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O Ciclo de de Conferências do Ispa promove a palestra “Kind Emotions and the Autonomic Nervous System in Childhood”. O Professor Tyler Colasante reflete sobre a razão porque algumas crianças sentem emoções gentis como simpatia e culpa após prejudicarem outros, enquanto outras sentem-se felizes ou zangadas. Nesta apresentação, serão discutidos estudos que utilizam a psicofisiologia, nomeadamente medidas de frequência cardíaca e arritmia respiratória, para compreender melhor como as crianças expressam emoções bondosas, visando entender como as respostas fisiológicas no sistema nervoso autónomo ajudam as crianças a lidar com conflitos sociais e a desenvolver emoções bondosas que evitam prejudicar outros no futuro.

Entrada livre.

Why do some children feel kind emotions like sympathy and guilt after harming others, whereas others feel happy or angry? While many lines of research have demonstrated the immediate and long-term benefits of children’s kind emotions, we still lack a process-oriented understanding of how kind emotions develop in real time, including the physiological mechanisms responsible for “feeling” such emotions. In this talk, I will present a series of studies using psychophysiology—specifically measures of heart rate and respiratory sinus arrhythmia—to better understand how children express kind emotions. The main goal of this research is to learn how physiological responses in the autonomic nervous system help children navigate social conflicts and arrive at kind emotions that prevent harming others in the future. 

Biografia

Tyler Colasante is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Leipzig University, Germany. He previously worked at the University of Toronto in Canada as Managing Director of the Centre for Child Development, Mental Health, and Policy. His research focuses on children’s emotional development and technology use. Within emotional development, his topics of interest are emotion regulation, morality and ethics, and mental health. He uses techniques from basic developmental science, such as psychophysiology, to understand how emotional processes unfold in real time and to inform digital technologies that better fit the emotional needs of children. In turn, he studies the positive and negative effects of digital technologies on children’s emotional development.