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Jill Brown                            dwntwnjbrown@yahoo.com
Keely Cline                         kcline2unl@yahoo.com
Jen Dauve                          jdauve1@bigred.unl.edu
Sarah Diller                        sjdiller@bigred.unl.edu

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Current Students

(2005-2006)

Top (L-R): Jen, Maria, Meredith, Rebecca

Bottom (L-R): Maggie, Rachel

(not shown Keely, Twila, Abbie, and Jill)

Current Developmental Graduate Students

Jill Brown is a fifth year graduate student in Developmental Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She and grew up on a farm in central Nebraska and received her B.A. from UNL in 1995. Her main research interest is in culture, child care practices, and gender norm development. She has done research in Namibia, Southern Africa on masculinity and HIV/AIDS and will conduct her dissertation research on the cultural and developmental logic of the child care practice of fosterage in the face of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa.

She is currently a teaching assistant for Theories of Personality (PSYC 287), as well as a research assistant for Dr. Marcela Raffaelli. She is assisting Dr. Raffaelli with the service learning component of her Psychology of Immigration class and various other research projects

Presentations

 Brown, J., Crockett, L.J., Shen, Y, & Russell, S.T. (2004, April). In the Eye of the Beholder: The Meaning of Good Parent-Child Relationships for Mexican American Adolescents. Presented at the Society for Research on Child Development, Atlanta, GA.

 Brown, J., Sorrell, J., & Raffaelli, M. (2004, February). “Aids didn’t come to Africa for dogs, it came for men: Masculinity and HIV in Namibia, Southern Africa. Presented at the 33^rd Annual Society for Cross-Cultural Research.

 de Guzman, M.R.T., Brown, J., Kirkland, T., Edwards, C.P.E., & Carlo, G. (2003, April). "Do as you're told": Examining the contexts and consequences of Gikuyu mothers’ prosocial demands on their children. Presented at the 51^st Annual Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, Lincoln, NE.

Publications

Brown, J., Sorrell, J., & Raffaelli, M. (2004). “An exploratory study of masculinity, sexuality and HIV/AIDS in Namibia, Southern Africa. Culture Health & Sexuality, (in press).

Brown, J., Sorrell, J., Creswell, J. (2005). Waiting: A phenomenological study of patients awaiting liver transplantation. Qualitative Health Research. (in press)

Raffaelli, M., & Brown, J.R. (2004). Reducing Women’s Risk of Heterosexual Transmission of HIV in the U.S. In A. Mata (Ed). Gangs, Drugs, & Violence. Edwin Mellon Press (in press).

Edwards, C.P., de Guzman, M.R.T., Brown. J.. Kumre, A. (2004). Children’s social behaviors and peer interactions in diverse cultures. In X. Chen, D. French, & B. Schneider, (Eds.) Peer relationships in cultural context. (in press).

Crockett, L.J., Brown, J., Shen, Y, & Russell, S.T. (2004). In the Eye of the Beholder: The Meaning of Good Parent-Child Relationships for Mexican American Adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Research. (under review)

Keely Cline is a third year student originally from Missouri, and completed her undergraduate degree in psychology at Northwest Missouri State University. Keely’s research interests include early childhood development and school readiness, with a focus on low-income populations and special needs children. Her current assistantship is with the Getting Ready Project, a longitudinal study of school readiness in children at risk for school failure (Co-PI’s: Dr. Carolyn Edwards and Dr. Susan Sheridan). One of her primary responsibilities with the Getting Ready Project is collecting data by doing child assessments. Keely plans to use data from the study to complete her dissertation.
 

Presentations

Jen Dauve is a second year student from St. Louis, Missouri. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Missouri – Columbia. Jen’s research interests include parenting behaviors in adolescence, and how parenting behaviors relate to adolescents’ self-regulation and general well-being. She is currently a teaching assistant for Research Methods and Data Analysis (PSYC 450).

Sarah Diller is a first year student from Dayton, Ohio. She completed her undergrad at Wright State University. Her research interests include adolescent development and reasoning, and how that applies to both decision making and peer/family interactions. She is currently a teaching assistant in both Lifespan Development, and Learning and Behavior.

Rebecca Goodvin is an advanced graduate student from the Pacific Northwest; she completed her undergraduate degree in psychology at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. Rebecca is currently a research assistant at the University of Nebraska’s Center on Children, Families, and the Law, where her work has entailed a wide range of research areas, including interviewing children about traumatic experiences, and understanding the cultural context of child neglect incidence and reporting in Nebraska. Rebecca has taught recitation sections for Introduction to Psychology, and has taught Lifespan Development. Her research interests include parent-child attachment and communication, and individual and contextual factors influencing children's socioemotional development, particularly self concept development. Rebecca is also interested in understanding the broader influences of social and cultural context on child development. She is presently completing her dissertation study on parent-child relationships and children's self evaluations.  Rebecca is also affiliated with the Thompson Research Lab at the University of California, Davis.
 

Selected Publications

Goodvin, R., Meyer, S., Thompson, R. A, & Hayes, R. (under review). Self-understanding in early childhood: Associations with child attachment security and maternal negative affect.

Goodvin, R., Carlo, G., & Torquati, J. (in press). The role of child emotionality and maternal negative emotion expression in children’s coping strategy use. Social Development.

Thompson, R. A., Goodvin, R., & Meyer, S. (2006). Social development in the preschool years: Psychological understanding, self understanding, and relationships. In J. Luby (Ed.), Preschool mental health. New York: Guilford.

Thompson, R. A., Flood, M. F., & Goodvin, R. (2006). Social support and developmental psychopathology. In D. Cicchetti & D. Cohen (Eds.), Developmental psychopathology (2nd Ed.), Vol. III. Risk, disorder, and adaptation. New York: Wiley.

Thompson, R. A., & Goodvin, R. (2005). The individual child: Temperament, emotion, self, and personality. In M. H. Bornstein & M. E. Lamb (Eds.), Developmental science: An advanced textbook (5th Ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Selected Presentations
 

Goodvin, R., Hossaini, R., Fair, M., & Meyer, S. (2005, May). Interactive Influences of Maternal and Child Characteristics on Mother-Child Conversation. Paper presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.

Goodvin, R., Meyer, S., & Hayes, R. (2005, April). Maternal Mind-Mindedness and Children’s Early Self-Concept Development. Poster presented at the Biennial Conference of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA.

Goodvin, R., & Meyer, S. (2004, April). Attachment and self-concept in preschool children: A developmental perspective. Poster presented at the Conference on Human Development, Washington, D. C.

Raikes, H. A., & Goodvin, R. (2003, April). Maternal Sensitivity, Risk and Attachment Security Among 24 to 36-Month Old Children in Poverty. Poster presented at the Biennial Conference of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa Bay, FL.

Rachel Hayes is a fourth year student from Riverside, California, and completed her undergrad at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. She is interested the development of prosocial behaviors, and her research explores the question of what factors, internal and external to the individual, prompt the development of prosocial cognitions, emotions, and behaviors. In particular, she is interested in socialization factors present in parent-child relationships. Rachel is currently a research assistant for Dr. Gus Carlo, and is working on an NSF-funded grant to examine relations among maternal characteristics, parent-child relationship factors, and prosocial behaviors in Mexican American and European American adolescents.

Presentations

Hayes, R., McGinley, M., Carlo, G., Batenhorst, C. L., & Knight, G. P. (2006, March). Fostering prosocial behaviors: The role of parenting practices, values internalization, and sympathy. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, San Francisco, CA.

Goodvin, R., Meyer, S., & Hayes, R. C. (2005, April). Maternal mind-mindedness and children’s self concept development: Links to mother-child conversations about children’s characteristics. Poster session presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA.

Meyer, S., Goodvin, R., Thompson, R., & Hayes, R. C. (2005, April). Future-oriented discourse and attachment security. Poster session presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA.

Maria I. Iturbide is a third year student from Northern California, and attended the University of the Pacific where she received a B.A. in Psychology. Her research interests include ethnic minority parenting differences, ethnic identity development, and acculturation. Maria is currently a research assistant to Dr. Marcela Raffaelli and Dr. Gus Carlo on their Latino Adolescent Health Disparities Project and a member of the Latino Research Initiative. She also works with Dr. Crockett examining teenagers' perspectives regarding parent-adolescent relationships.

Publications

Crockett, L. J., Brown, J., Iturbide, M. I., Russell, S. T., & Wilkinson-Lee, A. (under review). Conceptions of parent-adolescent relationships among Cuban American teenagers.

Crockett L. J., Iturbide, M. I., Torres Stone, R. A., McGinley, M., Raffaelli, M., & Carlo, G. (under review). Buffering effects of interpersonal resources and coping on the relation between acculturative stress and psychological adjustment among Mexican Americans

McGinley, M., Carlo, G., Crockett L. J., Raffaelli, M., Torres Stone, R. A., & Iturbide, M. I. (under review). Stressed and helping: The relations among acculturative stress, gender, and prosocial behaviors in Mexican Americans

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

 Presentations

Iturbide, M. I., Brown, J. R., Crockett, L. J., & Russell, S. T. (2006, March). Cuban American adolescents’ perception of parent-child relationships. Poster presented at the biannual for the Society for Research on Adolescence, San Francisco, CA.

Meredith McGinley is a fifth year student from Ashland, Pennsylvania, and attended Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pennsylvania. She is interested in studying moral development, parenting, and cross-cultural research. Currently, she is a research assistant for the Latino Health Disparities Grant with Dr. Marcela Raffaelli and Dr. Gus Carlo. She has also taught research methods and statistics, and has interests in teaching advanced statistical modeling (SEM, measurement equivalence, longitudinal modeling, growth mixture modeling).

Publications

McGinley, M., & Carlo, G. (in press). Two sides of the same coin? The relations between prosocial and physically aggressive behaviors. Journal of Youth and Adolescence.

Thompson, R. A., Meyer, S. & McGinley, M. (2005). Understanding values in relationship: The development of conscience. In   M. Killen & J. G. Smetana (Eds.), Handbook of Moral Development. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Carlo, G., McGinley, M., Hayes, R., Batenhorst, C., & Wilkinson, J. (under review). Parenting Styles or Practices? Parenting, Sympathy, and Prosocial Behaviors among Adolescents.

McGinley, M., Carlo, G., Crockett, L. J., Raffaelli, M., Torres Stone, R. A., & Iturbide, M. I. (under review). Stressed and Helping: The Relations among Acculturative Stress, Gender, and Prosocial Behaviors in Mexican Americans.

Crockett, L. J., Iturbide, M. I., Torres Stone, R. A., McGinley, M., Raffaelli, M., & Carlo, G. (under review). Buffering effects of interpersonal resources and coping on the relation between acculturative stress and psychological adjustment among Mexican Americans.

Raffaelli, M., Torres Stone, R. A., Iturbide, M. I., McGinley, M., Carlo, G., & Crockett, L. J. (under review). Acculturation, gender, and alcohol use among Mexican American college students.

Presentations

McGinley, M., Hayes, R., Carlo, G., Knight, G. P., & Vanhouten, H. (2006, March). Relations between parenting practices and prosocial behaviors: The mediating role of adolescent’s perceptions of appropriateness. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Adolescence, San Francisco.

Carlo, G., Knight, G. P., McGinley, M., Hayes, R., & Shen, Y. (2006, March). Measurement of parenting practices that promotes prosocial behaviors.  Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Adolescence, San Francisco.

Hayes, R., McGinley, M., Carlo, G., Knight, G. P., & Batenhorst, C. (2006, March). Fostering prosocial behavior: the role of parenting practices, values internalization, and sympathy. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Adolescence, San Francisco 

McGinley, M., Hayes, R., Van Houten, H., Batenhorst, C., & Carlo G. (2006, May). Evaluation of a new parental values measure predicting prosocial tendencies. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago.

Batenhorst, C., Hayes, R., McGinley, M., & Carlo G. (2006, May). Characteristics of prosocial parenting practices associated with prosocial behaviors in adolescence. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago.

McGinley, M., & Carlo, G. (2005, May). Sympathy as a mediator between prosocial tendencies and aggression. Poster presented at the American Psychological Society 17th Annual Convention, Los Angeles

Maggie Ortmann is a second year student from Madrid, Iowa. She received her B.A. in psychology (with a minor in business) from Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. Before starting graduate school at UNL, she worked for two years as a research assistant in Grazyna Kochanska's lab at the University of Iowa on a longitudinal study of social-emotional development, with a focus on the development of conscience. The research emphasized understanding the role of both parents in children’s development. Maggie’s research interests lie in the area of cognitive spatial memory development in young children, and the development of perception of symmetry axes. She has been a teaching assistant for Developmental and Introduction to Psychology and is currently a research assistant for Dr. Anne Schutte.

Presentation

Twila Wingrove is originally from West Virginia, and is a fifth year JD/PhD student in the Law-Psychology Program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She completed her undergraduate degree at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. She worked for the three years at the University of Nebraska's Center on Children, Families, and the Law, as an assistant on the Nebraska Court Improvement Project, which aims to improve the state's child welfare system. She is interested in researching the interaction of youth and the legal system. Specifically, her past and current projects include studies of children's participation in custody decision-making, judicial decision-making in child welfare cases, and juvenile competency to stand trial.

Selected Presentations

Wingrove, T.A., Viljoen, J., & Malone, A. (2006, March). Attorneys’ Views on Legal Standards for Juvenile Competence to Stand Trial. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychology-Law Society, St. Petersburg, FL.

 Wingrove, T. A., & Weisz, V. (2005, August). Young adults' perceptions of the child custody decision-making process: An examination of procedural justice and decision satisfaction. Submitted to annual meeting of APA, Division 41, Washington, DC.

 Wingrove, T. A., & Weisz, V. (2005, March). An outcome evaluation of Family Group Conferencing. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychology-Law Society, La Jolla, CA.

 Wingrove, T. A., Williams, A., & Weisz, V. (2004, March). Why are 60 million people not obeying the law? Perceptions of legitimacy of authority and personal morality in music downloading and file-sharing. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychology-Law Society,
Scottsdale, AZ.

 Wingrove, T.A., Williams, A., & Weisz, V. (2004, March). An outcome evaluation of Family Group Conferencing. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychology-Law Society, Scottsdale, AZ.