Anna Maria Giannini

Anna Maria Giannini is Professor of Psychology at the University of Rome La Sapienza
and Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the Rome Campus.
She earned her
Dottorato di Ricerca in cognitive psychology
at the University of Rome La Sapienza, where she teaches undergraduate courses
in
motivations, emotions, and cognitive processes and
psychology of art and literature
and graduate courses in
dynamics of creativity.
She is a member of the editorial board of
Rassegna di Psicologia
and Vice President and Italian Delegate of the International Association
of Empirical Aesthetics. A prolific scholar, she has published
widely about personality traits and aesthetic preference, psychological aspects of
museology, artist personological profiles, and psychological effects of colors
and other visual phenomena.