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 will soon begin my work on an Ethnocultural Empathy experiment.

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

Some readings include:

Strategies for Creating Optimal Online Gratitude Interventions (collaboration with Ravi Iyer)

The Home Environment and Latino Preschoolers' Emergent Literacy Skills <search on the PsycArticles or USC site>

Verb Acquisition in Young Children <http://www.psychwiki.com/wiki/Verb_Acquisition_in_Young_Children>

Curriculum Vitae - ccarter@usc.edu – 213-740-7555

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) Teaching • Teaching assistant for Developmental Psychology, four semesters • Teaching assistant for The Science of Happiness, one semester • 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) • Taught English to young adolescents, ELC (2007) • Taught SAT Math to young adolescents, Cal Tech Prep (2008) Organizations • Student Member of the APA since 2002 • Student Member of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) 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 Computer Skills • SPSS and Excel • Structural Equation Modeling (AMOS)