Abstract

SOUSA, Edson Luiz André de  and  ALVARES, Rita de Cassia Mendes. Unpredictability and psychological evaluation in contemporary city traffic. Rev. Mal-Estar Subj. [online]. 2011, vol.11, n.1, pp. 397-417. ISSN 1518-6148.

With an objective to contribute to systematize reflections about the implications of traffic in the capital, we will discuss, in the present article, topics related to predictability and unpredictability concerning the field of traffic, as well as regarding the limits of psychological evaluation in this context. We called attention to the dweller's capital experiment, in your traffic, a reality crossed with something that escape, in general, his control. We showed the interlacement, in this context, of conflicts which we faced in the urban circulation, many came from our way of establish relationships in the modern capital. Considering that to live and to drive are effective related with a certain unpredictability, we found, on the other hand, that the psychology evaluation face many limits with the everyday people actions, it evolve wider aspects, that escape to the restrict field of the evaluation. We showed that the discussion of these questions needs to be put in a broad dimension, providing and opening new reflection spaces to the professionals that work in the psychology field, related with traffic. We emphasized that this professionals ought to consider, in more effective way, during their psychological evaluations, aspects related with the social relationships, that are included in the traffic organization. We concluded that the psychological evaluation, ought not to be restricting on the test results, but on the opposite, in a more ample vision that can bring the professionals evolved in a more effective implication with the modern city drive.

Keywords : Traffic; Contemporary City; Psychological Evaluation; Predictability; Unpredictability.

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