The objective of Fractal : Revista de Psicologia is to diffuse and discuss the academic and scientific production. Its purpose is to recognize the need of coexistence among the many kinds of research in the psychology field, stimulating the constant debate as a mean of encouraging the scientific production. At the same time, it aims to motivate the dialog with different fields of knowledge, whose subjects are related to the studies of subjectivity.

Fractal : Revista de Psicologia is the new name of the Journal of Psychology Department - UFF. This one was created at the year of 1989 as a local publication linked to UFF's Department of Psychology. After almost 20 years of publication, the Editorial Council considered that its name did not suit the profile of the journal, which had conquered an important space in the Psychology's national scene. Because of that, at the year of 2009, the Journal of Psychology Department - UFF was renamed to Fractal : Revista de Psicologia.

Its abbreviated title is Fractal, Rev. Psicol., which should be used in bibliographies, footnotes and and bibliographical references and strips.

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• Lilacs
• Index Psi
• Psicodoc

All content of the journal, except where identified, is licensed under a Creative Commons attribution-type BY.

This publication receives the financial support from:

• Pró-Reitoria de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação - PROPPI-UFF
• Programa de Pós-Graduação Stricto Sensu em Psicologia da UFF
• Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)
• Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES)

• Ana Claudia Lima Monteiro, Universidade Federal Fluminense - UFF, Niterói, RJ, Brasil. E-mail: anaclmonteiro@yahoo.com.br
• Giselle Falbo Kosovski - Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, RJ, Brasil. E-mail: falbogiselle@gmail.com

• Cecília Maria Coimbra - Universidade Federal Fluminense - UFF - Niterói - RJ - Brasil
• Estela Scheinvar - Universidade Federal Fluminense - UFF - Niterói - Brasil
• Eduardo Passos - Universidade Federal Fluminense - UFF - Niterói - RJ - Brasil
• Esther Arantes - Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro - PUC/RJ - Rio de Janeiro - RJ - Brasil
• Eugeni Enriquez - Université Paris IV Sorbonne - Paris - França Université Paris IV
• Gilles Monceau - Université Paris VIII - Paris - França Université Paris VIII
• Jacques Poulain - Université Paris VIII - Paris - França Université Paris VIII
• Luiz Marcellino de Oliveira - USP/Ribeirão Preto
• Luiz Benedicto Lacerda Orlandi - UNICAMP
• Marcia Moraes - Universidade Federal Fluminense - UFF, Niterói, RJ, Brasil
• Maria Juracy Filgueiras Toneli - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC
• Maria Lívia do Nascimento - Universidade Federal Fluminense - UFF - Niterói - RJ - Brasil
• Maria Lucia Boarini - UEM
• Maurício Mangueira - UFSE
• Norberto Abreu e Silva Neto - UNB
• Paulo Albertini - USP
• René Scherer - Université Paris VIII
• Robert Castel - EHESS/Paris
• Ronald Arendt - UERJ
• Silvia Leser de Mello - USP
• Silvia Helena Tedesco - Universidade Federal Fluminense - UFF - Niterói - RJ - Brasil
• Silvio Paulo Botomé - UFSC
• Suely Rolnik - PUC/SP
• Tânia Mara Galli Fonseca - UFRGS
• Teresa Cristina O. Carreteiro - Universidade Federal Fluminense - UFF - Niterói - RJ - Brasil
• Vinciane Despret - Université de Liège - Bélgica

• Revision
  Eduff
• Executive Secretary
  Sérgio Simões de Sant'Ana

The Fractal: Journal of Psychology is edited three times a year and uses the ABNT standardization for presentation of articles in printed scientific periodic publications. (6022/2003 and 6021/2003)

Its purpose is to publish unpublished works of national and international authors, in portuguese, spanish, english and french in the following categories:

Research reports: reports of research based on empiric data, using scientific methodology (Maximum 20 pages)

Theoretic study: analysis of theoretic constructs and concepts that question the existing models and raise questions and hypothesis for future researches (Maximum 20 pages)

Professional experience narration: case study with conceptual analysis and description of the intervention proceedings. (Maximum 14 pages)

Statements: interviews with people whose life stories or professional achievements are relevant to the knowledge of the history of Psychology and related fields. (Maximum 15 pages)

Debates: historical or nowadays themes, purposed by the editors or by collaborators and debated for specialists who expose their points of view (written or through audio recorded). On the first case, the collaborators can suggest issues and participants, assuming responsibility for the graphic work, for the interaction among participants and for the final edition of the text. The live debate, when not organized by the journal, can be submitted as a recorded tape or as the transcription of it, partially edited, being the final edition responsibility of the editors of the Fractal: Journal of Psychology (Maximum 30 pages).

Research notes: preliminary report, shorter and simpler than an article, emphasizing hypothesis, progress and difficulties of on-going researches, mentioning sources, methods and techniques used and the unfolds previewed. (Maximum 10 pages)

Abstracts: critical analysis of published works and subjects concerning the flux of information through computer nets and informatics databases. (Maximum 10 pages)

Events: abstracts of research and extension works presented in scientific congresses with the participation of graduation students. The abstracts must contain a maximum of 500 words, in

• times new roman
• , size 12, simple spaced, title centralized and in capitals, with indication of the authors, the name of the supervisor in the last place, address for correspondence and the supervisor e-mail, institutional affiliation of the authors, three key-words, name of the event in which the work was presented, place and date. The text must be continuous, without paragraphs or tabulation, subtitles, references, illustration or tables. It must contain the financing agency. The abstracts must present, in a clear way, the objectives of the work, without references, including the most important ideas of the specific literature in the subject. The material and methods must be described, including subjects, equipment, techniques and other strategies used. The description of the results must contain the synthesis of what was obtained and, if that´s the case, expose the measures and the results of the statistic proofs applied. The conclusion must be based on the presented data, being convenient to make references to the objectives or hypothesis previously described. Abstracts of thesis, dissertation and academic works: brief description of mastership dissertation and doctorship or free-docency thesis (Maximum 1,5 pages)

  PEER REVIEW

  The submitted articles are primarily evaluated to verify if they are written according to the standards of the Journal publication. If there are any flaws in the standardization of the articles, the secretary of the Journal will make contact with the authors asking for the necessary corrections. Once this is made, the articles are sent to the evaluators (blind review). They are doctored professors, of renamed knowledge in psychology field, especially on the main subject of the article to be evaluated. The evaluators are asked to emit their opinion by the Chief Editor.

  Each article is evaluated for two estimators, who express their final evaluation according to the following items:

  ( ) Should be published, with priority. It is not necessary to be reviewed.
  ( ) Should be published. It is not necessary to be reviewed.
  ( ) Should be published, but needs to be reviewed.
  ( ) Should not be published.

  In the case that both the evaluators mark one of the first two options, the article is included on the list of approved works, ready for publication, and the author receives a letter informing that his/her article was approved for publication in the Journal. When one of the evaluators marks the third option, the author receives letter from the Journal followed by the evaluation on which are indicated the necessary corrections to publish the article. The evaluations are given to the authors without the indication of the name of the evaluators. Once the author obeys the requests presented in the evaluation, the article is once again submitted to the evaluator so he can verify if the changes made on the article are enough for its approval. If both evaluators indicate that the article shouldn´t be published, the author receives a letter informing that the article was not accepted for publication. When both evaluators emit conflictive evaluations, one approving the article and other not approving its publication, a third doctored professor is invited to give his opinion. In this case, the article will be considered ready for publication when two of the three evaluators considerate that the article must be published. In the same way, the article will be considered non-indicated for publication when two of the three evaluators considerate that the article should not be published in the Journal.

  PUBLIC OF THE JOURNAL: Professors, researchers, students of psychology and similar areas.

  Fractal: Revista de Psicologia does not charge authors an article processing charge (APC), neither submission charges

The works will be appreciated by the Editorial Commission, which will decide about its acceptance and, if necessary, suggest some structure and content modifications to the author.

The editor has the right to make changes or cuts on the submitted works to adapt them to the standards of the journal, respecting the contents and the style of the author. The authors will be notified about the acceptance or refusal of their articles. The originals, even when not used, will not be returned.

Each and every submission to the Journal must be accompanied of a letter signed by the main author, on which it must be exposed the intention of submission of the work for publication. In the case of multiple authors, the letter must be signed by all authors.

The presentation of manuscripts must obey the following order:
Cover sheet without authors' name containing only:

• Title in portuguese with 10 words at the most.
• English Title.
• To nominate the financial and technical support granted during the work.

Obs.: The author data (name, institutional affiliation, address, email) must not be in the paper. It will be inserted in the step 2 of on line submission.

• Abstract: the articles must be accompanied by abstract, in the main language and in english. The abstracts must have between 100 and 250 words. The research reports abstract must include: description of the problem investigated, definition and characterization of the sample, the method used for the gathering of data, the results, conclusions and its applications. The abstracts of the theoretic study and the critical review of literature must contain the following items: investigated subject, objective, construct being analyzed or the organizer of the study, sources used and conclusions. We suggest that the authors use at least one sentence to each item.
• Key-words: the author(s) must present three to five key-words, in the language of the original text and in English. The words must be separated by dot and finalized also by dot.
  The illustrations (table, graphic design, maps, schemes, flux chart, org chart and others) must have the necessary quality for a good graphic reproduction. They must be delivered on separated files from the text, on the program they have been created (Excel, Corel Draw, Photo Shop etc.), identified on the bottom with its title and subtitle, and preceded by the designative word, followed by its number according to the order of appearance in the text, in arabic numbers, as Graphic 1, Graphic 2, etc, and the source.
  The tables must be identified on the superior part and must obey the Standard of Tabular Presentation (Normas de Apresentação Tabular) of IBGE (1993).

Example: Table 1 -
Table 2 -

The quotations must be indicated on the text, between parentheses, according to the NBR 10520:2002.

Example: (SILVA, 2004, p. 96)

(OLIVEIRA, 2003, p. 21-36)

(BRASIL, 2003, p. 26)

(OS EMERGENTES, 2002, p. 4-5)

The quotations in the text are transcribed using double quotation marks, in the case of short direct quotation, up to 3 lines, being incorporated to the paragraph. When the direct quotation is longer than 3 lines, it must be incorporated on a separated paragraph, with a 4cm border from the left, without quotation marks.
The explicative notes, restricted to the minimum necessary, must be presented on the end of the text.
The references must be presented on the end, obeying the standard NBR 6023:2002.

Example:

• Book (1 author)
  FERNANDES, A. M. D. Quando a arte ganha a potência de inventar novos mundos. Rio de Janeiro: Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, 2003.
  (up to 3 authors)
  RANDIN, J. C.; BENEDET, J. H.; MILANI, M. L. Facetas da colonização italiana: planalto e oeste catarinense. Joaçaba: Ed. UNOESC, 2003.
  (more than 3 authors)
  JAMBEIRO, O. et al. Tempos de Vargas: o rádio e o controle da informação. Salvador: EDUFBA, 2004.
• Full event
  CONGRESSO INTERNACIONAL DE FORMAÇÃO CONTINUADA E PROFISSIONALIZAÇÃO DOCENTE, 1., 2005, Natal. Anais... João Pessoa: Ed. Universitária/ UFPB, 2005.
• Work presented on an event
  ALVES, I. C. B. O ensino das técnicas de exame psicológico no Brasil: visão geral. In: SIMPÓSIO DE PESQUISA E INTERCÂMBIO CIENTÍFICO, 9., 2002, Águas de Lindóia. Anais... Águas de Lindóia: [s. n.], 2002. p. 86.
• Dissertation
  LEMOS, F. C. S. Práticas de conselheiros tutelares frente à violência doméstica: proteção e controle. 2003. Dissertação (Mestrado)-Universidade do Estado de São Paulo, Assis, 2003.
• Thesis
  SOARES, E. Desenvolvimento e dificuldades da concepção localizacionista de funções mentais: uma análise a partir de Merleau-Ponty. 2003. Tese (Doutorado)-Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2003.
• Research report
  SOUZA, L. Educação em tempos neo-liberais: uma análise micropolítica do ensino médio em Vitória, ES. 2002. Relatório de pesquisa apresentado à Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória.
• Part of a book
  CIMADON, A. Avaliação da aprendizagem. In: ______. Ensino e aprendizagem na universidade: um roteiro de estudos. 2. ed. rev. e ampl. Joaçoba: Ed. UNOESC, 2004. p. 159-194.
• Journal article
  SOARES, E. A crítica de Merleau-Ponty à Psicofisiologia Clássica. Journal of Psychology Department - UFF, Niterói, v. 16, n. 2, p. 17-28, jul./dez. 2004.
• Newspaper article
  FRAGA, C. Avaliar é preciso. Correio Brasiliense, Brasília, DF, 8 maio 2004. Opinião, p. 19.
• Judicial documents
  BRASIL. Constituição (1988). Constituição da República Federativa do Brasil: atualizada até a Emenda Constitucional no 39, de 19.12.2002, com notas remissivas às principais leis básicas. Atualização e notas por Wladimir Novaes Filho. 6. ed. São Paulo: LTr, 2003.
• Electronic documents
  QUEIRÓS, E. de. A relíquia. São Paulo: USP, 1998. Disponível em: <http://www.bibvirt.futuro.uso.br/textos/autores/ecadequiros/reliquia-texto.html>. Acesso em: 2 maio 2002.

The original texts or articles must be sent in three printed copies, using double space, on A4 paper (210mm x 297mm), in pages with maximum of 30 lines, accompanied of a diskette or CD-ROM, made on Word for Windows, version 7.0 or previous, size 12 and with all the pages numbered, without any kind of formatting, except for:

• Indication of characters (italic and bold)
• 3cm borders
• use of double quotation marks to indicate something important
• use of italic to foreign terms and for titles of books and journals.

FRACTAL: JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY
Universidade Federal Fluminense - Instituto de Ciências Humanas e Filosofia - ICHF
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