Carlyn Carter

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As a University of Southern California PhD student, I have the opportunity to study Developmental Psychology. Although in the past I have worked on reading motivation in preschool populations and well-being in adults, I am currently studying Facial Expression Recognition, Emotional Empathy, and Prosocial Behavior toward out-group ethnicities. My general interests include socioemotional development and positive psychology.

Some things I have worked on:

Carter, C & Iyer, R.(submitted). Random Acts of Kindness in the Classroom. Teaching of Psychology.

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

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, in my fifth semester
• Teaching assistant for The Science of Happiness, for 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 (2005, 2006)

• English Instructor to Foreign ESL Adolescents, ELC (Summer 2007)
• Cognitive Psychology Instructor at John Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth (Summer 2008, Summer 2009)
Organizations
• Graduate Association for Students in Psychology Committee Member since 2005
• Student Member of the APA since 2002
• Student Member of the Society for the Teaching of Psychology
• 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)
Awards
• 2nd place student poster: Strategies for Creating Optimal Online Gratitude Interventions at The Global Well-being Forum on October 5, 2007
• USC Undergraduate Summer Research Assistant Stipend, 2004
Computer Skills
• SPSS
• AMOS
• Qualtrics.com Survey Building and Data transfer
• USC Experimetrix.com management