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Philip R. Costanzo

Associate Director, Center for Child and Family Policy; Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience

Research Interests: Research interests include (1) The development of children's ideas and beliefs about the social environment. This includes an interest in the underlying cognitive processes that mediate social reasoning skills, the relationship between parental beliefs and values and children's social perceptions social competence and social rule acquisition and its relationship to social conformity. (2) The relationships between adult values and motivations and depressive states. Also, how social-cognitive biases pertinent to affective disorders develop and are socialized by parental norms and family systems properties. (3) Psychological and social concomitants of obesity, overeating, self-restrictive eating, anorexia and bulimia. Particularly concerned with the relationship between cultural and sex-role norms pertaining to women and the emergence of eating disorders.

Clinical Interests: Community-school consultation, group psychotherapy, psycho- and "socio"-therapy with troubled and troublesome children and their families, individual adult psychotherapy and therapeutic strategies for working with distressed eating-disordered clients.

Education:

• PhD University of Florida - 1967

Teaching Spring 2012:

• PSY 200B.01, DISTINCTION THESIS WORKSHOP II Synopsis
  Soc/Psych 319, TuTh 08:30 AM-09:45 AM
• PSY 364S.01, P&N FIRST YEAR SEMINAR II Synopsis
  Social Sciences 109, Tu 04:25 PM-05:55 PM

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Strauman T. ;Costanzo P. and Garber J. (2011). Depression in Adolescent Girls: Science and Prevention.. Guilford Press.


2. Costanzo, P.R. & Hoyle, R. (2010 in press). The role of research in personality and social psychology for illuminating psychopathology and its contexts. In K. Deaux, and M. Snyder (Ed.).  Oxford Handbook of Personality and Social Psychology. Oxford Press.


3. Costanzo, P.R. (2010 in press). The nature and nurture of morality and goodness. In Ruth Grant (Ed.).  In Search of Goodness. University of Chicago Press.


4. Strauman, T., Costanzo, P., Merril, K., Jones, N. (2010). The Applications of Social Psychology to Clinical Psychology. In E.T. Higgins and A.W. Kruglanski (Ed.).  Social Psychology: A Handbook of Basic Principles. Guilford Press.


5. Dunsmore, J.C., Bradburn, I.S.,Costanzo, P.R., & Fredrickson, B.L. (2009). Mothers' expressive style and emotional responses to children's behavior predict children's prosocial and achievement-related self-ratings. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 33, 253-264.

1. Attachment and Obesity, University of Naples, Italy, 2002
2. The Intergenerational Transmission of Relationship Styles, University of Rome, Italy, 2002
3. Consultation to rural mental health clinics: An Important Role for Clinical Psychologists, University of North Carolina, 2002
4. Parents and their children: The transmission of relationship orientations, University of Conneticut, 2000
5. The socialization of moral orientation in children, Princeton University, 2000

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