Andrea Smorti

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Andrea Smorti
Born1949 (age 73–74)
Florence, Italy
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Andrea Smorti (born 1949) is an Italian psychologist and professor of developmental psychology who studies cognitive and narrative processes at the University of Florence. [1] He founded the laboratory of methods and analysis techniques of illness experiences. [2] He is the director of the laboratory of developmental process evaluation, Laboratory in the Department of Education, Languages, Inter-culture, Literature, and psychology at the University of Florence. [3]

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Education

Andrea Smorti was born in Florence in 1949, and attended the University of Florence in his hometown, where he received his Bachelor of Arts and Master in philosophy with honors from the University of Florence in 1974. He got his post-graduate degree with honors from the School of Psychology at the University of Siena. He received a Merit Certificate for excellence in sports psychology. In 1988, he received a research scholarship as visiting researcher in the faculty of psychology at the University of Geneva.[ citation needed ]

Smorti served multiple roles in the University of Florence. He became the Dean of the faculty of psychology in 2008. [4] He also worked as an editor and as a member for different journals (1999-2014). He was the editorial board member of the journal Open Psychology. [5]

He mostly researches in developmental psychology, educational psychology, and psychology of childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. [6] He has acted as Erasmus professor and visiting professor in Masters and Doctorate courses in multiple universities in Europe, North America, Portugal, Switzerland, Canada, and Latin America (1997-2017). [7]

Research and career

Smorti started his career on the issue of parental influences on earliest memories. [8] He did research on multiple aspects, including European networks on bullying and educated students and parents, narrative inquiries and developmental processes, [9] mental representation and graphical representation in drawings, children's fear, and parental attitudes during diseases, narrative and self-construction, logical-symbolic aspects in narrative classification, academic traumatic events, autobiographical memories, and developmental outcomes.

He participated in national projects on symbolic and cognitive representation of play and classification experiences, narration of quarrels between companions: textual and contextual aspects, as a coordinator for intergenerational and intragenerational transactions in the new millennium society (Protocol 2202115382 Area 11) and in the quality of intimate relationships in transition to adulthood, RE.NA.ME (Relation- Narrative- Memory) model in a hospital field, implementation, and assessment of a narrative based medicine protocol founded on the autobiographical listening and research on ' reflexive professionals". [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Andrea Smorti - Università degli Studi di Firenze - UniFI". www.unifi.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-05-15.
  2. ↑ "Andrea Smorti | Advanced Nursing 2019 | Conferenceseries". nursing.nursingmeetings.com. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
  3. ↑ "Methods and Analysis Techniques of illness experiences - research projects - Unità di ricerca in Ricerche narrative e processi di sviluppo - UniFI". www.ricercanarrazione.unifi.it. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
  4. ↑ Salvatore, Sergio; Valsiner, Jaan; Gennaro, Alessandro (2013-02-01). Making Sense of Infinite Uniqueness: The Emerging System of Idiographic Science. IAP. ISBN   9781623960278.
  5. ↑ "The Open Psychology Journal :: Editorial Board". benthamopen.com. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
  6. ↑ "Reading Tools". journals.equinoxpub.com. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
  7. ↑ "Andrea Smorti - Università degli Studi di Firenze - UniFI". www.unifi.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2019-05-15.
  8. ↑ Peterson, Carole; Smorti, Andrea; Tani, Franca (2008-08-01). "Parental influences on earliest memories". Memory. 16 (6): 569–578. doi:10.1080/02687030802025984. ISSN   0965-8211. PMID   18569685. S2CID   205522987.
  9. ↑ "Narrative inquiries and developmental processes - Research - SCIFOPSI: Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione e Psicologia - UniFI". www.scifopsi.unifi.it. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
  10. ↑ "The research RE.NA.ME. (Relationship - Narrative - Memory) - research projects - Unità di ricerca in Ricerche narrative e processi di sviluppo - UniFI". www.ricercanarrazione.unifi.it. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
  11. ↑ "Smorti Andrea, Il sé come testo: costruzione delle storie e sviluppo della persona, Giunti, Firenze, 1997". Centro Studi di Psicologia e Letteratura (in Italian). 2014-02-18. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
  12. ↑ Smorti, Andrea; Menesini, Ersilia; Smith, Peter K. (July 2003). "Parents' Definitions of Children's Bullying in a Five-Country Comparison". Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 34 (4): 417–432. doi:10.1177/0022022103034004003. ISSN   0022-0221. S2CID   145110610.
  13. ↑ Peterson, Carole; Bonechi, Alice; Smorti, Andrea; Tani, Franca (2010). "A distant mirror: Memories of parents and friends across childhood and adolescence". British Journal of Psychology. 101 (4): 601–620. doi:10.1348/000712609X478835. ISSN   2044-8295. PMID   19948085. S2CID   27285910.
  14. ↑ Smorti, Andrea; Pananti, Bianca; Rizzo, Aida (August 2010). "Autobiography as Tool to Improve Lifestyle, Well Being, and Self-Narrative in Patients With Mental Disorders". The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 198 (8): 564–71. doi:10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181ea4e59. ISSN   0022-3018. PMID   20699721. S2CID   24578203.
  15. ↑ Smorti, Andrea. "Autobiographical memory and autobiographical narrative". ni.21.2.08smo. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
  16. ↑ Tani, Franca; Smorti, Andrea; Peterson, Carole (2015-03-05). "Is friendship quality reflected in memory narratives?". Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. 32 (3): 281–303. doi:10.1177/0265407515573601. ISSN   0265-4075. S2CID   6763436.
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