Father involvement is influenced by psychosocial factors in the lives of parents and children and is associated with the healthy development of children and the well-being of parents. A model of the interpersonal processes ...

Coparenting is a term used to refer to how parents (or other parental figures) interact, when deciding how to handle their parenting roles. The coparental relationship has important effects on children’s development and ...

Understanding and using socially agreed codes is important for daily tasks. Considering the peculiarities of the learning process of symbolic behavior, which involves control by arbitrary relations among stimuli, it is ...

The present doctoral dissertation was written in manuscript format. It consists of a summary of the dissertation in non-technical language, a theoretical essay, and three experiments. The theme addressed in this work is ...

Current literature studies have been found associations between depression symptoms and social skills déficits. Some authors suggest that research in this area could use multimodal methods as a way to deepen our understanding ...

Empathy is the ability to recognize the other's emotional state, being fundamental to social interaction and survival of the species. The study of empathy in rodents can be carried out using models that assess anxiety ...

This master’s dissertation is divided into two parts: the first part is composed by summary of this work with less technical language, written in Portuguese. The second part is composed by manuscript for publication, in ...

This study aimed to investigate whether after establishing three-member equivalence classes with abstract stimuli (ABC) and teaching relations between one meaningful stimulus and one member of equivalence class (DA), stimuli ...

Gender stereotypes affect both men and women since childhood. While men may be more often associated with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) careers, women tend to associated with careers related to nurturing ...

The combined behavior of two or more individuals is subject to selection by the consequences of the environment, in the same way as individual operant behavior. Previous studies used an interdependence procedure to investigate ...