Gli ambiti di ricerca del Prof. Eraldo Francesco Nicotra riguardano l’approfondimento delle conoscenze scientifiche inerenti i seguenti filoni di ricerca:

1.  risk perception;
2. group decision making;
3. individual decision making;
4. perceptual studies on music or visual perception;
5. probabilistic reasoning;
6. economic psychology;
7. social network analysis;
8. psychophysics and mathematical statistics;
9. structural equation modeling (SEM-Models)  applied to verify reliability of psychological testing;
10. Use of Rash Models to verify unicity of single trait-model hypotheses;
11. Application of the KST (knoweladge Space Theory) to evaluate students?’ ability to solve statistical problems;
12. Application of the FCA (Formal Concept Analisys) to problems concerning the dependencies betweeen sets of objects and actributes into specific fields of action of the psychological assesssment.