Recent Publications

Copping, K. E., Kurtz-Costes, B., Rowley, S. J., & Wood, D. A. (In press). Age and race differences in racial stereotype endorsement and awareness, Journal of Applied Social Psychology.

Patel, N., Kurtz-Costes, B., & Wood, D. (in press). Academic gender stereotypes and academic self-concept of Indian adolescents. Journal of All India Association for Educational Research.

Swinton, A. D., Kurtz-Costes, B., Rowley, S. J., & Adeyanju, N. O. (In press). A longitudinal examination of African American adolescents' attributions about achievement outcomes. Child Development.

Evans, A. B., Copping, K. E., Rowley, S. J., & Kurtz-Costes, B. (2011). Self-concept in Black adolescents: Do race and gender stereotypes matter? Self and Identity, 10, 263-277.

Kurtz-Costes, B., DeFreitas, S. C., Halle, T., & Kinlaw, C. R. (2011). Young girls’ attention to race and gender as social categories. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 29, 270-287.

Wood, D. A., Kurtz-Costes, B., & Copping, K. E. (2011). Motivational pathways to college for African American youth: A test of expectancy-value theory. Developmental Psychology, 47, 961-968.

Fraser, J. G., Harris-Britt, A., Leone, E., Kurtz-Costes, B., & Martin, S. (2010). Emotional availability and psychosocial correlates among mothers in substance abuse treatment and their young infants. Infant Mental Health Journal, 31, 1-15.

Rowley, S. J., Kurtz-Costes, B., & Cooper, S. (2010). Schooling and the development of African American children. In J. Meece & J. Eccles (Eds.), Handbook of research on schools, schooling, and human development (pp. 275-292). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Wood, D. A., Kurtz-Costes, B., Rowley, S. J., & Okeke-Adeyanju, N. A. (2010). Mothers' academic gender stereotypes and education-related beliefs about sons and daughters in African-American families. Journal of Educational Psychology, 102, 521-530.

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.