Università Roma Tre

Epidemiology of Beliefs: How Ideas Spread
Emotions and transmissions of ideas
Memetics
Cultural evolution
Psychology of fake news
Consiracy beliefs and their cognitive foundations
Rhetoric: from Aristotle to modern theories
Persuasion and storytelling
Cognitive foundations of storytelling
Case studies: scientific communication, marketing, advertising, political communication.

Mandatory book:

- Piazza F. (2004) Linguaggio, persuasione e verità. La retorica del Novecento, Carocci, Roma.

1 book among:
- Arielli E., Bottazzini P. (2018) Idee virali. Perché i pensieri si diffondono. Il Mulino, Bologna.
- Brotherton R. (2015) Menti sospettose. Perché siamo tutti complottisti. Bollati Boringhieri, Torino.
- Gottschall J. (2021) Il lato oscuro delle storie. Come lo storytelling cementa le società e talvolta le distrugge. Bollati Boringhieri, Torino.

2 a articles among:

- Bilandzic, H., & Busselle, R. (2013). Narrative persuasion. In “The Sage handbook of persuasion: Developments in theory and practice”, 2, pp. 200-219.
[https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3a57/4d2e8dc561c54549e9f9ba854d81769e79e7.pdf]

- Bilandzic, H., Kinnebrock, S., & Klingler, M. (2020). The emotional effects of science narratives: A theoretical framework. Media and Communication, 8(1), 151-163.
[https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/download/2602/2602]

- Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. G. (2021). The psychology of fake news. Trends in cognitive sciences.
[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364661321000516]