Professor
School of Education

Prosocial and moral development, cultural mechanisms, personality, parenting, child and adolescent development

Dr. Gustavo Carlo is Professor in the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine. His primary research interest focuses on understanding positive social development and health in culturally-diverse children and adolescents. Many of his projects focus on ethnic/racial groups across the world and in U.S. Latino/a youth and families. He has published over 250 books, chapters, and research papers. He has received funding from various agencies (including NSF, NIH) and has received several awards for his research and mentorship. He currently serves as a member of the SRCD Governing Council, Associate Editor of Developmental Psychology and Child Development, and co-edited the recent APA Handbook of Adolescent and Young Adult Development.

Other Experience
Gustavo Carlo also serves as Equity Advisor for the UCI School of Education. Appointed by the Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion through the Office of Inclusive Excellence, the Equity Advisor collaborates with the Dean and participates in faculty recruitment, organizes faculty career advising and mentoring, and advises on equity and diversity concerns affecting by minoritized and women faculty within the School of Education.

Carlo, G., Knight, G. P., & Davis, A. (2022). Kindness towards all: Prosocial behaviors to address U.S. Latinx youth social inequities. In J. Lockman (Ed.), Advances in Child Development and Behavior. New York: Elsevier Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.acdb.2022.04.002

Manzano-Hidalgo, M. C., Carlo, G., & Gonzalez-Hernandez, J. (2022). Fear of making mistakes and perfectionism in adolescents: How much of it leads to an aggressive response to others? In J. Gonzalez-Hernandez (Ed.), Looking for a perfect world: Empirical and applied lines. Nova Publishers.

Carlo, G., Padilla-Walker, L. M., & Hastings, P. D. (2022). Prosocial behaviors and development. In M. Killen & J. Smetana (Eds.), Handbook of Moral Development. (3rd Ed.). Taylor & Francis.

Carlo, G., Cheah, C. S. L., Conejo, L. D., & Cho, H. S. (2022). The social development of immigrant children: A focus on Asian and Latino/a children in the United States. In P. K. Smith & G. Hart (Eds.), Handbook of Childhood Social Development. (3rd Ed.; pp. 260-277). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119679028.ch14

de Moor, L. L., Cheng, T-Y., Spitzer, J. E., Berger, C., Carrizales, A., Garandeau, C. F., Gerbino, M., Hawk, S. T., Kaniušonyte, G., Kumru, A. Malonda, E., Rovella, A., Shen, Y-L., Taylor, L. K., van Zalk, M., Branje, S., Carlo, G., Walker, L. P., & Van der Graaff, J. (2022). What should I do and who's to blame? A cross-national study on youth’s attitudes and beliefs in times of COVID-19. PLOS ONE, 17. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279366

Richaud, M. C., Muzio, R. N., Lemos, V., Urquijo, S., & Carlo, G. (2022). Editorial: Psychosocial effects of isolation and fear of contagion of COVID-19 on the mental health of different population groups. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1011028

Wang, W., Spinrad, T. L., Laible, D. J., Janssen, J., Xiao, S. X., Xu, J., Berger, R. H., Eisenberg, N., Carlo, G., Gal-Szabo, D. E., Fraser, A., Lopez, J., Xu, X. (2022). Parents’ color-blind racial ideology and implicit racial attitudes predict children’s race-based sympathy. Journal of Family Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0001047

Xiao, S. X., Spinrad, T. L., Xu, J., Gal-Szabo, D. E., Eisenberg, N., Laible, D. J., Berger, R. H., Carlo, G., & Xu, X. (2022). Parents’ valuing diversity and White children’s prosociality toward White and Black peers. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2022.101459

Curlee, A. S., Tein, J-Y., White, R. M. B., Carlo, G., Gonzales, N. A., & Knight, G. P. (2022). U.S. Mexican-origin young adults’ mental health relative to interpersonal stressor transitions from childhood to adolescence. Advance online publication. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000563.

Carlo, G., Samper, P., Malonda, E., Mestre, A. L., Tur-Porcar, A. M., & Mestre, M. V. (2022). Longitudinal paths between parents’ use of rewards and young adolescents’ moral traits and prosocial behaviors. Journal of Adolescence, 94, 1096-1107. https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12086

Gülseven, Z., Maya, S., & Carlo, G. (2022). The intervening roles of shame and guilt in relations between parenting and prosocial behavior in college students. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 183, 564-579. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221325.2022.2098004

Killoren, S., Len-Rios, M., Salinas, E., Streit, C., & Carlo, G. (2022). Latinx adolescents’ perspectives on romantic relationships and sexuality: Exploring the roles of parents and siblings. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. https://doi.org/10.1177/02654075221118947

Carlo, G., Murry, V. M., Davis, A. N., Gonzalez, C. M., & Debreaux, M. L. (2022). Culture-related adaptive mechanisms to race-related trauma among African American and U.S. Latinx youth. Adversity and Resilience Science, 3, 247-259. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42844-022-00065-x

Crockett, L. J., Streit, C. & Carlo, G. (2022). Cultural mechanisms linking mothers’ familism values to externalizing behaviors among Midwest U.S. Latinx adolescents. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000551

Costa, M., Barbosa, M. R., Verissimo, L., Ribeiro, L. M., Nunes, S., & Carlo, G. (2022). Prosocial Tendencies Measure validation for Portuguese late adolescents. Interacao Em Psicologia. 26, 81-91. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5380/riep.v26i1.77377

Davis, A. N., Carlo, G., Bennett, D., Gallarza, W., & Saiz, D. (2022). Understanding racial attitudes among students and teachers in an ethnically/racially diverse high school. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 32, 417-431. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12730

Padilla-Walker, L., van der Graff, J., Workman, K., Carlo, G., Branje, S., Carrizales, A., Gerbino, M., Gulseven, Z., Hawk, S., Luengo Kanacri, P., Mesurado, B., Samper, P., Shen, Y-L., Tayllor, L., Trach, J., van Zalk, M., & Zukauskiene, R. (2022). Emerging adults’ cultural values, prosocial behaviors, and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A multi-national study. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 46, 286-296. https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254221084098

Carlo, G., Davis, A. N., & Taylor, L. K. (2022). Reducing youth ingroup favoritism to address social injustice. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 9, 90-95. https://doi.org/10.1177/23727322211068387

Psychology

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Last updated
10/23/2023