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Philip R. Costanzo

Philip R. Costanzo

Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neuroscience
Psychology & Neuroscience
costanzo@duke.edu
Duke Box 90085, Durham, NC 27708-0085
244 Soc Psych Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications

A 6-year longitudinal exploration of diversity in ethnically/racially minoritized children's early peer circles

Journal Article Social Development · November 1, 2024 Exposure to diverse peers can expand children's experiences and skillsets, and these positive effects linger beyond childhood. Yet, little is known about the ethnic/racial, gender, and age diversity in children's peer groups and how it may shift over time. ... Full text Cite

The influence of siblings on ethnically diverse children's gender typing across early development.

Journal Article Developmental psychology · May 2021 Most U.S. children grow up with siblings. Theory and prior work suggest that older siblings are important sources of gender-related information and socialization. However, few studies have investigated the patterns of these associations longitudinally acro ... Full text Cite

Regulatory Focus and Substance Use in Adolescents: Protective Effects of Prevention Orientation.

Journal Article Subst Use Misuse · 2021 Substance use is a major risk factor for negative health and functioning outcomes among middle schoolers. The purpose of this study was to assess whether individual differences in the adolescents' goal orientation are associated with elevated or attenuated ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

The influence of center-based care on young children's gender development

Journal Article Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology · July 1, 2020 Many U.S. children spend a significant amount of time in center-based care prior to entering preschool. Previous theory and research would suggest center-based care settings offer important opportunities for gender socialization as children here are surrou ... Full text Cite

Leader of the Pack: Academic Giftedness and Leadership in Early Adolescence

Journal Article Journal of Advanced Academics · November 1, 2019 The present study expanded our current understanding of leadership among academically gifted seventh-grade students by examining peer-identified leaders of naturally occurring social groups in a mixed ability setting. Three consecutive cohorts of seventh-g ... Full text Cite

From A (Aggression) to V (Victimization): Peer Status and Adjustment Among Academically Gifted Students in Early Adolescence

Journal Article Gifted Child Quarterly · July 1, 2019 Peer status is an important indicator and predictor of adjustment. While gifted children tend to enjoy favorable peer status, their social functioning during adolescence is less clear. The current study seeks to enhance this understanding by examining both ... Full text Cite

Raising Grateful Children One Day at a Time.

Journal Article Applied developmental science · January 2019 The current study examined micro-developmental processes related to the socialization of children's gratitude. Specifically, we tested whether parents who engage in more frequent daily socialization practices targeting children's gratitude reported more fr ... Full text Cite

Measuring Gratitude in Children.

Journal Article The journal of positive psychology · January 2019 Gratitude is a rich socioemotional construct that emerges over development beginning in early childhood. Existing measures of children's gratitude as a trait or behavior may be limited because they do not capture different aspects of gratitude moments (i.e ... Full text Cite

Natural Peer Leaders as Substance Use Prevention Agents: the Teens' Life Choice Project.

Journal Article Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · July 2017 In adolescent social groups, natural peer leaders have been found to engage in more frequent experimentation with substance use and to possess disproportionate power to affect the behavior and social choices of their associated peer followers. In the curre ... Full text Cite

Grateful parents raising grateful children: Niche selection and the socialization of child gratitude.

Journal Article Applied developmental science · January 2017 Given that children's exposure to gratitude-related activities may be one way that parents can socialize gratitude in their children, we examined whether parents' niche selection (i.e., tendency to choose perceived gratitude-inducing activities for their c ... Full text Cite

Parent socialization of children’s gratitude

Chapter · January 1, 2017 Parent Socialization of Children’s Gratitude Thank-You Note I wanted small pierced earrings (gold), You gave me slippers (gray). My mother said that she would scold Unless I wrote to say How much I like them. Not much. -Judith Viorst The desire to cultivat ... Full text Cite

Self-presentational congruence and psychosocial adjustment: A test of three models

Journal Article Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology · September 1, 2016 People regularly monitor and control the impressions others form of them but differ in the degree to which they both convey impressions that are consistent with their private self-views (self-presentational congruence) and present different images of thems ... Full text Cite

Parents' understanding of gratitude in children: A thematic analysis

Journal Article Early Childhood Research Quarterly · March 3, 2016 Current definitions of gratitude are based primarily on research with adults about their own experiences of gratitude, yet what children are grateful for, and how they understand, experience, and express gratitude may be very different. To better understan ... Full text Cite

Conscientiousness in life course context: a commentary.

Journal Article Developmental psychology · May 2014 In this commentary, the common themes from the interesting articles in this special section of Developmental Psychology are considered as they illuminate the potential ontogenetic sources of the conscientiousness-well-being-longevity interconnections that ... Full text Cite

Early risk factors for alcohol use across high school and its covariation with deviant friends.

Journal Article Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · September 2013 ObjectivePast research has associated childhood characteristics and experiences with alcohol use at single time points in adolescence. Other work has focused on drinking trajectories across adolescence but with risk factors typically no earlier th ... Full text Cite

Interactive Effects of Discrimination and Racial Identity on Alcohol-Related Thoughts and Use

Journal Article Basic and Applied Social Psychology · July 1, 2013 The interrelationships among racial discrimination, non race-based rejection, racial identity (RI), and alcohol cognitions and use were assessed in this research. In Study 1, individuals who experienced overt discrimination and who were high in RI were les ... Full text Open Access Cite

Personality, Social Psychology, and Psychopathology: Reflections on a Lewinian Vision

Chapter · September 18, 2012 In this chapter, we first consider the historical and conceptual roots of the tripartite, but at times rocky, marriage of the fields of personality, social, and abnormal psychology. After briefly describing the hopes of early 20th-century scholars to array ... Full text Cite

Parenting styles and body mass index trajectories from adolescence to adulthood.

Journal Article Health Psychol · July 2012 OBJECTIVE: Parenting styles such as authoritarian, disengaged, or permissive are thought to be associated with greater adolescent obesity risk than an authoritative style. This study assessed the relationship between parenting styles and changes in body ma ... Full text Link to item Cite

Evaluating the impact of a substance use intervention program on the peer status and influence of adolescent peer leaders.

Journal Article Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · February 2012 The current study involved an examination of the impact of a peer-led substance use intervention program on the peer leaders beyond the substance use-related goals of the intervention. Specifically, unintended consequences of an adult-sanctioned interventi ... Full text Cite

Heavy drinking in early adulthood and outcomes at mid life.

Journal Article Journal of epidemiology and community health · July 2011 BackgroundHeavy drinking in early adulthood among Blacks, but not Whites, has been found to be associated with more deleterious health outcomes, lower labor market success and lower educational attainment at mid-life. This study analysed psychosoc ... Full text Cite

Academic Giftedness and Alcohol Use in Early Adolescence.

Journal Article The gifted child quarterly · April 2011 Adolescence is a period of development particularly vulnerable to the effects of alcohol use, with recent studies underscoring alcohol's effects on adolescent brain development. Despite the alarming rates and consequences of adolescent alcohol use, gifted ... Full text Cite

Sex, temperament, and family context: how the interaction of early factors differentially predict adolescent alcohol use and are mediated by proximal adolescent factors.

Journal Article Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · March 2011 Adolescent alcohol use is common and has serious immediate and long-term ramifications. While concurrent individual and context factors are robustly associated with adolescent alcohol use, the influence of early childhood factors, particularly in interacti ... Full text Open Access Cite

Alcohol-consumption trajectories and associated characteristics among adults older than age 50.

Journal Article Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · March 2010 ObjectiveThis study examined changes in drinking behavior after age 50 and baseline personal characteristics and subsequent life events associated with different alcohol-consumption trajectories during a 14-year follow-up period.MethodDat ... Full text Cite

Early Adolescent Romantic Partner Status, Peer Standing, and Problem Behaviors.

Journal Article The Journal of early adolescence · December 2009 This study examined associations among early adolescent romantic relationships, peer standing, problem behaviors, and gender as a moderator of these associations, in a sample of 320 seventh-grade students. Popular and controversial status youth were more l ... Full text Cite

Racial differences in the relationship between alcohol consumption in early adulthood and occupational attainment at midlife.

Journal Article American journal of public health · December 2009 ObjectivesWe assessed the relationship between alcohol consumption in young adulthood (ages 18-30 years) and occupational success 15 years later among Blacks and Whites.MethodsWe analyzed data from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in ... Full text Cite

Sticks and Stones: The Effects of Teasing on Psychosocial Functioning in an Overweight Treatment-seeking Sample.

Journal Article Social development (Oxford, England) · November 2009 This self-report and observational study explores the relationship between perceptions of different kinds of teasing experiences and psychosocial functioning in an overweight treatment-seeking adolescent population. Participants were 96 adolescents enrolle ... Full text Cite

Early adolescents' social standing in peer groups: behavioral correlates of stability and change.

Journal Article Journal of youth and adolescence · September 2009 Sociometric nominations, social cognitive maps, and self-report questionnaires were completed in consecutive years by 327 students (56% girls) followed longitudinally from grade 7 to grade 8 to examine the stability of social standing in peer groups and co ... Full text Cite

Mothers' expressive style and emotional responses to children's behavior predict children's prosocial and achievement-related self-ratings

Journal Article International Journal of Behavioral Development · January 1, 2009 In this study we investigated whether mothers' typical expressive style and specific emotional responses to children's behaviors are linked to children's prosocial and competence self-ratings. Eight-to 12-year-old children and their mothers rated how mothe ... Full text Cite

Psychosocial outcomes in a weight loss camp for overweight youth

Journal Article International Journal of Pediatric Obesity · 2009 Cite

Social Network Centrality and Leadership Status: Links with Problem Behaviors and Tests of Gender Differences.

Journal Article Merrill-Palmer quarterly (Wayne State University. Press) · January 2009 Seventh-grade students (N = 324) completed social cognitive maps to identify peer groups and peer group leaders, sociometric nominations to describe their peers' behaviors, and questionnaires to assess their own behaviors. Peer group members resembled one ... Full text Cite

Psychosocial outcomes in a weight loss camp for overweight youth.

Journal Article Int J Pediatr Obes · 2009 OBJECTIVE: There is good evidence that youth attending weight loss camps in the UK and US are successful at achieving weight loss. Limited research suggests improvement in body image and self-esteem as well. This study evaluated changes in eight psychosoci ... Full text Link to item Cite

Evaluating a stage model in predicting monolingual spanish-speaking Latinas' cervical cancer screening practices: the role of psychosocial and cultural predictors.

Journal Article Health Educ Behav · December 2008 The goals of this study are to evaluate (a) the effectiveness of a stage model in predicting Latinas' self-report of obtaining a Pap test and (b) the unique role of psychosocial/cultural factors in predicting progress toward behavior change. One-on-one str ... Full text Link to item Cite

Intergenerational relations: Themes, prospects, and possibilities

Journal Article Journal of Social Issues · December 1, 2007 This commentary provides an examination of the articles within this issue with a focus on common themes throughout. Each article is briefly reviewed in the context of how it contributes to four overarching themes of current intergenerational research. The ... Full text Cite

Norm-Narrowing and Self- and Other-Perceived Aggression in Early-Adolescent Same-Sex and Mixed-Sex Cliques.

Journal Article Journal of school psychology · October 2007 We examined the relations between group context and self- and other-perceptions of aggressive behavior in an ethnically-diverse sample of 168 male and female grade 7 adolescents. We used self- and peer-reports of aggression in high- and average-aggressive ... Full text Cite

Longitudinal differences in alcohol use in early adulthood.

Journal Article Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · September 2007 ObjectiveResearch with college populations suggests that elevated levels of heavy drinking do not generally persist into later adulthood for most individuals. The aims of this study were to determine whether this pattern applies to the population ... Full text Cite

Racial disparities in diabetes a century ago: evidence from the pension files of US Civil War veterans.

Journal Article Soc Sci Med · April 2007 Using a comprehensive database constructed from the pension files of US Civil War veterans, we explore characteristics and occurrence of type 2 diabetes among older black and white males, living circa 1900. We find that rates of diagnosed diabetes were muc ... Full text Link to item Cite

Peer standing and substance use in early-adolescent grade-level networks: a short-term longitudinal study.

Journal Article Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · March 2007 Two competing hypotheses were tested concerning the associations between current alcohol and cigarette use and measures of individual, group and network peer standing in an ethnically-diverse sample of 156 male and female adolescents sampled at two time po ... Full text Cite

Weight stigmatization and ideological beliefs: relation to psychological functioning in obese adults.

Journal Article Obes Res · May 2005 OBJECTIVE: This study evaluated the relation among weight-based stigmatization, ideological beliefs about weight, and psychological functioning in an obese, treatment-seeking sample. RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURE: Ninety-three obese, treatment-seeking adu ... Full text Link to item Cite

Peer Social Structure and Risk-Taking Behaviors among African American Early Adolescents

Journal Article Journal of Youth and Adolescence · October 1, 2003 This study investigated associations between peer status, peer group social influences, and risk-taking behaviors in an urban sample of 647 African American seventh-grade students. The highest rates of problem behaviors were seen in the controversial peer ... Full text Cite

Primary care residents' characteristics and motives for providing differential medical treatment of cervical cancer screening

Journal Article Journal of the National Medical Association · July 1, 2003 Background: Cervical cancer screening rates in the United States are sub-optimal. Physician factors likely contribute to these lower rates. Previous studies provide inconclusive evidence about the association between physician characteristics and the likel ... Cite

The influence of patient’s ethnicity on cervical medical treatment

Journal Article Journal of the National Medical Association · 2002 Cite

Changing eating behavior: a preliminary study to consider broader measures of weight control treatment success.

Journal Article Eat Behav · 2002 This study evaluated changes in the self-reported eating behaviors (snacking, binge eating, portion sizes, and meal skipping) of 52 obese adults (33 women and 19 men) attending a residential weight loss facility on two consecutive occasions. For each of th ... Full text Link to item Cite

Body image partially mediates the relationship between obesity and psychological distress.

Journal Article Obes Res · January 2002 OBJECTIVE: Body image is considered as a potential mediator of the relationship between obesity and psychological distress. RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURES: One hundred ten men and women in a residential weight control facility completed the Multidimension ... Full text Link to item Cite

Influence of stereotyping in smoking cessation counseling by primary care residents.

Journal Article Ethn Dis · 2002 This study examined racial differences in primary care residents' rates of addressing smoking cessation. We expected residents to have higher rates of addressing cessation with White female patients as compared with African-American or Hispanic female pati ... Link to item Cite

Social exchange and the developing syntax of moral orientation.

Journal Article New directions for child and adolescent development · January 2002 Full text Cite

How do residents prioritize smoking cessation for young "high-risk" women? Factors associated with addressing smoking cessation.

Journal Article Prev Med · October 2001 BACKGROUND: Sixty-seven percent of physicians report advising their smoking patients to quit. Primary care residents' priorities for preventive health for a young "high-risk" female are unknown. Factors related to residents addressing smoking also need exa ... Full text Link to item Cite

The mediating effect of eating self-efficacy on the relationship between emotional arousal and overeating in the treatment-seeking obese.

Journal Article Eat Behav · 2001 In this study, we tested the proposition that the emotion-based eating of obese individuals is mediated by the effects of emotional arousal tendencies on brittle dieting self-restraint. Our indices of emotion-aroused eating, overeating, and brittle restrai ... Full text Link to item Cite

The gender specificity of emotional, situational, and behavioral indicators of binge eating in a diet-seeking obese population.

Journal Article Int J Eat Disord · September 1999 OBJECTIVE: This study investigated the unique gender correlates of binge eating severity in a diet-seeking population. METHOD: This sample consisted of 288 self-admitted patients enrolled in a residential weight loss program between 1996 and 1997. Subjects ... Full text Link to item Cite

The gender specificity of emotional, situational, and behavioral indicators of binge-eating

Journal Article International Journal of Eating Disorders · 1999 Cite

The comorbidity of depression and eating dysregulation processes in a diet-seeking obese population: a matter of gender specificity.

Journal Article Int J Eat Disord · January 1998 OBJECTIVE: To explore gender differences in depression vulnerability among an obese, treatment-seeking population and to discern those components of eating-related phenomena that discriminate the depression-comorbid obese from their noncomorbid counterpart ... Full text Link to item Cite

Intergenerational continuities and their influences on children's social development

Journal Article Social Development · January 1, 1998 The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive review of the recent efforts by psychologists to explore intergenerational continuities and their influences on children's social development. A primary criterion for inclusion in the review was use ... Full text Cite

Posttraumatic symptomatology in children and adolescents after an industrial fire.

Journal Article J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry · August 1997 OBJECTIVE: This investigation evaluated the extent and nature of posttraumatic symptomatology (PTS) in children and adolescents 9 months after an industrial fire at the imperial Foods chicken-processing plant in Hamlet, North Carolina, caused extensive los ... Full text Link to item Cite

Post-Traumatic symptomatology in children and adolescents following an industrial fire in Hamlet, North Carolina

Journal Article Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 1997 Cite

A preliminary study of attachment attention and schizotypy in early adulthood

Journal Article Journal of of Social and Clinical Psychology · 1996 Cite

Attachment, attention and schizotypy: Converging measures and connections

Journal Article Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology · 1995 Cite

Relating mothers' social framing to their children's entry competence with peers

Journal Article Social Development · January 1, 1994 The purpose of this study was to examine how mothers view and construct meaning their children's social interactions, and to understand the interpretive frames they bring to filtering the social world and conveying meaning to their children. Maternal narra ... Full text Cite

Maternal recollections of childhood peer relationships: Implications for their children's social competence

Journal Article Journal of Social and Personal Relationships · January 1, 1991 The relations between mothers’ recollections of their childhood peer relationships and their child-rearing intentions, parenting behaviors and their preschoolers’ social competence were examined. Mothers with predominantly anxious/lonely peer recollections ... Full text Cite

Does marital agony precede marital ecstasy? A comment on Gottman and Krokoff's "Marital interaction and satisfaction: a longitudinal view".

Journal Article Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · August 1990 In a recent article, Gottman and Krokoff (1989) presented a fascinating and counterintuitive portrayal of a temporally related dynamic relationship of marital conflict and marital satisfaction. Unfortunately the results from which their conclusions spring ... Full text Cite

Thinness--not obesity--has a genetic component.

Journal Article Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · January 1989 The body mass of adoptees was compared with the body mass of both biologic and adoptive parents using data from the Danish Adoption Register. Chi-square analyses revealed that biologic heritability is small and is confined to thin, not obese body mass. It ... Full text Cite

Eating Restraint, Presentation Order, and Time of Day Are Related to Sweet Taste Preferences

Journal Article Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · January 1, 1989 Full text Cite

The effects of taste and caloric perceptions on the eating behavior of restrained and unrestrained subjects

Journal Article Cognitive Therapy and Research · December 1, 1981 The present study explored the phenomenon of counterregulatory eating in chronic dieters by manipulating taste and caloric-information cues of a preload and taste of subsequent ad lib food. The results replicated the "restraint breaking" phenomenon reporte ... Full text Cite

Behavioral determinants of mental illness concerns: a comparison of community subcultures.

Journal Article American journal of community psychology · October 1980 A stratified sample (race, sex, and social class) of 469 laymen from two North Carolina communities responded to a 190-item MMPI-based questionnaire with the degree of mental illness concern evoked by each item. The results reflected systematic race and so ... Full text Cite

The effect of social cues on the eating behavior of obese and normal subjects.

Journal Article Journal of personality · June 1980 Schachter's externality hypothesis suggests that overweight individuals are more likely to be induced to eat by salient external cues than normal weight individuals. While a range of studies have demonstrated the plausibility of this hypothesis in the case ... Full text Cite

Externality as a function of obesity in children: pervasive style or eating-specific attribute?

Journal Article Journal of personality and social psychology · December 1979 The developmental sources of the link between stylistic externality and food-related externality found in the obese by Schacter and others were explored by testing whether the externality phenomena that have been found to differentiate obese and normal adu ... Full text Cite

Death anxiety, dissent, and competence.

Journal Article Journal of personality · December 1979 A total of 64 male undergraduates were administered a multistage interview which was structured to assess (a) their level of overtly expressed death anxiety, (b) covert (GSR) arousal to death stimuli (c) self-perceived competence, and (d) agreement with or ... Full text Cite

Group processes in early childhood: A dimension of human development

Journal Article International Journal of Behavioral Development · January 1, 1979 A family-centered view of socialization has dominated child development research literature. Particularly lacking is knowledge of the influences of group participation where it is available and encouraged. The investigators carried out an observational fie ... Full text Cite

A survey instrument for the assessment of popular conceptions of mental illness.

Journal Article Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · December 1976 Full text Cite

Behavioral determinants of mental illness concerns: a comparison of "gatekeeper" professions.

Journal Article Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · October 1975 Full text Cite

The effects of choice and source of constraint on children's attributions of preference

Journal Article Journal of Experimental Social Psychology · January 1, 1974 One hundred and twenty female children (40 each from the first, third, and sixth grades) were presented with videotaped presentations of a female child choosing between two toys. Depending upon condition, subjects then viewed the actor either playing with ... Full text Cite

Effect of anticipated performance on the attributions of causality to self and others.

Journal Article Journal of personality and social psychology · September 1973 Full text Cite

Specific transitions in the development of spatial perspective-taking ability

Journal Article Developmental Psychology · September 1, 1973 90 5-11 yr olds were tested on 2 variations of Piaget's spatial perspective task. The predominance of each of 4 kinds of spatial errors (interposition, aspect, distance, and right-left) was found to be differentially related both to age and overall task pe ... Full text Cite

Impression change and favorableness of first impressions: A study of population and of commitment effects

Journal Article Psychonomic Science · January 1, 1971 The present study replicated and extended Briscoe, Woodyard, & Shaw’s (1967) study of impression formation. The replication yielded overall recency effects and did not find that initially unfavorable first impressions were more resistant to change. This fa ... Full text Cite

Conformity development as a function of self-blame.

Journal Article Journal of personality and social psychology · April 1970 Full text Cite

Voice quality profile and perceived emotion

Journal Article Journal of Counseling Psychology · May 1, 1969 Obtained speech samples by having 23 students read paragraphs indicating anger, contempt, indifference, love, and grief. A "test passage" was embedded in each paragraph. 44 students listened to the test passages and judged which 1 of the 5 emotions was bei ... Full text Cite

Conformity as a function of experimentally induced minority and majority competence

Journal Article Psychonomic Science · January 1, 1968 Two levels of minority competence and four levels of majority competence were induced by means of bogus feedback on 10 nonpressure perceptual trials. On the ensuing 15 conformity pressure trials it was found that high competent minority Ss conformed less t ... Full text Cite

Semantic satiation as a function of type of associate

Journal Article Psychonomic Science · January 1, 1968 This study investigated the relative strength of verbal association in common verbal associates, semantic space verbal associates, and non-associates. Repetition-satiation inhibition procedures were used in the test period. It was found that common associa ... Full text Cite