Associate Professor Guillermo Campitelli
PhD in Psychology

I am unit coordinator of two research units:

PSY173: Introduction to Psychological Research Methods

BSC302: Advanced Quantitative Research Methods.

• Psychology of Expertise
• Psychology of Judgement and Decision Making
• Bayesian inference
• Theoretical psychology

• Developing assessment and training tools for biosecurity.
• Facilitation of reasoning with probabilities using visual aids
• Training in Bayesian reasoning
• Retiring statistical significance
• Developing a general theory of the mind

• Elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science [APS] – May 2018
• Defence Science Centre Collaborative Research Grant | Cognitive Biosecurity: Assessing and training perceptual expertise for defence biosecurity threats. (with Matthew Thompson, Chad Hewitt, Marnie Campbell). [December 2019-December 2020, AU$110,800]
• Small Research Grant | College of Science, Health, Engineering and Education, Murdoch University. Cognitive Biosecurity: Decision making tools for improved surveillance. (with Matthew Thompson, Chad Hewitt, Marnie Campbell). [July 2019-July 2020, AU$6,000]
• Learning and Teaching Innovation Grant | College of Science, Health, Engineering and Education, Murdoch University. (with Matthew Thompson and Petra Skeffington) [ August 2019- August 2020, AU$2,573]
• Visiting Professorship Award | Office of Research and Innovation, Edith Cowan University. Visit of Prof. Zach Hambrick to ECU. [January 2018-March 2018, AU$13,900]
• Small grant | School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University. Project: Understanding information about risk. [July 2017-December 2017, AU$10,000]
• Visiting scholar grant | School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University. Visit Dr. Alessandro Guida to ECU [July 2017, AU$5,000]
• Visiting scholar grant | School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University. Visit Prof. Zach Hambrick to ECU [January 2017, AU$7,220]
• Research Infrastructure Grant | Faculty of Computing, Health and Science, Edith Cowan University. Project: Mathematical modelling of expertise and judgement and decision making. [August 2015, AU$14,802]

Currently supervising the following PhD or DPsych students:

• Elliot Cottril (with Matthew Thompson)
• Chloe Smith (with Matthew Thompson)
• Elizabeth Benton (with Andrew Lewis and Brody Heritage)
• Daniel Russell (with Alex Metse)
• Daniel Fosacheca (University of Cordoba, Argentina)

Journals

• Guida, A., Campitelli, G., (2019), Explaining SPoARC and SNARC effects with knowledge structures: An expertise account., Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 26, 2, pages 434 - 451.

Textbook

Campitelli, G. (2018). A research voyage for psychologists: From traditional methods to model comparison and Bayesian inference. ISBN: 978-1-77330-330-7. TopHat.

 Preprint

Campitelli, G. (2017). An introductory tutorial on Bayesian inference using a simple pedagogical tool. Retrieved from osf.io/fhkzc. DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/FHKZC

Authored book

Campitelli, G. (2006). Organised Thinking: A psycho-technology for happiness, efficiency and intelligent collaboration. Buenos Aires: Dunken. {In Spanish} ISBN: 987-02-1702-8

 Edited books

Hambrick, D. Z., Campitelli, G., & Macnamara, B. N. (2018). The Science of Expertise: Behavioral, Neural, and Genetic Approaches to Complex Skill. New York: Routledge. ISBN: 978-1-138-20437.

Bilalić, M., Langner, R., Campitelli, G., Turella, L., & Grodd, W. (2015). Frontiers Research Topics – Neural Implementations of Expertise. Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA. ISBN: 978-2-88919-688-3.

Campitelli, G., Connors, M. H., Bilalić, M., & Hambrick, D. Z. (2015). Frontiers Research Topics – Psychological Perspectives on Expertise. Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA. ISBN: 978-2-889195-20-6.

Book chapters

Campitelli, G. (forthcoming). Estudios cognitivos acerca de la experticia ajedrecistica.

Hambrick, D. Z., & Campitelli, G. (forthcoming). Expertise and memory. In M. H. Kahana & A. D. Wagner (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Human Memory.

Campitelli, G. (2018). Cognitive processes in chess. In D. Z. Hambrick, G. Campitelli & B. N. Macnamara (Eds.), The Science of Expertise: Behavioral, Neural, and Genetic Approaches to Complex Skill (pp. 31-46). New York: Routledge.

Bilalić, M., & Campitelli, G. (2018). Studies of the activation and structural changes of the brain associated with expertise. In K. A. Ericsson, R. R. Hoffman, A. Kozbelt and A. M. Williams (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance (2^nd edition) (pp. 233-253). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Hambrick, D. Z., Burgoyne, A., Campitelli, G., & Macnamara, B. N. (2018). Working memory, thinking and expertise. In L. J. Ball and V. A. Thompson (Eds.), International Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning. New York: Psychology Press.

Hambrick, D. Z., Campitelli, G., & Macnamara, B. N. (2018). Introduction: A brief history of expertise research and overview of the book. In The Science of Expertise: Behavioral, Neural, and Genetic Approaches to Complex Skill, D. Z. Hambrick, G. Campitelli, & B. N. Macnamara (Eds.) (pp. 1-9). New York: Routledge.

Hambrick, D. Z., Macnamara, B. N., Campitelli, G., Ullén, F., & Mosing, M. A. (2016). Chapter One – Beyond Born versus Made: A New Look at Expertise. In H. R. Brian (Ed.), Psychology of Learning and Motivation (Volume 64, pp. 1-55). Academic Press.

Campitelli, G., Gobet, F., & Bilalić, M. (2014). Cognitive processes and development of chess genius: An integrative approach. In D. K. Simonton (Ed.), The Handbook of Genius (pp. 350-374). New York: Wiley-Blackwell.

Campitelli, G., & Speelman, C. (2014). Expertise and the illusion of expertise in gambling. In F. Gobet, M. Schiller (Eds.), Problem gambling: Cognition, prevention and treatment (pp. 41-60). London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Campitelli, G., & Gobet, F. (2007). A critical review of educational benefits of chess instruction. In R. Filguth (Ed.), The importance of chess (pp. 183-197). Porto Alegre: Artmed. {In Portuguese}

Gobet, F., & Campitelli, G. (2006). Educational benefits of chess instruction: A critical review. In T. Redman (Ed.), Chess and education: Selected essays from the Koltanowski conference (pp. 124-143). Dallas, TX: Chess Program at the University of Texas at Dallas.

 Refereed journal articles

 2019

Campitelli, G. (2019). Retiring statistical significance from psychology and expertise research. Journal of Expertise, 2, 217-223.

Guida, A., & Campitelli, G. (2019). Explaining SPoARC and SNARC effects with knowledge structures: An expertise account. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 26, 434-451.

Becerra, R., Preece, D., Campitelli, G., Scott-Pillow, G. (2019). The Assessment of Emotional Reactivity Across Positive and Negative Emotions: Development and Validation of the Perth Emotional Reactivity Scale (PERS). Assessment, 26, 867-879. DOI: 10.1177/1073191117694455.

Becerra, R., Preece, D., Campitelli, G. (online 2018). Assessing emotional reactivity: Psychometric properties of the Perth Emotional Reactivity Scale (PERS) and the development of a short form (PERS-S). Journal of Personality Assessment. DOI: 10.1080/00223891.2018.1465430

2018

Campitelli, G., & Hambrick, D. Z. (2018). Introduction to the special issue: Current directions in expertise research. Journal of Expertise, 1, 103-104.

Hambrick, D. Z., & Campitelli, G. (2018). Introducing the Journal of Expertise. Journal of Expertise, 1, 1-5.

2017

Sala, G., Burgoyne, A. P., Macnamara, B. N., Hambrick, D. Z., Campitelli, G., & Gobet, F. (2017). Checkmate to the “academic selection” argument: Chess players outperform non-chess players in cognitive skills related to intelligence: A meta-analysis.  Intelligence, 61, 130-139.

Campitelli, G., Macbeth, G., Ospina, R., & Marmolejo-Ramos, F. (2017). Three strategies for the critical use of statistical methods in psychological research. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 77, 881-895.

 2016

Burgoyne, A. P., Sala, G., Gobet, F. Macnamara, B. N., Campitelli, G., & Hambrick, D. Z. (2016). The relationship between cognitive ability and chess skill: A comprehensive meta-analysis. Intelligence, 59, 72-83.

Guida, A., Campitelli, G., & Gobet, F. (2016). Becoming an expert: Ontogeny of expertise as an example of neural reuse. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 39, 123-125.

 2015

Campitelli, G. (2015). Memory behavior requires knowledge structures, not memory stores. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1696.

Bilalić, M., Langner, R., Campitelli, G., Turella, L., & Grodd, W. (2015). Neural implementations of expertise. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9, 545.  

Campitelli, G. (2015). Answering research questions without calculating the mean. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1379.

Campitelli, G., Connors, M. H., Bilalić, M., & Hambrick, D. Z. (2015). Psychological perspectives on expertise. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 258.

Campitelli, G., & Macbeth, G. (2015). Hierarchical Bayesian graphical models in psychology. Revista Colombiana de Estadística [Colombian Journal of Statistics], 37, 319-339.

 2014

Campitelli, G., & Gerrans, P. (2014). What does the cognitive reflection test measure? A mathematical modelling approach. Memory and Cognition, 42, 434-447.

Hambrick, D. Z., Oswald, F. L., Altmann, E. M., Meinz, E. J., Gobet, F., & Campitelli, G. (2014). Accounting for expert performance: The devil is in the details. Intelligence, 45, 112-114.  

Connors, M. H., & Campitelli, G. (2014). Expertise and the representation of space. Frontiers in Psychology, 5,270.

Hambrick, D. Z., Altmann, E. M, Oswald, F. L., Meinz, E. J., Gobet, F., & Campitelli, G. (2014). Deliberate practice: Is that all it takes to become an expert? Intelligence, 45, 34-45.

Macbeth, G., Razumiejczyk, E., Crivello, M. C., Bolzán, C., Pereyra Girardi, C. I., Campitelli, G. (2014). Mental models for the negation of conjunctions and disjunctions. Europe’s Journal of Psychology, 10, 135-149.

Gerrans, P., Speelman, C., & Campitelli, G. (2014). The relationship between personal financial wellness and financial wellbeing: A structural equation modelling approach. Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 35, 145-160.

 2013

Campitelli, G., & Speelman, C. (2013). Expertise paradigms for investigating the neural substrates of stable memories. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 740.

Becerra, R., & Campitelli, G. (2013). Emotional reactivity: Critical analysis and proposal of a new scale. International Journal of Applied Psychology, 3, 161-168.

Macbeth, G., Razumiejczyk, E., & Campitelli, G. (2013). The abstraction effect on logic rules application. Education Sciences and Psychology, 24, 85-96.

 2012

Bilalić, M., Turella, L., Campitelli, G., Erb, M., & Grodd, W. (2012). Expertise modulates the neural basis of context-dependent recognition of objects and their relations. Human Brain Mapping, 33, 2728-2740.

Fajfar, P., Campitelli, G., & Labollita, M. (2012). Effects of immediacy of feedback on estimations and performance. Australian Journal of Psychology, 64, 169-177.

2011

Campitelli, G., & Gobet, F. (2011). Deliberate practice: Necessary but not sufficient. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 20, 280-285.

Connors, M., Burns, B., & Campitelli, G. (2011). Expertise in complex decision making: The role of search in chess 70 years after de Groot. Cognitive Science, 35, 1567-1579.

 Campitelli, G., & Gobet, F. (2011). The role of age, practice and handedness in the acquisition of expert skills. Psicologia del Desarrollo [Developmental Psychology], 1, 29-38. {In Spanish)

Macbeth, G., Razumiejczyk, E., & Campitelli, G. (2011). Relevance of introspection on recognising Augustus DeMorgan’s logic laws. Boletin de Psicologia [Bulletin of Psychology], 101, 67-79. {In Spanish}

 2010

Campitelli, G., & Gobet, F. (2010). Herbert Simon’s decision-making approach: Investigation of cognitive processes in experts. Review of General Psychology, 14, 354-364.

Campitelli, G., & Labollita, M. (2010). Correlations of cognitive reflection with judgments and choices. Judgment and Decision Making, 5, 182-191.

 Before 2010

Campitelli, G. & Gobet, F. (2008). The role of practice in chess: A longitudinal study. Learning and Individual Differences, 18, 446-458.

Campitelli, G., Parker, A., Head, K., & Gobet, F. (2008). Left lateralization in autobiographical memory: An fMRI study using the expert archival paradigm. International Journal of Neuroscience, 118, 1-19.

Campitelli, G., Gobet, F., Head, K., Buckley, M., & Parker, A. (2007). Brain localisation of memory chunks in chessplayers. International Journal of Neuroscience, 117, 1641-1659.

Campitelli, G., Gobet, F., Williams, G., & Parker, A. (2007). Integration of perceptual input and visual imagery in chess players: Evidence from eye movements. Swiss Journal of Psychology, 66, 201–213.

Gobet, F., & Campitelli, G. (2007). The role of domain-specific practice, handedness and starting age in chess. Developmental Psychology, 43, 159-172.

Campitelli, G., & Gobet, F. (2005). The mind’s eye in blindfold chess. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology [now Journal of Cognitive Psychology], 17, 23-45.

Campitelli, G., Gobet, F. & Parker, A. (2005). Structure and stimulus familiarity: An fMRI study of memory in chess players. Spanish Journal of Psychology, 8, 238-245.

Campitelli, G., & Gobet, F. (2004). Adaptive expert decision making: Skilled chess players search more and deeper. International Computer Games Association Journal, 27, 209-216.

Gobet, F., Campitelli, G., & Waters, A. J. (2002). Rise of human intelligence. Comments on Howard (1999). Intelligence, 30, 303-311.

Campitelli, G. (1999). Memory in chess. Levels of processing or presentation time? Anuario de Investigaciones de la Facultad de Psicologia, Universidad de Buenos Aires [Annals of Research of the Faculty of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires], 7, 177-189. {In Spanish}