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The course aims at providing an understanding of the concepts and issues in social cognition research. The course contents include historical roots of social cognition; social cognitive principles a cost benefit analysis; representation of social knowledge; social schemas; heuristics and biases; contribution of social representations; rituals and rhetoric; knowledge and social process; social cognition and the study of stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination, social cognition and discourse; social sensibility and neural function.

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