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Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
graduate at Psychology from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (1995), master's at Psychology from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (1997) and ph.d. at Psychology from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Campinas (2002). Has experience in Psychology, focusing on Construction and Psychological Validity of Tests, Scales and Other Measures, acting on the following subjects: avaliação psicológica, testes, construção de instrumentos, wisc and validação. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Imagination allows us to think abstractly, plan future actions, impossible to live experiences lived in the real world and reframe situations or feelings. The imaginative process can include anything from training images, but also refer to fantasies, creativity and mental activities planning courses of action and development of alternatives to reality. In the latter case, people would thi…
Creativity is the ability to produce something original and appropriate to the context for which it was intended. Parenting styles are the ways in which parents deal with issues of power, hierarchy, and emotional support regarding their children, having a significant influence on areas of great importance in development. The objective of the study is to analyze whether there is a relation…
Metacognition refers to an individual's knowledge about their own cognitive processes, and the subsequent ability to consciously adjust them with the aim of enhancing their learning and problem-solving process. Metacognitive strategies are one of the components of metacognition, being defined as practices adopted in order to monitor progress in carrying out a task. To evaluate these strat…
Recent studies have shown that impairments in cognitive and metacognitive abilities can increase the risk of anxiety and depression disorders. These abilities are the metacognitive monitoring, recognition and working memory of emotional faces. Although these processes are associated with each other, few studies have evaluated their interaction in a single experiment. In the present projec…
Creativity is a construct which has been put under observation since ancient times. Before, it was thought to be a gift or an innate skill - and common sense has this view even nowadays. Psychology seeks to systematically study creativity, creating theories that elucidate aspects of the creative process, the creative person or the creative product and, based on these, it develops interve…
Creative action adds multiple factors, including cognitive processes and socio-emotional variables. Guilford theorized some factors that were later associated with the creative person, namely fluency, flexibility, elaboration, and originality. On the other hand, when imaginative thinking goes back to the past and hypothetical alternatives to events and their outcomes, we call it counterfa…
Counterfactual thinking is characterized in the formulation of different events for an event that has already occurred, being constantly linked to the expression "what if" and has an important adaptive function. This study aimed to: (1) investigate counterfactual thinking in alcohol-dependent people and those characterized by its acute use; (2) establish the frequency of counterfactual th…
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