20710379 - PSYCHOLOGY OF COMMUNICATION

The course contributes to the framework of communication sciences by adding a perspective of psychology and cognitive science.

It provides knowledge concerning the cognitive, psycho-social, affective and interactional processes underlying communication, while defining and analysing communicative processes, their learning and development, and their components: signals, meanings, communicative acts and their goals, verbal and bodily communication systems, multimodality.
Specific knowledge is also provided concerning reasoning and argumentation, teaching and learning, construction of the self, image and self-presentation, cooperative and conflictual dyadic and group interactions and relationships.


The course aims to develop skills of observation, description and analysis of real cases of interpersonal and public communication, at work, at school, in politics, media, technology, music, art and entertainment.
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Programme

Communication is investigated in all of its technological and body modalities (words, prosody, intonation, gestures, facial expression, gaze, touch, posture, proxemics). Analysis and detection of sincere and deceptive, cooperative and aggressive communication, and of its uses in interpersonal interaction, on the job, in education, poltics, art, music, entertainment.

Core Documentation

For the exam of 12 Credits, the following three items are to be studied for the oral examination:

A. Poggi I.: Psicologia della comunicazione. La mente, il corpo, gli altri. Mondadori, Milano 2022. (per intero)

B. One of the three following books:
1. Poggi I.: Le parole del corpo. Introduzione alla comunicazione multimodale. Carocci, Roma 2006. (those who study this book can skip Part V of the textbook A.)
2. Poggi I e D’Errico F.: Comunicazione multimodale e influenza sociale. Il corpo e il potere. Carocci, Roma 2020. (those who study this book can skip Part IX of the textbook A.)
3. Castelfranchi C. e Poggi I. Bugie finzioni sotterfugi. Per una scienza dell'inganno. Carocci, Roma 2005 (those who study this book can skip its Chapter 1, and also skip Chapter 9 of the textbook A.)


C. Either one book (or three papers in English) chosen among the items of the following list:

1. Volterra V., Roccaforte M., Di Renzo A. e Fontana S.: Descrivere la lingua dei segni italiana. Una prospettiva cognitiva e sociosemiotica. Il Mulino, Bologna 2019.
2. Piazza F.: La parola e la spada. Violenza e linguaggio attraverso l’Iliade. Il Mulino, Bologna 2018.
3. Lombardi Vallauri E.: La lingua disonesta. Il Mulino, Bologna 2019.
4. ORLETTI F.: La conversazione diseguale. Carocci, Roma, 2000.
5. LUGLI L. e MIZZAU M.: L’ascolto. Il Mulino, Bologna.
6. LAKOFF G.: Non pensate all'elefante. Fusi Orari, Milano, 2006.
7. Viale R.: Oltre il nudge. Libertà di scelta, felicità e comportamento. Il Mulino, Bologna 2019.
8. Bazzanella C. Linguistica cognitiva. Un’introduzione. Laterza, Bari 2014.
9. Cacciari C.: Psicologia del linguaggio. Il Mulino, Bologna 2011.
10. Domaneschi F. e Penco C.: Come non detto. Usi e abusi dei sottintesi. Laterza, Bari 2016.
11. Domaneschi F.: Insulti. Laterza, Bari 2020.
12. Tarabbia A.: Parlare per immagini. Zanichelli, Bologna.
13. Pennisi A. e Perconti P. (a cura di): Le scienze cognitive del linguaggio. Il Mulino, Bologna 2006.
14. Belacchi C. e Benelli B.: Il significato delle parole. La competenza definitoria nello sviluppo tipico e atipico. Mulino, Bologna 2007.
15. Campisi E. Che cos’è la gestualità. Carocci, Roma, 2018.
16. Nobili C. I gesti dell’italiano. Carocci, Roma, 2019.
17. Bongelli R e Riccioni I. Cosa facciamo con le parole. Modelli di analisi qualitativa delle interazioni verbali. Franco Angeli, Milano, 2020.
18. Calemi F. e Paolini Paoletti M.: Cattive argomentazioni: come riconoscerle. Carocci (Bussole) Roma 2014.
19. Paglieri F.: Disinformazione felice. Cosa c’insegnano le bufale. Mulino 2020
20. Pietrandrea P.: Comunicazione, dibattito pubblico, social media. Carocci 2021.
21. Fossa F., Schiaffonati V., Tamburrini G. Automi e persone. Introduzione all’etica dell’Intelligenza Artificiale e della Robotica. Carocci, Roma 2021.


MAINLY FOR THOSE CONCERNED WITH THE PSYCHOLOGY OF LEARNING AND TEACHING COMMUNICATION:

22. Cornoldi C., Meneghetti C., Moè A., e Zamperlin C.: Processi cognitivi, motivazione e apprendimento. Il Mulino, Bologna, 2018.
23. PARISI D. (a cura di): Per una educazione linguistica razionale. Mulino, Bologna, 1979.
24. POGGI I. (a cura di): Le parole nella testa. Guida a un'educazione linguistica cognitivista. Mulino, Bologna 1987 (fuori stampa; reperibile presso la Biblioteca di Scienze dell’Educazione).
25. POGGI I.: La grammatica del significato. Un itinerario didattico. Mulino, Bologna, 1989.

26. One of the above books can be replaced by THREE papers in English, to download from the following link:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Isabella_Poggi


Other texts can be substituted for the above ones upon agreement with the teacher.



2. Exam for 6 Credits

For students taking the exam for only 6 Credits the texts to be reported at the oral examinations are the following two:

1. Poggi I.: Psicologia della comunicazione. Un approccio socio-cognitivo. Mondadori, Milano 2022.

2. Lotto L. e Rumiati R. (a cura di). Introduzione alla psicologia della comunicazione. Il Mulino, Bologna 2019.




Type of delivery of the course

The course will be given, whether in case of distance or presence learning, through both traditional classes and hands-on exercises where students can apply the theoretical notions through analyses and research activities concerning 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 in general not mandatory but may help, due to learning by doing. Yet, it is mandatory for the lab part of the course which entitles to a final report exonerating from a part of the oral examination.

Type of evaluation

Knowledge assessment 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.