Universidade Federal de Brasília2011-05-042011-05-042010-06MARCHEZINI-CUNHA, Vívian; TOURINHO, Emmanuel Zagury. Assertividade e autocontrole: interpretação analítico-comportamental. Psicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa, online, v. 26, n. 2, p. 295-304, jun. 2010. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0102-37722010000200011. Disponível em: http://www.repositorio.ufpa.br/jspui/handle/2011/2159. Acesso em:.0102-3772http://www.repositorio.ufpa.br/jspui/handle/2011/2159Issues related to assertiveness have been investigated by behavior therapists for over three decades. It is more recent, however, the effort made by behavior-analytic therapists to examine such issues with the same conceptual and methodological tools employed by their colleagues in basic and conceptual research. This study aims to provide a behavior-analytic interpretation of assertive, aggressive and passive behavior patterns. We recovered some definitions of assertiveness/aggressiveness/passiveness and then examined the corresponding phenomena as behavioral relations, discussed some aspects of the behavior-analytic approach of self-control, and suggested that behavioral relations defined as assertiveness/aggressiveness/passiveness may be interpreted as instances of self-control or impulsiveness. Such approach may give rise to new directions in clinical research of social skills from a behavior-analytic standpoint.porAcesso AbertoAssertividadeComportamento emocionalAgressividade (Psicologia)Artigo de Periódico10.1590/S0102-37722010000200011