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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Brazil Leader Award

Overview

Silvia Helena Koller is affiliated with the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil. Their research spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with a focus on Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Social Psychology, Education, and Safety Research.

The main topics explored in their work include Community Health and Development, Early Childhood Education and Development, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Youth, Drugs, and Violence, Homelessness and Social Issues, LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy, and Reproductive Health and Technologies.

Among recent publications authored or co-authored by Silvia Helena Koller are:

  • From Theory to Methodology: Using Ecological Engagement to Study Development in Context (2020), published in Child Development Perspectives
  • Impacto do estresse de minoria em sintomas depressivos, ideação suicida e tentativa de suicídio em pessoas trans (2021), published in Ciência & Saúde Coletiva
  • Characterization of Child Maltreatment Cases Identified in Health Services (2020), published in Paidéia (Ribeirão Preto)
  • A Little Lie Never Hurt Anyone: Attitudes toward Various Types of Lies over the Lifespan (2020), published in Psychology in Russia State of Art
  • Formulation of Themes in Qualitative Research: Logical Procedures and Analytical Paths (2020), published in Trends in Psychology

Frequent co-authors working with Koller include:

  • Ângelo Brandelli Costa
  • Clarissa Pinto Pizarro de Freitas
  • Luciana Dutra-Thomé
  • Henrique Caetano Nardi
  • Maria Inês Rodrigues Lobato

The scientist has contributed multiple papers to venues such as Psicologia Teoria e Pesquisa, Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, Paidéia (Ribeirão Preto), Child Development Perspectives, and Psychology in Russia State of Art.

In addition to journal articles, Silvia Helena Koller has a book publication titled Produção Científica: um Guia Prático released in 2022 by Universidade de São Paulo. Instituto de Psicologia eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Affect, culture, and morality, or is it wrong to eat your dog?

    Jonathan Haidt;Silvia Helena Koller;Maria G. Dias

  • Brazilian Adolescents' Prosocial Moral Judgment and Behavior: Relations to Sympathy, Perspective Taking, Gender-Role Orientation, and Demographic Characteristics

    Nancy Eisenberg;Qing Zhou;Silvia Koller

  • Beyond the 'east-west' dichotomy: Global variation in cultural models of selfhood.

    Vivian L. Vignoles;Ellinor Owe;Maja Becker;Peter B. Smith

  • Contextos ecológicos: promotores de resiliência, fatores de risco e de proteção

    Michele Poletto;Sílvia Helena Koller

  • Práticas educativas, estilos parentais e abuso físico no contexto familiar

    Alessandra Marques Cecconello;Clarissa De Antoni;Sílvia Helena Koller;Sílvia Helena Koller

  • Abuso sexual infantil e dinâmica familiar: aspectos observados em processos jurídicos

    Luísa Fernanda Habigzang;Silvia Helena Koller;Gabriela Nassif Azen Azevedo;Paula Xavier Machado

  • Inserção ecológica na comunidade: uma proposta metodológica para o estudo de famílias em situação de risco

    Alessandra Marques Cecconello;Sílvia Helena Koller

  • Metodologias feministas e estudos de gênero: articulando pesquisa, clínica e política

    Martha Giudice Narvaz;Sílvia Helena Koller

  • Psicologia Positiva: uma nova abordagem para antigas questões

    Simone dos Santos Paludo;Sílvia Helena Koller

  • Competência social e empatia: um estudo sobre resiliência com crianças em situação de pobreza

    Alessandra Marques Cecconello;Sílvia Helena Koller

  • Alguns aspectos observados no desenvolvimento de crianças vítimas de abuso sexual

    Mayte Raya Amazarray;Silvia Helena Koller

  • A cross-national study on the relations among prosocial moral reasoning, gender role orientations, and prosocial behaviors

    Gustavo Carlo;Silvia H. Koller;Nancy Eisenberg;Marcia S. Da Silva

  • Fatores de Risco e de Proteção na Rede de Atendimento a Crianças e Adolescentes Vítimas de Violência Sexual

    Luísa Fernanda Habigzang;Gabriela Nassif Azen Azevedo;Silvia Helena Koller;Paula Xavier Machado

  • Revisando a inserção ecológica: uma proposta de sistematização

    Laíssa Eschiletti Prati;Maria Clara Pinheiro de Paula Couto;Andreína da Silva Moura;Michele Poletto

  • Culture and the distinctiveness motive : constructing identity in individualistic and collectivistic contexts

    Maja Becker;Vivian L Vignoles;Ellinor Owe;Rupert Brown

  • A visão de família entre as adolescentes que sofreram violência intrafamiliar

    Clarissa De Antoni;Sílvia Helena Koller

  • Factor structure, reliability, and item parameters of the brazilian-portuguese version of the GAD-7 questionnaire

    André Luiz Moreno;Diogo A. de Sousa;Ana Maria Frota Lisbôa P. Souza;Gisele Gus Manfro

  • Gravidez na adolescência: análise contextual de risco e proteção

    Elder Cerqueira-Santos;Elder Cerqueira-Santos;Simone dos Santos Paludo;Eva Diniz Bensaja dei Schirò;Sílvia Helena Koller

  • Healthcare Needs of and Access Barriers for Brazilian Transgender and Gender Diverse People

    Angelo Brandelli Costa;Heitor Tome da Rosa Filho;Paola Fagundes Pase;Anna Martha Vaitses Fontanari

  • Estratégias de coping de crianças vítimas e não vítimas de violência doméstica

    Carolina Saraiva de Macedo Lisboa;Carolina Saraiva de Macedo Lisboa;Silvia Helena Koller;Fernanda Freitas Ribas;Kelly Cristina Bertol Bitencourt

  • Methodological and ethical issues in research with street children.

    Claudio S. Hutz;Silvia H. Koller

  • Confirming the Three-Factor Structure of the Disgust Scale—Revised in Eight Countries

    Bunmi O. Olatunji;Melanie W. Moretz;Dean Mckay;Fredrik Bjorklund

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcela Raffaelli
Marcela Raffaelli University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gisele Gus Manfro
Gisele Gus Manfro Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Giovanni Abrahão Salum
Giovanni Abrahão Salum Child Mind Institute
Claudio Simon Hutz
Claudio Simon Hutz Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Vivian L. Vignoles
Vivian L. Vignoles University of Sussex
Gustavo Carlo
Gustavo Carlo University of California, Irvine
Peter B. Smith
Peter B. Smith University of Sussex
Michael Bond
Michael Bond Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Rupert Brown
Rupert Brown University of Sussex
Taciano L. Milfont
Taciano L. Milfont University of Waikato

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