Tommaso Capezzone

I am a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Turin and a PhD fellow at Collegio Carlo Alberto, under the supervision of Pierluigi Conzo.

My work studies how information, beliefs, and institutional or social context shape individual opinions and behaviors. I combine survey and laboratory experiments with large-scale observational data and computational content analysis tools.

My research agenda currently focuses on two main projects. I am studying the content of televised political campaign advertisement to identify its impact on political donations. Furthermore, I am exploring how exposure to zero-sum environments could induce zero-sum thinking, and how this cognitive bias, in turn, undermines trust even in win-win settings.

I am visiting Cornell University for the 2026 Spring semester hosted by Professor Seth Sanders.