Andrea Smorti
{{short description|Italian developmental psychologist}}
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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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.unifi.it/p-doc2-2018-0-A-2b2f362c392c-1.html|title=Andrea Smorti - Università degli Studi di Firenze - UniFI|website=www.unifi.it|language=it|access-date=2019-05-15}} He founded the laboratory of methods and analysis techniques of illness experiences.{{Cite web|url=http://nursing.nursingmeetings.com/speaker/2019/andrea-smorti-florence-university-italy|title=Andrea Smorti {{!}} Advanced Nursing 2019 {{!}} Conferenceseries|website=nursing.nursingmeetings.com|access-date=2019-05-15}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ricercanarrazione.unifi.it/vp-132-methods-and-analysis-techniques-of-illness-experiences.html?newlang=eng|title=Methods and Analysis Techniques of illness experiences - research projects - Unità di ricerca in Ricerche narrative e processi di sviluppo - UniFI|website=www.ricercanarrazione.unifi.it|access-date=2019-05-15}}
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|date=August 2019}}
Smorti served multiple roles in the University of Florence. He became the Dean of the faculty of psychology in 2008.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rwIoDwAAQBAJ&q=Andrea+Smorti+Dean+of+the+faculty&pg=PA258|title=Making Sense of Infinite Uniqueness: The Emerging System of Idiographic Science|last1=Salvatore|first1=Sergio|last2=Valsiner|first2=Jaan|last3=Gennaro|first3=Alessandro|date=2013-02-01|publisher=IAP|isbn=9781623960278}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://benthamopen.com/TOPSYJ/editorial-board/|title=The Open Psychology Journal :: Editorial Board|website=benthamopen.com|access-date=2019-05-15}}
He mostly researches in developmental psychology, educational psychology, and psychology of childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.{{Cite web|url=https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/CAM/rt/bio/20369|title=Reading Tools|website=journals.equinoxpub.com|access-date=2019-05-15}} 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).{{Cite web|url=https://www.unifi.it/p-doc2-2018-0-A-2b2f362c392c-1.html|title=Andrea Smorti - Università degli Studi di Firenze - UniFI|website=www.unifi.it|language=it|access-date=2019-05-15}}
Research and career
Smorti started his career on the issue of parental influences on earliest memories.{{Cite journal|last1=Peterson|first1=Carole|last2=Smorti|first2=Andrea|last3=Tani|first3=Franca|date=2008-08-01|title=Parental influences on earliest memories|journal=Memory|volume=16|issue=6|pages=569–578|doi=10.1080/02687030802025984|issn=0965-8211|pmid=18569685|s2cid=205522987}} He did research on multiple aspects, including European networks on bullying and educated students and parents, narrative inquiries and developmental processes,{{Cite web|url=https://www.scifopsi.unifi.it/vp-186-narrative-inquiries-and-developmental-processes.html?newlang=eng|title=Narrative inquiries and developmental processes - Research - SCIFOPSI: Dipartimento di Scienze della Formazione e Psicologia - UniFI|website=www.scifopsi.unifi.it|access-date=2019-05-15}} 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".{{Cite web|url=https://www.ricercanarrazione.unifi.it/vp-138-the-research-re-na-me-relationship-narrative-memory.html?newlang=eng|title=The research RE.NA.ME. (Relationship - Narrative - Memory) - research projects - Unità di ricerca in Ricerche narrative e processi di sviluppo - UniFI|website=www.ricercanarrazione.unifi.it|access-date=2019-05-15}}
Select publications
- Smorti, A. (2018). Raccontare per capire. Il Mulino, Bologna
- Smorti, A. (1994). Il Pensiero Narrativo. Giunti, Firenze
- Smorti, A. (1997). Il Sé come testo (Self like a text). Giunti, Firenze,{{Cite web|url=http://centrostudipsicologiaeletteratura.org/2014/02/smorti-andrea-il-se-come-testo-costruzione-delle-storie-e-sviluppo-della-persona-giunti-firenze-1997/|title=Smorti Andrea, Il sé come testo: costruzione delle storie e sviluppo della persona, Giunti, Firenze, 1997|date=2014-02-18|website=Centro Studi di Psicologia e Letteratura|language=it-IT|access-date=2019-05-15}}
- Smorti, A., Menesini, E., & Smith, P.K (2003). Parents' definition of children's bullying in a five-country comparison. Journal of cross-cultural psychology, Vol. 34(4), 417-432{{Cite journal|last1=Smorti|first1=Andrea|last2=Menesini|first2=Ersilia|last3=Smith|first3=Peter K.|date=July 2003|title=Parents' Definitions of Children's Bullying in a Five-Country Comparison|journal=Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology|volume=34|issue=4|pages=417–432|doi=10.1177/0022022103034004003|s2cid=145110610|issn=0022-0221}}
- Peterson, C., Bonechi, A., Smorti, A., & Tani F. (2010). A distant mirror: memories of parents and friends across childhood and adolescence. British journal of psychology, 101, 601 – 620;{{Cite journal|last1=Peterson|first1=Carole|last2=Bonechi|first2=Alice|last3=Smorti|first3=Andrea|last4=Tani|first4=Franca|s2cid=27285910|date=2010|title=A distant mirror: Memories of parents and friends across childhood and adolescence|journal=British Journal of Psychology|volume=101|issue=4|pages=601–620|doi=10.1348/000712609X478835|pmid=19948085|issn=2044-8295}}
- Smorti, A., Pananti, B., & Rizzo, A. (2010). Autobiography as a tool to improve lifestyle, wellbeing{{Cite journal|last1=Smorti|first1=Andrea|last2=Pananti|first2=Bianca|last3=Rizzo|first3=Aida|date=August 2010|title=Autobiography as Tool to Improve Lifestyle, Well Being, and Self-Narrative in Patients With Mental Disorders|journal=The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease|volume=198|issue=8|pages=564–71|doi=10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181ea4e59|pmid=20699721|s2cid=24578203|issn=0022-3018}}
- Smorti A. (2011). Autobiographical memory and autobiographical narrative: What is the relationship? Narrative Inquiry, 21, 303-310{{Cite web|url=https://benjamins.com/catalog/ni.21.2.08smo|title=Autobiographical memory and autobiographical narrative|last=Smorti|first=Andrea|website=ni.21.2.08smo|access-date=2019-05-15}}
- Tani, F., Smorti, A., & Peterson, C. (2015). Is friendship quality reflected in memory narratives? Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. 32(3), 281–303.{{Cite journal|last1=Tani|first1=Franca|last2=Smorti|first2=Andrea|last3=Peterson|first3=Carole|s2cid=6763436|date=2015-03-05|title=Is friendship quality reflected in memory narratives?|journal=Journal of Social and Personal Relationships|volume=32|issue=3|pages=281–303|doi=10.1177/0265407515573601|issn=0265-4075}}
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Category:Italian psychologists
Category:Academic staff of the University of Florence
Category:University of Siena alumni
Category:University of Florence alumni
Category:Developmental psychologists
Category:20th-century psychologists
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Category:20th-century Italian scientists