About Me
I am a PhD candidate in Cognitive Science at the University of Trento. The topic of my PhD will cover AI and mental health. My interests are Mental Health, Natural Language Processing and AI. I truly believe that approaching AI from a cognitive perspective might not only improve AI applications but also result in a tool to better understand the human mind.
I work at CogNosco Lab (PI Massimo Stella) where we do lots of interesting things!
Research Interests
- Large Language Models 🧠💬
- Machine Psychology 🤖ðŸ§
- Mental Health 🧠🌱
Publications
Natural Language Processing Psychometrics
E. S. De Duro, E. Franchino, M. Stella - arXiv:2608.07316 (2026)
The TEA Nets framework combines AI and cognitive network science to model targets, events and actors in text
S. Franchini, A. Carrillo, E. S. De Duro, R. Improta, A. Aghazadeh Ardebili, M. Stella - arXiv:2604.27673 (2026)
Cognitive networks identify AI biases on societal issues in Large Language Models
E. S. De Duro, E. Franchino, R. Improta, G. A. Veltri, M. Stella - EPJ Data Science 15, 7 (2026)
Network science highlights the emotional structure of counselling conversations simulated by Large Language Models and humans
E. S. De Duro, R. Improta, M. Stella - Proceedings of the 28th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, September, 11–12, 2024, Trento, Italy.
Measuring and identifying factors of individuals' trust in Large Language Models
E. S. De Duro, G. Veltri, H. Golino, M. Stella - arXiv:2502.21028 (2025)
Client101: Leveraging Large Language Models for Simulated Psychotherapy Client Interactions
D. C. Lozoya, M. Conway, E. S. De Duro, S. D'Alfonso - JMIR Med Educ 2025;11:e68056
Introducing CounseLLMe: A dataset of simulated mental health dialogues for comparing LLMs like Haiku, LLaMAntino and ChatGPT against humans
E. S. De Duro, R. Improta, M. Stella - Emerging Trends in Drugs, Addictions, and Health, 100170
PhDGPT: Introducing a psychometric and linguistic dataset about how large language models perceive graduate students and professors in psychology
E. S. De Duro, E. Taietta, R. Improta, M. Stella - arXiv:2411.10473 (2024)
EmoAtlas: An emotional network analyser of texts merging psychological lexicons, artificial intelligence and network science
A. Semeraro, S. Vilella, R. Improta, E. S. De Duro, S. M. Mohammad, G. Ruffo, M. Stella - Behavior Research Methods 57, 77 (2025)
Sfidare l'ansia da matematica con l'aiuto delle scienze cognitive
L. Ciringione, E. S. De Duro, M. Stella - Ithaca: Viaggio nella Scienza 2024 (23), 63-72
Contact Information
edoardo.deduro@unitn.it
Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science
University of Trento