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Alejandro Bravo, University of Brasilia, Brazil
There are nowadays two opposed discourses about the toxicomania’s question: the traditional,
connected to more repressive postures, that considers only the illegal drugs, turning into criminal
the users; and one other, called harm reduction, that there is not as objective the total elimination
of the act of consuming but the decrease of the harmful effects. At the particular case of the
Federal District’s public institutions, Brazil, are analysed as much the kind of the predominant
discourses in each one of them, as the power relationships that they permit and organize, regarding
em particular the management levels.
2098.117 Building intergroup tolerance in the South African workplace, Joha Louw-Potgieter,
University of Cape Town, South Africa
This paper describes a tolerance building intervention in South African workplaces. The structure,
content and theoretical bases of the intervention are explained. The impact of the intervention on
intergroup tolerance is analysed. Finally, suggestions for improving the intervention are offered.
2098.118 Age images of ageing: An exploratory study on the Portuguese population, Liliana
Sousa, Margarida Cerqueira,University of Aveiro, Portugal
Images of ageing across different levels of individual development permit to portrait the social
understanding on the process of ageing. Pursuing this objective a sample of 120 persons, divided
equally into 4 age groups (15-25; 35-45; 55-65; 75-85) was inquired using a semi-structured
interview about their perspective on ageing and being elderly. Results show: i) negative images
are predominant in all age groups; ii) the incidence of negative images increases with age; iii) in
all age groups negative images are associated to “dependency”; iv) positive images in all age
groups are related to “wisdom” and being just “another life stage”.
2098.119 Photographic identification of delinquent women, Concha Antón, Eugenio Garrido,
Pedro Tomé, Jaume Masip, Carmen Herrero, University of Salamanca, Spain
Brigham and Ready (1985) methodology was used to analyze the aptitude to differ the delinquent
women. We propose that witnesses have more difficulties to discriminate against the women's
individual characteristics that develop not consistent conducts with their stereotype that those of
the men who realize the same conducts. 84 witnesses watch a man/woman stole a birfcase in a
videotape and then they must realize a photographic identification wheel. The crime would not
form a part of the stereotype of the women. We expect that the witnesses selected more
photographies similar to the thief that the thieving. Our hypothesis was confirmed.
2098.120 I can (not) avoid doing badly: The effects of perceived source of a negative self-relevant
stereotype on performance, Ilan Dar Nimrod, Steven Heine, University of British Columbia,
Canada
The theory of stereotype threat states that activating self-relevant stereotypes can lead people to
behave in ways consistent with the stereotype. Using a repeated measures design, attributions
concerning gender-based differences in mathematical ability were manipulated by presentation of
either genetic or experientially-based explanations, while the strength of the alleged differences
was held constant. Personality, motivational, and cognitive variables, potentially mediating the
effect, were examined. Results supported the hypothesis that the perceived basis for gender
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