Maria Lucia Seidl-De-Moura

Fellow from the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq) - Level 1A Maria Lucia Seidl-de-Moura is a full professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro teaching undergraduate and at graduate school. She holds a Bachelor of Science’s degree in psychology from the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1968), a MSc. degree in Educational Psychology from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, United States (1973), and a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the Getulio Vargas Foundation – RJ, Brazil (1987). She did post-doctoral work at the University of São Paulo in evolutionary psychology and at The Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in family studies. She is the coordinator of the area of psychology at the State of Rio de Janeiro Research Foundation (FAPERJ). Formerly, she has been the President of the National Association for the Graduate Studies and Research (ANPEPP), head of the psychology committee at Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq) and member of the National Committee for Evaluation of Graduate Programs in Psychology, from the Brazilian Ministry of Education. She was one of the founders of The Brazilian Association of Developmental Psychology and she has been a member of ISSBD for many years, participating at its Biennial Meetings in symposiums in 2000, 2004 (an invited one), 2006, 2008, and 2010. At other scientific conferences such as the one from the Interamerican Psychology Society, the Brazilian Psychology Society, the Association of Developmental Psychology and the Brazilian Society of the Advance of Science she has been invited to give addresses. She is a member of several Editorial Boards of Brazilian scientific psychology journals and has acted as a reviewer for most Brazilian journals in Psychology and the Interamerican Journal of Psychology, International Journal of Behavioral Development, International Journal on Personal Relationships, Infant Behavior and Development, Child Development and Parenting: Science and Practice. At the University she coordinates the research group Social Interaction and Development (http://www.desin.org) in which other professors, undergraduate and graduate students, and post doc fellows participate under her supervision. She develops studies on parental beliefs and practices, early mother-infant interactions, development of self, cooperation and altruism, under an evolutionary developmental psychology perspective. She has supervised 12 PhD Dissertations, and 25 Master’s Thesis, she has published nine books and 21 book chapters, besides more than 60 papers.