Psychology

Development and Education: Formal and Informal Contexts

Basic Psychological Processes in Learning and Education

Social Psychology: Development of basic knowledge and application contexts

A sign of identity of this doctoral program, in all its areas and lines of research is the interest for integrating both conceptually and functionally developments of basic and applied psychology, as well as putting at the disposal of the researchers all the methodological tools to ensure the best education for future researchers in all the areas of academic Psychology, except for Clinic Psychology, that is covered by a specific Ph Program offered also in the Faculty od Psychology

Research lines:

Development and Education: Formal and Informal Contexts

Early development: communicative systems (semiotics and language); self-regulation and emotion.

Children and adolescents’ needs and rights. Minors at risk.

Interpersonal relationships and school climate: aggression, cooperation and inclusion. Students’ agency.

The construction of identity in different developmental contexts: gender, music and society.

Methods for research in developmental and educational psychology:quantitative, qualitative and ethnography.

Basic Psychological Processes in Learning and Education

Learning and instructional processes in different domains of knowledge (mathematics, social sciences, economy, history, language, music, science, sports, art, etc.)

Basic psychological processes that influence learning and education (including perception, attention, memory, language, thinking, metacognition, creativity)

Studies on motivation, evaluation and self-regulation

Conceptions, strategies and practices of learning, teaching and assessment

Cultural perspectives in the study of learning and education

Social Psychology: Development of basic knowledge and application contexts

Attitudes: Persuasion and influence; attitudes and risk behavior; the meta-cognitive model of attitudes.

Affect and social behavior: categorization, expression and regulation of emotional episodes.

Psychosocial factors influencing civic behavior: moral and prosocial behavior; competition, conflict and cooperation; norms and social motives.

Group and organizational behavior

Environment and social behavior: environmental perception; pro-environmental attitudes and behavior; the experience of nature.

Psychosocial and community approaches to research and intervention.Violence: research and intervention.