SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY II

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

Single discipline educational activity

Course Sheet

Course code:

SP46

Academic Year of enrolment:

2017

Year of supply:

2019/2020

Type of Course:

Characterising

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Disciplinary Sector:

Social Psychology

Location:

CHIETI

Divisions:

Cognomi A-H - Professor: BERTI CHIARA
Cognomi I-Z - Professor: THEODOROU ANNALISA

Credits:

Programme Year:

Cycle:

First semester

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

136

Prerequisites:

Knowledge of theories and research methods in Social Psychology (Contents of the Course “Social Psychology I)

Objectives

Develop the ability to analyze and understand the dynamics and phenomena concerning the relationships with the other adopting a psychosocial perspective.

Contents

Relationships with the other is the topic of the advanced course of Social Psychology. The course will provide: 1) an overview of the main psychosocial frameworks concerning the relationships with the other; 2) the conceptual framework and the comprehensive theory of prosocial moral behavior developed by Hoffman.

Extended Syllabus

EULOGY OF COURTESY (Examples and definitions. Facts or words? The courtesy. Rule of the worls. Intelligence and courtesy)
EMPATHY AND MORAL DEVELOPMENT (Empathy, its arousal and prosocial functioning. Development of empathic distress. Empatic anger, sympathy, guilty, feeling of injustice. Guilt and moral internalization. From discipline to internalization. Relationship guilt and other empathy limitations: Over-arousal and bias. Interactions and bonding of empathy and moral principles. Development of empathy-based justice principles. Multiple-claimants and caring-versus-justice dilemmas. The universality and culture issues. Implication for socialization and moral education)
THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE OTHER (The person and the other. Elementary processes in the relationship with the other. Altruism and solidarity)

Recommended Bibliography

AXIA G. (2012) L’elogio della cortesia. L’attenzione per gli altri come forma di intelligenza. Bologna, Il Mulino, pp. 136, € 11,00
HOFFMAN M. L. (2008) Empatia e sviluppo morale, Bologna, Il Mulino, pp. 376, € 30,00 (Empathy and Moral Development: Implications for Caring and Justice, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000)
MOSCOVICI S. (a cura di) (1997) La relazione con l’altro, Milano, Raffaello Cortina Editore, pp.376, € 30,80

Teaching Methods

lectures

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

Written exam (open questions)

Contacts/More Information

Slides presented in class will be available online (see “Materiali didattici”)

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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