Banca de DEFESA: ELENICE SOARES

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : ELENICE SOARES
DATA : 26/04/2018
HORA: 14:00
LOCAL: PoP-RN da RNP, Centro de Convivência da UFRN
TÍTULO:

Evaluation of Maternal Prosociality as a Model for Children Prosociality.

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Evolutionary psychology, Cooperation, Pro-social behavior, Perception of maternal pro-sociality, children, dictator's game.

PÁGINAS: 26
GRANDE ÁREA: Ciências Humanas
ÁREA: Psicologia
RESUMO:

Evolutionary Psychology (EP) is a perspective that starts from the knowledge about the Theory of Evolution and uses them to seek to understand the behaviors and the human mind. It’s originated from the union of elements of cognitive psychology and evolutionary biology, presenting the advantage of undoing the existing dichotomy between the biological and cultural aspects that are common to other perspectives within psychology. The fundamental tenet of EP is that the human brain is shaped to solve issues related to survival and reproduction. To understand this it is necessary to keep in mind that the brain has been shaped over time in the so-called Evolutionary Adaptive Environment, that is, the environment where our hunter-gatherer ancestors lived. This environment had characteristics different from those currently found; the search for food possibly demanded more energy expenditure, the groups were smaller and with more related individuals, which increased the probability of cooperation between the individuals and made it easier to identify who was not collaborating for the common good, called free riders. In this context, some mechanisms were developed to deal with the occurrence of free riders in the group, such as kinship selection, reciprocal altruism and indirect reciprocity. In addition to these mechanisms, studies that include the understanding of cooperation from ontogeny add important elements related to the development context of the individual. Such studies aim to identify the modulating factors and how they influence the prosocial behavior of children by making possible comparisons among several of these factors, such as: gender, age, individual characteristics, as well as parental and cultural influences. In order to investigate whether there was influence of the maternal prosocial behaviors and the perception of this prosociality in the prosocial behaviors presented by the children, the study was conducted in Natal / RN and had the participation of 71 dyads composed of children between seven and eleven years old and their mothers. The mothers answered a self-report questionnaire about their prosocial behavior (BPP) and the questionnaire for sociodemographic characterization of the participants. The children answered a questionnaire about their perception of the prosocial behaviors of their mothers and participated in a round of the dictator's game as a behavioral measure of prosociality. Some similarities and differences were observed between the children's perception in relation to that reported by their mothers. In three factors (out of a total of 7), the means of mothers and children did not differ significantly, indicating that in these factors, children may be easier to identify the behaviors performed by them. The model created to investigate which variables influenced the prosocial behavior of the children explained 30% of the variation of the data, with one of the factors of BPP (Reasoning Related to the Other) and age presenting main effect, which requires more in-depth studies to investigate other variables that influence this behavior. Finally, children who demonstrated more prosocial behavior took less time to decide on donation, indicating that prosocial behavior may require less rationalization and would be more intuitive than pro-self behavior.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Externo à Instituição - ANUSKA IRENE DE ALENCAR - UFRN
Presidente - 1350337 - FIVIA DE ARAUJO LOPES
Externo à Instituição - RONALDO PILATI RODRIGUES - UnB