Alexandrina Vasilichi
Doctoral Candidate
Academic education
since 2021 Doctoral candidate, Max Planck School of Cognition, Leipzig, Germany
Doctoral research performed at Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany
Supervisor: Peter Dayan
Lab rotations in the orientation phase: Peter Dayan, Micah Allen and Daniel S. Margulies
2018–2019 Master of Science in Cognitive and Decision Sciences, University College London, UK
2014–2017 Bachelor of Science in Psychology, Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience, Royal Holloway, UK
Research experience
2020–2021 Research assistance, Health Neuroscience Lab (Prof. Paul Fletcher), University of Cambridge, UK
2020 Research internship, Experimental Economics Group (Prof. Matthias Sutter), Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Bonn, Germany
2019 Research assistance, Department of Social Science (Prof. Alice Sullivan), University College London, UK
2018 Research assistance (Prof. George Wright), Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK
2015–2017 Research assistance, Department of Psychology (six different labs), Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Publications
Rowe, G., Bolger, F., ..., Vasilichi, A., & Wright, G. (revised and resubmit). Virtuous opinion changes in structured groups. Judgment and Decision Making.
Belton, I., Wright, G., Sissons, A., Bolger, F., Crawford, M. M., Hamlin, I., ... & Vasilichi, A. (2021). Delphi with feedback of rationales: How large can a Delphi group be such that participants are not overloaded, de-motivated, or disengaged? Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 170, 120897. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.120897
Hamlin, I., Bolger, F., Vasilichi, A., Belton, I., Crawford, M. M., Sissons, A., ... & Wright, G. (2021). Structured groups make more accurate veracity judgements than individuals. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 35(6), 1600–1607. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3892
Bolger, F., Nyberg, E. P., Belton, I., Crawford, M. M., Hamlin, I., Alvandi, A. O., ..., Vasilichi, A., & Wright, G. (2020). Improving the production and evaluation of structural models using a Delphi process. Preprint. https://osf.io/v6qsp
Poster presentations
Vasilichi, A., Nikolova, N., Legrand, N., & Allen, M. (2022, July). Affective expectations are modulated by the interplay between visceral signals and uncertainty of the sensory environment [Poster]. 25th Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) Annual Meeting, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Vasilichi, A., & de-Wit, L. (2020, January). Political polarization and depolarization across the UK Brexit divide [Poster]. Research on Online Political Hostility 2020 Conference, Aarhus, Denmark.
Vasilichi, A. & de-Wit, L. (2020, January). Political polarization and depolarization across the UK Brexit divide [Poster]. Annual January UCL Meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society, London, United Kingdom.