Jonathan Santo

Jonathan Santo, PhD
- Associate Professor
- 402.957.2029
Additional Information
Teaching
Adolescent Development, Statistics, Cross-Cultural Psychology
Research
Adolescent identity development, Moderators of the depressive effects of peer victimization, Cross-cultural differences in peer relations
Education
Ph.D., Psychology (Research concentration), Concordia University (2009), Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Dissertation: Adolescent Self-Concept, Peer Relations and Context: An Ecological Systems Theory Approach.
Full Resume and Selected Works
https://works.bepress.com/Peer Reviewed Publications
*Roza T. R., *Roza, S. A., *Yano, V., Cunha, J. & Santo, J.B., (Accepted pending minor revisions). Bullying and Friendship as Influences on Sleep Quality among Brazilian Adolescents. Journal of Genetic Psychology.
*Bass, E.C., Saldarriaga, L., Velasquez, A., Santo, J. B., & Bukowski, W. (in press). The effect of the proximity of social norms on the misfit effect. International Journal of Behavioral Development.
*DeVries, K., Harrison, W. & Santo, J. B. (in press). I Already Belong: Immigrant-origin College Students’ Persistence. Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice.
Martin-Storey, Santo, J. B., Recchia, H., Chilliak, C. S., Caetano Nardi, D. H. & Da Cunha, J. M. (in press). Gender minority status and academic engagement among Brazilian adolescents: Risk and protective factors. Journal of School Psychology.
Tocaimaza-Hatch, C. C. & Santo, J. B. (in press). Social interaction in the Spanish classroom: How proficiency and linguistic background impact vocabulary learning. Language Teaching Research.
*DeVries, K., Harrison, W. & Santo, J. B. (2021). I Already Belong: Immigrant-origin College Students’ Persistence. Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice, 20(16), 24-35.
Anderson, A. & Santo, J. B. (2020). Trust, Ethnicity, and Political Approval in 21st Century South Africa. ID: International Dialogue: A Multidisciplinary Journal of World Affairs, 10, 6-31.
Cortese, M. J., *Toppi, S., Khanna, M. & Santo, J. B. (2020). AoA Effects in Reading Aloud and Lexical Decision: Locating the (Semantic) Locus in Terms of the Number of Backward Semantic Associations. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 73(11) 2036–2044.
Martin-Storey, A., Recchia, H. & Santo J.B. (2020). Self-Continuity Moderates the Association Between Sexual-Minority Status Based Discrimination and Depressive Symptoms. Journal of Homosexuality, 1-20.
*Amaral, H. T., Cunha, J. & Santo, J.B., (2019). Authoritative School Climate and Peer Victimization Among Brazilian Students. Psico, 50(1), 29-37.
Thomas, K., Cunha, J. & Santo, J.B.,(2019). The predictive value of school climate and teacher techniques on students’ just world beliefs: A comprehensive Brazilian sample. Social Psychology of Education, 22(5), 1239-1257.
Bowker, J., Adams, R. & Santo, J.B., (2019). A Dynamic Examination of the Associations between Shyness, Psychological Difficulties, and Stressful Life Events during Early Adolescence. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 1.-13.
Bowker, J.C, Bowker, M.H., Santo J.B., Ojo, A.A., *Etkin, R.G. & *Raja, R. (2019). Severe Social Withdrawal: Cultural Variation in Past Hikikomori Experiences of University Students in Nigeria, Singapore, and the US. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 180:4-5, 217-230.
*Gill, S., Blair, M., Santo, J. B. & Morrow, S. A. (2019). Depressive symptoms are associated with more negative functional outcomes than anxiety symptoms in persons with multiple sclerosis (MS). The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences.
Jawed-Wessel, S., Santo, J.B. & Irwin, J. (2019). Sexual activity and attitudes as predictors of sexual satisfaction during pregnancy. A multi-level model describing the sexuality of couples in the first 12 weeks. Archives of sexual behavior, 48(3), 843-854.
*Mertens, A. T., Santo, J. B., Markopoulou, K., & Chase, B. A. (2019). Cognitive Processes That Indirectly Affect Olfactory Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease. Clinical Parkinsonism & Related Disorders.
Nasir, A, Zimmer, A., Taylor, D. & Santo, J.B., (2019). Family Psychosocial Assessment in the Clinical Setting. BMC Psychology, 7(1), 3-11.
Thomas, K., Cunha, J. & Santo, J.B., (2019). Fairness, Trust, and School Climate as Foundational To Growth Mindset: A Study Among Brazilian Children and Adolescents. Educational Psychology, 39(4), 510-529.
Thomas, K., Cunha, J. & Santo, J.B., (2019). The predictive value of school climate and teacher techniques on students’ just world beliefs: A comprehensive Brazilian sample. Social Psychology of Education, 22(5), 1239-1257.
*Yuen, C.N., *Koziol, T. & Santo J.B. (2019). Examination of age, ethnicity and sex differences on attraction among late-adolescents. Social Moments, 1, 15-30.
*Baker, M. R., Goodman, A. C., Santo, J.B., & Wong, R. Y. (2018). Repeatability and reliability of exploratory behavior in proactive and reactive zebrafish, Danio rerio. Scientific reports, 8(1), 12114.
*Marian, M., da Cunha, J.M. & Santo, J.B., (2018). I like you, do you like me? How aggression, gender, social norms predict adolescent peer liking from a dyadic, individual and group perspective. Revista Psicologia Argumento, 36(93), 383-407.
Santo, J.B., *Bass, E.C., Lopez, L.S & Bukowski W.M. (2017). Contextual influences on the relations between physical and relational aggression and peer victimization. School Psychology International, 38(1) 42–59. DOI: 10.1177/0143034316678655
*Hanna, J., Santo, J. B., Blair, M., Smolewska, K., Warriner, E., & Morrow, S. A. (2017). Comparing depression screening tools in persons with multiple sclerosis (MS). Rehabilitation Psychology, 62(1), 20-24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rep0000115
*Huffman, M., Santo J.B. & French, J. (2017). Prenatal Androgen Exposure and Parental Care Interact to Influence Timing of Reproductive Maturation in Marmosets. American Journal of Primatology, 79: 1-12. DOI 0.1002/ajp.22588
Bukowski, W. M., *Panarello, B. & Santo J.B. (2017). Androgyny in Liking and in Being Liked Are Antecedent to Well-Being in Pre-adolescent Boys and Girls. Sex Roles, 76: 719–730. DOI 10.1007/s11199-016-0638-6
Ammons, S. K., Dahlin, E. C., Edgell, P. & Santo J.B. (2017). Work-family conflict among Blacks, Whites and Hispanics. Community, Work and Family, 20:4, 379-404.
DOI: 10.1080/13668803.2016.1146231
*Bass, E.C., Santo, J.B., Saldarriaga L.M., da Cunha, J.M. & & Bukowski W.M. (2016). Classroom Context and the Relations between Social Withdrawal and Peer Victimization. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1–11. DOI: 10.1177/0165025416677846
Bass, E.C., Santo, J.B., *Neufeld, C.M., da Cunha, J.M. (2016). Classroom Context and the Relations between Social Withdrawal and Peer Victimization. Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 15:2, 248-267. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1945-8959.15.2.248
*Wood, M., Bukowski, W. M. & Santo J.B. (2016). Friendship Security, But Not Friendship Intimacy, Moderates the Stability of Anxiety During Early Adolescence. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 46(6), 798-809. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2015.1094742
Chen, B.-B., & Santo J.B. (2016). The Relationships Between Anxious and Unsociable Withdrawal and Peer Difficulties: The Moderating Role of Insecure Attachment. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 40(4), 346–358. DOI: 10.1177/0165025415587726
Santo J.B., Saldarriaga L.M., Velásquez A.M., Meyer, F. & Bukowski W.M. (2016). Correlates of Early Adolescent Friend Choice Order in a Colombian Sample: Interactions Between Friend, Individual and Contextual Prosocial Behavior and Aggression. Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies, Vol. 8(2), 79-91.
Velásquez A.M., Drury, K.M., Saldarriaga L.M., Santo J.B., Lopez L.S. & Bukowski W.M. (2016). Peer Rejection as a Social Regulation Mechanism of Group Norms: The Case of Aggression Across Sex. Journal of Latino/Latin American Studies, Vol. 8(2), 47-58.
Chen, B.-B., & Santo, J. B. (2016). Mother–child attachment and social withdrawal in urban Chinese children. Social Behavior and Personality, 44, 233–246. doi: 10.2224/sbp.2016.44.2.233
Hawkins, D.N., Lindner, A.M, Larson, R. & Santo J.B. (2015). Overrating Bruins, Underrating Badgers Media, Bias, and College Basketball. Journal of Sports Management and Commercialization, (6)3, 11–26.
*Buttner, A., *Thompson, B., Strasser, R. & Santo J.B. (2015). Evidence for a synchronization of hormonal states between humans and dogs during competition. Physiology & Behavior, 147, 54–62.
Cortese, M. J., Hacker, S., *Schock, J., & Santo, J. B. (2015). Is reading-aloud performance in megastudies systematically influenced by the list context? The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 68:8, 1711-1722. DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2014.974624
Schneider, B.H., Manetti, M., Frattini, L., Rania, Santo J.B., Coplan, R.J. & *Cwinn, E. (2014). Successful Transition to Elementary School and the Implementation of Facilitative Practices Specified in the Reggio-Emilia Philosophy. School Psychology International, Vol. 35(5) 447–462. 35(5) 447–462. DOI: 10.1177/0143034313511003
Santo J.B., da Cunha, J., Saldarriaga L.M., Recchia H., Martin-Storey A., Bukowski W.M., Lopez L.S. & Carmago, G. (2013). Measurement Invariance of Self-Continuity Strategies: Comparisons of Early Adolescents from Brazil, Canada, and Colombia. European Journal of Developmental Psychology (special section on instruments and procedures for developmental research), Vol. 10(4), 518-525. DOI: 10.1080/17405629.2012.707313
Burr A., Santo J.B., & Pushkar D. (2013). Investigating the Portrait Values Questionnaire at Two Transitions in Adulthood: Retirement and University. Quality & Quantity 48(2), 1027-1044.
Ellenbogen M.A., Linnen A.M., Santo J.B., aan het Rot, M., Hodgins S. & Young, S. (2013). Salivary cortisol and interpersonal functioning: An event-contingent recording study in the offspring of parents with bipolar disorder. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 38(7), 997-1006.
Santo J.B., Bukowski W.M., Lopez L.S., Carmago, G., Mayman S.B. & Adams, R. E. (2013). Factors underlying contextual variations in the structure of the self: Differences related to SES, gender, culture and “majority/“non-majority” status during early adolescence. Journal of Research on Adolescence (special issue on adolescents in the majority world), 23(1), 69-80.
*Mustoe, A., *Birnie, A. K., *Korgan, A.C., Santo J.B., French, J. A. (2012). Natural variation in gestational cortisol is associated with patterns of growth in marmoset monkeys (Callithrix geoffroyi). General and Comparative Endocrinology, 175(3), 519-226.
Pullen, C. A., Yates, B. C., Santo J.B., *Dizona, P.J., Boeckner, L., Hageman, P.A., Walker, S., N. (2012). Effects of a Wellness for Women Intervention on Healthy Eating Behavior in Midlife Rural Women. Social Science and Medicine, 75, 659-667.
Reiter-Palmon, R., Robinson, E., Kaufman, L & Santo J.B. (2012). Is Self Evaluation of Creativity a Useful Criterion? Creativity Research Journal, 24, 107-114.
*Stone, T., Santo, J. B., & Wittich, W. (2012). Mediating and moderating effects on the association between vision loss and depression among older adults, Insight: Research and Practice in Visual Impairment and Blindness, 5(1), 30-37.
Adams, R.E., Santo J.B. & Bukowski W.M. (2011). The Presence of a Best Friend Buffers the Effects of Negative Experiences. Developmental Psychology, 47(6), 1786-1791.
*Alexander, M., Santo J.B., *Cunha, J., Weber, L. & Russell, S.T. (2011). Effects of Homophobic Victimization vs. Non-homophobic Victimization on School Commitment and the Moderating effect of Teacher Attitudes. Journal of LGBT Youth, 8: 289-308.
*Velásquez A.M., Santo J.B., *Saldarriaga L.M., Lopez L.S., & Bukowski W.M. (2010) Context-Dependent Peer Victimization: Are physical and relational aggression tolerated differently in mixed-sex versus all-girl schools? Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 56(3): 283-302.
Ellenbogen M.A., Santo J.B., *Linnen A.M., Walker C.D., & Hodgins S. (2010). High cortisol levels in the offspring of parents with bipolar disorder during two weeks of daily sampling. Bipolar Disorders, 12(1): 77-86.
Bukowski, W.M., Schwartzman, A., Santo, J.B., Bagwell, C. & Adams, R. (2009). Reactivity and distortions in the self: Narcissism, types of aggression, and the functioning of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis during early adolescence. Development and Psychopathology, 21(4): 1249-1262.
*Burr A., Santo J.B., & Pushkar D. (2009). Affective Well-Being in the Retirement Transition: Money, Health, and the Role of Values Over Three Years. Journal of Happiness Studies, 12(1): 17-40.
Bukowski W.M., *Adams R.E., & Santo J.B. (2006). Recent advances for Developmental Psychopathology in the study of social and personal experiences. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 30(1): 26-30.
Boivin D.B., *James F.O., Caliyurt O., Santo J.B., & Chalk C. (2003). Non-24-hour sleep-wake syndrome following a car accident. Neurology, 60(11), 1841-1843.
Book Chapters
Santo J.B. (in press). Charles Darwin. In Summers (ed). Developmental Psychology: How the Mind Grows and Changes over a Lifetime, 3 volumes. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood.
*Yuen C.N. & Santo J.B. (2018). Multilevel Modeling: Application for Lifespan Research. In Bornstein (ed). The Sage Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development. SAGE Publications.
*Bass E.C. & Santo J.B. (2018). Acceptance versus Rejection. In Bornstein (ed). The Sage Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development. SAGE Publications.
*Santo, J., & Bass, E. (2017). Self-reports and peer ratings. In B. Hopkins, E. Geangu, & S. Linkenauger (Eds.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Child Development (pp. 149-152). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781316216491.026
Santo J.B., Saldarriaga L.M. & Bukowski W.M. (2016). International and Comparative Peer Research: Challenges in comparing apples to oranges. In Köhler, Krüger & Pfaff (eds). Handbook of Peer-Research. Barbara Budrich Publishers: 121-136.
*Saldarriaga L.M., *Velásquez A.M., Santo J.B., Chaux E. & Bukowski W.M. (2009). School aggression in Colombia and El Salvador: Contextual variations in frequencies and effects. In Lisboa & Berger (eds). El Estudio de la Agresión en Latinoamérica (The study of Aggression in Latin-America.) Santiago: Editorial Universitaria: 85-108.
Bukowski W.M., *Adams R.E., & Santo J.B. (2006). Research on peers and adolescent development: What’s doing in North America? German Yearbook on Adolescence. VS Verlag, für Sozialwissenschaften, GWV Fachverlage, GmbH, Wiesbaden: 95-106.
Boivin D.B., & Santo J.B. (2003). Circadian rhythm sleep disorders related to an abnormal escape of the sleep-wake cycle. In: M. Billiard (ed). Sleep: Physiology, Investigations and Medicine. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Norwell (MA): 493-512.