Carlyn Carter

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Thanks for checking out my page! I am a forth year graduate student at the University of Southern California focusing on social development. I am currently writing my qualifying exams on culture and empathy and my dissertation proposal on Facial Expression Recognition, Emotional Empathy, and Prosocial behavior toward out-group ethnicities.

My general interests include social/emotional development and positive psychology. My more specific interests include: achievement motivation, gratitude, and emotional empathy. I like to take a cross-cultural perspective with my work whenever possible.

Selected Works:

Iyer, R. & Carter, C. (submitted). Strategies for Creating Optimal Online Gratitude Interventions. Journal of Positive Psychology.

Carter, C. (2007). The Home Environment and Latino Preschoolers' Emergent Literacy Skills <search on the PsycArticles or USC site>

Curriculum Vitae - ccarter@usc.edu – 213-500-8854

Education • B.A. in Psychology, University of Southern California, received 2005 • M.A. in Psychology, University of Southern California, received 2007 • Ph. D. in Developmental Psychology, USC, in progress Relevant Graduate Coursework • Statistics in Psychological Research (two part course) • Workshop in Quantitative Methods • Research Design in Developmental Psychology • Psychopathology • Proseminar in Life-Span Development • Social and Emotional Development • Cognitive Development in Children • Research Design Experience Working with Children • JEP House volunteer, working at day care center for one semester (primarily infants) • JEP House volunteer, tutor for elementary school children • Assessments (P-CTOPPP) with Head Start children (average age: 4) • Dyslexia Assessments with middle-school-aged children Teaching • Teaching assistant for Developmental Psychology, four semesters • Teaching assistant for The Science of Happiness, three semesters • Guest lectures in an undergraduate Developmental Psychology course: • Cognitive Development of Theory of Mind (2006) • The Psychological Effects of Early & Late Pubertal Onset (‘05, ’06) • English Instructor of young adolescents, ELC (2007) • Cognitive Psychology Instructor at John Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth (2008, 2009) Organizations • Student Member of the APA since 2002 • Student Member of the Society for Research in Child Development since 2005 Conferences • Presented poster: Maternal Influences on Children’s Emergent Literacy Skills and The Mediating Effects of Child’s Reading Motivation at SRCD on March 29, 2007 • Presented poster: Strategies for Creating Optimal Online Gratitude Interventions at The Global Well-being Forum on October 5, 2007 • Presented poster: Random Acts of Kindness in the Classroom on June 19th at the First World Congress on Positive Psychology (WCPP) Publications • Iyer, R. & Carter, C. (submitted). Strategies for Creating Optimal Online Gratitude Interventions. Journal of Positive Psychology.