Laboratories and Research Centers

PPGP currently has eight laboratories in operation, which integrate professors, as well as their undergraduate students during initial scientific training, Master and Doctorate candidates. Each laboratory is presented below:

LAB-RELAÇÕES - LABORATÓRIO DE RELAÇÕES INTERPESSOAIS E CONTEXTOS EDUCATIVOS (LABORATORY OF INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS AND EDUCATIONAL CONTEXTS)

LAB-RELAÇÕES has as its main study theme the ways in which interpersonal relationships are established in the most varied contexts, especially in education. The main projects of the laboratory are: (1) Social Skills in Educational Contexts, which objectives are to identify socially competent interventions in the different segments of regular and university education; they have as a privileged audience teachers and students. Intervention proposals are made for the learning of social skills or for acting in the school environment, the construction of specific instruments and in longitudinal and cross-sectional characterization studies of those samples; (2) Social Skills for Dyadic Relationship, which aims to identify the social skills involved in each stage of life cycles, conduct characterization studies with the different samples and build instruments for measuring social skills for the dyadic relationship; (3) Social Skills and Therapeutic Relationship: development and performance of the psychologist, whose objective is to carry out characterization studies and to develop instruments for measuring social skills for students and professional psychologists; (4) Academic Adaptation to the University: Models, Instruments and Interventions that, considering the fact that the transition from high school to university is one of the main changes in students' education, they aim at building instruments, testing explanatory models of the construct and carrying out interventions to better fit the student. The laboratory maintains collaborations with professors and researchers from several other national and foreign institutions.

Professor:

Adriana Benevides Soares

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https://labrelacoes.wordpress.com/

LARPS - LABORATÓRIO DE ESTUDOS DE REPRESENTAÇÕES E PRÁTICAS SOCIAIS (LABORATORY OF SOCIAL PRACTICES AND REPRESENTATIONS STUDIES)

LARPS aims to conduct research and promote discussions and extension/intervention actions on the reciprocal influence between social practices and representations, based on the great field of Social Psychology and other social sciences, with an emphasis on the Theory of Social Representation; especially in situations involving social inequality, exclusion and intervention actions for inclusion, with priority for the fields of education and health. LARPS maintains collaborations with professors and researchers from several other national and foreign institutions.

Professor:

Pedro Humberto Faria Campos

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LEIA- LABORATÓRIO DE ESTUDOS E IMPACTOS SOBRE A ALFABETIZAÇÃO (LABORATORY OF STUDIES AND IMPACTS ON LITERACY)

LEIA aims to develop research on literacy acquisition processes and their impact. It also studies the learning processes of reading and writing throughout the life cycle. Reading comprehension is one of the most important skills learned in school. It is fundamental for good academic development and for the actual exercise of our citizenship. Despite advances in access to education in Brazil, performance in reading and writing comprehension is still below expectations at all school levels. In our laboratory, we conduct research that seeks to investigate the reading and writing processes in samples of Brazilian students throughout their life cycle in order to better understand those processes and at the same time, to propose solutions that can promote the written language teaching quality based on evidence. Currently, we address three lines of research: 1) Metalinguistic awareness and its impacts on the acquisition of reading comprehension and spelling; 2) Family literacy and emerging literacy development; and 3) History of reading and impacts on reading comprehension. The Laboratory has interlocution with several national and foreign universities. At the national level, lectures are offered to Basic Education teachers grounded on the research developed.

Professor:

Marcia Mota

Learn more:

www.leiapsi.com.br

CRAFPAS – CENTRO DE REFERÊNCIA E ATENÇÃO ÀS FAMÍLIAS, PROFISSIONAIS E AGENTES SOCIAIS (REFERENCE AND CARE CENTER FOR FAMILIES, PROFESSIONALS AND SOCIAL AGENTS)

CRAPFAS consists of a teaching, research and intervention nucleus that aims to develop scientific knowledge on topics related to education and to the positive development of people in situations of psychosocial risk. The investigations follow the guidelines of the bioecological theory of human development and the constructs of Positive Psychology, with a focus on promoting the resilience and well-being of individuals, groups, professionals and communities. CRAFPAS investigators have developed, executed and evaluated positive psychoeducational interventions models in different educational settings. The researched contexts are as follows: public or private schools, hospitals, host institutions, university housing and other services for users in the community. CRAPFAS maintains partnerships with professors and researchers from different national and foreign institutions.

Professor:

Maria Angela Yunes

Rebeca Lima

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https://sites.google.com/view/crafpas/

NÚCLEO DE ESTUDOS APRIMORA (APRIMORA STUDY NUCLEUS)

APRIMORA is dedicated to researching the themes of Trajectory and Professional Development, seeking to understand the specificities of the paths of workers from different job categories, as well as investigating models with antecedent, consequent, moderating and mediating variables in professional development. To this end, it operates in the construction and validity test of measurement instruments related to the theme, as well as in the testing of empirical models in samples with workers associated with organizations, as well as with self-employed workers. Examples of variables included in these models include self-efficacy, creativity, resilience, career planning, job satisfaction, job performance, professional training courses, learning strategies, job design and career adaptability. The group also investigates crossings of gender and race/ethnicity in the professional trajectories of diverse audiences. The research group's studies are frequently presented at national and international scientific meetings and generate diverse publications in articles, book chapters, booklets and other technical-technological products. It should also be noted that APRIMORA maintains collaborations with professors and researchers from several other national institutions.

Professor:

Luciana Mourão

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https://www.facebook.com/N%C3%BAcleo-Aprimora-104423461575062/?view_public_for=104423461575062

LECOS – LABORATÓRIO DE ESTUDOS SOBRE O ENVELHECIMENTO NO CONTEXTO ORGANIZACIONAL E SOCIAL (LABORATORY OF STUDIES ON AGING IN THE ORGANIZATIONAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXT)

LECOS aims to investigate the different aspects associated with aging, both in work situations in organizations and in the social context. To this end, topics such as attitudes towards the elderly and intergenerational programs (the elderly, children and adults) are addressed, as well as the retirement process, especially with regard to the digital and technological insertion of older workers; the retention and employability of older workers in the labor market; retirement decision-making and retirement preparation programs via guided autobiography. The laboratory maintains partnerships and collaborations with professors and researchers from several other national and foreign institutions, for the development of inter-institutional projects on aging in different cultural contexts.

Professor:

Lucia França

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https://instagram.com/laboratoriolecos?igshid=wb4h2sozvliw

LAPOS-LABORATÓRIO DE PSICOLOGIA ORGANIZACIONAL POSITIVA (POSITIVE ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY LABORATORY)

LAPOS is dedicated to the study and application of Positive Psychology concepts within the context of work organizations. Among the main themes investigated are well-being at work and its multiple indicators, the redesign of work, psychological flexibility at work and the work-family interface. The approach to such phenomena occurs through three different lines of research: (1) construction or adaptation of instruments designed to measure them; (2) testing of models that seek to ascertain the ways in which these phenomena and their indicators are impacted by the work context and the worker’s characteristics, as well as their consequences for individuals and organizations; (3) evaluation of the effectiveness of interventions designed to promote the strengthening of positive characteristics in individuals and organizations, based on scientific evidence. LAPOS counts on the collaboration of professors and researchers from several other national and foreign institutions.

Professor:

Maria Cristina Ferreira

Leonardo Fernandes Martins

Larissa Gabardo-Martins

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https://sites.google.com/view/laboratriodepsicologiaposiva-u

GRUPO DE PESQUISA INTERAGE (INTERAGE RESEARCH GROUP)

The Laboratory studies the contributions of Social Network Analysis for research in Social Psychology, with emphasis on intra and intergroup processes in organizational contexts and in contexts of public policy implementation. The researches and productions under development in the group include: survey and evaluation of the instruments available for measuring social support at work, especially on the use of social network analysis strategies; studies on the feelings associated with teleworking and the representations of professional identity, with emphasis on the analysis of semantic networks as a strategy for the analysis of qualitative data; analysis of informal social networks at work and their associations with workplace well-being in the framework of organizational change. The group has the collaboration of professors and researchers from several other national institutions.

Professor:

Elisa Amorim Ribeiro

Learn more:

https://www.facebook.com/Interagerede