- Docente: Katia Mattarozzi
- Credits: 1
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)
Learning outcomes
To be aware of the psychological effect on therapy efficacy.
Course contents
- The role of the psychosocial context around the patient and the therapy.
- Placebo and Nocebo Responses and their clinical implications
- Inferences from facial appearance and the effect of first impression in the health care context, the role of implicit bias in caring.
Readings/Bibliography
- Blasini M, Corsi N, Klinger R, and Colloca L. Nocebo and pain: an overview of the psychoneurobiological mechanisms. Pain 2017; e585.
- Benedetti, F (2012). L’effetto Placebo. Breve viaggio tra mente e corpo. Carocci Editore.
- Benedetti, F (2013). Placebo and the new physiology of the doctor-patient relationship. Physiol Rev, 93:1207-46.
- Mattarozzi K., Colonnello V., De Gioia F., Todorov A. I Care, even after the first impression: facial appearance-based evaluations in health care context. Social Science and Medicine 2017, 182, 68-72.
- TODOROV, A., OLIVOLA, C. Y., DOTSCH, R., MENDE- SIEDLECKIL, P. (2014). Social Attributions from Faces: Determinants, Consequences, Accuracy, and Functional Significance. Annual Review of Psychology, 66, 519- 545
Teaching methods
classes and lab tests
Assessment methods
Written Test associated with the Psychology class take by Prof. Russo
Teaching tools
Questionnaires and computer tasks
Office hours
See the website of Katia Mattarozzi