The course tackles two fields of psychology, emotions and communication. As to the former, it aims at provide knowledge and research skills concerning emotional processes, their mental representation, evolution, their relationships with cognition, social interaction and communication, their role in decision, self-construction, education, learning.
Concerning the latter field, the course aims at providing knowledge and research skills concerning communication in all its verbal, bodily and mediated modalities, and at deepenign mechanisms, processes of evolution of face-to-face and distance interaction, and their cognitive, affective, social functions in sincere and deceptive interpersonal, and public interaction.
The knowledge provided will enlight the processes of emotion expression, communication and regulation, and on the connections of emotions and communication with the processes of reasoning, argumentation and persuasion, learning and teaching, influence between individuals and groups.
The course aims at developing competences for the analysis of emotions and communication: through qualitative and quantitative methods ranging from conceptual analysis to empirical, experimental and simulative research, applications will be carried out on cognitive, affective and social aspects of interpersonal and public communication at work in education, media, politics, technology, music, entertainment.
After the course the student will be endowed with theoretical nad methodological tools to conduct theoretical analysis and empirical research on emotional and communicative processes in everyday life, politics, art, and on how they are expressed in various media, from text to speech, from tv to social networks.
Concerning the latter field, the course aims at providing knowledge and research skills concerning communication in all its verbal, bodily and mediated modalities, and at deepenign mechanisms, processes of evolution of face-to-face and distance interaction, and their cognitive, affective, social functions in sincere and deceptive interpersonal, and public interaction.
The knowledge provided will enlight the processes of emotion expression, communication and regulation, and on the connections of emotions and communication with the processes of reasoning, argumentation and persuasion, learning and teaching, influence between individuals and groups.
The course aims at developing competences for the analysis of emotions and communication: through qualitative and quantitative methods ranging from conceptual analysis to empirical, experimental and simulative research, applications will be carried out on cognitive, affective and social aspects of interpersonal and public communication at work in education, media, politics, technology, music, entertainment.
After the course the student will be endowed with theoretical nad methodological tools to conduct theoretical analysis and empirical research on emotional and communicative processes in everyday life, politics, art, and on how they are expressed in various media, from text to speech, from tv to social networks.
teacher profile teaching materials
Definition of communication. Cognitive, affective, relational processes implied in communication in all of its modalities (words and sentences, prosody, gestures, facial expression, gaze, physical contact, posture, proxemics, music) and through face-to-face and technological media. Analysis and detection of sincere and deceptive, cooperative and aggressive communication, nad its uses in interpersonal interaction, work, education, politics, entertainment.
A. D’Urso V. e Trentin R.: Introduzione alla psicologia delle emozioni. Laterza, Bari 2006.
B. Poggi I. (a cura di): La mente del cuore. Armando, Roma 2008.
C. Lotto L. e Rumiati R. (a cura di). Introduzione alla psicologia della comunicazione. Il Mulino, Bologna 2019 (nuova edizione): except for chapters 3, 4, 5, 10, 11.
D. Poggi I.: Le parole del corpo. Introduzione alla comunicazione multimodale. Carocci, Roma 2006.
E. Castelfranchi C. e Poggi I.: Bugie, finzioni, sotterfugi, per una scienza dell’inganno, Carocci, Roma 2012.
F. One text or set of texts, chosen among the following 19 items:
1. Castelfranchi C.: Che figura. Emozioni e immagine sociale. Il Mulino, Bologna 2005.
2. Nussbaum, M.: L’intelligenza delle emozioni. Il Mulino, Bologna 2013.
3. Matarazzo O. e Zammuner V. (a cura di): La regolazione delle emozioni. Il Mulino, Bologna 2012.
4. Ledoux J.: Il cervello emotivo. Baldini e Castoldi, Milano 2005.
5. Damasio A.R.: Emozione e coscienza. Adelphi, Milano 2010.
6. Miceli M. e Castelfranchi C.: Expectancy and Emotion. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013.
7. D’Amico A.: Intelligenza emotiva e metaemotiva. Il Mulino, Bologna. 2018.
8. Palvarini P.: Le emozioni che rendono forti. Il lavoro con le emozioni in psicoterapia. Alpes Italia.
9. Bazzanella C.: Linguistica cognitiva. Un’introduzione. Laterza, Bari 2014.
10. Levorato M.C.: Le emozioni della lettura. Mulino, Bologna, 1999.
11. Gallese V. e Guerra M.: Lo schermo empatico. Cinema e neuroscienze. Raffaello Cortina, Milano 2015.
12. Boulez P., Changeux J.P. e Manoury P.: I neuroni magici. Musica e cervello. Carocci, Roma 2016.
13. Mado Proverbio A.: Neuroscienze cognitive della musica. Il cervello musicale tra arte e scienza. Bologna, Zanichelli 2019
14. Cavalieri R. e Chiricò D.: Parlare, segnare. Introduzione alla fisiologia e alla patologia delle lingue verbali e dei segni. Bologna, Il Mulino.
15. Benedetti F.: L’effetto placebo. Breve viaggio tra mente e corpo. Roma, Carocci 2018.
16. Both of the following books:
a. Arielli E. e Bottazzini P.: Idee virali. Perché i pensieri si diffondono. Bologna, Il Mulino.
b. Riva G.: I social network. Bologna, Il Mulino
17. Both of the following books:
a. Cavazza N.: Pettegolezzi e reputazione. Bologna, Il Mulino.
b. Riva G.: Fake news: vivere e sopravvivere in un mondo post-verità. Bologna, Il Mulino
18. 4 papers about emotions chosen among the following, to be downloaded from:
http://www.comunicazione.uniroma3.it/it/page/25/_/___22
Castelfranchi C. & Poggi I. (1990): "Blushing as a Discourse: Was Darwin Wrong?". In R.Crozier (Ed.) Shyness and Embarrassment. Perspectives from social Psychology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp.230-251.
Poggi I. & Zuccaro V.: “Admiration”. Proceedings of the Workshop AFFINE: Affective Interaction in Natural Environment, Post-conference workshop of ICMI 2008, Chania, Crete, 24 sept. 2008.
Poggi I. & D’Errico F., (2009) “The mental ingredients of Bitterness”. Journal of multimodal user interface. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/s12193-009-0021-9
Poggi I, D’Errico F (2012) Pride and its expression in political debates. In Paglieri F, Tummolini L, Falcone R & Miceli M (eds) The goals of cognition. Festschrift for Cristiano Castelfranchi, London College Publications, London, pp. 221-253; 978-1-84890-094-3.
D’Errico F., Poggi I. (2014) Acidity. Emotional causes, effects, and multimodal communication. In A. Freitas-Magalhães (Ed.), Emotional Expression: The Brain and The Face (Vol.5). Porto: University Fernando Pessoa Press, pp.341-368.
D’Errico Francesca, Poggi Isabella (2016). Social emotions. A challenge for sentiment analysis and User Models. In: D’Errico F. Poggi I. (a cura di): Tkalčič M. De Carolis B. de Gemmis M. Odić A. Košir A., Emotions and Personality in Personalized Services. Models, Evaluation and Applications. vol. Social Emotions. A Challenge for Sentiment Analysis and User Models, Berlin:Springer International Publishing, ISBN: 978-3-319-31411-2, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-31413-6
Poggi I. e Magno Caldognetto E.: “Il parlato emotivo. Aspetti cognitivi, linguistici e fonetici”. Atti del Convegno Il parlato italiano. Napoli, 12-15 febbraio 2003. Napoli, D’Auria. CdRom, 2004.
Poggi I., Pelachaud, C. & De Carolis B. (2001): “To display or not to display? Towards the architecture of a Reflexive Agent”. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Attitude, “Personality and Emotions in User-adapted Interaction”. User Modeling 2001, Sonthofen (Germany), 13-17 July 2001.
Poggi I., and D’Errico, F. (2018): “Feeling offended”. A Blow to Our Image and Our Social Relationships. Frontiers in Psychology. January 17, 2018. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02221/full
19. 4 papers about multimodal communication, chosen among the following, to be downloaded from:
http://www.comunicazione.uniroma3.it/it/page/25/_/___22
Vincze L., Poggi I. (2013) Multimodal markers of One's Own and the Other's Vagueness. AI*HCI 2013, Workshop of the XIII AI*IA Conference, December 4th
Poggi I., D'Errico F. (2013) Towards the Parody Machine. Qualitative analysis and cognitive processes in the parody of a politician. In A. Petrosino,
D'Errico F and Poggi I., Vincze L. (2013) Discrediting body. A multimodal strategy to spoil the other's image. In Poggi I., D'Errico F. (et al.; eds)
D'Errico, F., Vincze L. Poggi, I. (2013). Vagueness in Political Discourse. In S. Villalta & Cabrio (eds) Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on
Poggi I, D'Errico F., Vincze L. (2013) Comments in words, face and body. Journal of multimodal users interface. Vol. 7, Issue 1 (2013), Page 67-78; DO
D'Errico, F., Vincze L. Poggi, I. (2013). Face and head comments. Taking the floor without words. In Mello, H., Pettorino, M., and Raso, T., editors,
Signorello, R., D'Errico, F., Poggi, I., Demolin, D., and Mairano, P. (2013). Charisma perception in political speech: a case study. In Mello, H., Pet
D'Errico F., Signorello R., Poggi I..(2013) The perception of charisma from voice. A cross-cultural study. Proceedings of Aci Conference, IEEE, pp. 55-
D’Errico F. and Poggi I.: “The Bitter Laughter”. When Parody Is a Moral and Affective Priming in Political Persuasion. Frontiers in Psychology, 09 August 2016 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01144 (Scaricabile direttamente da Frontiers)
Other texts can be substituted for those at item F. upon agreement with the teacher.
Programme
Emotions: definition, biological and social functions, types of emotions. Emotion regulation, expression and communication. Primary emotions, image, cognitive, social, and moral emotions. Their role in interpersonal interaction, on the job, in learning and education, politics, art, music, entertainment.Definition of communication. Cognitive, affective, relational processes implied in communication in all of its modalities (words and sentences, prosody, gestures, facial expression, gaze, physical contact, posture, proxemics, music) and through face-to-face and technological media. Analysis and detection of sincere and deceptive, cooperative and aggressive communication, nad its uses in interpersonal interaction, work, education, politics, entertainment.
Core Documentation
The items to be studied for the oral exam are the following:A. D’Urso V. e Trentin R.: Introduzione alla psicologia delle emozioni. Laterza, Bari 2006.
B. Poggi I. (a cura di): La mente del cuore. Armando, Roma 2008.
C. Lotto L. e Rumiati R. (a cura di). Introduzione alla psicologia della comunicazione. Il Mulino, Bologna 2019 (nuova edizione): except for chapters 3, 4, 5, 10, 11.
D. Poggi I.: Le parole del corpo. Introduzione alla comunicazione multimodale. Carocci, Roma 2006.
E. Castelfranchi C. e Poggi I.: Bugie, finzioni, sotterfugi, per una scienza dell’inganno, Carocci, Roma 2012.
F. One text or set of texts, chosen among the following 19 items:
1. Castelfranchi C.: Che figura. Emozioni e immagine sociale. Il Mulino, Bologna 2005.
2. Nussbaum, M.: L’intelligenza delle emozioni. Il Mulino, Bologna 2013.
3. Matarazzo O. e Zammuner V. (a cura di): La regolazione delle emozioni. Il Mulino, Bologna 2012.
4. Ledoux J.: Il cervello emotivo. Baldini e Castoldi, Milano 2005.
5. Damasio A.R.: Emozione e coscienza. Adelphi, Milano 2010.
6. Miceli M. e Castelfranchi C.: Expectancy and Emotion. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2013.
7. D’Amico A.: Intelligenza emotiva e metaemotiva. Il Mulino, Bologna. 2018.
8. Palvarini P.: Le emozioni che rendono forti. Il lavoro con le emozioni in psicoterapia. Alpes Italia.
9. Bazzanella C.: Linguistica cognitiva. Un’introduzione. Laterza, Bari 2014.
10. Levorato M.C.: Le emozioni della lettura. Mulino, Bologna, 1999.
11. Gallese V. e Guerra M.: Lo schermo empatico. Cinema e neuroscienze. Raffaello Cortina, Milano 2015.
12. Boulez P., Changeux J.P. e Manoury P.: I neuroni magici. Musica e cervello. Carocci, Roma 2016.
13. Mado Proverbio A.: Neuroscienze cognitive della musica. Il cervello musicale tra arte e scienza. Bologna, Zanichelli 2019
14. Cavalieri R. e Chiricò D.: Parlare, segnare. Introduzione alla fisiologia e alla patologia delle lingue verbali e dei segni. Bologna, Il Mulino.
15. Benedetti F.: L’effetto placebo. Breve viaggio tra mente e corpo. Roma, Carocci 2018.
16. Both of the following books:
a. Arielli E. e Bottazzini P.: Idee virali. Perché i pensieri si diffondono. Bologna, Il Mulino.
b. Riva G.: I social network. Bologna, Il Mulino
17. Both of the following books:
a. Cavazza N.: Pettegolezzi e reputazione. Bologna, Il Mulino.
b. Riva G.: Fake news: vivere e sopravvivere in un mondo post-verità. Bologna, Il Mulino
18. 4 papers about emotions chosen among the following, to be downloaded from:
http://www.comunicazione.uniroma3.it/it/page/25/_/___22
Castelfranchi C. & Poggi I. (1990): "Blushing as a Discourse: Was Darwin Wrong?". In R.Crozier (Ed.) Shyness and Embarrassment. Perspectives from social Psychology. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990, pp.230-251.
Poggi I. & Zuccaro V.: “Admiration”. Proceedings of the Workshop AFFINE: Affective Interaction in Natural Environment, Post-conference workshop of ICMI 2008, Chania, Crete, 24 sept. 2008.
Poggi I. & D’Errico F., (2009) “The mental ingredients of Bitterness”. Journal of multimodal user interface. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/s12193-009-0021-9
Poggi I, D’Errico F (2012) Pride and its expression in political debates. In Paglieri F, Tummolini L, Falcone R & Miceli M (eds) The goals of cognition. Festschrift for Cristiano Castelfranchi, London College Publications, London, pp. 221-253; 978-1-84890-094-3.
D’Errico F., Poggi I. (2014) Acidity. Emotional causes, effects, and multimodal communication. In A. Freitas-Magalhães (Ed.), Emotional Expression: The Brain and The Face (Vol.5). Porto: University Fernando Pessoa Press, pp.341-368.
D’Errico Francesca, Poggi Isabella (2016). Social emotions. A challenge for sentiment analysis and User Models. In: D’Errico F. Poggi I. (a cura di): Tkalčič M. De Carolis B. de Gemmis M. Odić A. Košir A., Emotions and Personality in Personalized Services. Models, Evaluation and Applications. vol. Social Emotions. A Challenge for Sentiment Analysis and User Models, Berlin:Springer International Publishing, ISBN: 978-3-319-31411-2, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-31413-6
Poggi I. e Magno Caldognetto E.: “Il parlato emotivo. Aspetti cognitivi, linguistici e fonetici”. Atti del Convegno Il parlato italiano. Napoli, 12-15 febbraio 2003. Napoli, D’Auria. CdRom, 2004.
Poggi I., Pelachaud, C. & De Carolis B. (2001): “To display or not to display? Towards the architecture of a Reflexive Agent”. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Attitude, “Personality and Emotions in User-adapted Interaction”. User Modeling 2001, Sonthofen (Germany), 13-17 July 2001.
Poggi I., and D’Errico, F. (2018): “Feeling offended”. A Blow to Our Image and Our Social Relationships. Frontiers in Psychology. January 17, 2018. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02221/full
19. 4 papers about multimodal communication, chosen among the following, to be downloaded from:
http://www.comunicazione.uniroma3.it/it/page/25/_/___22
Vincze L., Poggi I. (2013) Multimodal markers of One's Own and the Other's Vagueness. AI*HCI 2013, Workshop of the XIII AI*IA Conference, December 4th
Poggi I., D'Errico F. (2013) Towards the Parody Machine. Qualitative analysis and cognitive processes in the parody of a politician. In A. Petrosino,
D'Errico F and Poggi I., Vincze L. (2013) Discrediting body. A multimodal strategy to spoil the other's image. In Poggi I., D'Errico F. (et al.; eds)
D'Errico, F., Vincze L. Poggi, I. (2013). Vagueness in Political Discourse. In S. Villalta & Cabrio (eds) Proceedings of 2nd International Workshop on
Poggi I, D'Errico F., Vincze L. (2013) Comments in words, face and body. Journal of multimodal users interface. Vol. 7, Issue 1 (2013), Page 67-78; DO
D'Errico, F., Vincze L. Poggi, I. (2013). Face and head comments. Taking the floor without words. In Mello, H., Pettorino, M., and Raso, T., editors,
Signorello, R., D'Errico, F., Poggi, I., Demolin, D., and Mairano, P. (2013). Charisma perception in political speech: a case study. In Mello, H., Pet
D'Errico F., Signorello R., Poggi I..(2013) The perception of charisma from voice. A cross-cultural study. Proceedings of Aci Conference, IEEE, pp. 55-
D’Errico F. and Poggi I.: “The Bitter Laughter”. When Parody Is a Moral and Affective Priming in Political Persuasion. Frontiers in Psychology, 09 August 2016 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01144 (Scaricabile direttamente da Frontiers)
Other texts can be substituted for those at item F. upon agreement with the teacher.
Type of delivery of the course
The course is delivered through both traditional classes and hands-on exercises where students can apply the theoretical notions through analyses and research activities conerning emotions and communication. Students who actively attend the hands-on activities and send a final assignment can be exempt from some texts in the program.Attendance
Frontal classes and hands-on activities. Attending is not mandatory but may help due to learning by doing.Type of evaluation
The evaluation is through oral examination, namely putting at least one question and concurring examples about each text or group of texts in the program. The texts are the same for both attending and non-attending students, but those who actively take part in the hands-on activities and write the assignment are exempt from a part of the texts. The score obtained for the assignment is computed as a part of the oral examination.