PSYCOLOGY AND SOCIAL RELATIONS

The teaching of psychology of social relations aims to allow students to know what are the relational modalities between human beings. the debate between culture and nature will be addressed in order to understand, in social relations, how much influence the context can have and how much the psychobiological development of the individual.
The course will highlight the contributions of neuroscience to knowledge on social relations. Students will learn which parts of our brains play a decisive role in relating to others starting from case study analyzes. The lessons will be of a laboratory type and will require the active and continuous participation of the students.

Students will learn that the human brain is a social organ and will understand how it is possible to act and interact positively with other human beings. One of the fundamental characteristics of the work of a social worker is knowing how to understand other people, even before helping them. Through the knowledge acquired through this course, students will be able to approach care work in a more conscious and professional way.

it is necessary to have taken the exams of General Psychology and Psychology of development and the ages of life. If these exams were not taken in the previous career, it will be necessary to agree on a support program with the teacher.

- Structures and functions of the social brain
- Reflexes and instincts: what favors attachment
- Social memory
- The social vision and the language of faces
- Disorders of the social brain
- Neural social plasticity

Louis Cozolino, Il cervello sociale. Neruoscienze delle relazioni umane. Raffaello Cortina Editore, Milano, 2008

Oral presentation in the classroom with assessment and final written exam with multiple choice questions (15 multiple choice questions in 40 min)

The lessons will be laboratory and will require the active participation of the students. Case studies will be analyzed to support the theoretical notions presented by the teacher.

Italian

written

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development