• Cultura, Cooperação e Cognição

    Culture, Cooperation and Cognition

    Natália B. Dutra

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    I am a psychologist and an associate professor at the Núcleo de Pesquisa e Teoria do Comportamento (Behavior Research and Theory Center), Federal University of Pará (Brazil), with a PhD in Developmental Psychology from Durham University (England) and MSc in Psychobiology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil).

     

    I have conducted research on prosocial development and the psychological mechanisms underlying human cumulative culture (imitative, instructed and collaborative learning, and innovation). I have also supervised students and collaborated in projects on prosocial development, moral decisions and meta-ignorance.

     

    My current projects focus on human cultural transmission, social inequality, prosocial development, and eating behavior.

     

    I am the co-founder and member of several initiatives (see Initiatives section) to increase global representation and openness in science.

     

    Dutra is pronounced as DOO-trah.

    Contact: nbdutra (Gmail).

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    Laboratório de Estudos em Cultura, Cooperação e Cognição

    Culture, Cooperation and Cognition Studies Lab

    Projetos, membros e colaboradores | Projects, members and collaborators

     

  • Iniciativas | Initiatives

    Iniciativas que ajudei a fundar e/ou das quais tenho feito parte

    Initiatives I helped found and/or have been part of

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    Maria Emilia coletivo de Mulheres rEvolucionistas

    The Maria Emilia coletivo de Mulheres rEvolucionistas, a women's outreach group in Brazil and academic support network for women scientists in evolutionary behavioral sciences. You can find more information about us here (in Portuguese).

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    Advancing Big-team Reproducible science through Increased Representation

    ABRIR's long-term mission is to continue the work of identifying challenges uniquely faced by researchers from the Global South and devising best practices that can be shared within the academic community. We hope to build a collaborative network of psychological science researchers from LMICs to explore and answer questions of deep relevance to their local regions. More about ABRIR here.

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    Psychological Science Accelerator

    The Psychological Science Accelerator is a globally distributed network of psychological science laboratories with 1328 members representing 84 countries on all six populated continents, that coordinates data collection for democratically selected studies. I was their Assistant Director for the Community Building and Network Expansion from 2018-2022, and am a current member. More about the PsySciAcc here.

  • News and Events

    Esta seção precisa ser atualizada | This sections needs an update :-D

    The Max Planck Spring School “Methods for the Study of Culture and the Mind”

    I was a speaker at the panel on Ethics and Infrastructure along with Dr Neziswa Titi and Dr Sandersan Onie, where we talked about the challenges and possible solutions for global research.

    "The aim [of the workshop series] is to provide in depth training in cross-cultural research methods and opportunities for exchange and networking for early career researchers (PhDs, PostDocs, Assistant Professors) with a background in psychology, behavioral and cognitive sciences or related disciplines who use empirical methods in cross-cultural research."

     

    https://www.eva.mpg.de/comparative-cultural-psychology/events/spring-school-2021/

    Panel Discussion: Open Science – The way out of the “crisis”?

    Fri, November 6, 2020

    1:00 PM – 2:30 PM (UTC)

    I'll be talking about my experience with open science as an Durham University alumna and a researcher from the Global South. Details below!

     

    "Research practices in psychological science have been substantially challenged over the last decade, not least by the Open Science Collaboration’s sobering success rate at replicating work published in “flag-ship journals” of the field (OSC, 2015). What followed can be seen as the most important paradigm change in our discipline for decades. By adapting the principles of open science (such as open data, open materials, and pre-registration) psychological research appears to move, slowly but steadily, from discussing and combating a “replication crisis” towards what has been termed the “credibility revolution” (Vazire, 2018). In parallel, a number of methodological improvements, from large-scale collaborative projects to refined statistical analyses, become more and more common in psychological research. However, many questions remain unanswered. Are the proposed and actual changes going far enough to resolve the “crisis”, or are they going too far, or missing the target? What incentives can and should be given to researchers to implement open science principles? How will the proposed and actual changes affect early-career and more senior researchers? We will discuss these and related questions with our panellists in our Open Science Symposium".

    https://www.eventbrite.com/e/open-science-the-way-out-of-the-crisis-tickets-126316803961?aff=estw&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-source=tw&utm-term=checkoutwidget

     

    I Natal Solid Science Training Workshop

    A workshop on reproducible methods in science and collaborative research

    Professor Hans IJzerman (Université Grenobles Alpes, France) and I will deliver a one-day workshop on solid science methods, the first of its kind in Natal, Brazil. We will introduce participants to: the reproducibility crisis and open science practices, tools to create a reproducible research workflow, and international collaborative initiatives. Click here for more information about the workshop.

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