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Gustavo Carlo is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine, in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with a significant focus on Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Education, and Safety Research.

Their work concentrates on several main topics including Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Racial and Ethnic Identity Research, Early Childhood Education and Development, Cultural Differences and Values, Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression, Social and Intergroup Psychology, and Youth Development and Social Support.

Gustavo Carlo has contributed to multiple publications across various journals. Some of the recent papers include:

  • Adolescents' Prosocial Behaviors Through a Multidimensional and Multicultural Lens, 2020, Child Development Perspectives
  • Relations Among Parenting, Culture, and Prosocial Behaviors in U.S. Mexican Youth: An Integrative Socialization Approach, 2021, Child Development
  • Health risk assessment of volatile organic compounds at daycare facilities, 2021, Indoor Air
  • Family support, respect, and empathy as correlates of U.S. Latino/Latina college students' prosocial behaviors toward different recipients, 2020, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
  • Direct and indirect effects of parental involvement, deviant peer affiliation, and school connectedness on prosocial behaviors in U.S. Latino/a youth, 2020, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology
  • Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Journal of Adolescence
  • Social Development

Collaborations are a notable aspect of their research profile, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Alexandra N. Davis
  • Sahitya Maiya
  • Zehra Gülseven
  • Deborah Laible
  • Cara Streit

Best Publications

  • The Development of a Measure of Prosocial Behaviors for Late Adolescents

    Gustavo Carlo;Brandy A. Randall

  • Acculturative stress, social support, and coping: relations to psychological adjustment among Mexican American college students.

    Lisa J. Crockett;Maria I. Iturbide;Rosalie A. Torres Stone;Meredith McGinley

  • The Differential Relations of Parent and Peer Attachment to Adolescent Adjustment

    Deborah J. Laible;Gustavo Carlo;Marcela Raffaelli

  • Pathways to self-esteem in late adolescence: the role of parent and peer attachment, empathy, and social behaviours.

    Deborah J. Laible;Gustavo Carlo;Scott C. Roesch

  • Sociocognitive and Behavioral Correlates of a Measure of Prosocial Tendencies for Adolescents

    Gustavo Carlo;Anne Hausmann;Stacie Christiansen;Brandy A. Randall

  • Consistency and development of prosocial dispositions: A longitudinal study

    Nancy Eisenberg;Ivanna K. Guthrie;Bridget C. Murphy;Stephanie A. Shepard

  • Prosocial development in late adolescence: a longitudinal study.

    Nancy Eisenberg;Gustavo Carlo;Bridget Murphy;Patricia van Court

  • The interplay of traits and motives on volunteering: agreeableness, extraversion and prosocial value motivation

    Gustavo Carlo;Morris A. Okun;George P. Knight;Maria Rosario T. de Guzman

  • Identity as a Source of Moral Motivation

    Sam A. Hardy;Gustavo Carlo

  • Prosocial Development in Early Adulthood: A Longitudinal Study

    Nancy Eisenberg;Ivanna K. Guthrie;Amanda Cumberland;Bridget C. Murphy

  • Moral Identity: What Is It, How Does It Develop, and Is It Linked to Moral Action?

    Sam A. Hardy;Gustavo Carlo

  • The Relations of Children's Dispositional Prosocial Behavior to Emotionality, Regulation, and Social Functioning

    Nancy Eisenberg;Richard A. Fabes;Mariss Karbon;Bridget C. Murphy

  • Prosocial Behavior in Adolescence: Gender Differences in Development and Links with Empathy.

    Jolien Van der Graaff;Gustavo Carlo;Elisabetta Crocetti;Hans M. Koot

  • The Relations of Parental Characteristics and Practices to Children's Vicarious Emotional Responding

    Nancy Eisenberg;Richard A. Fabes;Mark Schaller;Gustavo Carlo

  • Early adolescence and prosocial/moral behavior I: The role of individual processes

    Richard A. Fabes;Gustavo Carlo;Kristina Kupanoff;Deborah Laible

  • Empathy-Related Responding and Cognition: A “Chicken and the Egg” Dilemma

    Nancy Eisenberg;Cindy L. Shea;Gustavo Carlo;George P. Knight

  • Parenting Styles or Practices? Parenting, Sympathy, and Prosocial Behaviors Among Adolescents

    Gustavo Carlo;Meredith McGinley;Rachel Hayes;Candice Batenhorst

  • The Differential Relations of Maternal and Paternal Support and Control to Adolescent Social Competence, Self-Worth, and Sympathy.

    Deborah J. Laible;Gustavo Carlo

  • The longitudinal relations among dimensions of parenting styles, sympathy, prosocial moral reasoning, and prosocial behaviors:

    Gustavo Carlo;Maria Vicenta Mestre;Paula Samper;Ana Tur

  • Personality and socialization correlates of vicarious emotional responding.

    Nancy Eisenberg;Richard A. Fabes;Mark Schaller;Paul Miller

Frequent Co-Authors

George P. Knight
George P. Knight Arizona State University
Deborah Laible
Deborah Laible Lehigh University
Nancy Eisenberg
Nancy Eisenberg Arizona State University
Marcela Raffaelli
Marcela Raffaelli University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Laura M. Padilla-Walker
Laura M. Padilla-Walker Brigham Young University
Richard A. Fabes
Richard A. Fabes Arizona State University
Byron L. Zamboanga
Byron L. Zamboanga University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Silvia Helena Koller
Silvia Helena Koller Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Seth J. Schwartz
Seth J. Schwartz The University of Texas at Austin
Scott C. Roesch
Scott C. Roesch San Diego State University

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