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Department of Psychology

Faculty

Gustavo Carlo   
Office: 320 Burnett Hall
(402) 472-6931
gcarlo@unl.edu

Latino Research Initiative

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Dr. Gustavo Carlo is Carl A. Happold Distinguished Professor of Psychology at UNL. He is a member of the Developmental Psychology program and an affiliate of the Latino and Latin American Studies program, the Child Clinical Psychology Program, the Center for Great Plains Studies, and the Center for Children, Families, and the Law at UNL.

Dr. Carlo’s main scholarly interest is on the individual, parenting, and cultural correlates of positive social and moral behaviors in children and adolescents. He has published in several distinguished journals including Child Development, Developmental Psychology, Journal of Research on Adolescence, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. He has co-edited several volumes on moral development research and research on Latinos. He co-edited the 51st NE Symposium on Motivation volume (2005)and is currently co-editing the Handbook of US Latino Psychology (to be published by Sage).

Dr. Carlo received his Ph.D. degree in 1994 in Developmental Psychology from Arizona State University. He was a recipient of a Research Excellence Award from the John Templeton Foundation and the American Psychological Association in 2001.

Teaching:

Dr. Carlo teaches undergraduate courses in Child Behavior and Development and Motivation and Emotion. His graduate courses include Seminars in Prosocial and Moral Development, Cultural Diversity and Development, and Proseminar in Developmental Psychology.

Service:

He has served on the editorial board of several journals including, Developmental Psychology, the Journal of Research on Adolescence, Child Development, and the Journal of Early Adolescence. He has also served as a panel member for NIH and NSF grant review committees.

He was a member of the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Healthy Adolescents Project and of APA’s Partners in Planning Programs for Adolescent Health (PIPPAH).

In the local community, he is a current member of the UNL Latino Research Initiative (a consortium of scholars and practitioners interested in Latino issues), a co-manager of the Latino Achievement Mentoring Program (LAMP; a youth mentoring program), and an Advisory Council member of EducationQuest.
 

Selected Recent Publications

Research Journal Articles

Crockett, L. J., Iturbirde, M. I., Torres Stone, R. A., McGinley, M., Raffaelli, M., & Carlo, G. (in press). Buffering effects of social support and coping on the relations between acculturative stress and psychological adjustment among Mexican Americans. Culture, Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology.

Carlo, G., McGinley, M., Hayes, R., Batenhorst, C., & Wilkinson, J. (in press). Parenting styles or practices? Parenting, sympathy, and prosocial behaviors among adolescents. Journal of Genetic Psychology.

Raffaelli, M., Torres Stone, R. A., Iturbirde, M. I., McGinley, M., Carlo, G., & Crockett, L. J. (in press). Acculturation, gender, and alcohol use among Mexican American college students. Addictive Behaviors.

Padilla-Walker, L. M., & Carlo, G. (in press). The role of positive maternal and peer expectations on adolescents’ prosocial values and behaviors. Journal of Family Psychology.

Carlo, G., & Edwards, C. P. (in press). Once more, with feeling: Recent progress in the study of moral development. The American Journal of Psychology.

Carlo, G., Crockett, L. J., Randall, B. A., & Roesch, S. C. (2007). Parent and peer correlates of prosocial development in rural adolescents: A longitudinal study. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 17, 301-324.

McGinley, M., & Carlo, G. (2007). Two sides of the same coin? The relations between prosocial and physically aggressive behaviors. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 36, 337-349.

Goodvin, R., Carlo, G., & Torquati, J. C. (2006). The role of child emotional responsiveness and maternal negative emotion expression in children’s coping strategy use. Social Development, 15, 591-611.

Padilla-Walker, L. M., & Carlo, G. (2006). Adolescent perceptions predicting appropriate parental reactions across moral and conventional social domains. Social Development, 15, 480-500.

Raffaelli, M., Zamboanga, B. L., & Carlo, G. (2005). Acculturation and sexuality among Cuban-American college students. Journal of American College Health, 54, 7-13.

Hardy, S. A., & Carlo, G. (2005). Adolescent religiosity, prosocial values, and prosocial behaviors: A mediational analysis. Journal of Moral Education, 34, 231-249.

Hardy, S., & Carlo, G. (2005). Identity as a source of moral motivation. Human Development, 48, 232-256.

Hart, D., & Carlo, G. (2005). Moral development in adolescence. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 15, 223-233.

Edited Volumes

Carlo, G., & Hart, D. (Eds.) (2005). Moral development during adolescence [Special Issue]. Journal of Research on Adolescence.

Carlo, G., & Edwards, C. P. (Eds.) (2005). 51st Annual Symposium on Motivation: Moral development across the lifespan. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.

Carlo, G., & Carranza, M. (Eds.) (2002). The Latino experience on the Great Plains [Special Issue]. Great Plains Research, 12 (1).

Carlo, G., & Carranza, M. (Eds.) (2000). The Latino experience on the Great Plains [Special Issue]. Great Plains Research, 10 (2).

Carlo, G., & Fabes, R. A. (Eds.) (1999). Prosocial and moral development in early adolescence, Part II [Special Issue]. Journal of Early Adolescence, 19(2).

Fabes, R. A., & Carlo, G. (Eds.) (1999). Prosocial and moral development in early adolescence, Part I [Special Issue]. Journal of Early Adolescence, 19(1).

Book Chapters

Carlo, G., Knight, G. P., McGinley, M., Goodvin, R., & Roesch, S. C. (in press). Understanding the developmental relations between perspective taking and prosocial behaviors: A meta-analytic review. In J. Carpendale, G. Iarocci, U. Muller, B. Sokol, & A. Young (Eds.), Self- and social-regulation: Exploring the relations between social interaction, social cognition, and the development of executive functions. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Carlo, G., Koller, S., Raffaelli, M., & de Guzman, M. R. T. (in press). Culture-related strengths among Latin American families: A case study of Brasil. In J. DeFrain & S. Assay (Eds.), The family strengths perspective: Strong families around the world. New York: Haworth Publishers. To be reprinted as journal article in Marriage and Family Review.

Zamboanga, B. L., & Carlo, G. (in press). Applying problem behavior theory to Latinos: Theoretical and methodological issues. In A. Mata Jr. (Ed.), High-risk communities, family, and youth: Implications for prevention and program development. Reprinted as journal article in Free Inquiry in Creative Sociology, 34, 55-68.

Raffaelli, M., Koller, S., & Carlo, G. (in press). Children’s rights as research participants in contexts of homelessness and impoverishment: A case study in Brazil. In A. G. Mata Jr. (Ed.), High risk youth, high risk families and high risk communities: Implications for prevention, intervention and treatment. Norman, OK: Edwin Mellen Press.

Carlo, G., de Guzman, M. R. T., & Padilla-Walker, L. (2006). Prosocial behaviors. In L. Sherrod, C. Flanagan, & R. Kassimir (Eds.), Youth Activism: An International Encyclopedia, Vol. 2 (495-500). Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Company.

Carlo, G., Hardy, S., & Alberts, M. (2006). Moral exemplars. In L. Sherrod, C. Flanagan, & R. Kassimir (Eds.), Youth Activism: An International Encyclopedia, Vol. 2 (pp. 412-419). Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Company.

Carlo, G. (2006). Care-based and altruistically-based morality. In M. Killen & J. G. Smetana (Eds.), Handbook of moral development (pp. 551-579). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Carlo, G., & Randall, B. (2001). Are all prosocial behaviors equal? A socioecological developmental conception of prosocial behavior. In F. Columbus (Ed.), Advances in psychology research, Volume II (pp. 151-170). Huntington, NY: Nova Science Publishers.

 

Selected Research Funding

National Institute of Health ($144,210). Title: Puberty, Emotion, and Adjustment. 2008-2010, Role: Co-PI (PI: Lisa Crockett). Research designed to examine the links among puberty, emotionality and prosocial and aggressive behaviors.

UNMC College of Public Health ($149,000). Title: Risk and Protective Factors for Rural Methamphetamine Dependence (2008-2010), Role: Co-PI (PI: Kathleen Grant). Research designed to examine rural meth dependence in Latinos.

Tobacco Settlement Fund Grant ($136,000). Title: The Adaptation of Executive Control Tests for Use in Young Children of Hispanic Ethnicity. Funded 2008-2010, Role: Co-PI (PI: Kimberly Espy).

Tobacco Settlement Fund Grant ($150,000). Title: Physical and Psychological Health Disparities Among Latinos in Nebraska. Funded 2005-2008, (Co-PIs: Marcela Raffaelli, Gustavo Carlo).

EducationQuest Foundation ($29,000). Title: Latino Achievement Mentoring Program. 2008, Role: PI. Designed to continue funding support for mentoring program.

National Science Foundation Grant BNS 0132302 ($565,014). Role: PI (Co-PI: George Knight). Title: Collaborative Research: Parenting and Sociocognitive Correlates of Prosocial Behaviors in Mexican American and European American Children, 2003-2006.