24676 - Psychology of Communication in Health-Related Contexts

Academic Year 2025/2026

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Dental Hygiene (cod. 8481)

Course contents

 

  • Bottom-Up and Top-Down Processes in Perception
  • The role of Attention in information processing
  • Pavlovian and Operant Conditioning; Social Learning
  • The role of the psychosocial context around the patient and the therapy on clinical outcomes
  • Placebo and Nocebo responses
  • Social Modulation of Pain
  • The role of effective communication of information for children and parents in odontoiatric setting

Readings/Bibliography

https://eduonplacebo.unibo.it/welcome

 

P. Legrenzi, C. Papagno, C. Umilta’

“Psicologia Generale _ Dal Cervello alla Mente”

Il Mulino, Bologna 2012

  • D. Schacter, D.T. Gilbert, D.M. Wegner

Psicologia Generale

Zanichelli, Bologna

•C. Cacciari – C. Papagno

«Psicologia Generale e neuroscienze cognitive. Manuale per le professioni medico-sanitarie"

Il Mulino, Bologna

Capitoli: V p.77

•F. Benedetti

“L’Effetto Placebo – Breve Viaggio tra Mente e Corpo”

Carrocci Editore, Roma 2012

Teaching methods

Frontal Lecture

Assessment methods

Test. 15 multiple choice questions.

 

Students with learning disorders and\or temporary or permanent disabilities: please, contact the office responsible (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en/for-students ) as soon as possible so that they can propose acceptable adjustments. The request for adaptation must be submitted in advance (15 days before the exam date) to the lecturer, who will assess the appropriateness of the adjustments, taking into account the teaching objectives

Teaching tools

Slides.

Office hours

See the website of Katia Mattarozzi