Martina Luchetti Ph.D.

Martina Luchetti Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

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Dr. Martina Luchetti is a Faculty at the Florida State University College of Medicine, Department of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine. She joined the Department as a post-doctoral scholar (specialized faculty) in 2015, after earning her Ph.D. in Psychological Sciences at the University of Bologna, Italy. She serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department since 2019. Her research concerns the identification of psychological and behavioral factors influencing health, memory function and aging processes in middle and later adulthood. In recent years, she specifically directed attention to socio-relational factors, particularly loneliness, that affect risk of late-life cognitive impairment and dementia and focused on relational dynamics, within spouses and caregivers.

University of Bologna, Italy
Bachelor’s in Sciences of Behaviour and Social Relations

 2006

University of Bologna, Italy
Master’s in Clinical and Community Psychology

 2009

University of Bologna, Italy, Department of Psychology
Ph.D. in Psychological Sciences

 2015

 

Associated Editor, Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences (2024)

Outstanding Junior Faculty Researcher, Faculty Council Award, Florida State University College of Medicine (2019)

Selected as a speaker for the Rising Star Symposium at the 2017 Association for Research in Personality Conference, Sacramento, CA

Florida State University, Institute for Successful Longevity, Affiliate
 

Association for Research in Personality, Member

  

Association for Psychological Science, Member

  

 

Dr. Luchetti’s program of research focuses on examining the dynamic relation between psychosocial factors and health adopting a developmental life-span perspective. Specific topics include:

  • Personality development and change
  • Memory, cognitive aging and risk for dementia
  • Loneliness and relational dynamics (e.g., romantic couples)
  • Health behaviors, particularly alcohol use
  • Caregiving

 

  1. Nikitin, J., Luchetti, M., Alimanovic, N., Rupprecht, F.S., & Sutin, A.R. (2024). Are social interactions perceived as more meaningful in older adulthood? Psychology and Aging. Advance Online Publication.
  2. Sutin, A. R., Luchetti, M., Gamaldo, A. A., Mogle, J., Lovett, H.H., Brown, J., Sliwinski, M.J., & Terracciano, A. (2024). Purpose in life and cognitive function: Evidence for momentary associations in daily life. Innovation in Aging, 8 (3), igae018. 
  3. Sutin, A. R., Luchetti, M., Aschwanden, D., Zhu, X., Stephan, Y., & Terracciano, A. (2023). Loneliness and risk of all-cause, Alzheimer's, vascular, and frontotemporal dementia: A prospective study of 492,322 individuals over 15 years. International Psychogeriatrics, 35(6), 283-292.
  4. Terracciano, A., Luchetti, M., Karakose, S., Stephan, Y., & Sutin, A. R. (2023). Loneliness and risk of Parkinson disease. JAMA neurology, 80(11), 1138-1144.
  5. Luchetti, M., Ledermann, T., Aschwanden, D., Nikitin, J., O'Súilleabháin, P. S., Stephan, Y., Terracciano, A., & Sutin, A. R. (2022). Actor and partner effect of loneliness on episodic memory and verbal fluency: A dyadic multilevel analysis of romantic couples across 28 Countries. The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 77(12), 2202-221
  6. Luchetti, M., Terracciano, A., Stephan, Y., Aschwanden, D., & Sutin, A. R. (2021). Personality and psychological health in caregivers of older relatives: A case-control study. Aging and Mental Health, 25(9), 1692-1700.
  7. Luchetti, M., Terracciano, A., Stephan, Y., Aschwanden, D., & Sutin, A. R. (2021). Personality traits and memory: A multilevel analysis across 27 countries from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. Psychological Science, 32(7), 1047-1057.
  8. Luchetti, M., Terracciano, A., Aschwanden, D., Lee, J. H., Stephan, Y., & Sutin, A. R. (2020). Loneliness is associated with risk of cognitive impairment in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 35(7), 794-80
  9. Luchetti, M., Lee, J. H., Aschwanden, D., Sesker, A., Strickhouser, J. E., Terracciano, A., & Sutin, A. R. (2020). The trajectory of loneliness in response to COVID-19. American Psychologist, 75(7), 897-908.
  10. Luchetti, M., & Sutin, A. R. (2018). Age differences in autobiographical memory across the adult lifespan: Older adults report stronger phenomenology. Memory, 26(1), 117-130.

 



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