20740059 - PSYCHOLOGY OF COMMUNICATION

The course aims to provide the skills required for defining communicative processes, recognising their main elements, applying the expertises acquired to the analysis of the cognitive and social aspects of public and interpersonal communication as well as at work and within the fields of education, media, politics and performing arts.
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Fruizione: 20710379 PSICOLOGIA DELLA COMUNICAZIONE in Scienze della Comunicazione L-20 R POGGI ISABELLA

Programme

Program 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 natural and artificial uses in interpersonal interaction, on the job, in education, poltics, art, music, entertainment.

Core Documentation

For the exam of 12 Credits, two books are to be studied for the oral examination:

A. Poggi I.: Psicologia della comunicazione. La mente, il corpo, gli altri. Mondadori Università, Milano 2022.

B. One book selected within the following list:

1. Poggi I.: Parlare con gli occhi. Lo sguardo come forma di comunicazione. Carocci, Roma 2023. (if studying this book, you can skip the following parts of Text A: Chapters 1 to 4 included, and chapters 7-8, 13-14, 23, 38)
2. Poggi I e D’Errico F.: Comunicazione multimodale e influenza sociale. Il corpo e il potere. Carocci, Roma 2020. (if studying this book, you can skip part IX of text A.)
3. Castelfranchi C. e Poggi I. Bugie finzioni sotterfugi. Per una scienza dell'inganno. Carocci, Roma 2005 (if studying this book, you can skip Chapter 1 of this same book, “Bugie finzioni sotterfugi”, and Chapter 9 of text A., “Psicologia della comunicazione. La mente, il corpo. Gli altri”)
4. Proverbio A.M.: Percezione e creazione musicale. Fondamenti biologici e basi emotive. Zanichelli 2022. (if studying this book, you can skip Part X of text A.)
5. Domaneschi F. e Penco C.: Come non detto. Usi e abusi dei sottintesi. Laterza, Bari 2016.
6. Lombardi Vallauri E.: La lingua disonesta. Mulino, 2019.
7. Paglieri F.: Disinformazione felice. Cosa c’insegnano le bufale. Mulino 2020
8. Scianna C.: Ironia. Indagine su un fenomeno linguistico, cognitivo e sociale. Carocci, 2022.
9. Pietrandrea P.: Comunicazione, dibattito pubblico, social media. Carocci 2021.
10. Proverbio A.M.: Neuroscienze e differenze sessuali. Carocci 2024.
11. Caruana F., Palagi E.: Perché ridiamo? All’origine del cervello sociale. Mulino 2023.
12. Seth A.: Come il cervello crea la nostra coscienza. Raffaello Cortina, 2023.
13. Cristianini N.: Machina sapiens. L’algoritmo che ci ha rubato il segreto della conoscenza. Mulino 2024.
14. Urbinati N.: L’ipocrisia virtuosa. Mulino, 2023.
15. Ferrari C.: Che cosa sono le neuroscienze sociali. Carocci 2022.
16. Fossa F., Schiaffonati V., Tamburrini G. Automi e persone. Introduzione all’etica dell’Intelligenza Artificiale e della Robotica. Carocci, Roma 2021.

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



2. Exam for 6 Credits

Students taking the exam for only 6 Credits at the oral examinations will have to report about the following book:

Poggi I.: Psicologia della comunicazione. La mente, il corpo, gli altri. Mondadori, Milano 2022.




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

The students' performance is evaluated through oral examination, namely putting at least one question and concurring examples about each text or group of texts in the program. A question may concern a concept explained in a text: here, the student is asked to define it and to provide examples of it. 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.