Vanessa L. Castro Curriculum Vitae

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1 Vanessa L. Castro Curriculum Vitae Department of Psychology Northeastern University Boston, MA EDUCATION 2015 Ph.D., Lifespan Developmental Psychology North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC Dissertation: Children s Emotion Understanding is Multidimensional and Contextual Advisor: Amy Halberstadt, Ph.D M.A., Research Psychology University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA Thesis: The Percepts Underlying the Perception of Emotion: The Role of Experience and Sensitivity to Spatiotemporal Forms Advisor: R. Thomas Boone, Ph.D B.S., Psychology, summa cum laude Northeastern University, Boston, MA Honors Thesis: Perceiving Emotions in Dance: An Analysis of the Differences in Nonverbal Accuracy between Dancers and Non-Dancers Advisor: Judith Hall, Ph.D. PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS 2015-present Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, Northeastern University RESEARCH INTERESTS Everyday emotion understanding abilities (i.e., emotion recognition/perception and emotion knowledge) across the lifespan Socioemotional and psychological correlates of healthy emotional development GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS: NIA F32-AG (PI): Everyday socioemotional perception in the context of aging. ($163,650) NICHD T32-HD07376 (Fellow; Andrea Hussong, PI): Carolina consortium on human development. ($32,988). HONORS AND AWARDS North Carolina State University 2015 John Oliver Cook Dissertation Award University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for Developmental Science Predoctoral Fellow

2 Castro 2 North Carolina State University University Graduate Student Recruitment Fellowship University of Massachusetts 2011 Office of Faculty Development Graduate Student Research Award 2010 Best Individual or Group- Empirical Research, Psi Chi Northeastern University 2009 Dr. Leve Award, Outstanding Senior Leadership 2008 Outstanding Student Research Award 2008 Provost Undergraduate Research Grant Dean s Scholar PUBLICATIONS Castro, V. L., & Isaacowitz, D. M. (in press). Aging and the social ecology of everyday interpersonal perception: What is perceived, in whom, and where. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences. Advance online publication. doi: /geronb/gbx159 Livingstone, K. M., Castro, V. L., & Isaacowitz, D. M. (in press). Age differences in beliefs about emotion regulation strategies. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences. Advance online publication. doi: /geronb/gby022 Castro, V. L., Cooke, A., Halberstadt, A. G., & Garrett-Peters, P. (2018). Bidirectional linkages between emotion recognition and problem behaviors in elementary school children. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 42, doi: /s Halberstadt, A. G., Castro, V. L., & Parker, A. E. (2018). Nonverbal communication (pp ). In M. Bornstein (Ed.) Encyclopedia of lifespan human development. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage. doi: / n565 Castro, V. L., Camras, L. A., Halberstadt, A. G., & Shuster, M. M. (2018). Children s prototypic facial expressions during conversations with their mothers. Emotion, 18(2), doi: /emo Castro, V. L., Halberstadt, A. G., & Garrett-Peters, P. (2017). Changing tides: Mothers supportive emotion socialization relates negatively to children s social adjustment in school. Social Development. Advance online publication. doi: /sode Garrett-Peters, P., Castro, V. L., & Halberstadt, A. G. (2017). Parents beliefs about children s emotions, children s emotion knowledge, and classroom adjustment in middle childhood. Social Development, 26, doi: /sode *Isaacowitz, D.M., Livingstone, K., & Castro, V. L. (2017). Aging and emotions: Experience, regulation, and perception. Current Opinion in Psychology, 17, [*all authors made equal contributions to the manuscript] doi: /j.copsyc

3 Castro 3 Camras, L. A., Castro, V. L., Halberstadt, A. G., & Shuster, M. M. (2017). Spontaneously produced facial expressions in infants and children (pp ). In J. A. Russell & J. M. Fernandez-Dols (Eds.) The psychology of facial expressions (2nd ed). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Castro, V. L., Halberstadt, A. G., & Garrett-Peters, P. (2016). A three-factor structure of emotion understanding in third-grade children. Social Development, 25, doi: /sode Castro, V. L., Cheng, Y., Halberstadt, A. G., & Grühn, D. (2016). EUReKA! A conceptual model of emotion understanding. Emotion Review, 8, doi: / Rogers, M., Halberstadt, A. G., Castro, V. L., MacCormack, J. K., & Garrett-Peters, P. (2016). Mothers emotion regulation skills and beliefs about children s emotions predict children s emotion regulation skills. Emotion, 16, doi: /emo Castro, V. L., & Boone, R. T. (2015). Sensitivity to spatiotemporal percepts predicts the perception of emotion. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 39, doi: /s Castro, V. L., Halberstadt, A. G., Lozada, F. T., & Craig, A. B. (2015). Parents emotion-related beliefs, behaviours, and skills predict children s recognition of emotion. Infant and Child Development, 24, doi: /icd.1868 Halberstadt, A. G., Parker, A. E., & Castro, V. L. (2013). Nonverbal communication: Developmental perspectives (pp ). In J. A. Hall & M. L. Knapp (Eds.) Handbook of communication science (Vol. 2). Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW/IN REVISION Castro, V. L., & Isaacowitz, D. M. (Under review). The same with age: Evidence for age-related similarities in interpersonal accuracy. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Castro, V. L., Hofmann, J., & Isaacowitz, D. M. (In revision). Age-related differences and similarities in prototypic emotional facial expression across the adult lifespan. Cognition and Emotion. Vicaria, I. M., Castro, V. L., & Isaacowitz, D. M. (In revision). Are there age differences in expressivity? Meta analyses by valence and method. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences. Halberstadt, A. G., Castro, V. L., Lozada. F. T., Chu, Q., & Sims, C. (In revision). Preservice teachers racialized anger bias and judgments of children s misbehaviors. Contemporary Educational Psychology.

4 Castro 4 MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION Lozada, F. T., Castro, V. L., Riley, T. N. (2018). Understanding ethnic-racial experiences & emotional competence development. Hall. J. A., Castro, V. L., Schlegel, K, & Back, M. (2018). Lay personality theory: What regular people think the Big Five Traits consist of. INVITED TALKS Castro, V. L. (2015, December). Everyday emotion communication in the context of lifespan development. Center for Emotional Intelligence, Yale University. New Haven, CT. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Castro, V. L., Vicaria, I. M., & Isaacowitz, D. M. (2017, July). Age differences and similarities in perceptions of personality and rapport in dyads. Symposium paper presented at the 21st IAGG World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics, San Francisco, CA. Vicaria, I. M., Castro, V. L., & Isaacowitz, D. M. (2017, April). Are there age differences in emotional expressivity? Meta analyses by method and valence. Flash talk presented at the Society for Affective Science Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. Castro, V. L., Camras, L. A., Halberstadt, A. G., & Shuster, M. M. (2017, April). Children s prototypic facial expressions during emotion-eliciting conversations with their mothers. Flask talk presented at the Society for Affective Science Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. Castro, V. L., Camras, L. A., Halberstadt, A. G., & Shuster, M. M. (2017, April). Children s facial expressions are rarely prototypical. Poster to be presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Austin, TX. Castro, V. L. (2016, November). Real-world social and emotional perception: Age-related differences and similarities (role: Chair). Symposium presented at the Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. Castro, V. L., & Isaacowitz, D. M. (2016, November). Reports of everyday social and emotional perceptions in an adult lifespan sample. Symposium paper presented at the Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. Castro, V. L., Livingstone, K., & Isaacowitz, D. M. (2016, March). Age-related differences in profiles of self-reported emotion regulation preferences. Poster presented at the Society for Affective Science Conference, Chicago, IL. Cooke, A., Castro, V. L., & Halberstadt, A. G. (2016, March). Emotion recognition and problem behaviors in childhood: Which comes first? Poster presented at the Society for Affective Science Conference, Chicago, IL.

5 Castro 5 Halberstadt, A. G., Castro, V. L., Chu, Q., & Sims, C. (2016, March). Preservice teachers anger bias for black faces and racialized judgments of children s misbehaviors. Poster presented at the Society for Affective Science Conference, Chicago, IL. Castro, V. L. (2015, March). Is parents supportiveness always a good thing? The dynamic value of parents emotion socialization across childhood (role: Chair). Symposium presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. Castro, V. L., Halberstadt, A. G., & Garrett-Peters, P. (2015, March). Changing tides: Mothers supportive emotion socialization relates negatively to children s social success in school. Symposium poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. Castro, V. L., Halberstadt, A. G., & Garrett-Peters, P. (2015, March). A three-factor structure of emotion understanding in middle childhood: Validity with mother-reported socioemotional competence. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. Garrett-Peters, P., Castro, V. L., & Halberstadt, A. G. (2015, March). Parents emotion-related beliefs and children s emotion knowledge and social competence in school. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. Rogers, M. L., MacCormack, J. K., Castro, V. L., & Halberstadt, A. G. (2014, February). Mothers maladaptive emotion regulation strategies: A mediator between maternal emotion beliefs & children s socioemotional outcomes. Poster presented at the Emotion Preconference to the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Meeting, Austin, TX. Castro, V. L., Cheng, Y., Halberstadt, A. G., & Grühn, D. (2013, August). A conceptual model of emotion understanding: Measurement and developmental implications. Paper presented at the International Society for Research on Emotion Biannual Meeting, Berkeley, CA. Castro, V. L., Halberstadt, A. G., Lozada, F. T., & Craig, A. B. (2013, April). Parents emotionrelated beliefs, behaviors, and skills relate to children s understanding of emotion in the family. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Seattle, WA. Cunningham, J. G., Castro, V. L., & Boone, R. T. (2012, May). Rhythm predicts perception of nonverbal emotion. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, Chicago, IL. Castro, V. L., & Boone, R. T. (2012, January). The precepts underlying the perception of emotion: The role of sensitivity to spatiotemporal forms. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Meeting, San Diego, CA.

6 Castro 6 Castro, V. L., & Boone, R. T. (2011, March). Children's rhythmic ability and its relationship to age and emotion receiving skills for expressive body movement. Symposium paper presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Montreal, Canada. Castro, V. L., Borland, A. M., Lester, J., Powell, K., Reily, B., Monteiro, K., Silva, N., Duro, J., & Locke, R. (2010, May). Receptive language as a predictor of externalizing behavior problems in 4 year-old children. Poster presented at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Annual Psi Chi Research Conference, Dartmouth, MA. Castro, V. L., & Hall, J. A. (2009, March). Perceiving emotions in dance: An analysis of the differences in nonverbal accuracy between dancers and non-dancers. Poster presented at the Northeastern University Research and Scholarship Expo, Boston, MA. MENTORED UNDERGRADUATE PRESENTATIONS Adams, A. M., Castro, V. L., & Halberstadt, A. G. (2014, November). Everything will be okay, Billy! : Emotions in American children s books. Poster presented at the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students, San Antonio, TX. Leon, E. D., Johnson, K. M., Castro, V. L., & Halberstadt, A. G. (2014, July). "Let's agree to disagree." Comparing mothers' emotion responses to conflict discussion strategies. Poster presented at the North Carolina State University Summer Research Symposium, Raleigh, NC. Rogers, M. L., MacCormack, J. K., Halberstadt, A. G., & Castro, V. L. (2014, April). Mothers maladaptive emotion regulation serves as a mediator between maternal emotion beliefs and children s socioemotional outcomes. Poster presented at the Society for Affective Science Inaugural Conference, Washington DC. Halberstadt, A. G., MacCormack, J. K., Castro, V. L., & Shull, R. S. (2013, April). Mothers emotion complexity supports children s socio-emotional competence. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Seattle, WA. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Northeastern University Instructor, Developmental Psychology, Psychology Department (Fall 2017) University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Instructor, Statistical Methods in Psychology, Psychology Department (Fall 2016) North Carolina State University Instructor, Child Psychology, Psychology Department (Spring 2014) Instructor, Developmental Psychology, Psychology Department (Spring & Summer 2012; Fall 2013) Teaching Assistant, Independent Study in Research, Psychology Department (Fall 2012, Spring 2013) Teaching Assistant, Psychology of Emotion, Psychology Department (Fall 2011)

7 Castro 7 RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Northeastern University 2015-present Postdoctoral Fellow, Lifespan Emotional Development Lab Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Interaction Lab (August 2015-present) North Carolina State University Graduate Research Assistant, Family, Affect, Beliefs, & Behaviors Lab Lab Manager, Family, Affect, Beliefs, & Behaviors Lab University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Graduate Research Assistant, Child Emotion Center PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS 2016-present Association for Psychological Science Gerontological Society of America Society for Affective Science 2013-present International Society for Research on Emotion American Psychological Association Society for Personality and Social Psychology Society for Research in Child Development REVIEWING Ad Hoc Reviewer: Cognition and Emotion Developmental Psychology Emotion Imagination, Cognition and Personality Infant and Child Developmental Psychology Journal of Applied Development Journal of Child and Family Studies Journal of Experimental and Social Psychology Journal of Family Psychology Journal of Individual Differences Journal of Nonverbal Behavior Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Learning and Individual Differences Parenting: Science and Practice Psychological Reports Psychology and Aging Psychology of Women Quarterly Social Development Co-Editor: Social Development Quartet Submission: Is parents supportiveness always a good thing? The dynamic value of parents supportive emotion socialization across childhood. Shepherding four manuscripts with a coherent theme through the review process.

8 Castro 8 OTHER QUALIFICATIONS Languages: English and Portuguese (bilingual) Statistical Software: AMOS, JASP, MPlus, SAS, SPSS, R Statistical Methods: Bayesian Statistics, Latent Class/Profile Analysis, Latent Variable Modeling, Path Analysis, Multi-level Modeling Multivariate Analyses, Regressions (Linear and Logistic), Structural Equation Modeling Behavioral methods: Facial Action Coding System (FACS) REFERENCES Dr. Derek M. Isaacowitz d.isaacowitz@neu.edu Dr. Amy G. Halberstadt Amy_halberstadt@ncsu.edu Dr. Judith Hall j.hall@northeastern.edu Dr. Patricia Garrett-Peters patricia.garrettpeters@duke.edu Dr. Shevaun Neupert sdneuper@ncsu.edu