Biaggio, A. B. G. (1997). Kohlberg e a "Comunidade Justa": promovendo o senso ético e a cidadania na escola. Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 10, 1, 47-69.

Biaggio, A. B. G. (1999). Universalismo versus relativismo no julgamento moral. Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 12, 1.

Biaggio, A. B. G., de Oliveira, G. A., Kieling, J., Karine de Souza, L. y Tesche, S. L. (1999). Promoção de atitudes ambientais favoráveis atráves de debates de dilemas ecológicos. Estudos de psicolgia (Natal), 4, 2.
 

ANGELA M. B. BIAGGIO

I have been working with Kohlberg’s theory since my P.h.D. dissertation at University of Wisconsin – Madison in 1967, under the supervision of Professor Robert E. Grinder. The topic was relationships among cognitive, behavioral, and emotional aspects of children’s conscience. Resulting publication was Nelsen, E., Grinder, R. E., and Biaggio, A. (see reference number 22).

Returning to Brazil, I proceeded to investigate the applicability of Kohlberg’s stages to the Brazilian culture^{2, 3} and looked into relationships between moral judgment and other constructs such as cognitive dissonance^{16, 17}, locus of control¹⁵, anxiety^{8, 9, 12}, religious participation and affiliation²⁹, Law students²⁴, complexity of language structure²⁷, guilt¹, parental attitudes⁴, and other personality variables¹⁸. After that, I moved into more applied educational aspects, working with the adaptation of group discussions techniques^{5, 6} and the “just community” approach in Brazil¹⁰.

I spent a semester at the University of Notre Dame, working with Clark Power, and learned a great deal about the “just community” approach.  There I also developed an interest in ecology²³ and peace²². Theoretical considerations have also been object of my interest^{7, 11}.

            I just finished a book for Editora Moderna (São Paulo), entitled: Lawrence Kohlberg:  Ethics and Moral Education, (forthcoming, July 2002)¹³, which will be the first available book about Kohlberg published in the Portuguese language. It also contains the translation of three of Kohlberg’s papers:  My personal search for a universal morality; From is to Ought…; and The Return of Stage Six²⁵. 

            Having done my M.S. degree under Professor Julian C. Stanley in Wisconsin, I learned about measurement and developed a taste for the adaptation of tests to foreign languages and cultures²⁶. I did an adaptation of Gibbs et al’s Sociomoral Reflective Objective Measure¹⁴; Spielberger’s State-Trait Anxiety Inventory^{19, 20}, and the State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory²¹; and now Rest, Narvaez, Bebeau, and Thoma’s DIT-2 (manuscript in preparation). 

            I have been a member of AME since 1990, and I have attended the Notre-Dame, Athens – GA, and Minneapolis’meetings of this association.

On a more general level, I have been involved in teaching and research in several Brazilian universities and Morehead State University (Minnesota State University at Morehead), Minnesota. I have been a member of APA since 1969 till now, I am a fellow of division 15 at APA (Educational Psychology), and I was a member of AERA, SRCD, ISSBD (for some years), and  a member of Interamerican Society of Psychology, of which I was president 1991-1993.  I am also president of the recently founded Brazilian Society for Developmental Psychology, and received an homage in their first meeting in 2000. In Brazil, I have also been a consultant to CAPES, FAPERGS, and CNPq (all governmental funding agencies) and senior researcher of CNPq since 1977 until now.

Total of published articles: 60. Total of papers presented at scientific meetings: 110.

References

1 -       Biaggio, A. M. B. (1969). Internalized versus externalized guilt: A cross-cultural study. Journal of Social Psychology, 73, 147-149.

2 -                               ­­__. (1975). Um estudo inter-cultural sobre julgamento moral: Comparação entre universitários norte-americanos e brasileiros na escala de julgamento moral de Kohlberg [A cross-cultural study of moral judgment: Comparison between U.S. and Brazilian college students on Kohlberg´s moral judgment instrument.] Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicologia Aplicada, 27 (2), 71-81.

3 -                               ­­__. (1976). A developmental study of moral judgment of Brazilian children and adolescents. Interamerican Journal of Psychology, 10, 71-73.

4 -                               _­­_. (1979). Maternal and peer correlates of moral judgment. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 135, 203-208.

5 -                               _­­_. (1983). Desenvolvimento de valores: Um estudo piloto [Value development: A pilot study]. Educação e Realidade, 8 (1), 25-33.

6 -                               _­­_. (1985). Discussões de julgamento moral: Idiossincrasias do caso brasileiro [Moral judgment discussion groups: Idiosyncrasies of the Brazilian case]. Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa, 1 (3), 195-204.

7 -                               _­­_. (1988). Desenvolvimento moral: Vinte anos de pesquisa no Brasil [Moral development: Twenty years of research in Brazil]. Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 2 (1/2), 60-69.

8 -                               _­­_. (1989). Relações entre maturidade de julgamento moral e ansiedade traço-estado [Relationships between moral judgment and state-trait anxiety]. Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicologia Aplicada, 41 (3), 9-22.

9 -                               _­­_. (1992). Relações entre maturidade de julgamento moral e comportamento moral como função do nível de ansiedade [Relationships between maturity of moral judgment and moral behavior as function of level of anxiety]. Análise Psicológica, 10 (4), 443-456.

10 -                             _­­_. (1997). Kohlberg e a “comunidade justa”: Promovendo o senso ético e a cidadania na escola [Kohlberg and the “just community”: Developing ethical sense and citizenship in the school]. Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 10 (1), 47-69.

11 -                             _­­_. (1999). Universalismo versus relativismo em julgamento moral [Universalism versus relativism in moral judgment]. Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 12 (1), 5-20.

12 -                             ­­__. (in press - a). Anxiety, anger, and moral judgment (Interamerican Society of Psychology Presidential Address, Santiago, Chile). In C. D. Spielberger (Ed.), Stress and emotion, vol.17. New York: Hemisphere Publishing Company.

13 -                             ­­__. (in press - b). Lawrence Kohlberg: Ética e educação moral [Lawrence Kohlberg: Ethics and moral education]. São Paulo: Editora Moderna.

14 -     Biaggio, A. M. B., & Barreto, M. S. L. (1991). Adaptação brasileira de uma medida objetiva de julgamento moral [Adaptation of an objective measure of moral judgment]. Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicologia, 43 (1/2), 107-119.

15 -     Biaggio, A. M. B., & Guazelli, E. F. (1984). Relações entre maturidade de julgamento moral e locus de controle [Relationships between moral judgment and locus of control]. Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicologia Aplicada, 36 (2), 63-73.

16 -     Biaggio, A. M. B., & Rodrigues, A. (1971). Behavioral compliance and devaluation of the forbidden object as a function of probality of detection and severity of threat. Developmental Psychology, 4, 320-323.

17 -     Biaggio, A. M. B., Simpson, S., & Wegner, G. (1973). A developmental study of cognitive dissonance as a function of level of performance on Piagetian tasks. Genetic Psychology Monographs, 38, 175-200.

18 -     Biaggio, A. M. B., & Spada, M. (1982). Relationships between maturity of moral judgment and the structure of personality: A test of Hogan´s hypothesis with Brazilian subjects. Interamerican Journal of Psychology, 16 (1), 23-30.

19 -     Biaggio, A. M. B., & Spielberger, C. D. (1980). Manual do Inventário de Ansiedade Traço-Estado: IDATE [Manual of the Portuguese form of the STAI]. Rio de Janeiro: CEPA.

20 -     Biaggio, A. M. B., & Spielberger, C. D. (1983). Manual do Inventário de Ansiedade Traço-Estado - Forma infantil: IDATE-C [Manual of the Portuguese form of the STAI-C]. Rio de Janeiro: CEPA.

21 -     Biaggio, A. M. B., & Spielberger, C. D. (1994). Manual do Inventário de Expressão de Raiva: STAXI [Manual of the Portuguese form of the STAXI]. Rio de Janeiro: CEPA.

22 -     Biaggio, A. M. B., & Souza, L. K. (in press). Atitudes em relação à paz, à guerra e à violência em jovens de cinco cidades brasileiras [Attitudes toward peace, war, and violence in Brazilian youngsters from five cities]. Revista do Departamento de Psicologia da Universidade Federal Fluminense.

23 -     Biaggio, A. M. B., Vargas, G. A. O., Monteiro, J. K., Plitzco-Gries, G., Souza, L. K., Viñas, A. C., Giongo, A. L., Müller, M. L. P., Gurski, R., & Tesche, S. L. (1998). Julgamento moral e maturidade de atitude em relação à ecologia [Moral judgment and maturity of attitudes toward ecology]. Interamerican Journal of Psychology, 32 (1), 33-52. 

24 -     Keunecke, C. M., Bardagi, M. P., & Biaggio, A. M. B. (1994). Desenvolvimento moral em estudantes de Direito e juízes [Moral development in Law students and in judges]. Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 7 (1), 15-28.

25 -     Kohlberg, L., Boyd, D, & Levine, C. (1990). The return of stage 6: Its principle and moral point of view. In T. E. Wren (Ed.), The moral domain: Essays in the ongoing discussion between philosophy and the social sciences (pp. 151-181). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

26 -     Koller, S. H., Biaggio, A. M. B., Lopes, R. S., Rique Neto, J., Camino, C. P. S., Dias, M. G., & Costa, A. E. (1994). Uma investigação sobre os instrumentos de medida de maturidade de julgamento moral em uso no Brasil [An investigation on instruments to measure maturity of moral judgment in Brazil]. Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 7 (1), 5-14.

27 -     Marcolin, E. H., & Biaggio, A. M. B. (1985). Relações entre maturidade de julgamento moral e complexidade de estrutura lingüística [Relationships between maturity of moral judgment and complexity of language structure]. Educação e Realidade, 10 (1), 23-38.

28 -     Nelsen, E., Grinder, R., & Biaggio, A. M. B. (1969). Relationships among behavioral, development, and self-report measures of morality and personality. Multivariate Behavior Analysis, 4, 483-500. (Based in part on Ph.D. dissertation).

29 -     Urbina-Léon, C. I., Biaggio, A. M. B., & Vegas, C. (1998). Relações entre julgamento moral pós-convencional, grau de fé, afiliação e participação religiosas [Relationships among postconventional moral judgment, stages of faith, religious affiliation, and religious participation]. In M. L. S. Moura, & A. Spinillo (Eds.), Pesquisas brasileiras em psicologia do desenvolvimento (pp. 141-161). Rio de Janeiro: UERJ.