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The aim of this paper was to establish which parenting style of Spanish families is associated with optimum children's outcomes. A random Spanish sample of 1,103 parents of children and teenagers from 6 to 14 years of age, of whom 47% were females, reported on their child-rearing practices. Families were classified into 1 of 4 groups (authoritative, authoritarian, indulgent, or neglectful) based on the parents' answers. Socialization outcomes were 6 indicators of interpersonal relationship quality, 9 indicators of psychological adjustment, 7 indicators of personal competence, and 12 indicators of behavior problems. Results showed that indulgent and authoritative parenting styles were associated with better outcomes than authoritarian and neglectful parenting. Overall, our results supported the idea that, in Spain, the optimum parenting style is the indulgent one, as scores in the four sets of socialization outcomes among children and teenagers from indulgent families were always equal to, or even better than, the authoritative parenting style. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The contemporary city is populated by screens, which in turn, host the city. Televisions, computers, cell phones, gps, etc., their presence and technological advance, have re-stated our feelings and experiences regarding the surroundings, and the images of the world. Have modified our living spaces, and contributed in conditioning a new reading on space-time that has to do with simultaneity, with the contraction of life in real time; in which diverse scenarios overlap, thus the possibility of "multiple" worlds and cities, as well as the creation of virtual communities, becomes a reality. The visual discourse and critical art should reflect on part that the screen plays in societies, this research paper seeks, from a theoretical review, to put it in it's fair perspective regarding it's conditioning part in and for public spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

New ideas and methodologies need to be developed to advance our knowledge in the understanding of moral development. The intertwined nature of human activities, communication processes, and the numerous aspects of morality pose a challenge to researchers to construct a methodology that takes into account cognition, affect, sociocultural processes and characteristics, as well as the active role of individuals in their own development. In this paper we aim at suggesting fresh theoretical ideas and a micro genetic methodology to study moral development, particularly within educational contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Most of the studies agree barebacking can be defined as an intentional practice of unprotected anal sex in 'men who have sex with other men' (MSM), despite the multiplicity of meanings that this term takes to some of the people who use it first hand. In this paper we look located on the way the meanings of the term bareback shapes in narratives of people who practice it. This allows us to move from the individual responsibilities of a practice established since the guiding principles of sexual health policies to the socio-political responsibilities of an attitude that only makes sense in the current context of biopolitics of sexual health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Knowledge about men who are violent with their partners is essential to reduce the risk of the victims, as well as to design treatment programs. This paper examines some of the psychological characteristics of the offenders and their motivation to change. We present a descriptive study of a group of men who participated in a program designed to treat men convicted of domestic violence crime. We analysed data from the following questionnaires: URICA, HADS, SCL-90-R, BDHI, IRI and IPD. The results show that the men in the study sample were mostly in the contemplation stage regarding their willingness to change. Concerning psychological characteristics, the results show low scores in depression, anxiety and hostility, with moderate scores regarding empathy towards the victim and the presence of distorted thinking. Finally, no statistically significant differences were found between the initial predisposition of the subjects to change and the other variables studied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper describes the profile of resilience of 197 youngters from a high school located in a highly vulnerable sector of the Seventh Region of Chile. The SV-RES Resilience Saavedra and Villalta (2008) Scale was administered to students of first and second High School. The analysis describes measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion and distribution. The sample groups are compared according to sex and age groups and the results are plotted. When describing the profile of resilience, the dimensions of "Models", "Generativity" and "Self-efficacy," were highlighted in the overall sample, whereas the dimensions "Satisfaction", "Targets" and "Links" are diminished. In this study, different profiles for men and women are distinguished. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Numerous authors have pointed out the importance of recuperating and giving its due worth to peasant and aboriginal knowledge when rural development initiatives emerge. Nevertheless the problem area related to the local knowledge concept continues presenting some dark points. Therefore, with the purpose of contributing to the topic, this paper analyzes local knowledge dynamics, particularly its value increase and reconfiguration based on the involvement of technical advancement and scientific knowledge. Keeping in mind the said purpose, this article presents the results of a research curried out in a peasant community of the Northeastern part of Argentina, where small producers' knowledge and lack of it were studied, as well as local knowledge invention, circulation, and consolidation processes from a historical perspective. Thus the dynamics involved are conceptualized with the support of frames of reference originated in social psychology, and a comprehensive model destined to describe and explain communal processes for inventing knowledge and the relationship between local knowledge and scientific knowledge has been proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to clarify the process by which individuals transform social representations while appropriating them and the way in which social representations influence on individual actions. Specifically, we will try to answer the following questions: Which are the characteristics of this process? Is it about active or passive internalization? Is it possible to study the concept of individuación (individuation) of social representations from a psychological point of view, regarding the concept itself and its formulation by social psychologies or is it necessary to reformulate it? Does the study of this process involve some kind of interdisciplinary activity? For this purpose, we shall raise the theoretical developments of two contemporary exponents of Psychology. On one hand, Duveen (2001) deals with the problem from the view of Social Psychology, appealing to Developmental Psychology as an instrument and he thinks of individuation amid interpersonal relationships. In this way he remarks that social representations do not act with regard to isolated individuals, but they rather act in pare interaction situations, resulting in the intervention of social and individual restrictions. However he is not able to specify the individuation process of social representations because he cannot adopt the child's point of view, in the way in which developmental psychology does. On the other hand, Valsiner (2003) deals with this problem from the perspective of developmental Cultural Psychology, focusing on the regulation of the flow of intrapersonal experience. His aim is to overcome the static version of social representations that have prevailed in empirical research. From his disciplinary perspective he considers social representations as social semiotic mediation artifacts, that enable individuals to pre-adapt to future events, making the experience of stability possible and integrating future anticipations of future and memories of the past. So, social representation constrains possibilities of action, enabling individual social representation to emerge. The author's main merit is the modification of Social Psychology standard version about the intra-subjective, because he analyzes the process by which an individual uses social representation to organize their experience. However, it is doubtful the use of certain typical concepts of the social representation theory that he uses and reformulates in terms of Developmental Psychology. The analysis of the arguments puts forward by both authors enable us to conclude that the problem of individuation leads to inevitable difficulties for those who deal with any of the mentioned disciplines. Despite researchers move in different problematic spaces, they share a common epistemic frame: the ontological assumption about a dialectic articulation between individual and society or between inter and intra subjective process. Therefore, we advocate for interdisciplinary activity, which is not only a rhetoric resource, but a base in a theoretical and methodological interchange at the moment of delimiting the object of study and to think of the research design. This resource will only be valid if it is focused from the perspective of conceptual discussion and empiric research based on a common epistemic framework. The problem of individuation refers to an object of study constituted by a system of interactions which components should be defined during the investigation itself. Now we face the challenge of studying complex systems. We consider that a dialogue between social and developmental psychologies has started and this should lead to the undertaking of joint investigations, which in time will become the right path for building a plausible explanation for this problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper exposes partial results of the project "Images of the real: photographic and audiovisual discourses as base for social representations". It deals in particular with those results concerning the general theoretical framework and the hypothesis proposed in the project. The main purpose of this project is to reflect upon the conditions under which certain representations are produced, accepted and reproduced, in this case, through visual and audiovisual languages. For this reason, and given the many uses of the term "repressentarions" in the field of social sciencies, we begin by distinguishing the concept of representation in semiotics terms from its uses in other disciplines, such as social psychology or anthropology. We seek therefore to lay emphasis on the logical status of repressentations, understood as signic inferences realized by subjects, based in their experience and subjected to revision. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reflections over the progressive construction of scientific problem and investigation scenery of the project "Senses of work and education in problematic populations", directed by Ana Correa and co directed by Alicia Acin, are presented in this paper . It is a qualitative research in the social psychology field, where the clinical sociology and the education sciences supply to think and situate the problem construction above the social representations in populations which have been gone through by the instituted power that excludes them, but which, at the same time, go through that power producing instituted actions. Those actions present singular modalities that impregnate with new senses education and work, different ones from those which were consecrated during Modernity. It is interesting to enhance the work above the team implication in the problem construction and the research scenery definition, with those called "problematic populations". It means populations which are been historically excluded but with enunciating potentialities and capable of new social sceneries instituting actions: sexual workers associated in AMMAR and prisoners from Córdoba Penitentiary Service. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article argues that the study of the expansion of the normative ideal of law in our region must go beyond legal and institutional perspective to put the focus on relationships between individuals and the rule that are specific to each society. The paper presents a theoretical and methodological proposal for this approach and tests them with the results of an empirical investigation in Chile. The text emphasizes the societal effects and differential configurations of the subject that result of the meeting of the normative ideal of law and the specific social experiences of the individuals in this society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper studies the differences between violence and aggression in order to be able to focus in the mechanisms that characterize the action of violence. The rol of the institucion is discussed (specially the rol of the State) because the institution produces social control and submission. Some examples help to clarify the arguments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study analyzes beheadings among groups of drug traffickers in Mexico resulting from the professional practice of violence, directed fundamentally by people trained in the Kaibil military school in Guatemala. Beheadings disrupt the traditional ideas of violence, legality and death. Death is now constructed based on specific parameters: rational calculation, intoxicating anger and the glory of image. The paper suggests the impact this has on defining the so-called "war against drugs" led by the current federal administration, which seems to excite social tensions and the institutionalization of violence as a form of government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The notion of field played a central role in the scientific projects of Kurt Lewin and Pierre Bourdieu. In this paper we carry out a comparative analysis of their theoretical and methodological use of this concept in their prolific output in the fields of psychology and sociology, respectively. For this purpose we focused on five crucial issues that both researchers explored in the process of developing their respective field theories: the break with partial objectifications, the construction of the object, the internal dynamics of fields, the delimitation of their boundaries, and the mathematical representation of psychological and sociological facts. We conclude with a summary in which we highlight some important coincidences and differences in the respective field theories of Kurt Lewin and Pierre Bourdieu. Both assigned it similar epistemological functions, but in Lewin we can find more mimicry with regard to the idea of field from physics and its mathematical formulation possibilities, whereas Bourdieu's notion of field is inseparable from those of habitus and capital, which facilitates a more integrated analysis of micro and macro-social phenomena, a more sophisticated appraisal of its temporal dimensions, and more precise criteria for establishing the boundaries of a field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Why popularize science? Nowadays, there are different proposals to communicate science, although its major interest lies in spreading it. Based on this reflection, which has started from a previous analysis, are established the differences between: a) the simple sense of communicating or spreading science and b) popularizing it. Every communication process of science, in the sense of popularizing it, must take into account the scientific contents as objects of communication, which are products of a social process and respond to a historic, economic, political and cultural context in which they have been produced and from which it is possible to understand them. This paper provides some contributions to popularize science, with a theoretical background based on the principles by Freire, Kaplun and Moscovici. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Traditionally, Sport Psychology has promoted the idea that athletes must attribute their performances to internal causes to facilitate their involvement in the sport in question. This study provides an exploratory view of the attriburional style predominating in a sample of 22 athletes who practice two motor disciplines. The results indicate the prevalence of an external style of attribution in successful sports situations as well as in unsuccessful situations. This paper also provides a description of the main causes of good performance that were identified as well as several intervention suggestions, beginning with the real influence of external factors on an athlete's performance, considering the specific characteristics of these kind of disciplines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The purpose of this paper is to present a reflection on the fact that people permanently face life-situations to be resolved based on the processes learned in the dynamics of their daily social interaction. Moreover, the formal and institutionalized education has to be seen rather as a social issue, aiming to the generation of learning spaces, accepting the classroom as a space of life and coexistence of the processes of knowledge generation rather than a place based only on information and results. Starting from the fact that human actions are always performed in complex and unique circumstances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Social facilitation theory is one of the most paradigmatic examples of social psychology, understood as an experimental science. However, in this paper we intend to demonstrate that the research that allegedly supports it suffers from a number of defects. It uses biased population samples, and the tasks it sets its experimental subjects are limited to the practical or productive, ignoring the broader range of everyday activities such as conversing or, indeed, urinating. Social facilitation theory, far from being objective, is a microcosm of American social psychology ideology insofar as it ignores basic human functions, and fails to include stigmatized communities such as stutterers and people with bladder problems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Emotions represent an important key for the social relationships. They produce physiological responses for preparing the organism to adopt a behavioral actions related with survival. Facial expressions provide the most important clues in the emotional states in other individuals. However, it is not well understood the neural basis of facial expression processing. Due to their excellent temporal resolution, event-related potentials (ERPs) allow us to investigate the temporal course of the various stages implied in processing a cognitive function. Many studies have explored the ERPs to facial emotional expressions reporting different effects over the ERP components. This paper is aimed to determine the effect of emotional facial expression over the early face specific component N170, using a paradigm in which emotional expression is an infrequent condition in a gender detection oddball task. The paradigm was built using frequently presented (70 %) male faces without emotional expression (neutral faces), randomly mixed with female faces that appeared to a smaller frequency (30 %). The results show significant differences of amplitude between N170 component obtained under fear or happiness infrequent condition and the neutral infrequent condition. The modulation of this component represents a physiological response to the recognition of the facial emotional expressions and could reflect the automatic activation of the emotional neural system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The following paper will try to explain the difficulty based on the polisemic nature of the notion of complex systems and its broadly used in diverse disciplines such as: Physics, Biology, Sociology, Economics, and Social Psychology, and Clinic Psychology, due to the indetermination and the difficulty for its terminological use for the evaluation of social organizations, and other type of systems or webs, like natural systems, or animal, because this objects, are of different nature because of the language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In social psychology, the implicit theories are a recent field of study. Nevertheless, in the last decades, they have been revealed as a promissory area of investigation for the understanding of group's phenomena. The present paper gives attention to the implicit theories that concern the nature of human groups and, in particular psychological essentialism. Essentialism is the belief that an underlying essence lies at the root of every social category. Our revision of some recent investigations indicates that the essentialism is an interesting variable to consider because it has impact in all phenomena that are vulnerable to social perception such as the in-group deviation and the social projection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the field of developmental psychology new hypotheses are currently being brought forward about the infant's subjectivity and intersubjectivity. Namely, these are related to (a) the detection of very early perceptual abilities linked to time and (b) the recognition of the presence of antecedents of temporal arts (music and dance) in the mother-infant interactions. The purpose of this paper is to introduce this emerging approach to infancy and to outline its affinity with what is called "the second person perspective" in the field of philosophy of mind. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on Fishbein and Ajzen (1975, 1980) and Ajzen and Madden (1986, 2002) proposal, this paper puts forward an extension of "Planned Behavior Theory" (PBT) for the understanding of the pro-ecological behavior. The main aim of this article is to explore the importance of emotional aspects as a contribution for the comprehension of the "low vehicle use" behavior, surpassing TPB explanations. This work uses the constructs of the theory, but also includes the emotional variable. For attaining the objective of the research a questionnaire was built and applied to 797 subjects of a Galician population (Spain). Results explaining Anger like one of the variables that confirming this behavior and its weight is superior to the traditional variables like perceived behavioral control. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Through the Nicole Everaert's model of artistic communication, this paper gets into trouble the negative influence of mediatics reception grammatics on the artistic communication reception. The goal is propose the artistic communication as the concret issue for the solution of human conflict and social interactions. Two conclusions are made of this: 1) the negative influence of the mediatics reception grammatics, in terms of sense structures, and 2) the misreading of considerer art as a massive product, because for one angle, this enphazies its elitism, and for the other art is devalue as a real issue for social interactions and healthy social transformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this paper (based on a case of study developed in basic education schools), is to show how cultural violence is crystallized towards blind children. This problem crosses by two referrings of interaction and social relationships into the scholastic space. The first one is conformed by normality and anormality parameters from the stigmas' location; and the second one is opposed to the previous tendency in order to minimize the effects of the stigmas, showing them as an unacceptable kind of social segmentation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is divided into four parts. The first one gives a general context about the three words in its title. The second part analyzes a proposal to link peace and development, namely, the one made by UNDP on human security and the difficulties to get it. The third one deals with some prognoses in which links between the three words are more evident. Finally, the forth part is dedicated to topics that remain open to further discussion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper reviews Marcusian thinking regarding Freudian psychoanalysis in two of its primary aspects: the critique of metapsychology and the hypothesis of subversive sexuality, both concerning their gnoseological and political validity in the present. Some reformulations stated by the author concerning Marxism and its description of the new forms of social conflict in advanced capitalism are also discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sooner or later, sociologists and political philosophers, with few exceptions, end up referring to the theme of the differences between what is considered truly political, and what is ethical or moral. This difference however is far from relevant. But it is particularly important in the global times of today, when It is assumed that politics has been replaced by pure economic reasoning. This would mean that in the global times of modernity there are no conflicts, because there are no real actors, neither social nor political. In the face of this catastrophic and resigned manner of thinking. I have protested before In another publication (Mires, 2000). I wish to refer now to the theme of the inter-relations between morality, ethics and politics that has not passed beyond a second level. It has, on the contrary, more validity now if we wish to recover political reasoning, especially in Latin American countries where the process of constructing democracy, both formal and real, is far from being over, with or without globalization. The political sociology of the post-modern age which is still in the making, must recover the ethical-political legacy from the Athenian era up to the present, with an attempt to understand the sense and reason of these public places that were created so that our conflicts and interests could be reconciled without recurring to violence, something that has recently seemed possible In certain Latin American countries. So-called citizen virtues are, effectively, the result of long historical processes marked by multiple pre-political adventures. Before virtues appeared on the citizen menu, a lot of blood flowed under the bridges. This paper is an essay that centers first on the relationships between ethics, politics and morality. In the second place, we refer to the theme of passions, from the point of view of political virtue. Lastly, we refer to a more permanent political theme: truth and non-truth In the life of the citizen. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Punto Fijo model in Venezuela was the expression of the relationship between nationalism, modernization and democracy. Its legitimacy was based on the strategy of "planting oil" (investing oil revenues) in order to modernize society. However the failure of the model placed the country in a difficult situation in which modernization became more and more unattainable. Three sectors of society (social movements including labor movements, the management sector, including professionals and oil executives, and the military) built political projects during the final stages of the Punto Fijo model and into the collapse of this model and the party system associated with it up until 1998, when Chavism began to dominate the political apparatus of the state. However, the development of this process and recent happenings have proven that the political scenario is more difficult to manage than was thought, and the loss of presidential popularity and the upsurge of movements to eliminate Chavez indicate that the political situation is still unstable. The question is: What explains the permanence of Chavez in power even after his loss of popularity? One answer discussed in this paper is the president's ability to interpret popular resentment to- wards the previous ruling parties, and his ability to impose independent external policy which capitalizes anti-U.S. sentiment in large segments of the population, and which Is based on a cultural tension well rooted in the history of the country. The most important conclusion is that the 40 years of Punto Fijo-model have created in Venezuela a not-so-automatic and not-so-blind acceptance of leadership, wherever it comes from. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I examine the relationships between social choice theory and consumer theory. First, I argue that they have a common theoretic core defined around agent's utility maximization in choice situations. Secondly, it is claimed, as a working hypothesis, that there is a specialization relation precisely in the same terms in which this relation is defined by the structuralist view. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]