General psychology

General Psychology deals with the competences related to the organization of behavior and the main psychological functions through which individuals interact with the environment and create process representations of the environment and him/herself (perception, emotion, motivation, memory, learning, thinking and reasoning, language and communication).

The main lines of research in the psychological field carried out in the Department are the following:

Study of the perceptive-motor processes involved in attention orientation
Cognitive ergonomics studies
Studies in the embodied perspective of cognition
Study of the mechanisms underlying the act of lying and telling the truth
Doctor– patient communication
Communication in sport setting
Communication and visual disability
Communication and socialization in family interaction
Truth and credibility in the legal setting
Empathic communication in direct and mediated interpersonal interactions
Communication strategies of mediation and negotiation of conflicts in professional contexts
Non-violent communication in micro and macro social contexts
Concrete and abstract concepts: words as social tools
Acquisition of concepts and sign languages