00870 - Social Psychology

Course contents

The course includes the following topics:

• SOCIAL COGNITION AND SOCIAL IDENTITY: The role of cognitive, affective and social factors to understand the link between social cognition and social behaviour in relation to health
• SOCIAL STEREOTYPE: Theoretical models on social stereotypes, intergroup prejudices and discrimination and main strategies to reduce intergroup bias especially used in the healthcare area
• SEXUAL OBJETIFICATION: Individual and contextual antecedents of objectification and self-objectification and its detrimental consequences
• PERSUASION: The main theories and tools used to persuade others and their application in the relationship between healthcare worker and patient

Readings/Bibliography

Teaching materials that will be used in class will be essential and sufficient to prepare for the exam.

Teaching methods

The course will be taught trough frontal lessons but also videoclips will be used to illustrate the most important experiments of social psychology.

Team work will be organized to focus on the main topics and understand how social-psychological process explain real and daily life phenomena.

Comments and discussions will be strongly encouraged also in order facilitate the links among topics.

The frequency to the lessons will not be measured but it is strongly recommended.

 

Assessment methods

The written exam at the end of the course will consist of 3 open-ended questions to complete in 40 minutes.

Up to 30 points will be assigned to each answer to the 3 open-ended questions. The final mark is calculated as the mean of the points assigned to each of the three questions. The following criteria will be applied for the evaluation of each answer:

• Appropriateness and completeness of the information (e.g., references)
• Clarity of exposition
• Critical understanding of the topic (i.e., examples and reasoning)
• Coherence of the argumentation

The following grades will be assigned according to the satisfaction of the criteria:

• Up to 30: 4 criteria are fully satisfied
• Between 27-29: 3 criteria are fully satisfied
• Between 24-26: 2 criteria are fully satisfied
• Between 21-23: at least 1 criteria is fully satisfied and others are partially satisfied
• Between 18-20: More than one criteria is partially satisfied

Moreover, during the course, students will be also asked to work in teams on given topics. These activities will be also contribute to students' final mark.

 

Teaching tools

Teaching materials will be made available in the platform Virtuale.

Office hours

See the website of Francesca Prati