Dr. Jaime Berenguer
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Dr. Eric Stocks
Dr. Eric Stocks, Assistant Professor of Psychology at University of Tyler at Texas.
Posters accepted at SSM
Posters aceppted at 3rd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Motivation
Activating the motive of Quixoteism: The transcendent-change orientation
Marc Heerdink
Marc Heerdink
As a student of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), in 2009 Marc Heerdink participated in the Erasmus student exchange programme for a research internship in Grupo NEM, where he worked on Social Motives research. From april 2010, he’s started his PhD project in the Social Psychology department of the University of Amsterdam.
Urupagua Villegas
Sociologist by the University Central of Venezuela (1994) Masters in Organizational Development from the Catholic University Andrés Bello (2000), Expert on Social Management of the Inter-American Development Bank (2004). She has been working as a professor and as a researcher since 1994 in Development Studies at the Central University of Venezuela and the University Francisco de Miranda and the Venezuelan Institute of Planning.
She has conducted outreach programs at different laboratories in Organizational Learning; moreover, she is part of a group of continue reflection and research on this topic. Research Interests: Organizational Development, Management, Development Planning, Development and Evaluation of Social Projects, Educational Sociology and Distance Education. She is currently developing a doctorate at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and University Rey Juan Carlos. I got a M.A. with the thesis “Typology of Normative Behavior.” Chairs: Sociology of Work, Development and Evaluation of Public Policy and Corporate Strategic Planning.
(Español) Nuestras investigaciones
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(Español) Línea de investigación: Uno entre otros
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(Español) Estudio de experiencias emocionales mixtas y vicarias.
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Quixoteism: the motive whose ultimate goal is to increase the welfare of the world.
The professor Dr. Luis Oceja (right) and the Dr. Sergio Salgado (left) study the antecedents and consequences of Quixoteism
In this line of research is proposed the existence of an inedit kind of social motive that has been called “Quixoteism”. The proposal of this motive is part of a stream of Social Psychology research that is concerned with the study of the antecedents that contribute to the explanation of prosocial behavior and its promotion.
The Quixoteism characterization addresses three aspects: (a) the definition of his ultimate goal : improving the welfare of the world, (b) the proposal for a process that facilitates its activation: the presence of the transcendent change orientation, and (c ) obtaining empirical evidence to verify this characterization.
To date, the study of Quixoteism has promoted the development of a doctoral thesis (Salgado, 2009) and several presentations at international conferences (Oceja & Salgado, 2006, Oceja, Salgado & Caballero, 2007, Salgado & Oceja, 2008; Salgado, Oceja & Stocks, 2009). Work is currently in the generation of new research and developing articles that allow us to share the work done in specialized journals.
Oceja, L. & Salgado S. (2008). Quixoteism: A Social Motive that Leads to Perform a Heroic Behavior. 9th Annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP). Albuquerque, Nuevo México, USA.
Oceja, L., Salgado S. & Caballero, A. (2007). Antecedentes y consecuentes de un nuevo motivo social: el Quijotismo. V Simposio de la Asociación de Motivación y Emoción. San Sebastián, España.
Salgado, S. (2009). Caracterización teórica y comprobación experimental de un nuevo motivo social: el Quijotismo. Tesis Doctoral. Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
Salgado, S., Oceja, L., & Stocks, E. (2009). Testing the link between the motive of Quixoteism and heroic behaviour. 10th Annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Conference, Tampa, USA.
Dra. Mariana Bargsted Aravena
Mariana Bargsted Aravena is psychologist and Doctor in Social Psychology. Since 1999, she is Associate Professor of the Department of Psychology in the Universidad Católica del Norte (Antofagasta, Chile) in Organizational Psychology and Research Methods. Her principal research issues have been Social entrepreneurship, Employability and Career.
Link: www.psicologia.ucn.cl
Mail: bargsted@ucn.cl
Research group about norms, emotions and social motives from Department of Social Psychology and Methodology. Autónoma University of Madrid 