Joao Wachelke
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- SPN Mentor
I have a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Padua, Italy, and I am an Adjunct Professor at the Federal University of Uberlandia, Brazil, as well as a research collaborator at the Social Psychology of Communication and Cognition Laboratory (LACCOS).. I am interested in the study of social norms and values and the structural processes of social thinking and social representations, as well as social representations methodology. My thesis was about the structural processes involving inter-representation association, and my current research activity is mainly focused on the relationships between group identification and psychosocial implications within group communication.
Primary Interests:
- Communication, Language
- Group Processes
- Research Methods, Assessment
- Social Cognition
Research Group or Laboratory:
- Social Psychology of Communication and Cognition Laboratory
Journal Articles:
- Camargo, B. V., & Wachelke, J. (2010). The study of social representation systems: Relationships involving representations on aging, AIDS and the body. Papers on Social Representations, 19, 21.1-21.21.
- Sarrica, M., & Wachelke, J. (2010). Peace and war as social representations: A structural exploration with Italian adolescents. Universitas Psychologica, 9, 315-330.
- Wachelke, J. (2008). Relationship between response evocation rank in social representations associative tasks and personal symbolic value. International Review of Social Psychology, 21, 113-126.
- Wachelke, J., & Contarello, A. (2010). Social representations on aging: Structural differences concerning age group and cultural context. Revista Latinoamericana de Psicología, 42, 367-380.
- Wachelke, J., & Lins, S. L. B. (2008). Changing masks: A masking effect on young people's social representations on aging. Current Research in Social Psychology, 13, 232-242.
Joao Wachelke
Uberlandia
Brazil