Laboratory Director
DARCIA NARVAEZ: Webpage
Former Graduate Students
JENNY VAYDICH
Jenny joined the Moral Psychology lab in the spring of 2005 as a graduate student in the Clinical Psychology Program. She earned her BA in psychology at St. Olaf College in Minnesota, and an MA in Counseling Psychology at the University of Notre Dame. She has presented work related to child development and morality at the Society for Research on Adolescence, the Jean Piaget Society, the Association for Moral Education, and the American Educational Research Association. Drawing upon a developmental psychopathology framework, Jenny is interested in the consequences of adaptive and maladaptive emotion regulation for intra- and interpersonal functioning. Her research concentrates on the development of emotion regulation and emotion socialization, focusing on the parent-child relationship as a mechanism of emotion socialization. She is interested in exploring the ways in which both adaptive and maladaptive emotion regulation skills are developed and impacted by the parent-child relationship and early experiences.
She graduated in 2011 and is now a post-doc at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
PUBLICATIONS
Narvaez, D., & Vaydich, J. L (in press). Fear, love and moral functioning. In
P. Aerni, & K-J Grün (Eds.), Morality and Fear. Göttingen: Germany: Vandehoeck & Ruprecht.
Narvaez, D., Holter, A., Vaydich, J. L. (2010). Moral development. In A.S. Davis
(Ed.), Handbook of Pediatric Neuropsychology (pp. 79-87). New York:
Springer Publishing Co.
Narvaez, D., Khmelkov, V., Vaydich, J., & Turner, J. (2009). Measuring teacher moral self efficacy. Journal of Research in Character Education, 6, 3-
16.
Narvaez, D., & Vaydich, J. L. (2008). Moral development and behavior under the spotlight of the neurobiological sciences. Journal of Moral Education, 37, 289-312.
Narvaez, D., Turner, J., Khmelkov, V., Vaydich, J. L., Mullin, G. (under review). Middle school academic and social climate influences on moral character.
Vaydich, J. L., Khmelkov, V., & Narvaez, D. (in preparation). The relation of moral behavior to academic goal structures.
Vaydich, J. L., & Narvaez, D. (in preparation). Anger regulation mediates the relation between perceptions of parents and externalizing behaviors.
Vaydich, J. L., & Narvaez, D. (in preparation). An interdisciplinary approach to understanding the development of emotion regulation.
Vaydich, J. L., Khmelkov, V., & Narvaez, D. (2007). Ethical Development School
Survey: Report to Mercy Vocational High School. Notre Dame: Center for
Ethical Education.
Narvaez, D., & Vaydich, J. L. (2006). Discovery School Fall: Fall Progress
Review. Prepared for the Discovery School. Notre Dame: Center for
Ethical Education.
Narvaez, D., & Vaydich, J. L. (2005). Discovery School: Spring Progress
Review. Prepared for the Discovery School. Notre Dame: Center for Ethical Education.
REVIEWS
Vaydich, J. L., & Narvaez, D. (2009). Child honoring: How to turn this world around. Journal of Moral Education, 38, 377-380.
PRESENTATIONS
Can Thinking Make it So? The Influence of Emotion Regulation on Aggressive Behavior after Provocation
Vaydich, J. L., & Narvaez, D. (2010, November). Cognitive, affective, and personality predictors of various types of aggression. Poster presented at the Annual Convention for the Association Moral Education, St. Louis, Missouri.
Vaydich, J. L., Narvaez, D., Borrego, A., & Nye, E. (2009, July). Empathy influences the relationship between provocation and aggression. Poster presented at the Annual Convention for the Association for Moral Education, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
A Case for the Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation: The Relation Between Perceptions of Parents and Externalizing Behaviors
Vaydich, J. L., & Narvaez, D. (2008, May). Associations between the parent-child relationship and depressive symptoms in late adolescence. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the European Association for Research on Adolescence, Turin, Italy.
Vaydich, J. L., & Narvaez, D. (2008, March). Anger regulation mediates the relation between parenting and aggression in late adolescence. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Chicago, Illinois.
Vaydich, J. L., & Narvaez, D. (2007, November). Perceptions of the parent child relationship and antisocial behavior in adulthood. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Moral Education, New York, New York.
Affective Neuroscience
Vaydich, J. L., & Narvaez, D. (2008, November). A neurobiological perspective on early childhood experiences and moral functioning. Presented in a symposium on James Rest’s Four Component Model at Twenty-Five Years: Recent Developments in Research and Practice. Annual Convention for the Association for Moral Education, South Bend, Indiana.
Narvaez, D., & Vaydich, J. L. (2008, November). The neurosciences illuminate moral development and behavior. Presented in a symposium: Toward an
Integrated Model of Moral Functioning. Annual Convention for the Association for Moral Education, South Bend, Indiana.
Center for Ethical Education
Vaydich, J., & Khmelkov, V. (2007, June). Examining the relationship between learning motivation, ethical attitudes and self-reported behavior in middle school. Poster presented at the 37th Annual Convention of the Jean Piaget Society, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Vaydich, J., Khmelkov, V., & Narvaez, D. (2007, April). Comparing middle school learning motivations with ethical attitudes and behaviors. Paper discussion presented at the 88th Annual Convention of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, Illinois.
Vaydich, J. L., Khmelkov, V., Narvaez, D. (2006, July). Does academic motivation influence prosocial behavior in early adolescence? Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Association for Moral Education, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Khmelkov, V., Narvaez, D., Turner, J. C., Vaydich, J. L., & Christensen, A. (2007, November). Middle school academic and social climate influences on moral character. Presented in a symposium on Middle School Moral Development: Climate, Discourse and Teacher Efficacy. Annual Convention for the Association for Moral Education, New York. New York.
Narvaez, D., Khmelkov, V., & Vaydich, J. L. (2007, November). A new scale for measuring teacher moral efficacy. Presented in a symposium on Middle School Moral Development: Climate, Discourse and Teacher Efficacy. Annual Convention for the Association for Moral Education, New York, New York.
Academic Integrity Project
Narvaez, D., Lynchard, N. A., Vaydich, J. L., & Mattan, B. D. (2008, March). Cheating: Explicit recognition, implicit evaluation, moral judgment
development, and honor code training. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Chicago, Illinois.
TONIA BOCK, Associate Professor at the University of St. Thomas
JEFFREY BROOKS now works at Press Ganey