Phone:(480) 965-2590
Fax: (480) 965-8544

E-mail:
george.knight@asu.edu

George Knight, PhD, 1980, University of California, Riverside

Social, Quantitative

Research Interests: Acculturation and Enculturation among Mexican American Children; Cross-Ethnic/Race Measurement Equivalence; Developmental Social Cognition; Cooperative, Competitive, and Individualistic Behavioral Preferences

Teaching:
Graduate -
Multiple Regression
Research Design and Quantitative Methods
Meta-Analysis
Issue and Methods in Studying Diverse Populations
Theory and Research Methods in Developmental Psychology
Developmental Research Methods
Social/Personality Development
Moral Development

Undergraduate -
Statistics and Measurement
Honors Seminar
Developmental Psychology
Advanced Developmental Psychology
Social Development
Gender Role Development

Selected Publications:

Knight, G. P., Roosa, M. W., & Umaña-Taylor A. (under contract). Research Methods for Studying Ethnically and Economically Diverse Populations. Washington, DC: APA Books.

Knight, G. P., Roosa, M. W., Calderón, C. O., & Gonzales, N. A. (in press). Methodological issues in research on Latino populations. In Villaruel, F., Carlo, G., Azmitia, M., Grau, J., Cabrera, N., & Chahin, J. (Eds.) (2007). Handbook of U.S. Latino Psychology. Sage Publications.

Knight, G. P., Vargas-Chanes, D., Losoya, S. H., Sonia Cota-Robles, S., Chassin, L., Lee, J. M. (in press). Acculturation and enculturation trajectories among Mexican American adolescent offenders. Journal of Research on Adolescence.

Carlo, G., Knight, G. P., McGinley, M., Zamboanga, B. L., Jarvis, L. H. (in press). The Multidimensionality of Prosocial Behaviors and Evidence of Measurement Equivalence across Ethnicity and Gender in Early Adolescents. Journal of Research on Adolescence.

Knight, G. P., Gonzales, N. A., Saenz, D. S., German, M., Deardorff, J., Roosa, M. W., Updegraff, K. A. (under review). The Mexican American Cultural Values Scale for Adolescents and Adults.

Losoya, S. H., Knight,G. P., Chassin, L., Little, M., Vargas-Chanes, D., Mauricio, A., Piquero, A. (in press). Trajectories of Acculturation and Enculturation in Relation to Binge Drinking and Marijuana Use in a Sample of Mexican-American Serious Juvenile Offenders. Journal of Drug Issues.

Kim, S. Y., Nair, R., Knight, G. P., Roosa, M. W., Updegraff, K. A. (in press). Measurement Equivalence of Neighborhood Quality Measures for European American and Mexican American Families. Journal of Community Psychology.

Carlo, G., Knight, G. P., McGinley, M., Goodvin, R., and Roesch, S. C. (in press). Understanding the developmental relations between perspective taking and prosocial behaviors: A meta-analytic review. In J. Carpendale, G. Iarocci, U. Muller, B. Sokol, and A. Young (Eds.), Self- and social-regulation: Exploring the relations between social interaction, social cognition, and the development of executive functions. Oxford University Press.

Knight, G. P., Jacobson, R. P., Gonzales, N. A., Roosa, M. W., and Saenz, D. S. (in press). An Evaluation of the Psychological Research on Acculturation and Enculturation Processes among Recently Immigrating Populations. In R. L. Dalla, J. DeFrain, J. Johnson, & D. Abbot (Eds.), Strengths and challenges of new immigrant families: Implications for research, policy, education, and service.  Lanham, MD: Lexington Publishers, Inc.

Gonzales, N.A., Knight, G. P., Birman, D., & Sirolli, A. A. (2004).  Acculturation and enculturation among Latino youths.  In K. I. Maton, C. J. Schellenbach, B. J. Leadbeater, & A. L. Solarz (Eds.), Investing in children, youth, families, and communities: Strengths-based research and policy (pp.285-302). Washington , DC:  American Psychological Association.

Gonzales, N. A., Knight, G. P., Morgan-Lopez, A., Saenz, D., & Sirolli, A.  (2002).  Acculturation and the mental health of Latino youths: An integration and critique of the literature. In J. M. Contreras, K. A. Kerns, & A. M. Neal-Barnett (Eds.). Latino Children and Families in the United States: Current Research and Future Directions (pp. 45-74). Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers. 

 Knight, G. P., Tein, J.-Y., Prost, J., & Gonzales, N. A.  (2002).  Measurement equivalence and research on Latino children and families: The importance of culturally informed theory.  In J. M. Contreras, K. A. Kerns, & A. M. Neal-Barnett (Eds.). Latino Children and Families in the United States: Current Research and Future Directions (pp. 181-201). Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers.

Knight, G. P., Guthrie, I. K., Page, M. C., & Fabes, R. A. (2002). Emotional arousal and gender differences in aggression: A meta-analysis. Aggressive Behavior, 28, 366-393.

Knight, G. P., & Hill, N. E.  (1998).  Measurement equivalence in research involving minority adolescents.  In V. McLoyd and L. Steinberg (Eds.), Studying minority adolescents: Conceptual, methodological and theoretical issues (pp. 183-210).  Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.

Knight, G. P., Fabes, R. A., & Higgins, D. A. (1996).  Concerns about drawing causal inferences from meta-analyses: An example in the study of gender differences in aggression.  Psychological Bulletin, 119, 410-421.

 Knight, G. P., Virdin, L. M., & Roosa, M.  (1994).  Socialization and family correlates of mental health outcomes among Hispanic and Anglo American children: Consideration of cross-ethnic scalar equivalence.  Child Development, 65, 212-224.

 Knight, G. P., Johnson, L. G., Carlo, G., & Eisenberg, N.  (1994).  A multiplicative model of the dispositional antecedents of a prosocial behavior:  Predicting more of the people more of the time.  Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66, 178-183

Bernal, M. E., & Knight, G. P. (Eds.).  (1993).  Ethnic identity: Formation and transmission among Hispanics and other minorities.  Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.