Giulia Andrighetto, PhD in Philosophy (2007), is the PI of the Laboratory of Agent Based Social Simulation (LABSS) within the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC) at CNR.

Giulia Andrighetto, PhD in Philosophy (2007), is the PI of the Laboratory of Agent Based Social Simulation (LABSS) within the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC) at CNR.

Giulia’s research examines the nature and dynamics of social norms, namely how norms may emerge and become stable, why norms may suddenly change, how it is possible that inefficient or unpopular norms survive, and what motivates people to obey norms. To answer these and related questions about social norms, she uses theoretical and computational models, combined with on-line and laboratory experiments, and surveys data.

Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Nature Communications, PNAS Nexus, Social Forces, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, and Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation.

She has been the Principal Investigator of several projects, receiving funding from the European Commission, the Italian Research Council, the Swedish Research Council and the Wallenberg Foundation. She is currently the PI of the project NORMS@RISK, an interdisciplinary project aimed to investigate how norms can promote cooperation in collective action problems under risks (e.g., climate change, pandemics, natural disasters), funded by the Italian Science Fund of the Ministry of University and Research, FIS.