Cristiano Castelfranchi, senior research scientist at the Institute of Psychology of the Italian National Research Council, has been coordinator of the "Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Models and Interaction" Unit, and of the "Social Psychology" Unit. His interests cover multi-agent systems research, cognitive modeling and social psychology. Dr. Castelfranchi has been the promoter of the Social Behavior Simulation Project at IP-CNR, and one of the pioneers of Distributed AI in Italy and Europe. He teaches Cognitive Psychology and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Siena. He has published extensively in cognitive psychology, in artificial intelligence, and in social theory and simulation. His books include Che figura! (1988) (about social emotions), Artificial Social Systems (1994), and Cognitive and Social Action (1995).
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