Emanuele is Full Professor of Psychology at the University of Florence, and associate researcher at the Institute of cognitive sciences and technologies of the National Research Council of Italy. Prior to joining the University of Florence, Emanuele was a professor in the Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science of the University of Trento, recognized as a department of excellence by the Italian government. Most of his academic career was in the United States. He was Professor and Chair of the Psychology Department of The New School for Social Research, a Lecturer at the University of Kent at Canterbury (England), the University of St. Andrews (Scotland), and a postdoctoral fellow at Ohio State University.