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In Brazil, there are no investigations into the psychological and sociodemographic correlates of greed. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between greed and human values. In addition, we tested the mediating effect of greed on gender differences in the endorsement of values. Participants answered the Dispositional Greed Scale, Basic Values Survey and demographic questions. The value correlates indicated that greed people, although materially motivated (existence values), express higher-order needs of aesthetics (suprapersonal values). However, greed personality was a more important predictor of the personal values. There were differences between the sexes only regarding greed and personal values, in which men had higher scores. Finally, the greed partially mediated the gender difference in the endorsement of personal values which suggests that men have an egocentric orientation because are greedier. The results are discussed taking into account the Functional Theory of Human Values, personality of individual differences and evolutionary psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nonrepresentational art is another way to refer to abstract art elating to a style in which objects do not resemble those known in physical nature. In the last hundred years some experimental investigations of aesthetics and personality have been conducted to reveal fundamental factors which contribute to differences in artistic preference. This study explored associations among openness to experience and preference for visual art. Participants completed an Openess Fatorial Scale and provided preference ratings for different paintings corresponding to representational and nonrepresentational art. The statistical analysis of the data showed a positive correlation between the fantasy factor and appreciation for abstract paintings (r = .20). Here was no statistically significant correlation between this same dimension and the appreciation for figurative paintings. Although these findings are somewhat exploratory and more comprehensive measures of individual differences and art preferences could be employed in new studies in Brazil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Recent studies focus predominantly on male psychopathy. This study investigated the female population by examining correlations between two instruments: the Psychopathy Checklist - Revised (PCL-R), used exclusively in the justice system for psychiatric diagnosis of psychopathy, and the Interpersonal Measure of Psychopathy (IM-P), an auxiliary tool used to detect interpersonal behaviors associated with psychopathy. The sample counted 30 women who were serving sentences in a closed regime in three prisons in the South of Brazil. The interviews were carried out in the premises of the three prisons, and the instruments were simultaneously and independently applied by two evaluators. The results indicated a statistically significant and positive correlation between PCL-R and IM-P, highlighting the correlation between IM-P with Factor 1 of the PCL-R. These results corroborate with previous studies on the subject, showing that the IM-P acts as an auxiliary tool to diagnose psychopathy, especially regarding the assessment of interpersonal behaviours. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The main of this study is to verify if there is some correlations between the color responses on the Zulliger test -- FC, CF e C -- and the formal aspect of the Color Pyramid Test (TPC). Hugs, Formations and Structures, considering the fact that both instruments revels the different levels of integration between color and form. The sample was composed by 60 children from public schools of São Paulo-Brasil, half of them with age of 6 years and the others with 12. The data showed that the formal aspect of TPC is sensitive to points out the cognitive development among children with different ages, specially supported by hugs and structures. Nevertheless the determinant C showed correlation with structures among oldest children. These findings must to have interpreted under the concepts of Develop Psychology and demonstrate de importance of going on with this kind of researches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the present article I address the a'uwē-xavante conceptions of humanity and personhood seeking to understand the process of its ongoing constitution and its effects on the very person of the ethnographer and his work while debating with ethnographic and anthropological production. Captured by his subjects, the ethnographer acquires a potency of becoming human through the predation, familiarization and magnification processes. It is possible for the ethnographer to rethink and reenact the very ethnographic praxis, policy and politics when participating in the constitution of the collective self, being taken and transformed by this constitution, doing ritual work and acquiring cosmpolitical offices.. The consequences of such approach are manifested in the ethnographic writing, taking it closest to the multiplicity of experience, affected by the "native" embodied philosophy, in a dialog among anthropology and Amerindian action and thought. In a so called era of ethnographic crisis, becoming and not becoming "native" turns to be the best way to make anthropology --maybe not an unusual approach after all. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Brazil, the assessment of personality traits in conductors is required. However, researches in the area do not show conclusive results that certain personality characteristics would be associated with the increased occurrence of traffic violations and accidents. Thus, this study aims to review international empirical studies that have evaluated the possible link between involvement in accidents or violations of traffic and personality traits in drivers in order to determine whether the imposition of this requirement has scientific basis. This article is critical nonsystematic review of literature. A search for articles was conducted in the electronic database Scopus, with the descriptors (personality) AND (traffic accidents OR automobile driving OR traffic violations), indexed on MeSH. It was concluded that there is scientific basis behind the need for assessment of personality traits that may be considered distal predictors of rates of accidents and violations of traffic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]