Neste artigo, objetivamos refletir sobre a memória social e os desafios decoloniais do presente a partir da análise de um estudo sobre representações de personalidades históricas, realizado no Brasil e em Portugal. Conduzimos um inquérito no qual os participantes eram convidados a evocar livremente pessoas ou grupos que consideravam mais importantes na História nacional, e em que medida consideravam o seu impac...
Este manuscrito se constitui numa proposta de análise teórica de algumas das consequências da falta de contato entre as diferentes psicologias sociais existentes no Brasil. Propomos dois eixos que configuram posições extremadas na disciplina, de um lado uma psicologia social mais empírica; de outro, uma psicologia social predominantemente teórica e anti-empírica. A falta de contato alimenta estereótipos e preco...
The present studies examined the effects of social norms on the automatic prejudice against Black people. Study 1 assessed the effects of egalitarianism and competitive meritocracy on automatic racial prejudice. The results showed that the competitive meritocracy context increases prejudice. But, the egalitarian context didn't reduce the prejudice. Study 2 investigated the meanings that people assign to "equali...
We conducted two studies in order to analyze the manifestation and development of attitudes towards quotas. Study 1 (N = 220), carried out five years before the implementation of quotas, indicated that students were very opposed to quotas, especially to the racial ones. In Study 1, the argument most often used to justify being against quotas was that they increase the prejudice against blacks. Study 2 (N = 114)...
The elderly are increasingly representative in society, whether abroad or in our country, and they raise discussions on how they are conceived. This paper investigates the stereotypes about this group formed by university students in the city of Aracaju. Through the concept of dissociation, we sought to understand how personal beliefs and those assigned to the society about the elderly are organized. A survey w...
In the last few years, a new element in racial relations in Brazil has been the affirmative action policy for ethnic minorities. The policy of quotas for Negroes and coloureds in public universities has brought to the surface an intense debate on discrimination and issues of racial identity which had not seemed relevant before, in the country that holds the largest black population outside of Africa. The purpos...
Analisamos, em dois estudos realizados em Sergipe e Alagoas, a desumanização de duas minorias étnicas: índios e ciganos. Participaram 678 não indígenas de ambos os sexos. No primeiro estudo, foram 378 moradores de cinco cidades de Sergipe e uma de Alagoas, dos quais 104 viviam perto da única tribo indígena do estado de Sergipe. No segundo, participaram 300 não-ciganos, dos quais 153 viviam perto de comunidades ...
The article presents the partial results of a research on the influence of gender and professional status in the attributions of emotions and affects. 465 college students from Madrid and Salvador took part of the study: 279 males e 182 females, ages varying from 19 to 56. It was a factorial design of type 4 (Professional Status: supervisor/leader versus employee/associate) X 2 (gender: Male versus Female). We ...
Two studies of children aged between five and ten years old investigate the impact of affirmative action programmes on the ethnic identity of black and indigenous children in Brazil. The participants in the first study were children supported by affirmative action programmes: black Quilombola (n= 33) and indigenous (n= 32). Study two was carried out on black children (n= 77) not supported by affirmative action ...
In order to analyze the social representations of prostitution and the perception of prejudice and stigmatization by the prostitutes, two studies were carried out in Aracaju, northeast from Brazil. The research was conducted in January 2008, the two studies used structured interviews. The first was conducted with 66 residents of several neighborhoods in Aracaju, the second one involved nine prostitutes concentr...