Università Roma Tre

The course tackles two fields of psychology, emotions and communication. As to the former, it aims at provide knowledge and research skills concerning emotional processes, their mental representation, evolution, their relationships with cognition, social interaction and communication, their role in decision, self-construction, education, learning.
Concerning the latter field, the course aims at providing knowledge and research skills concerning communication in all its verbal, bodily and mediated modalities, and at deepenign mechanisms, processes of evolution of face-to-face and distance interaction, and their cognitive, affective, social functions in sincere and deceptive interpersonal, and public interaction.
The knowledge provided will enlight the processes of emotion expression, communication and regulation, and on the connections of emotions and communication with the processes of reasoning, argumentation and persuasion, learning and teaching, influence between individuals and groups.
The course aims at developing competences for the analysis of emotions and communication: through qualitative and quantitative methods ranging from conceptual analysis to empirical, experimental and simulative research, applications will be carried out on cognitive, affective and social aspects of interpersonal and public communication at work in education, media, politics, technology, music, entertainment.
After the course the student will be endowed with theoretical nad methodological tools to conduct theoretical analysis and empirical research on emotional and communicative processes in everyday life, politics, art, and on how they are expressed in various media, from text to speech, from tv to social networks.