As intercessões teóricas entre cognição social e avaliações psicológicas da personalidade utilizadas no âmbito organizacional

Abstract

Social cognition refers to a neurobiological and psychosocial process that allows the interpretation of social signs that, in general, aims to guide conduct among individuals of the same species. Your field of study is subdivided into three main strands, namely: theory of mind, facial expressions and emotional prosody. Briefly, mind theory relates to the way in which the subject interprets social signs through their beliefs, values and self-perception, whereas facial expressions and emotional prosody refer to the way in which the individual perceives the emotions of others through of the face or tonality of the voice that the other sketches. In the corporate world, and especially in attracting and selecting new professionals, it is essential to find candidates that best fit the work context that will be inserted. Therefore, organizational psychologists use the techniques of psychological assessments of personality in order to analyze which are the behavioral aspects that the subject presents that would be in accordance with the desired behavioral profile for a certain position. Among the tests approved by the Federal Council of Psychology (CFP) applied to the organizational context we have two major problems: (1) The majority of the applications of the evaluations must be face-to-face, as well as the quotation of the tests and the elaboration of the opinions must be done manually. (2) They do not have a theoretical foundation that demonstrates aspects trans culture under a biological bias, which is inherent to the human condition, and which eliminates the problem about the desire for social acceptance contained in the inventory-type tests. In this way, when considering the bases of Social Cognition, we can assume that from the biological point of view, it is not possible for the person to give answers considered as socially more acceptable, and to deny their personal association with opinions or behaviors considered socially disconcerting, the brain inputs in the display of their behavior. Thus, supported by the study of Social Cognition (SC), we make a conceptual parallel between SC and theories used as theoretical basis for the psychological evaluation of personality approved by the CFP, in order to identify the conceptual correlation between these themes, so that it can support future research to create a new personality assessment with this approach.