Università Roma Tre

The teaching aims to provide knowledge and skills that allow the student to know how to orient themselves in the panorama of individual and group processes (dispositions, attitudes, communication) at the basis of social interaction, and to know how to use These skills to interpret the social reality of everyday life, in fields of application such as the promotion of health, environmental education and social sustainability.


With the study of social psychology and attitudes the student will be able to achieve the following training goals.
In Terms of knowledge and ability to understand:
• Knowledge and understanding of the basic concepts of social cognition;
• Knowledge and understanding of the theoretical and methodological foundations of empirical research in the psychological and social field;
• Knowledge and understanding of the concept of social attitude

In terms of the ability to apply knowledge and understanding:
• To distinguish naïve social psychology from knowledge of social behaviour accumulated through empirical research;
• Apply the models of social interaction for the interpretation of the main contexts of daily life in which the social interaction takes place.
• Apply the attitude construct for the evaluation and interpretation of the preferences expressed by individuals in the course of social interaction.

In terms of autonomy of judgement:
• Distinguishing between different approaches and worldviews at the basis of psychosocial research;
• Interpreting the phenomena of social cognition in the light of theoretical models and empirical studies of social psychology.
• Distinguishing explicit and implicit mechanisms in the formation and expression of social attitudes.

In Terms of Communicative skills:
• Synthesize and present in an effective way the main mechanisms of functioning of social interaction and social attitudes.

In Terms of Learning skills:
• Deepen their knowledge using texts and models elaborated within the behavioral sciences and social sciences and in the measurement of social attitudes.

The aim of the course is to provide knowledge and skills that allow the student to a) be able to orient themselves in the panorama of individual and group processes (dispositions, attitudes, communication) that are at the base of social interaction and b) to know how to use these skills to interpret the social reality of everyday life, in application fields such as health promotion, environmental education and social sustainability.

At the end of the course the student has:
- knowledge and understanding of the basic concepts of social cognition;
- knowledge and understanding of the theoretical and methodological foundations of empirical research in the psychological-social field;
- knowledge and understanding of the concept of social attitude
In terms of ability to apply knowledge and understanding the student knows
- to distinguish naive social psychology from knowledge of social behavior accumulated through empirical research;
- apply the models of social interaction for the interpretation of the main contexts of daily life in which social interaction takes place;
- apply the construct of attitude for the evaluation and interpretation of the preferences expressed by individuals in the course of social interaction.