Dr Ignazio Puzzo
Senior Lecturer in Psychology
Quad North 134
- Email: ignazio.puzzo@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 265991
Summary
I graduated in Experimental Psychology at the University of Padua (Italy) in 2004. Then obtained a MSc in research methods (2007) and a PhD (2010) in Psychology at the University of Essex (UK).
Prior to joining Brunel University of London as a Lecturer, I held a lecturer post at City University of London. Before then I worked as a senior clinical scientist post at Broadmoor Hospital, West London Mental Health NHS Trust from 2015 to 2018.
My current research focuses on understanding the interplay between affective, neurocognitive and social factors contributing to the development of aggressive and antisocial behaviour in children and adolescents as well as in adults mentally disordered offenders.
Qualifications
- PhD, University of Essex, United Kingdom, Oct 2007 – Oct 2010
- MSc Research Methods in Psychology, University of Essex, United Kingdom, Oct 2006 – Oct 2007
- BSc in Experimental Psychology, University of Padua, Italy, Sep 2000 – Dec 2004
Newest selected publications
Cheang, RTS., Skjevling, M., Blakemore, AIF., Kumari, V. and Puzzo, I. (2024) 'Do you feel me? Autism, empathic accuracy and the double empathy problem'. Autism, 0 (ahead of print). pp. 1 - 13. ISSN: 1362-3613 Open Access Link
Aldridge-Waddon, L., Vanova, M., Elbers, L., Puzzo, I., Muneke, J. and Kumari, V. (2023) 'Scenario-specific aberrations of social reward processing in dimensional schizotypy and psychopathy'. Scientific Reports, 12 (1). pp. 1 - 10. ISSN: 2045-2322 Open Access Link
Puzzo, I., Aldridge-Waddon, L., Morley, E., Vacher, J., Mitchell, J., Murphy, D. and et al. (2023) 'Developing ward social climate and sense of community within a high security forensic psychiatric service: Evaluating a sense of community and social climate intervention'. The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, 34 (1). pp. 20 - 36. ISSN: 1478-9949 Open Access Link
Perkins, D. and Puzzo, I. (2022) 'Technological assessment methods: New directions in the assessment of sexual offending and sexualised violence', in Liell, GC., Fisher, MJ. and Jones, LF. (eds.) Challenging Bias in Forensic Psychological Assessment and Testing: Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Working with Diverse Populations. London : Routledge. pp. 456 - 474. ISBN 10: 1-003-23097-0. ISBN 13: 978-1-032-13829-9.
Vanova, M., Aldridge-Waddon, L., Norbury, R., Jennings, B., Puzzo, I. and Kumari, V. (2022) 'Distinct neural signatures of schizotypy and psychopathy during visual word-nonword recognition'. Human Brain Mapping, 43 (12). pp. 3620 - 3632. ISSN: 1065-9471 Open Access Link