No dia 17 de maio, Rossela Falvo (Universidade de Pádua) será a oradora convidada do Seminário de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Psicologia Social. O tema para esta sessão será Patient dehumanization in healthcare contexts. O seminário terá lugar via Zoom, pelas 14h30.

Sobre o evento:

We will analyze patient dehumanizing perceptions among healthcare providers, by applying social psychology's theoretical frameworks of intergroup relations (i.e., infrahumanization, Leyens et al., 2007; animalistic and mechanistic dehumanization, Haslam, 2006; mind attribution, Gray et al., 2007). Causes of patient dehumanization will be examined, investigating when lower humanity attribution may be functional to clinical practice and when, on the contrary, it may lead to undesirable effects (Capozza et al., 2016, 2020; Haque & Wayt, 2012). Empirical evidence of the phenomenon in different healthcare contexts, as well as studies highlighting the consequences of the ascription of a lower human status to patients will be presented. Finally, we will explore interventions that can promote patient humanizing perceptions in care relationships. 

Rossella Falvo received her Ph.D. in Personality and Social Psychology from the University of Padova, Italy. Her main research interests include: prejudice, dehumanization and their reduction; social identity and intergroup relations; patient dehumanization in medical settings and healthcare disparities. Since 2015 she is Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education, and Applied Psychology – Section of Applied Psychology, University of Padova. She teaches Groups, Conflict and Cooperation, and Social Relationships in Healthcare Contexts at the School of Psychology (University of Padova). She is now board member of the PhD program in Social Sciences of the University of Padova and she has been supervisor of four doctoral students. She has been principal investigator of international research groups (topics: e.g., attachment theory and outgroup dehumanization; ethnic/racial healthcare disparities).