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Valentina Petrolini

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of the Basque Country

Valentina Petrolini is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) and a member of the Lindy Lab. Her research focuses on philosophy of psychiatry and psychology. She has published on autism, delusions, and the boundary between normality and pathology. She is among the founding members of PRISMA, a research group on the uses of imagination in philosophy, art and the sciences.

Written by Valentina Petrolini

Person in a blue hat reading a book on a bench in a forest, surrounded by birch trees and greenery.

Stories and literature

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There is an unseen smuggling operation between fiction and reality

Fiction is not quarantined from reality, as experts have long proposed. There is constant trade between the two worlds

by Daniele Molinari, Valentina Petrolini & Wolfgang Huemer

A man helps a child ride a bike on a paved walkway in a park. Other people are visible in the background.

Learning and education

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You can’t unlearn, and that’s a challenge for teachers

Experts would be better teachers if they could adopt the mindset of a novice, but to do so is perplexingly difficult

by Alexander Jeuk & Valentina Petrolini