GUSTAVO CARLO, PhD
Associate Professor - Department of Psychology
Fellow - Gallup Research Center
320 Burnett Hall
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0308
(402) 472-6937

Biography

Gustavo Carlo is currently an Associate Professor in Developmental Psychology at UNL and a Fellow of the Gallup Research Center. He is affiliated with the Latino and Latin American Studies program, the Child Clinical Psychology Program, and the Center for Children, Families, and the Law at UNL. He received his PhD in 1994 in Developmental Psychology from Arizona State University.

Dr. Carlo's main scholarly interest is on the individual, parenting, and culture-related correlates of positive social and moral behaviors in children and adolescents. He is currently involved in several projects related to children's development including collaborative work with the Latino Research Initiative, an NSF funded grant to examine prosocial behaviors in Mexican-American families, and several research projects examining moral development. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Research on Adolescence, serves on several journal editorial boards, and has several publications in child and adolescent development journals and books.

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 Pro-Seminar in Developmental Psychology.

Recent Publications

Journal Articles

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.

Carlo, G., Okun, M., Knight, G. P., & de Guzman, M. R. T. (2005). Prosocial value motivation as a mediator and moderator of the relations between agreeableness, extraversion and volunteering. Personality and Individual Differences, 38, 1293-1305.

de Guzman, M. R. T., Edwards, C. P., & Carlo, G. (2005). Prosocial behaviors in context: A study of Gikuyu children of Ngecha, Kenya. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 26, 542-558.

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.

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

Rotenberg, K. J., Fox, C., Green, S., Ruderman, L., Slater, K., Stevens, K., & Carlo, G. (2005). Construction and validation of a children's interpersonal trust belief scale. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 23, 271-292.

Laible, D., Carlo, G., Torquati, J., & Ontai, L. (2004). Children's perceptions of family relationships as assessed in a doll story completion task: Links to parenting, social competence, and externalizing behavior. Social Development, 13, 551-569.

Carlo, G., Hausmann, A., Christiansen, S., & Randall, B. A. (2003). Sociocognitive and behavioral correlates of a measure of prosocial tendencies for adolescents. Journal of Early Adolescence, 23, 107-134.

Carlo, G., Carranza, M. A., & Zamboanga, B. L. (2002). Culture, ecology, and Latinos on the Great Plains. Great Plains Research, 12, 3-12.

Carlo, G., & Randall, B. A. (2002). The development of a measure of prosocial behaviors for late adolescents. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 31, 31-44.

Eisenberg, N., Guthrie, I. K., Cumberland, A., Murphy, B. C., Shepard, S. A., Zhou, Q., & Carlo, G. (2002). Prosocial development in early adulthood: A longitudinal study. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, 993-1006.

Wyatt, J. M., & Carlo, G. (2002). What will my parents think? Relations among adolescents' expected parental reactions, prosocial moral reasoning, and prosocial and antisocial behaviors. Journal of Adolescent Research, 17, 646-666.

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.)

de Guzman, M. R. T., & Carlo, G. (in press). Nancy Eisenberg. In T. C. Hunt, R. J. Nuzzi, F. C. Power, D. K. Lapsley, & D. Narvaez (Eds.), Moral education: An encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Company.

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.

Randall, B. A., & Carlo, G. (in press). Prosocial reasoning. In T. C. Hunt, R. J. Nuzzi, F. C. Power, D. K. Lapsley, & D. Narvaez (Eds.), Moral education: An encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Company.

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.)

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, 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.

Research Projects

Collaborative Research: Parenting and Sociocognitive Correlates of Prosocial Behaviors in Mexican American and European American Children
NSF
Role: Co-PI	2003-2005