Abstract

SOSA, Fernanda M.¹; NATAPOF, Dafna G.²  and  ZUBIETA, Elena M.³. REPRESENTATIONS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR IN PSYCHOLOGY AND HISTORY STUDENTS. Anu. investig. [online]. 2016, vol.23, n.1, pp.173-180. ISSN 1851-1686.

From the perspective of social representations (SR), appears a line of research which focuses on history as a representational object. Previous studies present that the events more mentioned when remember the universal history are related to wars and revolutions -named military bias (Liu et al., 2009). The overall objective of this study is to investigate the SR of the First World War (WWI) which has a group of students of psychology and history (n=144; 69,9% women; age=31,09, Min.:19-Máx.:64). For collecting information was used the questionnaire designed for de project European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) IS 1205. In connection to the representational structure appears evocations related to negative and characteristics aspects of the WWI. Differential positioning'sare observed depending on the study career, being history students who exhibit greater knowledge, importance and assignment of feelings to the WWI

Keywords : First World War; Social representations; Students.

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