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This dissertation is based on Jean Piaget's Genetic Epistemology (1932/1994). The main objective of this study was to ascertain whether the Role-playing Game (RPG), also known as Game of Representations, constitutes a helpful resource to the unleashing of activities related to cooperation and capacity for bargain. These two aspects can be considered peculiar to the development of autonomous morality, and they are imbricate in the players' participation in game and their ability to solve problems. Therefore were looked aiming to assess the data in a more dense perspective. The data used for analyses were first collected in a Unified Educational Centre (CEU -Centro Educacional Unificado) in the south side of So Paulo city in 2003/4 within the scope of a previous research. The researching team comprised one senior researcher, one assistant and two game masters. Were performed twelve meetings with a group of seven participants, all of them males between 11 and 27 years-old. Nine of those meetings were dedicated to RPG workshops. The first one was a preparatory meeting. To collect data were is used audio and video recordings and also observation and interviews at the beginning and at the end of the whole process. In order to serve the purpose of the present study, the data was submitted under the bias of the relationship between RPG and aspects of autonomous morality. The concepts of cooperation, capacity for bargain and ability to solve problems were used as analytic categories. The conclusion of this study is RPG is in fact a helpful resource for the mobilization to exercise the cooperation and capacity for bargain as aspects of autonomous morality, and to exercise teamwork and problem-solving abilities as well. Thus were possible verified Piaget's (1932Piaget's ( /1994) conclusion that cooperation is much more than a moral and ethical principle. Cooperation is a skill that can be developed as method with adequate resources to do so.