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Larry Nucci is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a focus on several subfields including sociology and political science, education, clinical psychology, and public health, environmental and occupational health.

Their work addresses key topics such as child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, family support in illness, values and moral education, education and critical thinking development, as well as educator training and historical pedagogy.

Recent publications by Larry Nucci include:

  • "It's my own business!": Parental control over personal issues in the context of everyday adolescent-parent conflicts and internalizing disorders among urban Chinese adolescents., 2020, Developmental Psychology
  • Connecting moral development with critical pedagogy: A reply to Winston Thompson, 2021, Journal of Moral Education

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Larry Nucci are:

  • Min Chen-Gaddini
  • Jianjin Liu
  • Robyn Ilten-Gee

The scientist's publications appear mainly in the following venues:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Journal of Moral Education

The combination of areas such as moral education, adolescent development, and clinical psychology demonstrate an interdisciplinary approach connecting psychological development with educational practices and social dynamics. Their work on parental control and adolescent internalizing disorders engages with familial and societal influences on mental health and behavior.

Best Publications

  • Education in the Moral Domain

    Larry P. Nucci

  • Social interactions and the development of social concepts in preschool children.

    Larry P. Nucci;Elliot Turiel

  • Handbook of Moral and Character Education

    Larry P. Nucci;Darcia Narvaez

  • Conceptions of Personal Issues: A Domain Distinct from Moral or Societal Concepts.

    Larry Nucci

  • Social Interactions in the Home and the Development of Young Children's Conceptions of the Personal

    Larry Nucci;Elsa K. Weber

  • Children's social interactions in the context of moral and conventional transgressions.

    Larry P. Nucci;Maria Santiago Nucci

  • Parental Control of the Personal Domain and Adolescent Symptoms of Psychopathology: A Cross-National Study in the United States and Japan

    Yuki Hasebe;Larry Nucci;Maria S. Nucci

  • God's Word, Religious Rules, and Their Relation to Christian and Jewish Children's Concepts of Morality

    Larry Nucci;Elliot Turiel

  • Children's Responses to Moral and Social Conventional Transgressions in Free-Play Settings.

    Larry P. Nucci;Maria Santiago Nucci

  • Morality and the Personal Sphere of Actions

    Larry P. Nucci

  • Children'S Social Interactions and Social Concepts: Analyses of Morality and Convention in the Virgin Islands

    Larry P. Nucci;Elliot Turiel;Gloria Encarnacion-Gawrych

  • Adolescent Judgments of the Personal, Prudential, and Normative Aspects of Drug Usage

    Larry Nucci;Nancy Guerra;John Lee

  • Capturing the Complexity of Moral Development and Education

    Larry Nucci;Elliot Turiel

  • Social class effects on northeastern Brazilian children's conceptions of areas of personal choice and social regulation.

    Larry Nucci;Cleanice Camino;Clary Milnitsky Sapiro

  • Mothers' Concepts of Young Children's Areas of Personal Freedom.

    Larry Nucci;Judith G. Smetana

  • Bridging Theory of Mind and the Personal Domain: Children’s Reasoning About Resistance to Parental Control

    Kristin Hansen Lagattuta;Larry Nucci;Sandra Leanne Bosacki

  • Nice is Not Enough: Facilitating Moral Development

    Larry P. Nucci

  • Conceptual Development in the Moral and Conventional Domains: Implications for Values Education

    Larry P. Nucci

  • Behavioral disordered children's conceptions of moral, conventional, and personal issues

    Larry P. Nucci;Susan Herman

  • Autonomy and the personal: Negotiation and social reciprocity in adult‐child social exchanges

    Larry P. Nucci;Melanie Killen;Judith G. Smetana

  • Culture, Thought, and Development

    Larry P. Nucci;Geoffrey B. Saxe;Elliot Turiel

Frequent Co-Authors

Elliot Turiel
Elliot Turiel University of California, Berkeley
Darcia Narvaez
Darcia Narvaez University of Notre Dame
Judith G. Smetana
Judith G. Smetana University of Rochester
Nancy G. Guerra
Nancy G. Guerra University of California, Irvine
Kristin Hansen Lagattuta
Kristin Hansen Lagattuta University of California, Davis
James V. Wertsch
James V. Wertsch Washington University in St. Louis
Deanna Kuhn
Deanna Kuhn Columbia University
L. Rowell Huesmann
L. Rowell Huesmann University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Melanie Killen
Melanie Killen University of Maryland, College Park
Cecilia Wainryb
Cecilia Wainryb University of Utah

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