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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface: Brenda K. Wiederhold and Giuseppe Riva
Section I. Editorial
Does AI Have a Personality? A Coordination Framework for Alignment Fragility in Large Language Models 3
Giuseppe Riva, Stefano De Gaspari, Stefania La Rocca, Federico Longoni, Chiara Pupillo, Giuseppe Passalacqua, Lorenzo Reina and Brenda K. Wiederhold
Section II. Critical Reviews
Mapping Overreliance on Large Language Model Research: A Bibliometric Analysis of Explicit and Implicit Treatments 14
Federico Longoni, Chiara Stramba-Badiale, Lorenzo Reina, Giuseppe Passalacqua, Stefania La Rocca and Giuseppe Riva
Serious Games as Preventive Spaces: Supporting Non-High-Risk Youth Through Ethical Play Design 21
Vinorra Shaker, Yaewon Jin and Anantha Krishnan Raman Fesabas
Associations between Gaming Motivations, Digital Life Balance, and Well-Being among Italian Players: A Cross-Sectional Study 30
Mustafa Can Gursesli, Joseph Macey, Alessia Martucci, Mirko Duradoni, Carla Sousa, Vsevolod Konstantinov, Ertuğrul Süngü, Barbaros Bostan, Andrea Guazzini and Juho Hamari
Bridging the Trust Gap: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Social Media Usage, Trust in Official Narratives, and Extremism Tendenciesamong Omani Youth 39
Maryam Aljabri and Khalaf Alabri
Effectiveness of extended reality–based social skills interventions for improving social functioning in children and adolescents (0–18 years)
with Autism Spectrum Disorder, with a focus on Level 1: a systematic review 48
Angelo Rega, Erika Inderst, Carolina Mele, Vincenzo Martone and Lucia Miranda
Beyond Exposure: Virtual Reality as a Space for Symbolization and Self-Expansion in Psychotherapy. A Critical Narrative Review 55
Lorenzo Antichi, Stefania La Rocca and Giuseppe Riva
Section III. Evaluation Studies
Navigating the Digital Labor Market: Young People’s Insights into AI, Digital Skills and Psychological Resources 67
Anthony Abrome, Marco De Angelis and Martina Benvenuti
Technology Habits and Healthy Lifestyles: Preliminary Results from the T.H.R.I.V.E. Project 75
Stefano Triberti, Silvia F.M. Pizzoli, Lucrezia Savioni, Alessandra Micalizzi, Claudia Vetrani, Elisa Scerrati, Mariarosaria Negri and Luigi Barrea
Exploring Embodiment in Digital Health Narratives: Preliminary Findings from a Pilot Study 82
Giulia Magni, Claudia Repetto and Peter Johannes Schulz
The role of behavioural activation and inhibition systems in AI attitude and Perceived Literacy 90
Caterina Sapone, Silvia F. M. Pizzoli and Stefano Triberti
How to choose with Artificial Intelligence: an experiment on lifestyle change decision-making with the help of AI-powered chatbots 96
Lucrezia Savioni, Chiara Scuotto,Claudia Vetrani and Stefano Triberti
Promoting morality through awe-elicitation in virtual reality: a pilot experimental study on prosocial implicit attitudes 103
Chiara Scuotto, Masiar Babazadeh, Silvia F.M. Pizzoli, Pierpaolo Limone and Stefano Triberti
Virtual reality intervention for decision-making in youth soccer: protocol and preliminary user experience 110
Francesca Celestina Rosanna Gala, Michele Trapletti, Emanuele Bersezio, Andrea Cardone, Alberto Giacomini, Emiliano C. and Claudia Repetto
Investigating the Effects of Affective Virtual Reality Exposure on Sleep: Preliminary Findings from a Mixed-Design Home-Based Study 114
Fabiana Festucci, Daniela Tempesta, Michele Ferrara, Mariano Luis Alcaniz Raya and Maria Eleonora Minissi
Can AI Support Executive Function Rehabilitation in ADHD? Expert Insights on ChatGPT-5 Outputs 121
Margherita Dah., Filippo La Paglia and Barbara Caci
Fluent, Polite, and (Maybe) Wrong: Conversational Norms and User Evaluation of AI Agents in Complex Reasoning Tasks 127
Eleonora Brivio, Nina Malinarich, Ilaria Vergine, Gioacchino Forti and Carlo Galimberti
A Virtual Reality Compassionate Body Scan with Visible Internal Bodily Signals for Anorexia Nervosa: A Feasibility Pilot Study 134
Elisa Rabarbari, Anna Flavia Di Natale, Margherita Boltri, Daniele Di Lernia, Giulia Brizzi, Claudia Repetto, Leonardo Mendolicchio, Daniela
Villani and Giuseppe Riva
Immersion Matters: Heart Rate Responses to an Overview-Effect Virtual Reality Experience 141
Giulia Magni, Elisa Rabarbari, Giuseppe Riva and Claudia Repetto
Social Presence and Immersion in Shared Hyper-Realistic VR: Preliminary Links to Collaboration and Learning 148
Maria Eleonora Minissi, Alejandro Trillo, Julia Domingo-Ajenjo, Javier Marin-Morales and Mariano Alcaniz
Toward AI-Assisted Pre-Therapy Screening: Clinicians’ Priorities for First-Session Preparation 155
Maria Eleonora Minissi, Diogo Manuel Carvalho-Gomes, Miltiadis Gialousis, Mariano Alcaniz and Javier Marin-Morales
Self-representation in Addiction disorder: a pilot study on digital avatars created by patients with substance use disorder 162
Donatella Ciarmoli and Stefano Triberti
Emotion Regulation and Usability Outcomes Following a DBT-Based Mixed-Reality Session for Eating Disorder Prevention (PrevED) 169
Aikaterini Ampatzoglou, Juliana Rojas-Rinc.n, Anna Carballo-Marquez, Samuel Navas-Medrano, Jose Luis Soler-Dominguez, Jorge Larrosa-Quesada, Maria Gimiz-Sanfeliu, Maria Fernandez-Capo, Maite Garolera, Patricia Pons and Bruno Porras-Garcia
Section IV. Original Research
Comparative Review: AI Agents & Personality Frameworks 180
Anantha Krishnan Raman Fesabas, Vinorra Shaker, Andrew J. Campbell and Kostas Fanti
Ethics in an Engineering Decision: How AI Agent Design Shapes Human Behaviour 189
Anantha Krishnan Raman Fesabas, Vinorra Shaker, Andrew J. Campbell and Chin Ike Tan
AI, emotion, and collaboration: A neurocognitive investigation of learning 198
Eleonora Brivio, Giuseppina Gifuni, Marco Bilucaglia, Carmelo Campo, Chiara Casiraghi, Simone Chiarelli, Alessandro Fici, Simone Guida,
Valeria Micheletto, Claudia Minutola, Valeria Pasculli and Vincenzo Russo
Informational Videos in GEP Test Consultations: Patients Understanding and Decision-Making Outcomes for Breast Cancer
Patients 205
Federico Borgogni, Ilaria Durosini, Chiara Marzorati, Elisabetta Munzone, Lesley Fallowfield, Giuseppe Curigliano and Gabriella Pravettoni
Digital Decision-Making Tools for Health: How do People Feel? 215
Valeria Sebri, Ilaria Durosini, Federico Borgogni and Gabriella Pravettoni
VR Executive Digital Biomarkers Integrated with Psychosocial and Health-Related Risk Factors for Mild Cognitive Impairment Detection: A Study Protocol with Preliminary Validation Analyses 222
Eleonora Noselli, Chiara Stramba-Badiale, Irene Alice Chicchi Giglioli, Chiara Pupillo, Sarah Todisco, Alessandra Magrelli and Giuseppe Riva
Social Virtual Reality Dance: A Qualitative Comparison of Entrainment and Enjoyment in Younger and Older Adults 229
Yuanyangyang Yin, Maike Adolph and Nicola Doring
The Affective VR Experience: How Personality and Presence Influence Affective Responses in Immersive Environments 237
Vanshika Sharma, Sohee Park and Alexandra Voinescu
Proactive Moderation of Toxicity in Online Gaming: A Narrative Review 243
Joseph Macey, Anna-Leena Macey, Ewa Antczak and Juho Hamari
Reh@City XR: An XR Rehabilitation Platform Integrating Accessibility Aids and Ecological Validity for Cognitive, Motor, and Social Cognition Training 250
Andre Freitas, Ana Lucia Faria and Sergi Bermudez i Badia
Online interventions using self-compassion vs. ABCDE technique for post-injury recovery: a pilot study in rugby players 256
Luana Amadini Genovese, Francesca Celestina Rosanna Gala, Andrea Zappia, Claudia Repetto, Giuseppe Riva and Silvia Francesca Maria Pizzoli
Reconnecting Body and Mind After Injury: A Pilot Virtual Reality- Based Psychological Intervention for Injured Athletes 264
Luana Amadini Genovese, Silvia F.M. Pizzoli, Giulia Capellini, Margherita Gelmetti and Giuseppe Riva
Simulated Empathy and Emotional Recognition in Conversational AI: A Qualitative Study on Adolescent Distress 271
Margot Zanetti, Eugenia Treglia, Stefania Morsanuto, Lucrezia Savioni and Leonarda Anna Vinci
Feasibility and Acceptability of Home-Based Cognitive-Motor Dual-Task Training: A Qualitative Study of the DUAL-REHAB Application 279
Jonathan Panigada, Francesco Bigotto, Francesca Bruni, Marco Stramba-Badiale, Karine Marie Goulene, Silvia Serino and Elisa Pedroli
The impact of 3D visualization on visual memory encoding and cognitive load in Acquired Brain Injury: an ongoing study 286
Raquel Vasconcelos, Ana Lucia Faria, Oscar Goncalves, Sergi Bermudez i Badia, Diogo Branco and Luis Ferreira
Using the Sound-Induced Flash Illusion (SIFI) and Computerized Stroop Tasks to Predict Cognitive Deficits: A Methodological Study 293
Sarah Todisco, Alessandra Magrelli, Chiara Stramba-Badiale, Eleonora Noselli and Giuseppe Riva
Digital Relaxation Media and Hypnotic Voice Tracks: The Role of Prior Relaxing Audio Use 300
Silvia F.M. Pizzoli, Lucrezia Savioni and Stefano Triberti
Human–AI Agreement in Online Emotional Tone Assessment: A Preliminary Calibration Study 307
Ewa J. Antczak, Mikolaj Antczak, Yaqi Huang, Isabella Stasiuk, Joseph Macey and Anna-Leena Macey
Privacy Awareness Without Trust: TikTok Use Among Predominantly Gen Z College Students 314
Hala Strohmier Berry, Dalia Yosri Elsawi, Jabrasia Corley, Alonso Fernandez Guirao and Nilam Rodriguez
Predictors of Presence and Technology Acceptance in a Virtual Reality Food Exposure Program: Implications for ARFID 321
Marta Ferrer-Garcia, Virginia Krieger, Eduardo Serrano Troncoso, Julian De Torres Elvira, Olga Benzadon Aznar, Adela Fust. Escolano, Jose Ruiz Rodriguez, Marta Carulla-Roig and Jose Gutierrez-Maldonado
Hacking with healthcare professionals: co-creation of customized cognitive interventions 328
Monica Spinola, Sergi Bermudez i Badia, Manuela Vilar, Mario R. Simoes and Luis Ferreira
Optimizing Malicious URL Detection with Transformer Models: A Study on BERT-LoRA Fine-Tuning 336
Gleyzie Tongo, Farnaz Farid, Ala Al-Areqi and Farhad Ahamed
Section V. Clinical Observations
Can an immersive VR game reduce mental illness stigma in healthcare students? An experimental study of efficacy and mechanisms 345
Raul Szekely, Oliver Mason and David Frohlich
Is it Helpful or Harmful? Young People's Conflicted Thoughts and Feelings of Generative AI 354
Jaimee Stuart and Elena Piccinelli
Towards Personalized Digital Psycho-Oncology: An Exploratory Study on Patient Preferences, Technology Acceptance, and Implications for Matching Models 361
Milija Strika, Marianna Masiero, Valeria Sebri, Andrea Gobbo and Gabriella Pravettoni
The Cost of “Doing the Right Thing”: A Qualitative Study on Moral Injury and Student Well-being among Malaysian University Students Facing Online Rage Bait 367
Vinorra Shaker, Anantha Krishnan Raman Fesabas and Farah Nabilah Abdul Rahman
Section VI. Work In Progress
What are the advantages of combining exposure in VR and exposure in vivo in the CBT for social anxiety disorder? 378
Stephane Bouchard and Helene Forget
Active Social Media Engagement and Perceived Political Polarization Among Black and White Gen Z College Students 386
Scott M. Debb
Reverse Cognitive Offloading to Counter Disordered Information: Introducing A Cyberpsychological Meme Genealogy Framework (CMGF) 393
Scott M. Debb and Erick Miyares
Perceived Political Polarization and Social Media: An Exploratory Examination Through a Dual-Pathway Cognitive-Affective Processing Framework 400
Scott M. Debb and Stacy Thayer
Human–AI Social Interaction: A Multimodal Platform Integrating Virtual Humans, LLMs, and Immersive Virtual Reality 409
Alexandre Rodrigues, Carlos Leon, Pedro Gamito and Thomas Parsons
Toward a Presence Scale for Augmented Reality: Development and Content Validation of the Augmented Reality Questionnaire (ARQ) 416
Lise Haddouk and Donovan Morel
Voice as Data: Expert Perspectives on Datafication, Voice-Based Surveillance, and the Psychological Stakes of AI 422
L. Vacri, C. Dempsey, L. Challenor, N. Collins and A. Green
Doing the “Bare Minimum”: Therapy-Speak and Relationship Norms on TikTok 429
Christine Redmond, Auxane Boch, Nicola Fox-Hamilton, Liam Challenor and Caoimhe Dempsey
Talking about social media-related body image concerns: feasibility and preliminary efficacy of an interpersonal self-disclosure intervention on emotional well-being and body image in young adult women 436
Anna Flavia Di Natale, Elisa Rabarbari, Giulia Cremaschi, Martina Cantamessa, Arianna Lonati, Giuseppe Riva and Daniela Villani
Talking to the Future Self: Large Language Models as Scaffolds for Episodic Future Thinking 443
Stefania La Rocca, Lorenzo Antichi, Lorenzo Reina and Giuseppe Riva
SUBJECT INDEX 451
AUTHOR INDEX 454
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