversational pairs. British Journal of Psychology, 116(1), 170-182. doi: 10.1111/bjop.12743

  7. Scarampi, C.*, Cauvin, S.*, Moulin, C. J. A., Souchay, C., Schnitzspahn, K. M., Ballhausen, N., Kliegel, M. (2024). Age- and Task-Setting-Related Per- formance Predictions in Prospective Memory: Can Metacognition Explain the Age-Prospective Memory Paradox? Cortex, 181, 119-132. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2024.09.014

  8. Tsai, P.-C., Scarampi, C., Kliegel, M., & Gilbert, S. J.,(2023). Optimal cognitive offloading: Increased reminder usage but reduced pro-reminder bias in older adults. Psychology and Aging, 38(7), 684-695. doi: 10.1037/pag0000751

  9. Tsai, P.-C., Sachdeva, C., Gilbert, S. J., & Scarampi, C. (2023). An investigation of the saving-enhanced memory effect: The role of test order and list saving. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 37(4), 736-748. doi: 10.1002/acp.4067

  10. Gilbert, S., Boldt, A., Sachdeva, C., Scarampi, C., & Tsai, P.C. (2022). Outsourcing memory to external tools: A review of ‘intention offloading’. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 30, 60-76. doi: 10.3758/s13423-022-02139-4

  11. Scarampi, C. & Gilbert, S. J. (2021). Age differences in strategic reminder setting and the compensatory role of metacognition. Psychology & Aging, 36(2), 172-185. doi:10.1037/pag0000590

  12. Scarampi, C. & Gilbert, S. J. (2020). The effect of recent reminder setting on subsequent strategy and performance in a prospective memory task. Memory, 28(5), 677-691. doi:10.1080/09658211.2020.1764974

* Shared first authorship

 Book chapters

  1. Zuber, S., Scarampi, C., Laera, G., & Kliegel, M. (2024). Remembering future intentions: Recent advancements in event- and time-based prospective memory. In J. T. Wixted (Ed.), Learning and Memory: A Comprehensive Reference (3rd ed.). Elsevier Press. doi:10.1016/B978-0-443-15754-7.00023-7.

  2. Fiedler, K., Ackerman, R., & Scarampi, C. (2019). Metacognition: Monitoring and controlling one’s own cognitive functions. In R. J. Sternberg & J. Funke (Eds.), Introduction to the Psychology of human thought (pp. 89-112). Heidelberg, D: Heidelberg University Publishing. doi:10.17885/heiup.470.c6669

 Selected conference contributions

  1. The Interplay of Metacognition and Cognitive Reserve: Pathways to Preserving Cognitive Function. 8th International Conference Aging & Cognition, Pavia, Italy. May 2025.

  2. The Contribution of Offloading the Prospective and Retrospective Components of Prospective Memory to Younger and Older Adults’ Performance. 64th Annual Psychonomic Society Meeting, San Francisco, United States of America. November 2023.

  3. Psychophysiology of Prospective Memory: The Role of Interoception. 21st World Congress of Psychophysiology, Geneva, Switzerland. June 2023.

  4. The role of the reference point and subjective age in metamemory for prospective memory. 63rd Annual Psychonomic Society Meeting, Boston, United States of America and online. November 2022.

  5. Age Differences in Metacognition for Prospective Memory: A Cue-Utilisation Approach. In K. Schnitzspahn & M. Altgassen (Chairs), New insights on prospective remembering: How motivational, social and emotional variables affect intention completion in young and older adults. Symposium organised at the 22nd Conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, Lille, France. August 2022.

  6. Age-related Changes in Metamemory for Prospective Memory: The Role of the Reference Point. Cognitive Aging Conference. GeorgiaTech, Atlanta, GA, United States of America. April 2022.

  7. Age Differences in Metamemory for Prospective Memory: Does the Reference Point Affect our Judgements? Experimental Psychology Society Meeting. Virtual conference. January 2022.

  8. Saving-Enhanced Memory: Test Order and List Saving Effects. Virtual SARMAC conference 2021. Virtual conference. July 2021.

  9. Strategic Reminder Usage in a Delayed Intentions Task: Do Older Adults Compensate for Memory Difficulties? 61st Annual Psychonomic Society Meeting. Virtual conference. November 2020.

  10. Social Metacognition: A Correlational Device for Strategic Interactions. Cognitive Economics Society Conference. Virtual conference. July 2020.

  11. The Effect of Recent Reminder Setting on Subsequent Strategy and Performance in a Prospective Memory Task. Experimental Psychology Society Meeting. University College London, United Kingdom. January 2020.

  12. Age Differences in the Effects of Metacognition on Financial Decision-Making. 26th Subjective Probability, Utility, and Decision Making Conference. Technion, Haifa, Israel. August 2017.

 Selected invited talks

  1. Metacognitive Strategies and Cognitive Aging: Navigating Memory in Daily Life. Keynote address at the LIVES DAY 2025, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. June 2025.

  2. Understanding How Metacognition Shapes Prospective Memory in Ageing. Workshop on Computational Modeling Across the Lifespan: From Drift-Diffusion Models to Machine Learning, University of Bari, Italy. May 2025.

  3. Outsourcing the Mind: How Cognitive Offloading Shapes Emotion and Wellbeing. Research Colloquium of the Methodology and Statistics Lab, UniDistance Suisse, Brig, Switzerland. April 2025.

  4. Age Differences in Intention Offloading. Research Colloquium of the Working Memory, Cognition and Development Lab, Geneva, Switzerland. October 2023.

  5. Age Differences in Metacognitive Monitoring of Prospective Memory. Research Colloquium of the Mathematical and Cognitive Psychology Lab, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany. November 2022.

  6. Prospective Memory and Metacognition. International Workshop: Attentional Control and Prospective Memory. Universitäre Psychiatrische Dienste, University of Bern, Switzerland. May 2022.

  7. Metamemory for Prospective Memory Performance in Younger and Older Adults: Does the Reference Point Change our Judgements? Geneva Aging Series. Saint Légier, Switzerland. September 2021.

  8. Do Older Adults Benefit from the Use of Reminders as Memory Aids? Evidence from a Delayed-Intention Task. Tea-time Talk. Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, United Kingdom. March 2021.

  9.  Cognitive Offloading: Is Technology Aiding our Memory or Making it Worse? Cognitive Science Research Group seminar. New College of the Humanities, London, United Kingdom. March 2021.

  10. Is Technology Making our Memory Worse? Some Preliminary Data. Tea-time Talk. Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, United Kingdom. October 2019.

 

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