Andrea Smorti
Biographic Data
| ID | 89550 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Smorti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | Smorti |
| SIGNATURE | SMORTI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florence |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0628-1881 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
How to become a teacher in the hospital
A hospital-based school is offered to hospitalised children with the aim of promoting school continuity and preventing disengagement from school; children have the chance to attend a hospital-based school with hospital teachers during long recoveries. The aim of this study is to obtain an in-depth understanding of hospital teaching: which training hospital teachers receive before teaching the hospitalised children and how they work with children …
The Role of Unexpected Events in Stories
Role of Unexpected Events in Stories
Remembering the medical practices
People from different labor contexts and practices often narrate diverse memories about their past professional experiences. By analyzing professional memories, we can increase our understanding of how health professionals are able to integrate the diverse problems, which they may encounter within their profession. We have focused on the analyses of the most negative memories of a particular group of doctors related to their work experience. Afte…
Facing the Language-Memory Problem in the Study of Autobiographical Memory
Beyond the Anomaly
Jerome Seymour Bruner
A qualitative exploratory study on museum educators' perspective on children's guided museum visits
Personal, social, and physical factors, as well as educational strategies, can influence the experience of children visiting museums. Literature indicates that the role played by museum educators is one of the variables that determine a visit's success. To better understand the museum educator's perception on facilitating and problematic factors that influence a child's visit experience, we have conducted an exploratory survey via in-depth interv…
Sharing of emotional memories with a listener
Research demonstrated a strong influence of personal narratives on emotions linked to memories. However, few studies considered shared narratives and the role of listener’s behavior, especially in adolescence and emerging adulthood. This paper aims to explore the impact of listening attitude on emotions related to memories in adolescents and emerging adults. A total of 157 participants were asked to choose a memory: in the experimental conditions…
Why Narrating Changes Memory
How emotional content of memories changes in narrating
The purpose of this study is to explore the link between autobiographical memories and personal narratives and to assess whether the emotions present in memories are maintained or transformed when memories are narrated. In a Memory Fluency Task a total of 72 Italian undergraduates (35 males and 37 females) were asked to recall memories from their last period of life (from adolescence to present), to select one of them and to choose the emotions c…
Is friendship quality reflected in memory narratives
The purpose of this study was to explore the link between friendship quality and content and structure of autobiographical narratives about friends. Gender differences were investigated as well. A total of 93 Italian undergraduates (51 males and 42 females) were asked to recall memories about their friends. Then, they were requested to write in detail one of their recalled memories. The Network of Relationships Inventory was used to measure the p…
Autobiographical memory and autobiographical narrative
In this contribution I discuss the link existing between autobiographical memory and autobiographical narrative and, in this context, the concept of coherence. Starting from the Bruner’s seminal concept of autobiographical self, I firstly analyze how autobiographical memories and autobiographical narrative influence each other and, somehow, mirror reciprocally and then I present some results of my previous studies using a methodology consisting i…
A distant mirror
Memories that were easily accessible (i.e., quickly retrieved in a memory-fluency task) of Italian university students were assessed. They were from four periods of life: preschool, elementary school, middle school, and high school/university. Half of the participants were instructed to recall only memories involving parents, and the other half memories involving friends. Across age at the time of remembered events, only memories of friends incre…
Everyday Life Reasoning, Possible Worlds and Cultural Processes
What shapes narrative thought
The primary aims of the study were to investigate the narrative strategies used by Italian and Canadian youth on progressive (improving interactions) and regressive (degenerating interactions) stories and to investigate potential differences in story interpretation across the two countries. Two hundred and six participants, matched for age, gender and SES, were selected from fifth and seventh grade classrooms in Calgary, Canada, and Florence, Ita…
Narrative strategies for interpreting stories with incongruent endings
This study examined the narrative strategies early adolescents use to interpret social incongruence in peer relationships. I hypothesized that these strategies vary in relation to two types of social incongruence, i.e., progressive and regressive incongruence. The participants were 518 students from two middle schools located in the city of Florence, Italy. Each participant read 6 stories dealing with themes of social interaction between two peer…
Parents' Definitions of Children's Bullying in a Five-Country Comparison
This study was carried out with 30- to 55-year-old parents of children ages 6 to 13 years in five different countries: Italy, Spain, Portugal, England, and Japan. It aimed at analyzing similarities and differences between words in five languages used to describe different types of bullying and social exclusion and identifying which terms are more appropriate to use in comparisons across cultures and languages. Target terms were selected using foc…
Definitions of Bullying
The study of school bullying has recently assumed an international dimension, but is faced with difficulties in finding terms in different languages to correspond to the English word bullying. To investigate the meanings given to various terms, a set of 25 stick–figure cartoons was devised, covering a range of social situations between peers. These cartoons were shown to samples of 8– and 14–year–old pupils (N= 1,245; n= 604 at 8 years, n= 641 at…
La importancia de la cultura para la teoría de la mente
Se revisan en este artículo algunos de los postulados de la Teoría de la Mente que han conseguido focalizar la atención sobre las habilidades humanas para interpretar los estados mentales como procesos más puramente cognitivos que sociales, contrastándolos con las tesis socioculturalespara el estudio de la construcción del conocimiento social interpersonal. Desde este último enfoque se propone, por un lado, utilizar modelos como el de formato, ru…
Narrative strategies in bullies and victims in Italian schools
It is hypothesised that bullies and victims use different strategies to interpret social incongruence. An Italian version of Olweus [(1991): Erlbaum] and Whitney and Smith's [(1993): Educational Research 35:3–25] questionnaire on bullying was employed to select 64 bullies, 40 victims, and 101 controls from a wider sample of students aged 11, 12, and 13 years. Six stories dealing with themes of social interaction between two peers were chosen as t…
The Narrative Approach to Reality in Relation to Children's Cooperative Interaction
It was hypothesized that children who use a narrative style of classification are more capable of cooperating with a play-mate than children who use a logical style of classification. Participants were 907-year-old children: 50 females and 40 males. Style of classification was studied by giving the subjects 13 miniature toys to classify. Three main classification criteria were distinguished: categorical, functional and narrative. Forty-five child…
Parents' Definitions of Children's Bullying in a Five-Country Comparison
This study was carried out with 30- to 55-year-old parents of children ages 6 to 13 years in five different countries: Italy, Spain, Portugal, England, and Japan. It aimed at analyzing similarities and differences between words in five languages used to describe different types of bullying and social exclusion and identifying which terms are more appropriate to use in comparisons across cultures and languages. Target terms were selected using foc…
Autobiographical memory and autobiographical narrative
In this contribution I discuss the link existing between autobiographical memory and autobiographical narrative and, in this context, the concept of coherence. Starting from the Bruner’s seminal concept of autobiographical self, I firstly analyze how autobiographical memories and autobiographical narrative influence each other and, somehow, mirror reciprocally and then I present some results of my previous studies using a methodology consisting i…
How emotional content of memories changes in narrating
The purpose of this study is to explore the link between autobiographical memories and personal narratives and to assess whether the emotions present in memories are maintained or transformed when memories are narrated. In a Memory Fluency Task a total of 72 Italian undergraduates (35 males and 37 females) were asked to recall memories from their last period of life (from adolescence to present), to select one of them and to choose the emotions c…
Beyond the Anomaly
Why Narrating Changes Memory
Is friendship quality reflected in memory narratives
The purpose of this study was to explore the link between friendship quality and content and structure of autobiographical narratives about friends. Gender differences were investigated as well. A total of 93 Italian undergraduates (51 males and 42 females) were asked to recall memories about their friends. Then, they were requested to write in detail one of their recalled memories. The Network of Relationships Inventory was used to measure the p…
A distant mirror
Memories that were easily accessible (i.e., quickly retrieved in a memory-fluency task) of Italian university students were assessed. They were from four periods of life: preschool, elementary school, middle school, and high school/university. Half of the participants were instructed to recall only memories involving parents, and the other half memories involving friends. Across age at the time of remembered events, only memories of friends incre…
Everyday Life Reasoning, Possible Worlds and Cultural Processes
Remembering the medical practices
People from different labor contexts and practices often narrate diverse memories about their past professional experiences. By analyzing professional memories, we can increase our understanding of how health professionals are able to integrate the diverse problems, which they may encounter within their profession. We have focused on the analyses of the most negative memories of a particular group of doctors related to their work experience. Afte…
Facing the Language-Memory Problem in the Study of Autobiographical Memory
Jerome Seymour Bruner
A qualitative exploratory study on museum educators' perspective on children's guided museum visits
Personal, social, and physical factors, as well as educational strategies, can influence the experience of children visiting museums. Literature indicates that the role played by museum educators is one of the variables that determine a visit's success. To better understand the museum educator's perception on facilitating and problematic factors that influence a child's visit experience, we have conducted an exploratory survey via in-depth interv…
Sharing of emotional memories with a listener
Research demonstrated a strong influence of personal narratives on emotions linked to memories. However, few studies considered shared narratives and the role of listener’s behavior, especially in adolescence and emerging adulthood. This paper aims to explore the impact of listening attitude on emotions related to memories in adolescents and emerging adults. A total of 157 participants were asked to choose a memory: in the experimental conditions…
Narrative strategies for interpreting stories with incongruent endings
This study examined the narrative strategies early adolescents use to interpret social incongruence in peer relationships. I hypothesized that these strategies vary in relation to two types of social incongruence, i.e., progressive and regressive incongruence. The participants were 518 students from two middle schools located in the city of Florence, Italy. Each participant read 6 stories dealing with themes of social interaction between two peer…
La importancia de la cultura para la teoría de la mente
Se revisan en este artículo algunos de los postulados de la Teoría de la Mente que han conseguido focalizar la atención sobre las habilidades humanas para interpretar los estados mentales como procesos más puramente cognitivos que sociales, contrastándolos con las tesis socioculturalespara el estudio de la construcción del conocimiento social interpersonal. Desde este último enfoque se propone, por un lado, utilizar modelos como el de formato, ru…
The Narrative Approach to Reality in Relation to Children's Cooperative Interaction
It was hypothesized that children who use a narrative style of classification are more capable of cooperating with a play-mate than children who use a logical style of classification. Participants were 907-year-old children: 50 females and 40 males. Style of classification was studied by giving the subjects 13 miniature toys to classify. Three main classification criteria were distinguished: categorical, functional and narrative. Forty-five child…
Narrative strategies in bullies and victims in Italian schools
It is hypothesised that bullies and victims use different strategies to interpret social incongruence. An Italian version of Olweus [(1991): Erlbaum] and Whitney and Smith's [(1993): Educational Research 35:3–25] questionnaire on bullying was employed to select 64 bullies, 40 victims, and 101 controls from a wider sample of students aged 11, 12, and 13 years. Six stories dealing with themes of social interaction between two peers were chosen as t…
Definitions of Bullying
The study of school bullying has recently assumed an international dimension, but is faced with difficulties in finding terms in different languages to correspond to the English word bullying. To investigate the meanings given to various terms, a set of 25 stick–figure cartoons was devised, covering a range of social situations between peers. These cartoons were shown to samples of 8– and 14–year–old pupils (N= 1,245; n= 604 at 8 years, n= 641 at…
La importancia de la cultura para la teoría de la mente
Se revisan en este artículo algunos de los postulados de la Teoría de la Mente que han conseguido focalizar la atención sobre las habilidades humanas para interpretar los estados mentales como procesos más puramente cognitivos que sociales, contrastándolos con las tesis socioculturalespara el estudio de la construcción del conocimiento social interpersonal. Desde este último enfoque se propone, por un lado, utilizar modelos como el de formato, ru…
Parents' Definitions of Children's Bullying in a Five-Country Comparison
This study was carried out with 30- to 55-year-old parents of children ages 6 to 13 years in five different countries: Italy, Spain, Portugal, England, and Japan. It aimed at analyzing similarities and differences between words in five languages used to describe different types of bullying and social exclusion and identifying which terms are more appropriate to use in comparisons across cultures and languages. Target terms were selected using foc…
Narrative strategies for interpreting stories with incongruent endings
This study examined the narrative strategies early adolescents use to interpret social incongruence in peer relationships. I hypothesized that these strategies vary in relation to two types of social incongruence, i.e., progressive and regressive incongruence. The participants were 518 students from two middle schools located in the city of Florence, Italy. Each participant read 6 stories dealing with themes of social interaction between two peer…
What shapes narrative thought
The primary aims of the study were to investigate the narrative strategies used by Italian and Canadian youth on progressive (improving interactions) and regressive (degenerating interactions) stories and to investigate potential differences in story interpretation across the two countries. Two hundred and six participants, matched for age, gender and SES, were selected from fifth and seventh grade classrooms in Calgary, Canada, and Florence, Ita…
Everyday Life Reasoning, Possible Worlds and Cultural Processes
A distant mirror
Memories that were easily accessible (i.e., quickly retrieved in a memory-fluency task) of Italian university students were assessed. They were from four periods of life: preschool, elementary school, middle school, and high school/university. Half of the participants were instructed to recall only memories involving parents, and the other half memories involving friends. Across age at the time of remembered events, only memories of friends incre…
Autobiographical memory and autobiographical narrative
In this contribution I discuss the link existing between autobiographical memory and autobiographical narrative and, in this context, the concept of coherence. Starting from the Bruner’s seminal concept of autobiographical self, I firstly analyze how autobiographical memories and autobiographical narrative influence each other and, somehow, mirror reciprocally and then I present some results of my previous studies using a methodology consisting i…
How emotional content of memories changes in narrating
The purpose of this study is to explore the link between autobiographical memories and personal narratives and to assess whether the emotions present in memories are maintained or transformed when memories are narrated. In a Memory Fluency Task a total of 72 Italian undergraduates (35 males and 37 females) were asked to recall memories from their last period of life (from adolescence to present), to select one of them and to choose the emotions c…
Is friendship quality reflected in memory narratives
The purpose of this study was to explore the link between friendship quality and content and structure of autobiographical narratives about friends. Gender differences were investigated as well. A total of 93 Italian undergraduates (51 males and 42 females) were asked to recall memories about their friends. Then, they were requested to write in detail one of their recalled memories. The Network of Relationships Inventory was used to measure the p…
Sharing of emotional memories with a listener
Research demonstrated a strong influence of personal narratives on emotions linked to memories. However, few studies considered shared narratives and the role of listener’s behavior, especially in adolescence and emerging adulthood. This paper aims to explore the impact of listening attitude on emotions related to memories in adolescents and emerging adults. A total of 157 participants were asked to choose a memory: in the experimental conditions…
Why Narrating Changes Memory
Remembering the medical practices
People from different labor contexts and practices often narrate diverse memories about their past professional experiences. By analyzing professional memories, we can increase our understanding of how health professionals are able to integrate the diverse problems, which they may encounter within their profession. We have focused on the analyses of the most negative memories of a particular group of doctors related to their work experience. Afte…
Facing the Language-Memory Problem in the Study of Autobiographical Memory
Beyond the Anomaly
Jerome Seymour Bruner
A qualitative exploratory study on museum educators' perspective on children's guided museum visits
Personal, social, and physical factors, as well as educational strategies, can influence the experience of children visiting museums. Literature indicates that the role played by museum educators is one of the variables that determine a visit's success. To better understand the museum educator's perception on facilitating and problematic factors that influence a child's visit experience, we have conducted an exploratory survey via in-depth interv…
The Role of Unexpected Events in Stories
Role of Unexpected Events in Stories
How to become a teacher in the hospital
A hospital-based school is offered to hospitalised children with the aim of promoting school continuity and preventing disengagement from school; children have the chance to attend a hospital-based school with hospital teachers during long recoveries. The aim of this study is to obtain an in-depth understanding of hospital teaching: which training hospital teachers receive before teaching the hospitalised children and how they work with children …
Psychology (19 works) · Narrative (12 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Cognitive psychology (10 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Identity, Memory, and Therapy (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Memory Processes and Influences (7 works)