Livia Mathias Simao

Lívia Mathias Simão, Ph.D., is Associate and Senior Professor at the Institute of Psychology of the University of São Paulo, Brazil, where she coordinates the Laboratory of Verbal Interaction and Knowledge Construction. She is also member of the Ph.D. Programme in Cultural Psychology and Social Practices, Niels Bohr Centre for Cultural Psychology, Aalborg University, Denmark. Her main research interests concern issues embracing the ontological construction of human subjectivity in I-Culture-Other relationships from the perspective of the Semiotic-Cultural Constructivism in Psychology, with emphasis in the issues regarding the notions of Alterity, Temporality and Disquieting Experiences. Among her more representative works are SIMÃO, L. M. (2005) Bildung, culture and self: A possible dialogue with Gadamer, Boesch and Valsiner?, Theory Psychology , 15, 549-574; SIMÃO, L. M. and VALSINER, J. (2007) (Eds.) Otherness in Question: Labyrinths of the Self. Charlotte.: Information Age Pub.; SIMÃO, L.M. (2010) Ensaios Dialógicos: Compartilhamento e Diferença nas Relações Eu-Outro. São Paulo: HUCITEC; SIMÃO, L. M. (2012) The Other in the Self: A triadic unit. In J. Valsiner (Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Culture and Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press, 403-420; SIMÃO, L. M.; GUIMARÃES, D. and VALSINER, J. (Eds.) (2015) Temporality: Culture in the Flow of Human Experience. Charlotte.: Information Age Pub.; SIMÃO, L. M.. (2016a), Culture as a Moving Symbolic Border, Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 50, 14-28; SIMÃO, L. M.. (2016b) Ernst E. Boeschs Ontologic Predication in Focus, Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 50, 568-585. Associate Editor of Human Arenas, SAGE. Member of Editorial Border of International Academic Journals and Research Support Agencies. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)