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Books and Journal Volumes

Basseches, M. & Mascolo, M. F. (in preparation).  Psychotherapy as a developmental process.  Mahwah, NJ.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Mascolo, M. F.., & Li, J. (Eds.) (2004).  Culture and developing selves: Beyond dichotomization.  New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development Series.  W. Damon (Series Editor).  San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.   [Editors’ Commentary: Mascolo, M. F., & Li, J. Beyond dichotomizations of selves and cultures.]

Mascolo, M. F. & Griffin, S. (Eds.) (1998). What develops in emotional development?  New York: Plenum.

Mascolo, M. F. & Pollack, R. (Ed.) (1997). Frontiers of Constructivism: Problems and Prospects, Special Issue, Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 10 (1).

Articles and Book Chapters

Mascolo, M. F. Coaction and development: Analyzing the dynamics of joint acting, thinking and feeling.

Mascolo, M. F. Change processes in development: A coactive systems approach. 

Mascolo, M. F. (submitted).  Wittgenstein and the hermeneutics of experience. 

Mascolo, M. F. (in press).  The concept of domain in developmental models of hierarchical complexity.  To appear in World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution.

Mascolo, M. F. & Fischer, K. W. (in press).  Developmental psychology: Unified theories.   To appear in Jantzen, (Ed.) Disability, Education and Participation (Behinderung, Bildung, Partizipation), Volume 7, Developmental and Learning (Entwicklung und Lernen) (Volume Editor, G. Feuser).  Stuttgart, Germany: Kohlhammer-Verlag (in German).

Mascolo, M. F., & Fischer, K. W. (2007).  The co-development of self-awareness and self-evaluative emotions across the toddler years.  To appear in Brownell, C. A., & Kopp, C. B. (Eds.). Transitions in early socioemotional development: The toddler years.  New York, N.Y.: Guilford Press.

Mascolo, M. F., & Mancuso, J. C. & Dukewich, T.  (2006).  Trajectories in the development of anger in development: Appraisal, action and regulation.  To appear in J. Cummins (Ed.).  Working with anger: A practical perspective.  New York: John Wiley.

Mascolo, M. F. (2005).  Change processes in development: The concept of coactive scaffolding.  New Ideas in Psychology, 23, 185-196.

Mascolo, M. F., & Margolis, D. (2005).   Social meanings as mediators of the development of adolescent experience and action: A coactive systems approach.  European Journal of Developmental Psychology.

Reprinted in Koops, W., & Bosma, H. A. (2005). Social cognition in adolescence: Its developmental significance.  UK: Psychology Press.

Mascolo, M. F., & Fischer, K. W. (2004).  Constructivist theories.  In Hopkins, B., Barre, R. G., Michel, G. F., Rochat, P. (Eds.). Cambridge encyclopedia of child development. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.

Mascolo, M. F., & Fischer, K. W. (2004).  Beyond the heredity-environment divide in development and evolution [Review of Gilbert Gottlieb’s (2000) Individual development and evolution.  Mahwah, N.J.: Erlbaum].  Contemporary Psychology. 

Mascolo, M. F., Misra, G., & Rapisardi, C. (2004).  Individual and relational conceptions of self-experience in India and the US.  In Mascolo, M. F.., & Li, J. (Eds.).  Culture and developing selves: Beyond dichotomization.  New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development Series.  W. Damon (Series Editor).  San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Mascolo, M. F., & Li, J. (2004).   The coactive construction of selves in cultures.  In Mascolo, M. F., & Li, J. (Eds.).  Culture and developing selves: Beyond dichotomization.  New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development Series.  W. Damon (Series Editor).  San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Mascolo, M., Fischer, K., & Li, J. (2003). Dynamic development of component systems of emotions: Pride, shame, and guilt in China and the United States. In R. J. Davidson, K. Scherer, & H. H. Goldsmith (Eds.), Handbook of Affective Science (pp. 375-408). Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.

Mascolo, M. F., Ferrari, M., & Bogdan, T. (accepted).  Narrating the self through imaginal dialogue: Toward an interactive systems approach to the conscious self.  Journal of Constructivist Psychology.

Mascolo, M. F. & Fischer, K. W. (2002).   Beyond the conduit: Promoting reflective learning about human development  [Review of D. Goldhaber’s, 2000, Theories of Human Development: Integrative Approaches].  Contemporary Psychology, 47, 563-566.

Mascolo, M. F., & Bhatia, S. (2002). The dynamic construction of culture, self and social relations.  Psychology & Developing Societies. 

Mascolo, M. F., Li, J., Fink, R., Li, J., & Fischer, K. W. (2002).  Pathways to excellence: Value presuppositions and the development of academic and affective skills in educational contexts.  In M. Ferrari (Ed.) The pursuit of excellence in education (pp. 113-146). Mahwah, N.J: Erlbaum. 

Mascolo, M. F., Harkins, D., & Harakal, T.  (2000). The dynamic construction of emotion: Varieties in anger.  In M. Lewis and I. Granic (Eds.).  Emotion, self-organization and development (pp. 124-152).  New York: Cambridge University Press.

Mascolo, M. F. & Fischer, K. W. (1999).  The dynamic co-development of intentionality, self and social relations.  In J. Brandstadter, & R. M. Lerner (Eds.) Action and development: Origins and functions of intentional self-development (pp. 133-166). Thousand Oaks: Ca: Sage.

Mascolo, M. F. & Fischer, K. W. (1999).  The development of representation as the coordination of component systems of action.  In I. Sigel (Ed.), Theoretical perspectives on the concept of representation (pp. 231-256). Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.

Mascolo, M. F., Kanner, B. G., & Griffin, S. (1998).  Neo-Piagetian systems theory and the education of young children. Early Child Development and Care, 140, 31-52.

Bhatia, S. & Mascolo, M. F. (1998).  Toward an agentive social constructionism.  [Review of R. Harré and G. Gillett’s The discursive mind] Journal of Constructivist Psychology.

Griffin, S. & Mascolo, M. F. (1998). The nature, development and functions of emotions.  In Mascolo, M. F. & Griffin, S. (Eds.) What Develops in Emotional Development? (pp. 3-27).  New York: Plenum.

Mascolo, M. F. & Griffin, S. (1998). Alternative trajectories in the development of anger.  In Mascolo, M. F. & Griffin, S. (Eds.) What Develops in Emotional Development? (pp. 219-249). New York: Plenum.

Mascolo, M. F. & Harkins, D. (1998). Toward a component systems approach to emotional development.  In Mascolo, M. F. & Griffin, S. (Eds.) What Develops in Emotional Development? (pp.189-218). New York: Plenum.

Mascolo, M. F. & Griffin, S. (1998). Alternative conceptions of emotional development: Controversy and consensus.  In Mascolo, M. F. & Griffin, S. (Eds.) What Develops in Emotional Development? (pp. 319-340). New York: Plenum.

Mascolo, M. F., & Fischer, K. W. (1998).  The development of self through the coordination of component systems.  In Ferrari, M., & Sternberg, R., Self-awareness: Its nature and development, (pp. 332-384). New York: Guilford.

Mascolo, M. F., Craig-Bray, L., & Neimeyer, R. (1997).The construction of meaning and action in development and psychotherapy: An epigenetic systems approach.  In G. Neimeyer & R. Neimeyer (Eds.), Advances in personal construct psychology (Vol. 4) (pp. 3-38). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Mascolo, M. F. & Pollack, R. (1997).  Frontiers of constructivism: Problems and prospects, Introduction to frontiers of constructivism, Special Issue, Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 10, 1-5.

Mascolo, M. F., Fischer, K. W., & Pollack, R. (1997). Keeping the constructor in constructivism: An epigenetic systems approach.  In Mascolo, M. F. & Pollack, R. (Eds.) Frontiers of Constructivism: Problems and Prospects, Special Issue of Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 10, 25-29.

Mascolo, M. F., & Dalto, C. A. (1995).  Self and modernity on trial: A reply to Gergen's Saturated Self.  Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 8, 175-191.

Mascolo, M. F., & Fischer, K. W. (1995). Developmental transformations in appraisals for pride, guilt and shame. To appear in Fischer, K. W. & Tangney, J. P. (Eds.), Self-Conscious Emotions: Shame, Guilt, Embarrassment and Pride (pp. 64-113). New York: Guilford.

Lindsay-Hartz, J., de Rivera, J., & Mascolo, M. F. (1995). Guilt and shame and their effects on motivation.  To appear in Fischer, K. W. & Tangney, J. P. (Eds.), Self-Conscious Emotions: Shame, Guilt, embarrassment and Pride. New York: Guilford.

Mascolo, M. F. (1994).  Toward a social constructivist psychology: The case of self-evaluative emotional development. Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 7, 87-106.

Mascolo, M. F. (1992). Personally and socially constructing selves: Toward an increasingly social constructivist psychology. [Review of G. Neimeyer & R. Neimeyer (1990). Advances in Personal Construct Psychology].  International Journal of Personal Construct Psychology, 5. 413-425.

Mascolo, M. F., & Mancuso, J. C. (1992). Constructive processes in self-evaluative emotional development.  In G. Neimeyer & R. Neimeyer (Eds.), Advances in personal construct psychology (Vol. 2, pp. 27-54). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.

Hirtle, S. C., & Mascolo, M. F. (1991). The heuristics of spatial cognition. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 629-634). Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.

Mascolo, M. F., & Mancuso, J. C. (1990). The functioning of epigenetically-evolved emotion systems: A constructive analysis. International Journal of Personal Construct Theory, 3, 205-222.

Mascolo, M. F., & Hirtle, S. C. (1990). Verbal coding and the elimination of Stroop interference in a matching task. American Journal of Psychology, 102, 195-215.

Mascolo, M. F., & Mancuso, J. C. (1988). Personality migrates to the mind.  [Review of V. Hamilton's The cognitive structures and processes of human motivation and personality]. International Journal of Personal Construct Psychology, 1, 205-211.

Mancuso, J. C., & Mascolo, M. F. (1988). [Review of J. T. Lamiell's, The psychology of personality: An epistemological inquiry]. The Journal of Mind and Behavior, 9, 77-81.

Mancuso, J. C., & Mascolo, M. F. (1987). On re-cognizing achievement motivation. [Review of D. C. McClelland's Human Motivation and J. Nicholls' (Ed.) Advances in Motivation and Achievement (Vol. 3): The Development of Achievement Motivation]. Motivation and Emotion, 11, 323-330.

Hirtle, S. C., & Mascolo, M. F. (1986). Effect of semantic clustering on the memory of spatial locations. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 12, 182-189.

Selected Papers and Symposia Presented at Scientific Conferences

            Mascolo, M. F., Fischer, K. W., and Li, J. (2006, June).  The development of self-evaluative emotions in the USA and China.  Invited paper to be delivered at the 2^nd International Forum on Children's Emotion Development and Competence (FCEDC2), Nanjing, China.

            Berkowitz, M., Bickhard, M., Granott, N., Mascolo, M. F., & Renninger, A. (2005, June).  Revisiting scaffolding: What we can say and what still needs to be figured out. (N. Granott, organizer).  Discussion panel to be held at the 35^th meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Vancouver, Canada

            Mascolo, M. F. & Misra, G. (2005, June).  The co-representation of individual and communal dimensions of selfhood in India and the US.  Paper to be presented at the 35^th meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Vancouver, Canada.

            Basseches, M., Mascolo, M.F., Peters, T., & Richard, D. (2004, July). Tracking clients’ development in psychotherapy: A “common factors” coding system.  Poster presented at the Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Honolulu, HI

Mascolo, M. F., & Cowart, M. (2004, June).  Transition mechanisms in development: Toward an evolutionary process model.  To be presented at the 34^rd annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Toronto, Canada.

Cowart, M., & Mascolo, M. F. (2004, June).  The origins of variability in an evolutionary process model of cognitive change: Varieties of scaffolding in development.   To be presented at the 34^rd annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Toronto, Canada.

Mascolo, M. F., & Cowart, M.  (2004, June).  The role of individual action in evolutionary process models of cognitive change.  To be presented at the 34^rd annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Toronto, Canada.

Cowart, M., & Mascolo, M. F. (2003, October).  Open constraints: Varieties of scaffolding in development.  Paper to be presented at the 10^th Annual Meeting on Dynamic Systems in Cognitive Science, Ascona, Switzerland.

Granott, N., & Mascolo, M. F. (2003, June).  Change mechanisms in microdevelopment: Progress through individual synthesis, joint regulation, and backward transitions.  Symposium presented at the 33^rd Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society.

Mascolo, M. F. (2003, June).  Individual construction within joint activity: An intersystemic approach to microdevelopment.  Paper presented at the 33^rd Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society.

Mascolo, M. F., Misra, G., & Clement, T. (2002).  The dialogical construction of self-experience in the US and urban India.  Paper presented at the Second International Conference on the Dialogical Self, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium.

Mascolo, M. F., & Margolis, D. (2002).   Social cognition as a mediator of adolescent development: An intersystemic activity approach.  Invited paper presented at Workshop on Social Cognition in Adolescence.  University of Groeningen, Groeningen, The Netherlands.

Mascolo, M. F., & Granott, N. (2002).  New Directions in Models of Microdevelopment in Adults.  Symposium presented at the 17^th annual meeting of the Society for Research in Adult Development, New York, New York, June, 2002.

Mascolo, M., F., Michalek, M., & Hunt, R. (2002).  The microdevelopment of adult selves in psychotherapy: An intersystemic activity approach.  Paper presented at the 17^th annual meeting of the Society for Research in Adult Development, New York, New York, June, 2002.

Mascolo, M. F., & Cowart, M. (2002).  Embodying models of human development: Bodily, contextual and experiential mediators of meaning.  Symposium presented at the 32^nd annual meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, June, 2002.

Mascolo, M. F. & Basseches, M.. (2002). Embodied abstractions:  Metaphor as a mediator of the development of conceptions of self and other in psychotherapy.  Paper presented at the 32^nd annual meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, June, 2002.

Li, J., & Mascolo, M. F. (2001).   The mosaics of personhood: Individual and relational selves both within and between cultures.  Symposium presented at the biennial conference of the Society for Research on Child Development.

Mascolo, M. F., Misra, G., & DiNuccio, L. (2001).  Individual and relational conceptions of self in India and the US.  Paper presented at the biennial conference of the Society for Research on Child Development.

Kimball, J., Boucher, L., & Mascolo, M. F. (2000).  Lives in transition: Transformations in self among adult learners.  Poster presented at the 40^th annual conference of the New England Psychological Association, Lewiston, Maine.

Mascolo, M. F. (2000).  Beyond narrative: Toward a dramatistic psychology of persons.  Symposium presented at the North American Network on Personal Construct Psychology, New Paltz, New York.

Mascolo, M. F., Basseches, M., & McCollough, L. (2000).  A tale of two stories: The microdevelopment of self in psychotherapy. Paper presented at the North American Network on Personal Construct Psychology, New Paltz, New York. 

Mascolo, M. F. (2000).  Narrating the dramas of everyday life. Paper presented at the North American Network on Personal Construct Psychology, New Paltz, New York. 

Mascolo, M. F., Basseches, M., McCollough, L., & Sorensen, G. (2000).  The microdevelopment of self in co-regulated dialogue: An intersystemic activity approach.  Paper presented at the First International Conference on the Dialogical Self, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 

Li, J., & Mascolo, M. F. (2000).  Beyond individualism and collectivism: Multiplicity of selves within and between cultures.  Symposium presented at the 30^th annual meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Montreal, Canada.

Mascolo, M. F., John, D. Machado, S., & Misra, G. (2000). Self in culture and culture in self: Individual and relational conceptions of self in India and the US.  Paper presented at the 30^th annual meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Montreal Canada.

Mascolo, M. F. (2000).  In what sense is the self a theory?  Invited paper for a plenary symposium to be presented at the 30^th annual meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Montreal Canada.

Ingalls, J., & Mascolo, M. F. (2000) Melding constructivist and complexity approaches in psychotherapy: Dynamically recreating selves.  Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington D.C.

Mascolo, M. F., Basseches, M., McCollough, L., & Sorensen, G. (2000).  Developmental transformations in self-systems in psychotherapy.  Paper presented at annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.

Mascolo, M. F., Ferrari, M., Bogdan, T., and Cookson, S. (1999, September).  Reconstructing the agent in social constructionism: Stability and variability in the dialogical construction of selves.  Presented at Conference on Social Construction and Relational Practices, University of New Hampshire and Taos Institute, Durham, New Hampshire.

Kanner, B. G. & Mascolo, M. F. (1999).  What would a non-reductionistic developmental psychology look like?  To be presented at the 29th annual meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Mexico City, Mexico.

Mascolo, M.F., & Granott, N. (1999, April).  Synthesizing constructivist and sociocultural views of development.  Symposium presented at the meeting of the Society of Research on Child Development, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Mascolo, M.F., Martin, M., & Wyman, D.  (1999, April). Analyzing the dynamic structure of joint action, thought and feeling: An intersystemic action theory perspective.  Paper presented at the meeting of the Society of Research on Child Development, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Mascolo, M. F., & Ferrari, M. (1999, February).  Narrating the self through imaginal dialogue: Toward an interactive systems conception of the conscious self.  Paper presented at the conference on Narrative and Consciousness, Texas.

Bhatia, S.& Mascolo, M. F. (1998, March). Problems with “survey” courses in psychology: Narrative and systems approaches as pedagogical frameworks.  Paper presented at the 12th annual conference on undergraduate teaching of psychology.  Ellenville, New York.

Mascolo, M. F., & Chasse, M. (1998). The development of emotional enactments and representations in children’s narratives about achievement, failure and wrongdoing.  Paper presented at the 28th annual symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, Chicago, Il.

Mascolo, M. F., Ferrari, M., Parker, B., & Winn, K. (1998).  Beyond Cartesian and dialogical conceptions of self: The self as an emergent, coactional system. Paper presented at the 28th annual symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, Chicago, Il.

Mascolo, M. F. (1998, January).  The dynamic construction of culture, self and social relations.  Paper presented at the National Symposium on Cultural Psychology, Delhi, India.

Mascolo, M. F., Grace, C., Ouellette, M., Stone, H., & Leach, W. (1997).  Pretend-play emotional reactions to accomplishments, failures and wrongdoings in young children.  Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, April 3-6, Washington, D.C.

Mascolo, M. F. (1997).  Student ethnographies as a method for promoting active learning in psychology internships. Poster presented at the Conference on Undergraduate Teaching in Psychology, St. Petersburg, FL.

Mascolo, M. F. & Raeff. (1996).  The development of emotional representations as a personal, social and cultural process.  Presented at an Invited Plenary Symposium at the 26th Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, June 6-8, 1996, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Raeff, C., Mascolo, M. F., & Uzgirus, I. (1996). Personal and Cultural Processes in the Development of Representation and Meaning.  Invited Plenary Symposium at the 26th Annual Symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, June 6-8, 1996, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Mascolo, M. F. (1995). Keeping the constructor in development: Epigenesis as constructivism. Invited Plenary Debate (with Kenneth Gergen) at the XI International Congress on Personal Construct Psychology, Barcelona, Spain, July, 1995.

Mascolo, M. F. & Barrett, K. C. (1995). Emotions in context: Toward re-contextualization. Symposium presented at the bi-annual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, March/April, 1995.

Mascolo, M. F. & Harkins, D. (1995). The development of pride through social relations. Symposium paper presented at the bi-annual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, March/April, 1995.

Mascolo, M. F. & Deans, C. (1995). Pride and shame in the development of adolescent self structure.  Poster presented at the bi-annual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, March/April, 1995.

Mascolo, M. F. & Kanner, B. G. (1993). A perspectivist approach to teaching general psychology. Paper presented at the Fifteenth Annual National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, January, 1993, St. Petersburg, Florida.

Mascolo, M. F. (1991, August). Personal Construct Psychology and the challenge of competing versions of constructivism: The case of self-evaluative emotional development.  Presented as a plenary session paper at the Ixth Congress on Personal Construct Psychology, Albany, New York.

Hirtle, S. C. & Mascolo, M. F. (1991, August). The heuristics of spatial cognition.  Paper presented at the 13th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago, Illinois.

Mascolo, M. F. (1991, April). Developmental changes in children's understanding of the causes of pride. A poster to be presented at the 1991 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, Washington.

Mascolo, M. F., & Gutowski, W. E. (1990, August). Prototype representations of object and emotion categories: A structural comparison.  Poster presented at the 1990 American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Boston, Massachusetts.

Mascolo, M. F., & de Rivera J. (1990, August).  Appraisal patterns in anger.  Poster presented at the 1990 American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Boston, Massachusetts.

Mascolo, M. F. (1990, June).  A framework for research in emotional development: Socio-cultural and cognitive influences.  Paper presented to the developmental psychology faculty at the University of Seville, Seville, Spain.

Mancuso, J. C., & Mascolo, M. F. (1988, April). Categories of emotion: Evidence of graded category membership and fuzzy boundaries. Paper presented at the 58th annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Buffalo, New York.

Mascolo, M. F., & Mancuso, J. C. (1988, April). Emotion as categorization: Prototypicality and the organization of emotion categories. Paper presented at the 59th annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Buffalo, New York.

Mascolo, M. F., & Hirtle, S. C. (1987, April). Verbal encoding and the elimination of Stroop interference in a matching task. Paper presented at the 58th annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Arlington, Virginia.

Mascolo, M. F., & Mancuso, J. C. (1986, July). The self and the social construction of anger. Paper presented at the Nags Head Conference on Emotion, Nags Head, North Carolina.

Hirtle, S. C., & Mascolo, M. F. (1985, March). The effects of semantic encoding on distance estimations. Paper presented at the 56th annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, Massachusetts.

Mascolo, M. F., & Hirtle, S. C. (1985, March). Automaticity, semantic encoding, and the Stroop effect. Paper presented at the 56th annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Boston, Massachusetts.

Mascolo, M. F., & Mancuso, J. C. (1985, August). The enactment of emotion: A constructivist analysis.  Paper presented at the Sixth International Congress on Personal Construct Psychology, Churchill College, Cambridge, England.

Mascolo, M. F. & Mancuso, J. C. (1985). The emotional enactment as a self-defining role. Paper presented at the Nags Head Conference on Self, Nags Head, North Carolina.