Recent Publications

Rowley, S. J., Kurtz-Costes, B., & Cooper, S. (In press). Schooling and the development of African American children. To appear in J. Meece & J. Eccles (Eds.), Handbook of research on schools, schooling, and human development. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.  

Fraser, J. G., Harris-Britt, A., Leone, E., Kurtz-Costes, B., & Martin, S. (in press). Emotional availability and psychosocial correlates among mothers in substance abuse treatment and their young infants. Infant Mental Health Journal.

Okeke, N. A., Howard, L. C., Kurtz-Costes, B., & Rowley, S. J. (2009). Academic race stereotypes, academic self-concept, and racial identity in African American youth. Journal of Black Psychology, 35, 366-387.

Kurtz-Costes, B., Rowley, S. J., Harris-Britt, A., & Woods, T. A. (2008). Gender stereotypes about mathematics and science and self-perceptions of ability in late childhood and early adolescence. Merrill Palmer Quarterly, 54, 386-409.

Harris-Britt, A., Valrie, C., Kurtz-Costes, B., & Rowley, S. J. (2007). Perceived racial discrimination and self-esteem in African American youth: Racial socialization as a protective factor, Journal of Research on Adolescence, 17, 669-682.

Kinlaw, C. R., & Kurtz-Costes, B. (2007). Children’s theories of intelligence: Beliefs, goals, and motivation across childhood. Journal of General Psychology, 134, 295-311.

Rowley, S. J., Kurtz-Costes, B., Mistry, R., & Feagans, L. (2007). Social status as a predictor of race and gender stereotypes in late childhood and early adolescence. Social Development, 16, 150-168.

Woods, T. A., & Kurtz-Costes, B. (2007). Race identity and race socialization in African American families: Implications for social workers. Journal of Human Behavior and the Social Environment, 15, 99-116.

Kurtz-Costes, B., Helmke, L. A., & Ülkü-Steiner, B. (2006). Gender and doctoral studies: The perceptions of Ph.D. students in an American university. Gender and Education, 18, 137-155.

Kurtz-Costes, B., McCall, R. J., Kinlaw, C. R., Wiesen, C. A., & Joyner, M. H. (2005). What does it mean to be smart? The development of children’s beliefs about intelligence in Germany and the United States. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 26, 217-233.

Woods, T. A., Kurtz-Costes, B., & Rowley, S. J. (2005). The development of stereotypes about the rich and poor: Age, race, and family income differences in beliefs. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 34, 437-445.