Jonathan B. Santo

Jonathan Santo is a professor of psychology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He serves as director of the graduate Developmental Psychology program and faculty member in the Office of Latino/Latin-American Studies. Most of his research focuses on the impact of peer relations on child and adolescent development, with emphasis on the importance of friendships as a source of social support. Santo also studies cultural differences in factors related to self-esteem as well as classroom-level influences. Ultimately, his research is aimed at improving the lives of children and adolescents by fostering supportive school environments and encouraging positive peer relationships.

Experience

  • –present
    Professor of Psychology , University of Nebraska Omaha

Education

  • 2009 
    University of Nebraska at Omaha, Psychology

Publications

  • 2021
    Socially responsible children: A link between school climate and aggression and victimization, International Journal of Behavioral Development
  • 2021
    I Already Belong: Immigrant-origin College Students’ Persistence, Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice
  • 2021
    Unpacking the misfit effect: Exploring the influence of gender and social norms on the association between aggression and peer victimization, International Journal of Behavioral Development
  • 2021
    Authoritative School Climate and Peer Victimization Among Brazilian Students, Revista Educação Especial
  • 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
  • 2020
    Self-Continuity Moderates the Association Between Sexual-Minority Status Based Discrimination and Depressive Symptoms, Journal of Homosexuality
  • 2020
    Trust, Ethnicity, and Political Approval in 21st Century South Africa, ID: International Dialogue: A Multidisciplinary Journal of World Affairs
  • 2019
    Family Psychosocial Assessment in the Clinical Setting, BMC Psychology
  • 2019
    A Dynamic Examination of the Associations between Shyness, Psychological Difficulties, and Stressful Life Events during Early Adolescence, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
  • 2019
    Authoritative School Climate and Peer Victimization Among Brazilian Students, Psico
  • 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
  • 2019
    Severe Social Withdrawal: Cultural Variation in Past Hikikomori Experiences of University Students in Nigeria, Singapore, and the US, Journal of Genetic Psychology
  • 2019
    Examination of age, ethnicity and sex differences on attraction among late-adolescents, Social Moments
  • 2019
    Cognitive Processes That Indirectly Affect Olfactory Dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease, Clinical Parkinsonism & Related Disorders
  • 2019
    The predictive value of school climate and teacher techniques on students’ just world beliefs: A comprehensive Brazilian sample, Social Psychology of Education
  • 2019
    Fairness, Trust, and School Climate as Foundational To Growth Mindset: A Study Among Brazilian Children and Adolescents, Educational Psychology
  • 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
  • 2018
    Repeatability and reliability of exploratory behavior in proactive and reactive zebrafish, Danio rerio, Scientific reports
  • 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
  • 2018
    Self-Continuity Moderates the Association Between Peer Victimization and Depression, Journal of Research on Adolescence (special issue on adolescents in the majority world)
  • 2017
    Comparing depression screening tools in persons with multiple sclerosis (MS), Rehabilitation Psychology
  • 2017
    Contextual influences on the relations between physical and relational aggression and peer victimization, School Psychology International
  • 2017
    Prenatal Androgen Exposure and Parental Care Interact to Influence Timing of Reproductive Maturation in Marmosets, American Journal of Primatology
  • 2017
    Androgyny in Liking and in Being Liked Are Antecedent to Well-Being in Pre-adolescent Boys and Girls, Sex Roles
  • 2017
    A cross-cultural analysis of the relations of physical and relational aggression with peer victimization, International Journal of Behavioral Development
  • 2017
    Work-family conflict among Blacks, Whites and Hispanics, Community, Work and Family
  • 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
  • 2016
    The Relationships Between Anxious and Unsociable Withdrawal and Peer Difficulties: The Moderating Role of Insecure Attachment, International Journal of Behavioral Development
  • 2016
    Mother–child attachment and social withdrawal in urban Chinese children, Social Behavior and Personality
  • 2016
    Friendship Security, But Not Friendship Intimacy, Moderates the Stability of Anxiety During Early Adolescence, Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology
  • 2016
    Classroom Context and the Relations between Social Withdrawal and Peer Victimization, Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology
  • 2015
    Evidence for a synchronization of hormonal states between humans and dogs during competition, Physiology & Behavior
  • 2015
    Overrating Bruins, Underrating Badgers Media, Bias, and College Basketball, Journal of Sports Management and Commercialization
  • 2015
    Is reading-aloud performance in megastudies systematically influenced by the list context?, The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • 2014
    Successful Transition to Elementary School and the Implementation of Facilitative Practices Specified in the Reggio-Emilia Philosophy, School Psychology International
  • 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)
  • 2013
    Salivary cortisol and interpersonal functioning: An event-contingent recording study in the offspring of parents with bipolar disorder, Psychoneuroendocrinology
  • 2013
    Investigating the Portrait Values Questionnaire at Two Transitions in Adulthood: Retirement and University, Quality & Quantity
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 2012
    Is Self Evaluation of Creativity a Useful Criterion?, Creativity Research Journal
  • 2012
    Effects of a Wellness for Women Intervention on Healthy Eating Behavior in Midlife Rural Women, Social Science and Medicine
  • 2012
    Natural variation in gestational cortisol is associated with patterns of growth in marmoset monkeys (Callithrix geoffroyi), General and Comparative Endocrinology
  • 2011
    The Presence of a Best Friend Buffers the Effects of Negative Experiences, Developmental Psychology
  • 2011
    Effects of Homophobic Victimization vs. Non-homophobic Victimization on School Commitment and the Moderating effect of Teacher Attitudes, Journal of LGBT Youth
  • 2010
    High cortisol levels in the offspring of parents with bipolar disorder during two weeks of daily sampling, Bipolar Disorders
  • 2010
    Context-Dependent Peer Victimization: Are physical and relational aggression tolerated differently in mixed-sex versus all-girl schools?, Merrill-Palmer Quarterly
  • 2009
    Affective Well-Being in the Retirement Transition: Money, Health, and the Role of Values Over Three Years, Journal of Happiness Studies
  • 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
  • 2006
    Recent advances for Developmental Psychopathology in the study of social and personal experiences, International Journal of Behavioral Development
  • 2003
    Non-24-hour sleep-wake syndrome following a car accident, Neurology

Professional Memberships

  • International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development
  • Society for Research on Child Development
  • Society for Research on Adolescence

Contact Jonathan for

  • General
  • Media request
  • Speaking request
  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration
  • Research supervision