Topic type: Methodologies for conducting systematic reviews of the scientific literature
Duration in hours: 20 hours of lecture
Start and end date: February- March 2024
Teaching methods: Lectures and practical exercises
Name of Lecturer: Dr. Giovanna Parmigiani
Program: The course aims to provide doctoral students with the ability to: i) critically evaluate clinical trials and systematic reviews; ii) know the international guidelines for producing and updating systematic reviews; iii) know how to write and record the protocol of a systematic review to have acquired the methodological knowledge to write an actual systematic review.
Final assessment mode: Practical exercise
Topic type: Bibliographic research methodology and bibliographic reference management software (e.g., Mendeley, Zotero)
Duration in hours: 16 hours of lecture
Start and end date: February -March 2024
Teaching methods: Lectures and practical exercises
Name of Lecturer: Dr. Eleonora Ricci
Program: This course provides knowledge and skills with respect to bibliographic research in the fields of psychology and forensics and is aimed at developing specific skills for the efficacious use of various types of bibliographic resources, for accessing University resources and texts of interest, for evaluating the authority of a bibliographic source and its proper citation, and for preparing a bibliography. In particular, the following topics are affronted: (a) defining and undertaking a bibliographic search (keywords, Boolean operators, search fields); (b) learning and using available Athenaeum services (e.g., SBS-S Sapienza Library System; Discovery Sapienza) and web services (e.g., NILDE-Network Inter-Library Document Exchange); (c) learning and using databases (e.g., PsycInfo, PubMed, Scopus) and electronic periodicals useful in the study and scientific research in psychology and forensics; (d) learning and using bibliographic citation styles and bibliography management software (e.g., Zotero, Mendeley). The acquired concepts are consolidated through practical exercises with students' use of major databases and bibliographic reference management software.
Mode of final assessment: The final assessment consists of the presentation of a bibliographic research paper, in the area of research of interest to the student, effexecuted on the databases analyzed during the course of the course, as well as on the use of one of the explained software for the management of the bibliographic references acquired.
Topic type: Research designs in legal psychology, forensic psychopathology and forensic neuroscience
Duration in hours: 16 hours of lecture
Start and end date: March- April 2024
Teaching methods: Lectures and practical exercises
Name of Lecturer: Dr. Cristina Mazza
Program: The course aims to explore research methodologies in the field of psycholopathology and forensics. The objective is to provide skills necessary affifor doctoral students to develop methodologically sound research projects. It will delve into how to build hypotheses, how to effcarry out proper operationalization of constructs, what are the procedures for efficacious sampling. Special attention will be paid to the topic of textology and measurement. Methodologies for experimental, correlation, longitudinal research designs will also be described. Issues related to ethics and data handling in empirical research will be explored.
Mode of final assessment: Doctoral students are expected to develop a research design consisting of theoretical rationale, hypothesis, methodology and expected results.
Subject type: Programming and use of major statistical software
Duration in hours: 16 hours of lecture
Start and end date: March- April 2024
Teaching methods: Lectures and practical exercises
Name of Lecturer: Dr. Alessandro Catini and Dr. Ilaria Pozzetti
Program: This course involves the use of IBM SPSS Statistics software for the application of basic and intermediate level fundamental statistical analysis in the psychometric field. It provides a first part introducing the use of the software, a second part introducing the fundamental concepts of descriptive statistics with its application in SPSS, and a third part focusing on inferential statistics in terms of both hypothesis testing and regression models. Upon completion of the course, the student will have a good command and substantial autonomy in the management and statistical analysis of data for the psychometric domain.
Final assessment mode: Practical exercise
Topic type: Analysis of mediation and moderation in the social sciences and forensics
Duration in hours: 12 hours of lecture
Start and end date: April-May 2024
Teaching methods: Lectures and practical exercises
Name of Lecturer: Dr. Alessandro Catini and Dr. Ilaria Pozzetti
Program: This course focuses on mediation and moderation models through the use of IBM SPSS Statistics software. The course first takes an in-depth look at mediation models, both from a conceptual-theoretical point of view and from an application and interpretation point of view. In the second part of the course, the focus is on moderation models, also viewed first from a theoretical and then from an applicative and interpretive point of view. In the third and final part, however, more complex models of moderated mediation are introduced and concrete examples of their use with data are offered. At the end of the course the student will have a good command and substantial autonomy in the design and implementations of mediation, moderation, and moderated mediation models.
Final assessment mode: Practical exercise