Philip R. Costanzo, Professor

Philip R. Costanzo

Professor
PhD, University of Florida, 1967
mailing address: 240 Sociology/Psychology Bldg. Durham, NC 27708
office: 240 Soc-Psych
email:
phone: (919) 660-5717

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Research Summary:

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 socialization processes that mediate the development of moral emotions , moral cognition and susceptibility to peer pressures (2) The relationships between values, motivations and depressive states in both adolescents and adults. Also, how social-cognitive biases pertinent to affective disorders as well as risky decisions develop and are socialized by parental norms and peer influences. (3) Psychological and social concomitants of obesity and eating disorders . (4) Prevention research on adolescent and adult problems of alcohol and drug abuse

Representative Publications:   (More Publications)

  1. Miller- Johnson, S., Costanzo, P.R. (2004). If you can't beat 'em --- induce them to join you: Peer based interventions during adolescence. Developmental Psychopathology: A Festchift in honor of John Coie.
  2. with Miller Johnson, S., Costanzo, P.R., Coie, J. and Browne, D. (2003 in press). Peer relations and involvement in problem behaviors among African-American adolescents. Journal of Youth and Adolescence.
  3. E. Arrendondo, K.I. Pollak, P.R. Costanzo, M McNeilly & E. Myers (2003). Primary care residents' characteristics and motives for providing differential medical treatment of cervical cancer screening. Journal of the National Medical Association, 95(7), 577-585.
  4. S. Miller-Johnson, P.R. Costanzo et al. (2003). Peer social structure and risk taking behaviors among African-American early adolescents. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 5, 375-384.
  5. with Arrendondo, E., Pollak, K.I., McNeilly, M., and Myers, E. (2003). Primary care residents' characteristics and motives for providing differential medical treatment of cervical cancer screening. Journal of the National Medical Association, 95(7), 577-585.

Courses (Fall 2009):

  • Psy 200a.01, Distinction thesis workshop i Synopsis
    Soc/psych 126, TuTh 08:30 AM-09:45 AM