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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Psicologia (IP) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
graduate at Psicologia from Universidade Paulista (1986), master's at Theology from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (1996) and ph.d. at Psychology from Universidade de São Paulo (2003). Has experience in Psychology, acting on the following subjects: psicologia anomalística, psicologia da religião, ação anômala, cognição anômala and anomalias científicas. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The study of mediumship is related to the origins of psychology and the development of psychological concepts and ideas. Currently, two interrelated areas, concerned on researching mediumship and its experimenters, are the psychology of religion and anomalistic psychology. Recurrently, mediumship is studied in adults, who claim its beginning in childhood. In this sense, the literature on …
Ecstatic experiences are prevalent in performance, mystical-religious, artistic contexts, in sports and in psychedelic practices. They integrate numerous psychophysiological and phenomenological dynamics, and their forms of induction vary according to the types of manifestations, functions and effects. This has influenced the emergence of many studies in different areas of knowledge throu…
Despite the increase in the number of studies on spirituality and religiosity, most of them are concentrated in the US and in adult populations. The same is true of well-being studies in Brazil, which use participants predominantly in the adolescent age group. The proposal to investigate the relationship between spirituality, religiosity and well-being in adolescence starts from previous …
The Out of Body Experiences (OBE) are the subject of research since the beginning of last century, however there is still no screening questionnaire for this phenomenon. Nevertheless, the literature is controversial about the definition and understanding of OBE and its etiology, which suggests the existence of multiple phenomena under the same term OBE. In a qualitative and quantitative r…
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The present BEPE proposal refers to a six-month period and is part of a doctoral research project in the InterPsi Lab, about the varieties of out-of-body experiences, their meanings and paranormal beliefs. During the first two years the need for a complementary focused approach was identified to understand the cognitive biases associated with the paranormal interpretation of an anomalous …
The psychological knowledge of paranormal and religious beliefs and experiences in the Brazilian context (the theme of the candidate's postdoctoral project) still has many shortcomings. One concerns the relationship between thinking styles and religious and "paranormal" beliefs and experiences. The traditional instruments for evaluating styles of thinking have important limitations. To ov…
Psychologists have long recognized the role of impression management and demand characteristics on questionnaire responses and experimental results. In this regard, research fields such as Psychology of Religion and Spirituality or Anomalistic Psychology might be particularly vulnerable to response bias, as their objects of study are controversial and ideological and / or religious dispu…
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