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Journal Articles

  1. DeCaro JA, DeCaro E, Ashley DH. 2011. Investigating the social ecology of daily experience using computerized structured diaries: Physical activity among Mexican-American young adults. Field Methods, in press. View the abstract. Full text pdf available upon request.
  2. DeCaro JA, Worthman CM. 2011. Changing family routines at kindergarten entry predict biomarkers of parental stress. International Journal of Behavioral Development 35(5):441-448. View the abstract. Full text pdf available upon request.
  3. DeCaro JA, DeCaro E, Worthman CM. 2010. Sex differences in child nutritional and immunological status 5-9 years post contact in fringe highland Papua New Guinea. American Journal of Human Biology 22(5):657-666. View the abstract. Full text pdf available upon request.
  4. DeCaro JA. 2008. Methodological considerations in the use of salivary α-amylase as a stress marker in field research.  American Journal of Human Biology 20(5):617-619. View the abstract. Full text pdf available upon request.
  5. DeCaro JA, Worthman CM. 2008. Culture and the socialization of child cardiovascular regulation at school entry in the US. American Journal of Human Biology 20(5):572-583. View the abstract. Full text pdf available upon request.
  6. DeCaro JA, Worthman CM. 2008. Return to school accompanied by changing associations between family ecology and cortisol. Developmental Psychobiology 50(2):183-195. View the abstract. Full text pdf available upon request.
  7. DeCaro JA, Worthman CM. 2007. Cultural models, parent behavior, and young child experience in working American families. Parenting: Science and Practice 7(2):177-203. View the abstract. Full text pdf available upon request.


Abstracts

  1. DeCaro JA, DeCaro E. 2011. Validation of PROUST daily activity diaries against concurrent actigraphy [abstract]. American Journal of Human Biology 23:256.
  2. DeCaro JA, DeCaro E, Worthman CM. 2010. Sex-differentiated parental care and child nutritional and inflammation status 5-9 years post contact in the fringe highlands of Papua New Guinea [abstract]. American Journal of Human Biology 22:251.
  3. DeCaro JA. 2009. Novel non-invasive alternatives for the measurement of autonomic stress responses in children and adults [abstract]. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 138(S48):116-117.
  4. DeCaro JA, Ashley DH. 2009. Culture, daily routines, and patterns of physical activity among Mexican American residents of West Alabama [abstract]. American Journal of Human Biology 21:250.
  5. DeCaro JA, Worthman CM. 2007. Cortisol and the evolutionary design of child developmental competencies: Family function predicts adrenocortical responses during a normative ecological challenge [abstract]. American Journal of Human Biology 19:253.
  6. DeCaro JA, Kuzara JL, Worthman CM. 2004. A busy life - not what it seems? Exemplar of a new approach to the study of stress [abstract]. American Journal of Human Biology 16:200.
  7. DeCaro JA, Worthman CM. 2004. State regulation across the generations: Children's autonomic arousal and their parents' daily schedules [abstract]. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 123(S38):83.
  8. DeCaro JA, Worthman CM, Angold A. 2001. Stress reactivity: State or trait? [abstract]. American Journal of Human Biology 13:117.
  9. DeCaro JA, Worthman CM. 2000. Human life history and mortality: A developmental evolutionary approach to differential health outcomes [abstract]. American Journal of Human Biology 12:265.
  10. DeCaro JA, Potenziano JL, Jiang R, Bane S. 1997. Preparation of fluorescently labeled alpha-tubulin [abstract]. Molecular Biology of the Cell 8(suppl):45a.

 

Presentations

  1. DeCaro JA. 2010. Imagining tomorrow’s families: A developmental, ecological approach. Invited paper for the Emory University Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life conference, Imagining the Future of the Family, Atlanta.
  2. DeCaro JA. 2009. Physical activity, body composition, and the embodiment of culture through daily routine. Paper for the Society for Medical Anthropology, New Haven, CT.
  3. DeCaro JA, Worthman CM. 2008. When stress isn't stressful. Paper for the Society for Medical Anthropology, Memphis, Mar 26 - 29.
  4. DeCaro JA, Worthman CM. 2007. Self-regulation: Development and deconstruction. Invited paper for the American Anthropological Association, Washington, Nov 28 - Dec 2.
  5. Worthman CM, DeCaro JA. 2007. Cultural models, parenting stress, and daily life predictors of child mood and behavior problems after return to school. Paper for the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, Mar 29 - Apr 1.
  6. DeCaro JA. 2007. Perspectives on anthropological research in child development using psychobiological markers. Roundtable panelist for the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, Mar 29 - Apr 1.
  7. Worthman CM, DeCaro JA. 2007. Culture checks in but it doesn't check out: Cultural models, parenting practices, and child self regulation. Paper for the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Manhattan Beach, CA, Mar 8 - 11.
  8. DeCaro JA, Worthman CM. 2006. Characterizing the bioecocultural architecture of daily life: Family function and child arousal regulation during a normative social challenge. Paper for the American Anthropological Association, San Jose, Nov 15 - 19.
  9. DeCaro JA, Brown RA, Worthman CM. 2006. Up close and personal: Examining well-being in relation to everyday social ecology. Paper for the Society for Applied Anthropology, Vancouver, Mar 28 - Apr 2.
  10. DeCaro JA, Worthman CM. 2006. Everyday social ecology and child stress: Differential effects of social challenge vs. stability. Poster for the Society for Medical Anthropology, Vancouver, Mar 28 - Apr 2.
  11. DeCaro JA, Worthman CM. 2005. Daily Life Architecture and child self regulation: The role of the developmental microniche. Invited paper at the American Anthropological Association, Washington, Nov 30 - Dec 4.
  12. DeCaro JA, Worthman CM. 2005. Autonomic arousal and the architecture of daily life: Children's reactivity predicts parents' scheduling density. Poster at the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, Apr 7 - 10.
  13. Worthman CM, DeCaro JA. 2003. Impact of time demands on family well-being: Findings from the Great Smoky Mountains Study. Paper at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Centers for Working Families, Los Angeles, May 15 - 16.
  14. DeCaro JA, Worthman CM. 2003. The "time bind" and the cultural ecology of stress in metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia. Poster at the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, Apr 24 - 27.
  15. DeCaro JA. 2003. Bioculture and the proximal ecology of stress. Paper at the national symposium "Building Biocultural Anthropology," Atlanta, Mar 6 - 8.
  16. DeCaro JA, Worthman CM. 2002. Judging structure and chaos in families' daily schedules - what are the relevant variables? Paper at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Centers for Working Families, Atlanta, May 9 - 10.

Electronic Resources

  1. DeCaro JA. 2008. PROUST v2.0 [computer program]. An authorized re-design and update of PROUST v1.1 (Worthman et al.; see below); software engineering by Stormlogic LLC. http://www.bama.ua.edu/~jdecaro/dehb/proust.html
  2. DeCaro JA, Worthman CM, Ternullo NJ, Brown R, the Laboratory for Comparative Human Biology. 2002. Configuration and Research Manual: PROUST for PalmOS v1.1b. Atlanta: Emory University. http://www.anthropology.emory.edu/CHB/PROUST.html
  3. Worthman CM, DeCaro JA, Ternullo NJ, Moody J, Brown R, the Laboratory for Comparative Human Biology. 2002. PROUST for PalmOS v1.1b [computer program]. http://www.anthropology.emory.edu/CHB/PROUST.html
  4. Brown RA, DeCaro JA. 2002. Acknowledge application notes: Impedance cardiography and pre-ejection period. http://www.biopac.com/Manuals/app_pdf/app199.pdf
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