Publications

Types of publication
Scientific article
Mind & Society
29 Aug 2025

Viale, R., Cucchiarini, V., Caravona, L. et al. Institutional discounting effect in nudging health-relevant behaviors among students. Mind Soc 24, 665–690 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11299-025-00335-y

Scientific article
Triple Helix
13 Jul 2025

Viale, R., & Cucchiarini, V. (2025). Behavioral Triple Helix for Innovation. Triple Helix12(1), 97-119. https://doi.org/10.1163/21971927-bja10065

Book's chapter
Carocci editore
2025

Viale, R., Cucchiarini, V, & Batani, S. (2025). Valutazione comportamentale della performance nella pubblica amministrazione. In P. Adinolfi & A. F. Uricchio (Eds.), Valutare la complessità: La performance nelle organizzazioni pubbliche (pp. 145-160). Carocci editore.

Scientific article
frontiers in built environment
7 Jan 2025

Viale, R. (2025). Behavioral city. In Front. Built Environ. 10:1501853. doi: 10.3389/fbuil.2024.1501853.

Book
Raffaello Cortina Editore
2024

Pietroni, D., Rumiati, R., & Viale, R. (2024). Strumenti per negoziare: Dalle scienze comportamentali all’e-negotiation. Differenze individuali e culturali. Raffaello Cortina Editore

Scientific article
PNAS Nexus
11 Jun 2024

Valerio Capraro, Austin Lentsch, Daron Acemoglu, Selin Akgun, Aisel Akhmedova, Ennio Bilancini, Jean-François Bonnefon, Pablo Brañas-Garza, Luigi Butera, Karen M Douglas, Jim A C Everett, Gerd Gigerenzer, Christine Greenhow, Daniel A Hashimoto, Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Jolanda Jetten, Simon Johnson, Werner H Kunz, Chiara Longoni, Pete Lunn, Simone Natale, Stefanie Paluch, Iyad Rahwan, Neil Selwyn, Vivek Singh, Siddharth Suri, Jennifer Sutcliffe, Joe Tomlinson, Sander van der Linden, Paul A M Van Lange, Friederike Wall, Jay J Van Bavel, Riccardo Viale, The impact of generative artificial intelligence on socioeconomic inequalities and policy making, PNAS Nexus, Volume 3, Issue 6, June 2024, pgae191, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae191

Book
Edward Elgar Publishing
2024

Gigerenzer, G., Mousavi, S., & Viale, R. (Eds.). (2024). Elgar Companion to Herbert Simon. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800370685

Book
Frontiers Media SA
2023

Gallagher, S., Viale, R., Gallese, V., (Eds.). (2023). Embodied bounded rationality. Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA. doi: 10.3389/978-2-8325-3343-7

Book
Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
2023

Viale, R., Mousavi, S., Filotto, U., & Alemanni, B. (Eds.). (2023). Artificial Intelligence and Financial Behaviour. Edward Elgar Publishing. (Behavioural Financial Regulation and Policy [BEFAIRLY] series).

Scientific article
Frontiers in Psychology
18 May 2023

Viale, R., Gallagher S., & Gallese, V., (2023). Bounded rationality, enactive problem solving, and the neuroscience of social interaction. In Front. Psychol. 14:1152866. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1152866

Book's chapter
Springer
2023

Cucchiarini, V., Lunn, P., Robertson, D., Viale, R. (2023). Using Social and Behavioral Science to Support COVID-19 Pandemic Response. In: Zimmermann, K.F. (eds) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_319-1

Scientific article
Frontiers in Human Dynamics
10 Oct 2022

Martignon, L., Erickson, T. & Viale R., (2022). Transparent, simple and robust fast-and-frugal trees and their construction. Front. Hum. Dyn. 4:790033. https://doi.org/10.3389/fhumd.2022.790033

Book
MIT Press Ltd
2022

Viale, R. (2022). Nudging. The MIT Press.

Scientific article
Frontiers in Psychology
10 Mar 2021

Cucchiarini, V., Caravona, L., Macchi. L., Perlino. F. L., & Viale, R., (2021). Behavioral Changes After the COVID-19 Lockdown in Italy. In Front. Psychol. Volume 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.617315

Book
Routledge
2020

Viale, R. (Ed.). (2020). Routledge Handbook of Bounded Rationality (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315658353

Scientific article
Mind & Society
16 Oct 2020
Scientific article
Mind & Society
8 Nov 2019

Viale, R. (2019). Architecture of the mind and libertarian paternalism: is the reversibility of system 1 nudges likely to happen?. In Mind Soc 18, 143–166 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11299-019-00218-z

Scientific article
Mind & Society
23 Mar 2019

Viale, R. (2018). The normative and descriptive weaknesses of behavioral economics-informed nudge: depowered paternalism and unjustified libertarianism. In Mind Soc 17, 53–69 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11299-019-00207-2

Book
Il Mulino
2018

Viale, R. (2018). Oltre il nudge: Libertà di scelta, felicità e comportamento. Il Mulino

Book's chapter
Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana
2017

Viale, R., (2017). Behavioral insights, nudging e politiche pubbliche europee: Fallimenti di mercato e complessità. In Europa: un’utopia in costruzione (pp.20). Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana.

Scientific article
Sistemi intelligenti
2 Aug 2017

Viale, R., (2017). La decisione nel regno dell’incertezza, in “Sistemi intelligenti, Rivista quadrimestrale di scienze cognitive e di intelligenza artificiale” 2/2017, pp. 233-248, Il Mulino. https://doi.org/10.1422/87753

Book
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2013

Viale, R. (2013). Methodological Cognitivism: Vol. 2: Cognition, Science, and Innovation. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40216-6

Book
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2012
Viale, R. (2012). Methodological Cognitivism: Vol. 1: Mind, Rationality, and Society. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24743-9
Book
Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
2008

Simon, H. A., Egidi, M., Viale, R., Marris, R. (2008). Economics, Bounded Rationality and the Cognitive Revolution. Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.

Volumes  

(forthcoming) New Cognitive Economics. Cambridge Mass: The MIT Press

(forthcoming) La Nuova Economia Cognitiva. Bologna: Il Mulino

(forthcoming) Handbook of Cognitive Economics. Cheltenham: Elgar

2025 Issue on Behavioral Paternalism (with Mario Rizzo), Mind and Society

2025 The cognitive basis for decision making under risk and uncertainty: Research programmes and controversies. (with Samuel Shye), Lausanne: Frontiers

2024 Strumenti Per Negoziare. (con Davide Pietroni e Rino Rumiati). Milano: Cortina

2024 Companion to Herbert Simon (with G. Gigerenzer and S. Mousavi). Cheltenham: Elgar 

2023 Embodied Bounded Rationality (with S.Gallagher and V.Gallese). Lausanne: Frontiers

2023 Artificial Intelligence and Financial Behaviour. (with S.Mousavi, U. Filotto, and B.Allemanni),Cheltenham: Elgar

2022 Nudging, Cambridge: The MIT Press

2021 Handbook of Bounded Rationality, London: Routledge

2021 Financial Education and Risk Literacy (with S. Mousavi, U.Filotto and B.Alemanni). Cheltenham: Elgar.

2021 Analisi comportamentale delle politiche pubbliche. (with Laura Macchi) Bologna: Il Mulino

2018 Behavioral Finance Revolution and Financial Regulations and Policies, (with S.Mousavi, B. Alemanni and U. Filotto). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar

2018 Oltre il Nudge. Libertà di Scelta, Felicità e Comportamento , (with a foreword by Cass Susnstein) Bologna: Il Mulino

2016 Cognitive Unconscious and Human Rationality (with L. Macchi and M. Bagassi), The MIT Press

2016 Issue on Wellbeing. Mind & Society, Springer

2015 Issue on Bounded Rationality, Mind&Society, Springer

2013 Methodological Cognitivism, Vol. 2 Cognition, Science, and Innovation, Springer

2012 Methodological Cognitivism, Vol 1 Mind, Rationality and Society, Springer

2010 The capitalization of knowledge: a Triple Helix of University-Industry-Government (with H. Etzkowitz), Edward Elgar

2008 La cultura dell’innovazione, Milano: Editrice Il Sole 24 Ore, 2008

2006 Biological and cultural bases of human inference (with D. Andler and L. Hirschfeld), Mahwah: L. Erlbaum

2005 Le nuove economie, Milano: Editrice Il Sole 24 Ore

2003 Valutare la Scienza, (con A. Cerroni) Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino Editore

2001 Knowledge and Politics, Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag, 2001

2001 L’explication des norms sociales, (avec R. Boudon and P. Demeulenaere), Paris: Presses Universitaires de France

1997 Cognitive Economics, Lascomes Series, 1

1992 (reprinted in 2008) Economics, Bounded Rationality and the Cognitive Revolution (with H. Simon, M. Egidi and R. Marris), Brookfield: Edward Elgar

1991 Metodo e società nella scienza, Milano: Franco Angeli

1990 Modelling the Mind (with K.A. Mohyeldin Said, W.H. Newton-Smith, K.V. Wilkes), Oxford: Oxford University Press

1990 Innovazione Tecnologica nelle piccole e medie imprese, (con C. Roveda), Torino: La Rosa

1988 Autonomia dell’Università e della Ricerca, (con C. Roveda), Torino: La Rosa

1987 Mente Umana Mente Artificiale. Milano: Feltrinelli

    

Articles

1990 to today Pubblications in academic journals: Mind & Language, Memory and Cognition, Foundations of Science, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Critical Sociology, Mind & Society, Industrial and Corporate Change, Science and Public Policy, International Review of Economics, Frontiers in Psychology, Frontiers in Human Dynamics, Management Research Review.

Pubblications from 2016 to today:

Viale, R. ,“Brain based bounded creativity” in L.Macchi, M.Bagassi and R.Viale (eds.) Cognitive Unconscious and Human Rationality. Cambridge Mass: The Mit Press (2016).

Viale, R. “La Razionalità Limitata e le Forme di Paternalismo Libertario”, Sistemi Intelligenti-Rivista Quadrimestrale di Scienze Cognitive e Intelligenza Artificiale (Il Mulino), Anno XXVIII, n.1 (2016).

Viale, R. “How To Decide in the Large World of Finance: The Bounded Rational Adaptive Nudges” , in “Ensuring financial competences. Gauging financial knowledge, targeting and delivering educational programmes”, Quaderni di Finanza Consob, 84. (2017)

Viale, R. “La Decisione nel Regno dell’Incertezza”, Sistemi Intelligenti- Rivista Quadrimestrale di Scienze Cognitive e Intelligenza Artificiale (Il Mulino), Anno XXIX, n.2 (2017).

Viale, R. “ Behavioral Insights, Nudging e Politiche Pubbliche Europee”, in Europa: un utopia in costruzione, Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana (2018).

Viale, R. “The normative and descriptive weaknesses of Behavioral Economics Nudges. ”, Mind & Society, 17: 53-69 (2018).

Viale, R. “Understanding Financial Behaviour For Better Policy Making: An Introduction” in R.Viale, S.Mousavi, B. Allemanii, and U. Filotto (eds.) Behavioral Finance Revolution and Financial Regulations and Policies, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (2018).

Viale, R. “Architecture of Mind and the Libertarian Paternalism: Is the Reversibility of System 1 Nudges Likely to Happen?”, Mind & Society , 18: 143-166 (2019).

Viale, R. “La razionalità limitata embodied alla base del cervello sociale ed economico”, Sistemi Intelligenti (2019).

Viale, R. “Corpo e Razionalità” in Giorgio Coricelli e Duccio Martelli (a cura di ) Neurofinanza. Le basi neuronali delle scelte finanziarie. Milano: Egea (2020).

Viale, R. “Why Bounded Rationality”, . in R.Viale (ed.), Routledge Handbook on Bounded Rationality. London: Routledge (2021).

Viale, R., “Embodied Bounded Rationality” (with Gallese, V., Mastrogiorgio, A. and Petracca, E.) in R.Viale (ed.), Routledge Handbook on Bounded Rationality. London: Routledge (2021).

Viale, R., “Psychopathological Irrationality and Bounded Rationality” in R.Viale (ed.), Routledge Handbook on Bounded Rationality”. London: Routledge (2021).

Viale, R., “Epistemic Uncertainty and Covid-19”, Mind& Society 20, pages149–154 (2021).

Cucchiarini, V., Caravona, L., Perlino F., Viale, R., and & Macchi, L.. (2021). Behavioral Change and Covid-19 in Italy. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.617315

Viale, R. “Cos’è l’analisi comportamentale dell politiche pubbliche” in R.Viale e L.Macchi (a cura di). Analisi Comportamentale delle Politiche Pubblche. Bologna: Il Mulino (2021).

Viale R. “Nudge e gli ‘Animal Spirits’ dell’innovazione” in R.Viale e L.Macchi (a cura di). Analisi Comportamentale delle Politiche Pubblche. Bologna: Il Mulino (2021).

Martignon, L., Viale, R. and Erickson, T., “Arbor: A Transparent, simple AI tool for: constructing fast-and-frugal classification and diagnostic trees in the medical domain”., Frontiers in Human Dynamics. https://doi.org/10.3389/fhumd.2022.790033 (2022)

Viale, R. “Enactive Problem Solving: An Alternative To The Limits Of Decision Making” in G.Gigerenzer, R. Viale and S. Mousavi (eds.). Companion to Herbert Simon. Cheltenham: Elgar (2023)

 Viale, R. “Embodied Individualism” in N. Bulle and F. Di Iorio (eds.) Palgrave Handbook of Methodological Individualism. London: Palgrave McMillan (2023)

Cucchiarini, V. Lunn, P., Robertson, D. and Viale, R. “Using Social and Behavioural Science to Support COVID-19 Pandemic Response” in K. F. Zimmermann (ed.) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Heidelberg: Springer. (2023)

Viale. R, Gallagher, S., and Gallese V. Bounded Rationality, Enactive Problem Solving and The Neuroscience of Social Interaction, Frontiers in Psychology. 14:1152866. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1152866 (2023)

Viale R, Gallagher S and Gallese V Editorial: Embodied bounded rationality. Front. Psychol. 14:1235087. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1235087 (2023)

Viale, R. “Artificial Intelligence Should Meet Natural Stupidity. But It Cannot! ”in R.Viale, S.Mousavi, U.Filotto and B. Alemanni (eds), Artificial Intelligence and Financial behaviour., Cheltenham: Elgar (2024)

Lino, D., Roazzi, A., & Viale, R. . Investigative Decision-Making: A Qualitative Analysis of Homicide Detectives’ Practices. Homicide Studies, (2024)

Capraro, V. and Viale, R. “The impact of generative artificial intelligence on socioeconomic inequalities and policy making” PNAS Nexus volume 3, Issue 6, pag. 191, (2024)

Viale, R. “Behavioral City” Frontiers in Built Environment, Urban Studies, Volume 10 (2025)

Viale, R., & Cucchiarini, V. (2025). Behavioral Triple Helix for Innovation. Triple Helix (published online ahead of print 2025). 

Viale, R., Cucchiarini, V., Caravona, L, Roazzi, A.. & Macchi, L.. Institutional Discounting Effect in nudging health relevant behaviors among students. Mind & Society. Volume 2. (2025)

Viale, R., Cucchiarini, V. e Batani, S., “Valutazione comportamentale della performance nella Pubblica Amministrazione” in Paola Adinolfi e Antonio Felice Uricchio (a cura di), Valutare la complessità La performance nelle organizzazioni pubbliche, Roma: Carocci (2025)

Viale, R., Batani, S., Urbini, F., Pietroni, D. Cucchiarini, V. (in preparation) “Organizational Nudges to Improve Organizational Citizenship Behaviors in Italian Public Administration”

Viale, R., Cucchiarini, V., Caravona, L., Pietroni, D. , and Macchi, L. (in preparation). “Insurance Behaviour in Italy”