Judith Smetana

Director of Developmental Psychology Program

 

Department Faculty Page:

http://psych.rochester.edu/faculty/smetana

 

Social Development and Family Processes Research Group Page:

http://psych.rochester.edu/research/socialdev

 

Recent (since 2003) Publications

 

• Wainry, C., Smetana, J. G., and Turiel, E. (Eds.), (2007).  Social Development, social inequalities, & social justice.  New York:  Taylor Francis.
• Killen, M., & Smetana, J. G. (Eds.). (2006). Handbook of Moral Development. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
• Smetana, J. G., Campione-Barr, N. & Metzger, A. (2006). Adolescent development in interpersonal and societal contexts. In Annual Review of Psychology, Vol. 57 (pp. 255-284). Palo Alto, CA: Annual Review Press.
• Smetana, J. G., & Gettman, D. (2006).  Autonomy-relatedness with parents and romantic development in African-American adolescents.  Developmental Psychology, 42, 1347-1351.
• Smetana, J. G. (2006). On heterogeneity, coexistence, and development within cultures. Human Development, 49, 139-134.
• Smetana, J. G., Metzger, A., Gettman, D. C., & Campione-Barr, N. (2006). Disclosure and secrecy in adolescent-parent relationships. Child Development, 77, 201-217.
• Smetana, J. G. (2006). Social domain theory: Consistencies and variations in children's moral and social judgments. In M. Killen & J. G. Smetana (Eds.), Handbook of Moral Development (pp.119-154). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
• Smetana, J. G. (Ed., 2005), Changing Conceptions of Parental Authority: New Directions for Child Development, San Francisco; Jossey-Bass.
• Smetana, J. G. (2005). Adolescent-parent conflict: Resistance and subversion as developmental process.  In L. Nucci (Ed.), Resistance, subversion, and subordination in moral development (pp. 69-91). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
• Daddis, C., & Smetana, J. G. (2005). Middle class African American families' expectations for adolescents' behavioral autonomy. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 29, 371-381.
• Campione-Barr, N., & Smetana, J. G. (2004). In the eye of the beholder: Subjective and observer ratings of middle class African American mother-adolescent interactions. Developmental Psychology, 40, 927-934.
• Smetana, J. G., Campione-Barr, N., & Daddis, C. (2004). Developmental and longitudinal antecedents of family decision-making: Defining health behavioral autonomy for African American adolescents. Child Development, 75, 1-17.
• Smetana, J. G., Metzger, A., & Campione-Barr, N. (2004). African American adolescents' relationships with parents: Developmental transitions and longitudinal patterns. Child Development, 75, 932-947.
• Smetana, J. G., Daddis, C., & Chuang, S. S. (2003). "Clean your room!": A longitudinal investigation of adolescent-parent conflict in middle class African American families. Journal of Adolescent Research, 18 , 631-650.
• Smetana, J. G. & Turiel, E. (2003). Morality during adolescence. In G. R. Adams & M. Berzonsky (Eds.), The Blackwell Handbook of Adolescence (pp. 247-268). Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
• Yau, J., & Smetana, J. G. (2003). Adolescent-parent conflict in Hong Kong and Shenzhen: A comparison of youth in two cultural contexts. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 27, 201-211.
• Yau, J., & Smetana, J. G. (2003). Conceptions of moral, social-conventional, and personal events among Chinese preschoolers in Hong Kong. Child Development, 74, 647-658.
• Smetana, J. G., & Campione, N. (2003). Parenting styles. In J. J. Ponzetti, Jr. (Ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family Relationships, Vol. 3, 2nd Edition (pp. 1207-1213). New York: Macmillan Reference USA.
• Smetana, J., Campione-Barr, N., & Yell, N. (2003). Children's moral and affective judgments regarding provocation and retaliation. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 49, 209-236.

 

Recent Invited Scholarly and Community Talks

 

• Adolescent disclosure and secrecy: The who, what, where, and why. Paper presented at a symposium at the Biennial Meetings of the European Association for Research on Adolescence, Antalya, Turkey, May, 2006.
• Morality, conventional regulation, and personal jurisdiction in adolescent-parent relationships: Developmental change and cultural variations. Paper presented at an invited symposium titled, "Culture and morality: What is the same and what is different?" presented at the 28th International Congress of Psychology, Beijing, PRC, August, 2004.
• Parenting, adolescent-parent relationships in different domains, and adolescent adjustment. Paper presented at a symposium entitled "The Development of Parenting Behaviors and of Parent-Child Relationships in Adolescence: The Origins of Autonomy" presented at the Biennial Meetings of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Baltimore, MD, March, 2004.
• Conflict and cohesion in African American adolescents" relationships with parents: A five-year longitudinal study. Paper presented at a symposium on "Parent-Adolescent Conflict, Family Relationships and Adolescent Adjustment" at Biennial Meetings of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Baltimore, MD. March, 2004.

 

Recent or Current Grants

 

• Disclosure, Secrecy, and Nondisclosure in Adolescent-Parent Relationships.  Grant funded by the National Science Foundation.
  Judith Smetana, Principal Investigator
  September 1, 2005 - August 31, 2008
• Selfishness and Selflessness in Adolescent-Parent Relationships. Grant funded by the Fetzer Institute and Institute for Research on Unlimited Love.
  Judith Smetana, Principal Investigator
  September 1, 2004 – January 31, 2006
• Unlimited Love in Everyday Life: Antecedents and Correlates of Civic Engagement in African American youth. Grant funded by the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love.
  Judith Smetana, Principal Investigator
  January 1, 2003 – June 30, 2004

 

Current Collaborations Outside the Psychology Department

 

• Dr. Jenny Yau, Azusa Pacific University. We are currently conducting a study of disclosure and secrecy in adolescent-parent relationships among Latino, Asian-American, and Euro-American adolescents in Los Angeles.

 

Recent Graduate Courses Taught in Developmental Psychology

 

• Psychology (CSP) 569 - Developmental Theory and Research
  
  This course focuses on the theoretical underpinnings of developmental psychology and its implications for current directions in research. The interplay between developmental philosophy, theory, research, and application are addressed, particularly as they apply to current theoretical and research directions in developmental psychology.
• Psychology (CSP) 583 - Moral Development
  
  The purpose of this seminar is to examine major theoretical and empirical approaches to moral development. We will examine and contrast major theories of moral and prosocial development, including psychoanalytic theories (primarily Freud), cognitive-developmental theories (Piaget, Kohlberg, Turiel, and Eisenberg), and socialization theories. We will consider research methods and empirical findings within each approach and discuss the applicability of theories cross-culturally. The primary focus of the course is on psychological approaches to moral development, but we will also consider philosophical and applied (e.g., educational) issues.

 

Recent Awards and Honors

 

• Secretary, Society for Research in Child Development, 2003-2009
• Associate Editor, Child Development, 1998-2004.
• Current Editorial Boards, Child Development, Parenting: Science & Practice, Social Development.