Conference Presentations
2020
Narvaez, D. (accepted for August, 2020). Toward an Ethically Sustainable World: General, Theoretical, Environmental, & Societal Perspectives (panel member). American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C. (Conference Canceled)
Narvaez, D., & Tarsha, M. S. (accepted for August, 2020). Violence and Recidivism Reduction Utilizing a Trauma-Informed Nature-Based Approach, panel members, American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C. (Conference Canceled).
Narvaez, D. F. (2020, Apr 17 - 21) Whole person education: Mapping the landscape, in Moral Education [Symposium]. AERA Annual Meeting San Francisco, CA http://tinyurl.com/v3rqhug (Conference Canceled)
Narvaez, D. F. & Tarsha, M. S., (2020, Apr 17 - 21) Peaceableness, Childhood Experience and Sociomoral Behavior [Poster Session]. AERA Annual Meeting San Francisco, CA http://tinyurl.com/wy9u4gq (Conference Canceled)
Tarsha, M. S., & Narvaez, D. (accepted for May, 2020). Children’s Play Is Associated with Wellbeing, Autonomic Regulation and Sociomoral Development. Association for Psychological Science. Chicago, Illinois. (Conference Canceled)
Tarsha, M. S., Gleason, T., & Narvaez, D. (accepted for May, 2020). Play Predicts Sociomoral Learning Mediated by Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia. Society for Research in Child Development. St. Louis, Missouri. (Conference Canceled)
2019
Graves, M., Llantero, C., & Narvaez, D. (November, 2019). Modeling Neo-Kohlbergian Moral Judgment Schemas Using Latent Semantic Analysis and Machine Learning. Association for Moral Education. Seattle, Washington.
Graves, M., Smith, S., & Narvaez, D. (November, 2019). Holocaust Rescuer Interviews: Schwartz Values and Triune Ethics Orientations in Semantic Analysis. Association for Moral Education. Seattle, Washington.
Kurth, A., & Narvaez, D. (November, 2019). Humanity’s Evolved Nest, Child Regulation, and Moral Development. Association for Moral Education. Seattle, Washington. Narvaez, D. (November, 2019). Understanding Human Neurobiology Can Help Us Shape an Empathic, Cooperative and Sustainable World. Association for Moral Education. Seattle, Washington.
Tarsha, M. S., & Narvaez, D. (November, 2019). Mothering peaceableness. Building Sustainable Peace: Ideas, Evidence, and Strategies. Kroc Peace conference, University of Notre Dame.
Tarsha, M. S., & Narvaez, D. Predicting peaceable personality. (November, 2019). Association for Moral Education. Seattle, Washington.
Ison, J., Narvaez, D., Tarsha, M., S., Kurth, A. (November, 2019). The relationship of worldview and multiculturalism with civic narcissism and moral behavior. Association for Moral Education. Seattle, Washington.
Tarsha, M. S. & Narvaez, D. (October, 2019). The Evolved Nest and self-regulation: Linking freeplay with vagal tone in young children. International Society for Developmental Psychobiology. Chicago, Illinois.
Tarsha, M. S., & Narvaez, D. (May, 2019). Adult reported Evolved Developmental Niche history predicts sociality, morality and peaceableness. Association for Psychological Science Conference. Washington, D. C.
Tarsha, M. S., & Narvaez, D. (2019). The seedbed of social poverty: Examining the role of the Evolved Developmental Niche as the common good. Preferential Option for the Poor Conference, Notre Dame Center for Social Concerns.
Reilly, T., Narvaez, D., Kaikhosroshvili, K., & Israel de Souza, S. (October, 2019). Creativity, Imagination, and Precision: Conceptions of Intellectual Character in the Practices of Laboratory Science and Ensemble Music. Annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Human Development, Portland, Oregon.
Reilly, T., Kaikhosroshvili, K., & Narvaez, D. (2019). Honesty and integrity as virtues: Practitioner perspectives. Annual meeting of the Western Positive Psychology Association, Claremont.
Pham, P., Tarsha, M., & Narvaez, D. (April, 2019). Are conservatives more vicious? Annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago.
Ison, J., Kurth, A., Tarsha, M., & Narvaez, D. (April, 2019). The relationship of worldview and multiculturalism on civic narcissism and moral behavior. Annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago.
Kurth, A., Cortez, K., Gorman, C., Sarazen, K., Narvaez, D. (March, 2019). Using Longitudinal Data Analysis to Analyze the Still Face Paradigm. Poster to the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MA.
2018
Kaikhosroshvili, K., Kurth, A., Woodbury, R., Narvaez, D., & Gleason, T. (November, 2018). Play, social support and family climate: Contributors to preschool children’s sociomoral development. Annual meeting of Association for Moral Education, Barcelona.
Bae, A., Kohn, R., Kurth, A., & Narvaez, D. (May, 2018). Nature Connection: A 3-Week Randomized Intervention Increases Ecological Attachment. Association for Psychological Science annual meeting, San Francisco.
Narvaez, D., Kurth, A., & Tarsha, M. (May, 2018). The Evolved Nest: Relation to child and adult wellbeing and sociomorality. World Congress for the World Association for Infant Mental Health. Rome, Italy.
Narvaez, D. (March 2018). Baselines for Optimizing Human Development. Society for Humanistic Society, Boulder.
2017
Kurth, A., Kohn, R., Bae, A., Narvaez, D. (November, 2017). Ecological Morality, Childhood Experience and Social Attitudes. Association for Moral Education annual meeting, St. Louis, Missouri.
Narvaez, D., Kurth, A., & Woodbury, R. (November, 2017). Triune Ethics MetaTheory: Status of the Theory, Review of Child and Adult Studies. Association for Moral Education annual meeting, St. Louis, Missouri.
Smith, E.A., & Narvaez, D. (November, 2017). The Relationship of Early Experience and Empathy to Civic Narcissism and Voting Preference in the 2016 Election. Association for Moral Education annual meeting, St. Louis, Missouri.
Witherington, D.C., Lickliter, R., Overton, W.F., Marshall, P. & Narvaez, D. (April, 2017). Conversation on: When “epigenesis” means different things to different people: Metatheories and conceptual confusions in developmental science. Society for Research in Child Development annual meeting, Austin, TX.
Smith, E.A., & Narvaez, D. (April, 2017). Relational experience, civic narcissism and voting preference in the 2016 presidential election. Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL
2016
Narvaez, D., Cheng, Y., Woodbury, R., Gleason, T., Lefever, J. B., & Wang, L. (December, 2016). Relation of Early Nest Experience to Moral Development in Young Children. Association for Moral Education annual meeting, Harvard University, Boston.
Kurth, A., Renfus, K. & Narvaez, D. (December, 2016). Companionship Caregiving and Moral Development. Association for Moral Education annual meeting, Harvard University, Boston.
Smith, E., Kurth, A., & Narvaez, D. (December, 2016). Moral Chronicity and Religiosity: Does religiosity influence moral information processing? Association for Moral Education annual meeting, Harvard University, Boston.
Narvaez, D., Cheng, Y., Woodbury, R., Gleason, T., Lefever, J.B., & Wang, L. (accepted for August, 2016). Child wellbeing and sociomorality relations to current experience of the Evolved Developmental Niche. American Psychological Association, Denver, CO.
Narvaez, D., Thiel, A., Grover, D., & Kurth, A. (accepted for August, 2016). Peaceableness and its relation to childhood experience, personality and ethical orientation. American Psychological Association, Denver, CO.
2015
Kurth, A., Noble, R., & Narvaez, D. (2015). How does basic needs fulfillment relate to childhood experience and morality? Association for Moral Education, Santos, Brazil.
Thiel, A., Kurth, A., Renfus, K., Grover, D., & Narvaez, D. (Accepted for November, 2015). Early Experience, Stress, and Aggressive Behavior. Association for Moral Education, Santos, Brazil.
Kurth, A., Renfus, K., Noble, R., Zohrer, J., Moran, M., & Narvaez, D. (Accepted for November, 2015). Measuring Ecological Character. Association for Moral Education, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Grover, D., Woodbury, R., & Narvaez, D. (Accepted for November, 2015). Maternal parenting attitudes and child experience mediate the relation between maternal childhood experience and child proto-moral orientation. Association for Moral Education annual meeting, Brazil.
Noble, R., Kurth, A., & Narvaez, D. (April, 2015), Fulfilling Your “BUCET” List: Basic Needs Satisfaction, Wellbeing, and Moral Development. American Educational Research Association, Chicago.
Grover, D., Woodbury, R., & Narvaez, D. (2015). What mother does, daughter believes? The relation of maternal childhood experiences to parenting attitudes. American Educational Research Association annual meeting, Chicago, IL.
Narvaez, D., Wang, L., Cheng, Y., Gleason, T., & Lefever, J. (April, 2015). The Importance of Early Life Touch for Psychosocial and Moral Development. Symposium on Empathy, Prosociality and Morality: Neurobiological and Relational Contributions to Development. Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia.
Kurth, A., Narvaez, D., Wang, L., Cheng, Y., Gleason, T., & Lefever, J. (April, 2015). Maternal Positive and Negative Touch Behaviors Longitudinally Predict Temperament and Social-Emotional Delays Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia.
2014
Narvaez, D., & Bock, T. (November, 2014). The RAVE model of moral education. Workshop for the Association for Moral Education, Pasadena, CA.
Thiel, A., Renfus, K., Grover, D., & Narvaez, D. (November, 2014). Past Action Measure, moral orientation and prediction. Association for Moral Education, Pasadena, CA.
Thiel, A., Renfus, K., Grover, D., & Narvaez, D. (November, 2014). The peaceableness scale. Association for Moral Education, Pasadena, CA.
Polcari, K., Fish, A., Grover, D., Narvaez, D. (November, 2014). Parenting ideals: Childhood experience, attachment, and morality. Association for Moral Education, Pasadena, CA.
Noble, R., & Narvaez, D. (November, 2014). The relation of basic needs fulfillment to morality and wellbeing. Association for Moral Education, Pasadena, CA.
2013
Lawrence, A.V. & Narvaez, D. (October, 2013). Psychopathology, ethical identity, and aggression. Association for Moral Education, Montreal.
Narvaez, D., & Lawrence, A.V. (October, 2013). Multi-ethical orientations: Validation of Safety, Engagement, and Imagination. Association for Moral Education, Montreal.
Narvaez, D., Lawrence, A., Cheng, A., Wang, L., Gleason, T., & Lefever, J. (October, 2013). Adult reports of parenting they received relates to different types of moral orientations. Association for Moral Education, Montreal
Thiel, A., Thompson, C., Fish, A., Denkhaus, K., Noble, R., Fallon, M., Guzman, M., & Narvaez, D. (October, 2013). Attached or independent? Parenting style, personality and morality. Association for Moral Education, Montreal.
Murray, E., Mrkva, K., Pruitt, T., Conron, E., Peterson, E., & Narvaez, D. (October, 2013). How the Cowardly Lion and Scrooge became heroes: Fear and mortality-salience increase volunteering. Association for Moral Education, Montreal.
Christen, M., Tanner, C., Narvaez, D., & Ott, T. (October, 2013). Thesaurus-based value maps as an instrument for psychological research. Association for Moral Education, Montreal.
Christen, M., Roof, E., Godby, O., & Narvaez, D. (October, 2013). A German-English comparison of Thesaurus-based value maps reveals underlying semantic structures of cultural moral differences. Association for Moral Education, Montreal.
Narvaez, D., & Lawrence, A. (August, 2013). Measuring and Validating Multi-Ethical Identity. American Psychological Association, Honolulu.
Fish, A., Christen, M., Narvaez, D. (June, 2013). Assessing the connection between moral identity, parenting style experiences and parenting preferences. Jean Piaget Society, Chicago, IL.
Vaydich, J., & Narvaez, D. (April, 2013). Perceptions of alienation in parent-child relationships and emotional experiences during early adulthood. Society for Research in Child Development Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA.
2012
Narvaez, D., & Bock, T. (October, 2012). Integrative Ethical Education: A skills-based approach to moral character education. Workshop. Association for Moral Education, San Antonio, Texas.
Narvaez, D., Cheng, A., Brooks, J., Wang, L., & Gleason, T. (October, 2012). Does early parenting influence moral character development and flourishing? Association for Moral Education, San Antonio, Texas.
Christen, M., Denkhaus, K., Fish, A., Lawrence, A., Young, J., Thompson, C., & Narvaez, D. (October, 2012). Does moral identity influence the appreciation of different parenting practices? Association for Moral Education, San Antonio, Texas.
Mrkva, K., Narvaez, D., & Conron, E. (October, 2012). The malnourished African: Disgust-evoking appeals, effectiveness information, and social engagement. Association for Moral Education, San Antonio, Texas. *Best Poster Award
Pruitt, T., Evans, Z., Mrkva, K., Dinnini, A., Narvaez, D. (October, 2012). Priming different moral identities. Association for Moral Education, San Antonio, Texas.
Christen, M., Peterson, E., Kacprowicz, Z, & Lawrence, A. (October, 2012). The relation of promotion/prevention motivation to triune ethics identity. Association for Moral Education, San Antonio, Texas.
Narvaez, D., & Brooks, J. (April, 2012). Prosocial personality, early experience, moral identity and behavior. American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, British Columbia.
2011
Mrkva, K., Narvaez, D., Bettonville, B., Mullen, E., Prister, A., & Delgado, K. (October, 2011). Altruistic behavior: engagement, empathy and the Scrooge effect. Association for Moral Education, Nanjing, China.
Prister, A., Narvaez, D., Bettonville, B., Mrkva, K., Mullen, E., & Delgado, K. (for October, 2011). The crying baby: Moral identity influences moral perception. Association for Moral Education, Nanjing, China. *Best Poster Award
Vaydich, J., & Narvaez, D. (October, 2011). Parent-child relationships and the development of moral mindsets and aggressive behavior. Association for Moral Education Annual Meeting, Nanjing, China.
Narvaez, D., Wang, L., Cheng, A., Burke, J., & Gleason, T., & Deng, L. (October, 2011). The effects of ancestral parenting practices on the moral development of Chinese Three-Year-Olds. Association for Moral Education Annual Meeting, Nanjing, China.
Narvaez, D., & Gleason, T. (April, 2011). Moral Developmental, educational, and expertise differences influence understanding of moral stories and journalistic texts. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans.
Narvaez, D., Brooks, J.A., Gleason, T., Wang, L., Cheng, A., Lefever, J., & Centers for the Prevention of Child Neglect (April, 2011). Child outcome effects of the environment of evolutionary adaptedness: Breastfeeding experience and touch at 30 and 36 months. Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal.
Narvaez, D., Brooks, J., & Mattan, B. (April, 2011). Attachment-related variables predict moral mindset and moral action. Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal.
Brooks, J., Stey, P., Narvaez, D., Anthony, C., Junkins, T., & Bettonville, B. (January, 2011). Dimensions of conservatism and their relations to religiosity, spirituality, personality, and action: A 4-factor solution. Annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio.
Narvaez, D., Brooks, J., & Mattan, B. (January, 2011). Triune Ethics Moral Identities are Shaped by Attachment, Personality Factors and Influence Moral Behavior. Annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, San Antonio.
2010
Vaydich, J., & Narvaez, D. (November, 2010). Cognitive, affective, and personality predictors of various types of aggression. Association for Moral Education Annual Meeting, St. Louis. Honorable Mention Poster Award
Anthony, C., Mattan, B., Brooks, J., Laufenberg, L., Potter, L. Michalak, G., Narvaez, D. (November, 2010). Moral reactivity. Association for Moral Education Annual Meeting, St. Louis.
Brooks, J., Narvaez, D., Delgado, K., Laufenberg, L., Forster, K., & Michalak, G. (November, 2010). Triune ethics identities: Relation to personality and action. Association for Moral Education Annual Meeting, St. Louis.
Narvaez, D., Wang, L., Cheng, A., Burke, J., & Gleason, T. (November, 2010). Early life experience and social and moral development. Symposium on Early Life Experience and Moral Development. Association for Moral Education Annual Meeting, St. Louis.
Narvaez, D., & Gleason, T. (October, 2010). Early experience, human nature and moral development. Symposium on Human Nature and Early Experience: Addressing the “Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness,” University of Notre Dame.
Narváez, D., Brooks, J., Forster, K., Delgado, K., Laufenberg, L., & Michalak, G. (June, 2010). Moral identities, personality and moral action. Annual meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, St. Louis, Missouri.
2009
Vaydich, J., Narvaez, D., Borrego, A., & Nye, E. (July 2009). Empathy is Related to Lower Levels of Aggression After Provocation. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Moral Education. Utrecht, Netherlands.
Narvaez, D., Vaydich, J., Turner, J., Khmelkov, V. & Mullen, G. (April 2009). The Relation of learning climate and social climate to ethical character. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego.
2008
Narvaez, D., & Mattan, B. (May, 2008). Testing a neurobiological theory of moral personality. Annual Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago.
Narvaez, D., Mattan, B., & MacMichael, C. (May, 2008). Do prosocial videogames have a stronger effect on behavior than violent videogames? Annual Meeting of the European Association for Research in Adolescence. Turin, Italy. Best Poster Award.
Narvaez, D., Lynchard, N., Vaydich, J., & Mattan, B. (March, 2008). Cheating: explicit recognition, implicit evaluation, moral judgment and honor code training. Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Adolescence, Chicago.
Narvaez, D., Mattan, B., MacMichael, C., & Zamora, D. (March, 2008). Prosocial videogame play: does it have a stronger effect on behavior than violent videogame play? Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Adolescence, Chicago.
Vaydich, J., & Narvaez, D. (March, 2008). Anger regulation mediates the relation between parent-child relationships and aggression in late adolescence. Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Adolescence, Chicago.
2007
Kmehlkov, V., Narvaez, D., Turner, J.C., Vaydich, J., & Christensen, A. (November, 2007). A middle school academic and social climate influences on moral character. In symposium on Middle School Moral Development: Climate, Discourse and Teacher Efficacy. Association for Moral Education Annual Meeting, New York.
Narvaez, D., Turner, J.C., & Mullen, G. (November, 2007). Teacher discourse and its relation to moral character. In symposium on Middle School Moral Development: Climate, Discourse and Teacher Efficacy. Association for Moral Education Annual Meeting, New York.
Narvaez, D., Kmehlkov, V., & Vaydich, J. (November, 2007). A new scale for measuring teacher moral efficacy. In symposium on Middle School Moral Development: Climate, Discourse and Teacher Efficacy. Association for Moral Education Annual Meeting, New York.
Mattan, B., MacMichael, C., Narvaez, D. (November, 2007). Saving the dying: effects of playing a prosocial video game. Association for Moral Education Annual Meeting, New York.
Mattan, B., Kreager, R., & Narvaez, & (November, 2007). Dispositional Aspects of Triune Ethics Theory. In symposium, Triune Ethics: Testing a neurobiologically-rooted moral psychology theory. Association for Moral Education Annual Meeting, New York.
Narvaez, D., Mattan, B., MacMichael, C., & Squillace, M. (June, 2007). Positive attribution bias from playing a prosocial video game? Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Amsterdam.
Vaydich, J., Khmelkov, V., & Narvaez, D. (April, 2007). Comparing middle school learning motivations with ethical attitudes and behaviors. American Educational Research Association, Chicago.
2006
Bock, T., Lies, J. & Narvaez, D. (July, 2006). Ethical Identity Scale: Factor structure and validity. Association for Moral Education annual meeting, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Narvaez, D., Gomberg, A., & Carney, E. (July 2006). Moral personality is related to perception of morality in stories. Association for Moral Education annual meeting, Fribourg, Switzerland.
Vaydich, J., Kmelkhov, V., & Narvaez, D. (July 2006). Do academic goals lead to prosocial behavior? Association for Moral Education annual meeting, Fribourg, Switzerland.
2005
Gomberg, A., Zadzora, K., Walter, R., & Narvaez, D. (November, 2005). How good are children at rating the ethical content of moral stories? Association for Moral Education, Cambridge, MA.
Orlova, D., Gomberg, A., Squillace, M., & Narvaez, D. (November, 2005). Does medium matter? comparing ethical content ratings of text and video versions of stories. Association for Moral Education, Cambridge, MA.
Narvaez, D. Radvansky, G.A., Lynchard, N., & Copeland, D. (November, 2005). Are older adults more morally sensitive? Association for Moral Education, Cambridge, MA.
Lies, J., Endicott, L., Bock, T., & Narvaez, D. (November, 2005). The relation between ethical development and academic promotion. Association for Moral Education, Cambridge, MA.
Gomberg, A., Narvaez, D., & Bock, T. (November, 2005). The influence of personal relational attitudes on rights allocation. Association for Moral Education, Cambridge, MA.
Matthews, A. R., Bock, T., Gomberg, A. C., & Narvaez, D. (August, 2005). Postconventional thinkers: Interpersonally connected or indifferent? American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.
Matthews, A. & Narvaez, D. (April, 2005). Higher scores in moral judgment are related to more concern for others. American Educational Research Association, Montreal.
Gomberg, A., Narvaez, D., & Bock, T. (April, 2005). How cultural tolerance or intolerance influences personal relationships. American Educational Research Association, Montreal.
Bock, T., Lies, J., Narvaez, D., & Endicott, L. (April, 2005). Measuring the immeasurable: The evaluation of a character education project. American Educational Research Association, Montreal.
2004
Narvaez, D., Hagele, S., Lapsley, D.K. (November, 2004). The effect of moral identity on judging actions. Annual meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Minneapolis.
Narvaez, D., Gomberg, A., Matthews, A., (November, 2004). Symposium on Media and Moral Development: Rating Children’s Media with the Rating Ethical Content Scale (RECS). Annual meeting of the Association for Moral Education, Dana Point, CA.
Narvaez, D. & Hagele, S. (May, 2004). Chronic accessibility of interpersonal moral traits: judging people who don’t help in narratives. American Psychological Society, Chicago.
2003
Narvaez, D., & Hagele, S. (April, 2003). Chronic accessibility of moral trait inferences in moral stories. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Chicago.
Grabenstetter, J., Hagele, S., Herbst, R., Bock, T., Narvaez, D., & Lapsley, D.K. (November, 2002). Measuring moral personality with social information processing. Association for Moral Education, Chicago.
Conference Posters
Association for Moral Education, 2015
Basic Needs Fulfillment, Childhood and Sociomoral Behavior