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Giuseppe Alessandro Veltri holds an MSc in Social Research Methods (Statistics) from the Methodology Department of the London School of Economics (LSE) and a PhD in Social Psychology from the LSE. He has been Full Professor of Computational Social Science and Behavioural Data Science at the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the University of Trento.

From January 2025 I will be part of


Selected latest publications

  • Banerjee, S., & Veltri, G. A. (2024). Harnessing pluralism in behavioral public policy requires insights from computational social science. Frontiers in Behavioral Economics, 3. https://doi.org/10.3389/frbhe.2024.1503793

  • Andrei, F., & Veltri, G. A. (2024). Status Spill-Over in Cryptomarket for Illegal Goods. Social Science Computer Review, online first. https://doi.org/10.1177/08944393241286339

  • Helsper, E.J., Veltri, G., Livingstone, S (2024). Parental Mediation of Children’s Online Risks: The role of parental risk perception, digital skills and risk experiences. New Media and Society. Doi: 10.1177/14614448241261945

  • Veltri, G.A. (2024), Research integrity attitudes and practices: an exploratory study of Italian researchers, on “Polis, Ricerche e studi su società e politica” 2/2024, pp. 247-270, doi: 10.1424/113965

  • Veltri, G. A., Steinert, J. I., Sternberg, H., Galizzi, M. M., Fasolo, B., Kourtidis, P., Büthe, T., & Gaskell, G. (2024). Assessing the perceived effect of non-pharmaceutical interventions on SARS-Cov-2 transmission risk: An experimental study in Europe. Scientific Reports, 14 (1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-55447-1

  • Andrei, F., & Veltri, G. A. (2024). Social influence in the darknet market: The impact of product descriptions on cocaine sales. International Journal of Drug Policy, 124, 104328. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104328

  • Kathleen McColl, Dylan Martin-Lapoirie, Giuseppe A. Veltri, Pierre Arwidson & Jocelyn Raude (2024) Does vaccination elicit risk compensation? Insights from the COVID-19 pandemic in France, Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 12:1, DOI: 10.1080/21642850.2023.2287663

  • Veltri, G.A. (2023). Harnessing heterogeneity in behavioural research using computational social science. Behavioural Public Policy, 1-18. doi:10.1017/bpp.2023.35

  • Martinelli, M., & Veltri, G. A. (2023). COVID-19 vaccine acceptance: A comparative longitudinal analysis of the association between risk perception, confidence, and the acceptance of a COVID-19 vaccine. Risk Analysis, 00, 1– 15. https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.14200

  • Martinelli M, Veltri GA (2022) Shared understandings of vaccine hesitancy: How perceived risk and trust in vaccination frame individuals’ vaccine acceptance. PLOS ONE 17(10): e0276519. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0276519

  • Janina I Steinert, Henrike Sternberg, Giuseppe A Veltri, Tim Büthe (2022) How should COVID-19 vaccines be distributed between the global north and south: a discrete choice experiment in six european countries. eLife 11:e79819. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.79819

  • Steinert Janina I., Sternberg Henrike, Prince Hannah, Fasolo Barbara, Galizzi Matteo M., Büthe Tim, & Veltri Giuseppe A. (2022.). COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in eight European countries: Prevalence, determinants, and heterogeneity. Science Advances, 8(17), eabm9825. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abm9825