Renata Defelipe

• PhD in Experimental Psychology
• PostDoc Position at University of São Paulo

Postpartum depression (PPD) is a mood disorder which can adaptively alter maternal socialisation strategies. Our objective was to investigate differences in ethnotheories and childrearing practices of mothers with low (N = 46) and high (N = 45) intensity of PPD. The Brazilian version of Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale was applied at 3, 8 and 3...

Psychosocial risk conditions can predict postpartum depression (PPD) which can reduce maternal investment into child. We examined, in high-risk Brazilian mothers, PPD predictors measured during pregnancy, and PPD effects on maternal behaviors measured at 4-5 months. 35 depressed (D) and 38 nondepressed (ND) mothers had four behaviors (gaze, smile,...

What motives do people prioritize in their social lives? Historically, social psychologists, especially those adopting an evolutionary perspective, have devoted a great deal of research attention to sexual attraction and romantic-partner choice (mate seeking). Research on long-term familial bonds (mate retention and kin care) has been less thorough...

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic outbreak has affected all countries with more than 100 million confirmed cases and over 2.1 million casualties by the end of January 2021 worldwide. A prolonged pandemic can harm global levels of optimism, regularity, and sense of meaning and belonging, yielding adverse effects on individuals' mental health as represen...

Inclusive fitness theory postulates that preferentially provisioning offspring that most closely resemble the parents can indirectly increase their gene-copying success, with phenotypic resemblance between (allo)parent and offspring acting as an indicator of genetic similarity. According to this prediction, the amount of alloparental effort should...

Esse capítulo foi escrito para qualquer pessoa que tenha interesse em primeira infância! Nele, falamos sobre: ▪A importância da primeira infância para o desenvolvimento infantil e sociedade como um todo; ▪As ferramentas que a neurociência tem usado para entender como o cérebro infantil em desenvolvimento funciona; ▪Os marcos aos possíveis caminho...

Introduction The cooperative breeding framework suggests that help from extended family members with childrearing is important adaptation for our species survival, and it is universal. However, the degree of alloparental help may vary between societies, families, and over time. We hypothesized that maternal and paternal effort, as well as alloparen...

The current paper investigates the intra-pair similarity of twins’ first names in comparison to non-twin siblings. The dataset was composed of 2,387 pairs of Brazilian names of same-sex individuals as a function of sex, age (< 18 years vs > 18 years), and self-reported zygosity (MZ: Monozygotic vs DZ: Dizygotic). We assigned scores to each pair of...

Purpose Most studies assessing hair cortisol were conducted with adults. As specific guidelines for infant hair collection are lacking, we developed a hair collection protocol for 12-month-old infants and assessed its acceptability and feasibility. Results Out of the total (N = 45), 95.6 % (n = 43) of caregivers consented to the procedure, while o...

Introduction. The cooperative breeding framework suggests that help from extended family members with childrearing is important adaptation for our species survival, and it is universal. However, the degree of alloparental help may vary between societies, families, and over time. We hypothesized that maternal and paternal effort, as well as allopare...

Twin research in Brazil is expanding and should be built upon solid foundations; this includes the use of zygosity questionnaires validated through DNA. Our goals were to adapt and validate two short zygosity questionnaires to Brazilian Portuguese using DNA testing of Brazilian twins. One hundred same-sex twin pairs (27 males and 73 females; 30.9±1...

The COVID-19 pandemic caused drastic social changes for many people, including separation from friends and coworkers, enforced close contact with family, and reductions in mobility. Here we assess the extent to which people's evolutionarily-relevant basic motivations and goals—fundamental social motives such as Affiliation and Kin Care—might have b...

Our goal was to provide a how-to guide to move infant observational research from lab to home. We searched four databases (Scopus, PubMed, Google Scholar, Frontiers in Psychology Special Issue) from January to February 2022, using ‘infant/children’, ‘online/web-based/tele-observation’, ‘pandemic/Covid-19’ as descriptors. Eligible papers were in Eng...

Elucidating the elements involved in the gender development is challenging and transcends the nature/nurture dichotomy. We investigated if gender differences would be more pronounced in older infants (11-18 months) than younger ones (6-11 months); and related to gendered toys (masculine: vehicles, and feminine: dolls, dress-up accessories, and dome...

How does psychology vary across human societies? The fundamental social motives framework adopts an evolutionary approach to capture the broad range of human social goals within a taxonomy of ancestrally recurring threats and opportunities. These motives—self-protection, disease avoidance, affiliation, status, mate acquisition, mate retention, and...

This presentation will be divided into three main parts: First, I will talk about theoretical background on motor development; Secondly, I will present the proposal of the project that we are developing on motor development; And in the third part, I will briefly discuss potential implications of Dynamic Systems Theory for parents.

Psicologia Evolucionista (PE) e Feminismo são correntes teóricas que se conversam? Para tentar entender possíveis divergências e pontes entre essas abordagens, esse minicurso será dividido em três partes. Na primeira parte, discorremos que a sociedade patriarcal em que vivemos é responsável por produzir uma ciência sexista que está refletida nas ma...

The COVID-19 outbreak has hit hardest developing countries like Brazil. Brazilian federal government is being charged of being responsible for 600,000 deaths (October 2021). Its members are involved in corruption which delayed the purchase of vaccines, not tested the citizens, and propagated fake news about Covid-19. This preliminary study asked to...

The present study provided some insights into the family’s functioning and on the maternal and paternal differential contribution to the family’s social interaction in a low-income population living in São Paulo, Brazil. The main objectives of the study were to compare mothers and fathers on their children’s socialization goals (SGs) and familism (...

Well-being (vs. ill-being) might function as an internal guide for approaching (vs. avoiding) situations, strategies, and achievements that ancestrally led to higher (vs. lower) reproductive success. Indeed, coupled individuals report higher well-being than singles, while depressive individuals report lower mate value and higher sociosexuality. Her...

We developed a cascade model to reconstruct the hypothesized developmental progression from (a) increased resource instability during childhood to (b) decreased maternal sensitivity during childhood to (c) social vulnerability cognitive schemata to (d) faster Life History strategies to (e) decreased behavioral regulation to (f) more pronounced “Dar...

The goals of the present study were to investigate socio-demographic characteristics and well-being indicators associated with pet ownership. The respondents (N = 801, 53.8% females; 56.2% with children) came from the five macro-regions of Brazil (8% North, 28% Northeast, 36% Southeast, 18% South, 10% Central-West). Their ages ranged from 20 to 50...

Appearance alterations are an important part of human history, culture, and evolution that can serve many functions. Cross-culturally, women more than men use makeup as a specific, temporary, personalized, and relatively accessible technique for appearance alteration. Women wear makeup to attract attention and/or to mask their imperfections, and in...

The great child dependence on adult care is a characteristic of human development. Without care, the human baby does not survive its first hours of life. In response to this dependence, adults can present intensive care directed to children. Usually, parents are the primary caregivers of their children. however, they are not the only ones. Often th...

Although there is a vast literature on early mother-infant interaction, there are fewer studies that investigate mother-infant behaviors immediately after delivery in natural conditions. Our aim was to investigate early mother-infant interaction as a function of mothers’ emotional states, infants’ sex and weight, and hospital procedures. Newborns w...

INTRODUÇÃO Pesquisas nacionais e internacionais revelam representação desigual entre os sexos no meio acadêmico em função da área de conhecimento e posição hierárquica. Buscou-se verificar se a Universidade de São Paulo (USP) segue tendências nacionais e internacionais que apontam para uma maior representatividade masculina em posições hierárquicas...

INTRODUÇÃO Pesquisas nacionais e internacionais revelam representação desigual entre os sexos no meio acadêmico em função da área de conhecimento e posição hierárquica. Buscou-se verificar se a Universidade de São Paulo (USP) segue tendências nacionais e internacionais que apontam para uma maior representatividade masculina em posições hierárquicas...

Massagem terapêutica é uma das mais antigas formas de tratamento em todo o mundo, tendo sido descrita na China durante o século II a.c. e logo depois, na Índia e no Egito. Apesar de ter desaparecido da medicina norte-americana na década de 1940, ela ressurge nos dias de hoje como uma terapia efetiva por receber suporte empírico por ter: efeito calm...

Como a literatura dificilmente investiga variáveis culturais e situacionais em conjunto, o presente trabalho procurou conjugar tais variáveis (depressão pós-parto, fatores ecossociais, modelos culturais de self, etnoteorias e práticas de cuidado) a fim de caracterizar uma amostra de mães paulistanas atendidas pelo sistema público de saúde do Butant...

Introdução: Este estudo faz parte de uma pesquisa longitudinal sobre depressão pós-parto (DPP), suas possíveis causas e conseqüências para a interação mãe-bebê e para o desenvolvimento infantil (Projeto Temático da FAPESP). As participantes foram entrevistadas no terceiro trimestre de gestação e as díades mãe-bebê foram avaliadas dois dias após o p...

IS#46/Dezembro_2008 Saúde Sexual e Reprodutiva Boletim do Instituto de Saúde