Seattle, WA (Association for Moral Education, 2019)

	Mendonça, S., Navarro, K., Navarro, J., & Tudge, J. (2019, November). A Culture of Character? Virtuous Gratitude in a Montessori Setting. Poster presented at the Association of Moral Education annual meeting, Seattle, WA.
	Navarro, J., Mendonça, S., & Tudge, J. (2019, November). Divine Thanks? An Examination of Religiosity, Virtuous Gratitude and Moral Obligation. Poster presented at the Association of Moral Education annual meeting, Seattle, WA. *Honorable mention*

Baltimore, MD (Society for Research on Child Development, 2019)

	Freitas, L., Merçon-Vargas, E., Palhares, F., & Tudge, J. (2019, March). Gratitude as a Virtue: Assessing Age-related Changes via Three Replications in Southern Brazil. Presented as part of a symposium, “Gratitude in youth and adults in the United States, Brazil, and Poland” (J. Tudge & L. Freitas, Chairs), biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD.
	Navarro, J., Mendonça, S., Li, R., & Tudge, J. (2019, March). The cultivation of gratitude in school in the United States. Presented as part of a symposium, “Gratitude in youth and adults in the United States, Brazil, and Poland” (J. Tudge & L. Freitas, Chairs), biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD.
	O’Brien, L., Charles, F., Freitas, L., & Tudge, J. (2019, March). Child character virtues’ relation to parents’ values for their children. Presented as part of a symposium, “Gratitude in youth and adults in the United States, Brazil, and Poland” (J. Tudge & L. Freitas, Chairs), biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD.
	Tudge, J., Freitas, L., Merçon-Vargas, E., Mendonça, S., Payir, A., Mokrova, I., Liang, Y, O’Brien, L., Palhares, F., Lee, S., & Kiang, L. (2019, March). WEIRD expressions of gratitude in children and adolescents.  Poster presented in the biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD.

Barcelona, Spain (Association for Moral Education Conference, 2018)

Symposium on Gratitude

• Gratitude Strengthens Interpersonal Connections: How it Develops and how it can be Encouraged (Jonathan Tudge)
• The importance of ingratitude (at least from the point of view of understanding gratitude) (Jonathan Tudge)
• Developmental Differences in Understanding Gratitude and Educational Resources to Promote Discriminate Appreciation (Liz Gulliford, Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues University of Birmingham, UK)
• Gratitude as a Moral Virtue: Its Expression in Four Societies (Sara Mendonça, Lia Freitas, Yue Liang, Ayse Payir, and Jonathan Tudge)
• More “To” and Less “For”: A School-Based Curriculum Designed to Increase the Feeling and Expression of Gratitude as a Character Trait in Children (Jessica Navarro, Sara Mendonça, Ebony Leon, and Jonathan Tudge)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Society for Research in Child Development special topic meeting, “Promoting Character Development Among Diverse Children and Adolescents: The Roles of Families, Schools, and Out-Of-School-Time Youth Development Programs“)

	Navarro, J. & Morris, H. “Defining gratitude: A theoretical and methodological review of research with children and adolescents.” Poster presentation at SRCD Character Development Special Topic Meeting, October 2018.
	O’Brien, L., Charles, F., Kellenberger, A., Freitas, L., & Tudge, J. “Child Character Attributes in Relation to Parents’ Values for the Children.” Poster presentation at SRCD Character Development Special Topic Meeting, October 2018.
	Freitas, L., Vargas, E.,  Palhares, F., & Tudge, J. “Age-related changes in grartitude as a virtue of character: Three replications in southern Brazil.” Poster presentation at SRCD Character Development Special Topic Meeting, October 2018.
	Navarro, J., Mendonça, S., Leon, E., Li, R., Li, M., Towns, J., Morris, H., & Tudge, J. “Cultivation of the virtue of gratitude in school: Piloting an intervention.” Poster presentation at SRCD Character Development Special Topic Meeting, October 2018.

Chapel Hill, North Carolina (Emerging Insights from the Science of Gratitude)

	Tudge, J. R. H. “Gratitude as a Moral Virtue.”  Invited presentation, Conference on Emerging Insights from the Science of Gratitude, Chapel Hill, NC, January 2018.
Mendonça, S. E., & Tudge, J. R. H. “Gratitude in Cultural Context: Variation in Five Societies.” Presented at the  Conference on Emerging Insights from the Science of Gratitude, Chapel Hill, NC, January 2018.

Orlando, Florida (National Council on Family Relations)

Tudge, J. R. H. “It’s either too simple or way too complex: Applying Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological theory in family research.” Invited presentation, 2017 meeting of the National Council on Family Relations.

Saint Louis, Missouri (Association for Moral Education Conference)

	Leon, E. D., Merçon-Vargas, E., Towns, J., & Tudge, J. R. H. Racial/Ethnic variations in parents’ values and children’s gratitude expression. Poster presented at the 2017 annual meeting of the Association for Moral Education.

Utrecht, The Netherlands (European Conference on Developmental Psychology)

Tudge, J., & Freitas, L. (2017, August). A conceptual framework for studying the development of gratitude as a virtue. Presented as part of the symposium “Developing Gratitude in Children and Adolescents” (J. Tudge & L. Freitas, chairs) at the biennial meetings of the European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Kiang, L. (2017, August). Exploring the role of gratitude development on children’s dollars and desires. Presented as part of the symposium “Developing Gratitude in Children and Adolescents” (J. Tudge & L. Freitas, chairs) at the biennial meetings of the European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Mendonça, S., Payir, A., Liang, Y., Palhares, F., Mokrova, I., Merçon-Vargas, E., Price, U., Freitas, L., & Tudge, J. Gratitude in the majority versus the minority world: Variations in four societies. Presented as part of the symposium “Developing Gratitude in Children and Adolescents” (J. Tudge & L. Freitas, chairs) at the biennial meetings of the European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Utrecht, the Netherlands.

 Austin, TX (Society for Research in Child Development)

Mendonça, S., Payir, A., Liang, Y., Palhares, F., Mokrova, I. L., Merçon-Vargas, E., Price, U.S., O’Brien, L., Freitas, L. B. L., and Tudge, J. (April, 2017). Cross-cultural variability in the development of gratitude. Presented as part of the symposium “Developing gratitude in children and adolescents, 1: Positive and negative correlates” (L. B. L. Freitas & J. Tudge, Chairs) at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research on Child Development.

Payir, A., Kiang, L., Mendonça, S., Merçon-Vargas, E., Liang, Y., O’Brien, L., Price, U. S., O’Brien, L., Freitas, L. B. L., and Tudge, J. (April, 2017). Children’s dollars and desires: Exploring dual influences of gratitude and materialism. Presented as part of the symposium “Developing gratitude in children and adolescents, 1: Positive and negative correlates” (L. B. L. Freitas & J. Tudge, Chairs) at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research on Child Development.

O’Brien, L., Price, U. S., Merçon-Vargas, E., Liang, Y., Mendonça, S., McCoy, I., and Tudge, J. (April, 2017). Relations between parent and child gratitude. Presented as part of the symposium “Developing gratitude in children and adolescents, 2: The impact of parents and teachers” (L. B. L. Freitas & J. Tudge, Chairs) at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research on Child Development.

Liang, Y., Mokrova, I. L., Tudge, J., Merçon-Vargas, E., Mendonça, Price, U. S., (April, 2017). Development of Relatedness-Autonomy-Separate-Heteronomy Scale: Parents’ developmental goals for children in China and the U.S. Poster presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research on Child Development.

Mendonça, S., Freitas, L. B. L., O’Brien, L., and Tudge, J. (April, 2017). Benefactors and beneficiaries: Their connection created through gratitude. Poster presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research on Child Development.

Charlotte, North Carolina (Southeastern Council on Family Relations)

Price, U., Martin, E., Stone, K., Jeong, D., Merçon-Vargas, E., O’Brien, L. T. & Tudge, J. R. H. (2017). Association between children’s materialistic and non-materialistic values and their interpersonal relations. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Council on Family Relations.

New Orleans, Louisiana (Society for Cross-Cultural Research)

Payir, A., Zeytinoglu, S., & Palhares, F. M., (March, 2017). Children’s and adolescent’s expression of gratitude in Turkey. Presented as part of the symposium “Children’s and adolescent’s expression of gratitude across societies” (S. Mendonça, Chair) at the biennial meetings of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research.

Mendonça, S. E., O’Brien, L., McCoy, I., Martin, E. N., Stone, K. F. & Jeong, D. (March, 2017). Children’s and adolescent’s expression of gratitude in the United States. Presented as part of the symposium “Children’s and adolescent’s expression of gratitude across societies” (S. Mendonça, Chair) at the biennial meetings of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research.

Cambridge, Massachusetts (Association for Moral Education)

O’Brien, L. T. & Tudge, J. R. H. (2016). Children’s and Adolescents’ Decision-Making on Gratitude. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Moral Education.

Portland, Oregon (Society for Cross-Cultural Research)

	Tudge, J., Freitas, L., O’Brien, L., Kiang, L., Mokrova, I., Merçon-Vargas, E., Mendonça, S., Liang,Y., Wang, G., Payir, A., & Price, U. (February, 2016). Developing gratitude in the United States, Brazil, Russia, and China. Paper presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research.

*Payir, A., Tudge, J., & Freitas, L. (February,  2016). Turkish and Brazilian children’s gratitude and their connection to others: A cross-cultural comparison. Poster presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Cross-Cultural Research. *This presentation was awarded a prize as one of the best two posters at SCCR in 2016.

Austin, Texas (Society for the Study of Human Development)

Kiang, L. Tudge, J., Mendonça, S., Wang, Y., & Payir, A. (2015, October). Gratitude and materialism in context: Exploring individual and demographic influences.  Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for the Study of Human Development.

Liang, Y., Mokrova, I., & Tudge, J. (2015, October). Developing the RASH (Relatedness, Autonomy, Separation, Heteronomy): An improvement on Kagitcibasi’s measure of autonomy-relatedness. Presented as part of the symposium “The development of gratitude in context” (L. O’Brien, Chair) at the biennial meetings of the Society for theStudy of Human Development, Austin, TX.

Mendonça, S., Mercon-Vargas, E.A., Freitas, L., & Tudge, J. (2015, October). Cultural variations in wishes and gratitude. Presented as part of the symposium “The development of gratitude in context” (L. O’Brien, Chair) at the biennial meetings of the Society for the Study of Human Development, Austin, TX.

O’Brien, L., & Tudge, J. (2015, October). A second chance at gratitude. Presented as part of the symposium “The development of gratitude in context” (L. O’Brien, Chair) at the biennial meetings of the Society for the Study of Human Development, Austin, TX.

Price, U., O’Brien, L., & Tudge, J. (2015, October). Gratitude in the context of the benefactor. Presented as part of the symposium “The development of gratitude in context” (L. O’Brien, Chair) at the biennial meetings of the Society for the Study of Human Development, Austin, TX.

Braga, Portugal (European Conference on Developmental Psychology)

Freitas, L., & Tudge, J. Gratitude in childhood: A developmental approach. (2015, September). Presented at the biennial meetings of the European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Braga, Portugal.

Mendonça, S., Liang, Y., Merçon-Vargas, E., Mokrova, I., & Tudge, J. (2015, September) Parents’ values for their children: A confirmatory factor analysis evaluation of Kağitçibaşi’s model in the United States. Presented at the biennial meetings of the European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Braga, Portugal.

Payir, A., Tudge, J., & Freitas, L. (2015, September). Are members of “collectivist” societies equally concerned about others? Presented at the biennial meetings of the European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Braga, Portugal.

Tudge, J., Freitas, L., Mokrova, I, Wang, Y., & Merçon-Vargas, E. (2015, September) The development of the virtue of gratitude: Cross-cultural and age-related variations in children and adolescents. Presented at the biennial meetings of the European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Braga, Portugal.

Toronto, American Psychological Association

Merçon-Vargas, E., O’Brien, L., Kiang, L., Mendonça, S., Payir, A., Liang, Y., Pieta, M., Freitas, L., & Tudge, J. (2015, August). Challenges in conducting cross-cultural research on gratitude. Presented as part of a symposium “Child and youth gratitude and purpose: Lessons learned in conducting multi-national studies” (Mariano, J., Chair) at the biennial meetings of the American Psychological Association, Toronto.

Payir, A., Tudge, J., & Freitas, L. (2015, August). Comparing Turkish and Brazilian children’s gratitude and their connections to others. Presented at the biennial meetings of the American Psychological Association, Toronto.

Salvador, Brazil (North and Northeastern Conference of Psychology)

• Tudge, J., & Freitas, L. (2015, May). A expressão de gratidão em jovens de diferentes culturas [The expression of gratitude in youth from different cultures]. Presented at the biennial meetings of the Congresso de Psicologia Norte e Nordeste, Salvador, Brazil.

Philadelphia (Society for Research in Child Development)

• Freitas, L., Tudge, J., Palhares, F., & Prestes, A. (2015, March). The wishes and gratitude of 7- to 14-year-old Brazilians. Presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia.

Merçon-Vargas, E., Freitas, L., Pieta, M., & Tudge, J. (2015, March). Age-related changes in wishes and gratitude among Brazilian children and adolescents. Presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia.

O’Brien, L., & Tudge, J. (2015, March). Age differences in expressions of gratitude and types of wishes. Presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia.

• Tudge, J., Freitas, L., Mokrova, I., & Wang, Y. (2015, March). The development of gratitude in American, Brazilian, Russian, and Chinese 7- to 14-year-olds. Paper presented as part of the symposium “Predictors of gratitude in youth” (M. Ramsey & A. Gentzler, Chairs) at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia.

• Tudge, J., Mokrova, I., Freitas, I., Seidl-de-Moura, M., Kiang, L., Payir, A., & Liang, Y. (2015, March). Developing a new scale to assess autonomy-relatedness: The Related Autonomous Separate Heteronomous (RASH) scale. Presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia.

Oxford (Varieties of Virtue Ethics, Oriel College)

• Tudge, J., & Freitas, L. (2015, January). The development of the virtue of gratitude in different societies. Presented at the Varieties of Virtue Ethics Conference, Oriel College, Oxford.

• Tudge, J. (2014, May). O estudo de gratidão: Pensando sobre autonomia e relação [The study of gratitude: Thinking about autonomy and relatedness]. Presented at the biennial meetings of ANPEPP, Bento Gonçalves, RS, Brasil.

• Merçon-Vargas, E., & Tudge, J. (2014, March). Developing gratitude: Changes in the expression of gratitude among Brazilian children and adolescents. Presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence, Austin, Texas.

• Wang, D., & Tudge, J. (2014, March). Cultural variations in the expression of gratitude of children and adolescents: A Chinese and American comparison. Presented at the Society for Research on Adolescence, Austin, Texas.

• Tudge, J. (2013, December). Children’s wishes and the expression of gratitude: Variations by age and society. Presented at the HDFS Research Forum, Greensboro, NC, USA.

• Freitas, L., Tudge, J., Palhares, F., & Prestes, A., (2013, November). Relações entre gratidão e outros valores de crianças e adolescents [Relations among gratitude and other values in children and adolescents]. Paper presented as part of a symposium “O desenvolvimento da gratidão: Valores de jovens no Brasil, Estados Unidos, Rússia e China” [The development of gratitude: The values of youth in Brasil, the USA, Russia, and China] (J. Tudge, Chair), Biennial meetings of the Brasilian Congress of Developmental Psychology, João Pessoa, Brasil.

• Tudge, J., Wang, D., Mokrova, I., Wang, Y., Merçon-Vargas, E., & Freitas (2013, November). Variações culturais na expressão da gratidão: Pesquisas realizadas no Brasil, nos Esados Unidos, Rússia e China [Cultural variations in the expression of gratitude: Research conducted in Brasil, the USA, Russia, and China]. Paper presented as part of a symposium “O desenvolvimento da gratidão: Valores de jovens no Brasil, Estados Unidos, Rússia e China” [The development of gratitude: The values of youth in Brasil, the USA, Russia, and China] (J. Tudge, Chair), Biennial meetings of the Brasilian Congress of Developmental Psychology, João Pessoa, Brasil.

• Tudge, J., Freitas, L., Wang, Y, Mokrova, I, & Legette, K. (2013, April). The expression of gratitude and materialism in childhood and adolescence. Paper presented as part of a symposium “Promoting gratitude as a skill for building positive connections between adolescents and society” (G. Bono, Chair), biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, WA, USA.

• Tudge, J., & Freitas, P. (2011, May). What do children and adolescents want? The relations between materialism and gratitude. Poster presented at the Norte e Nordeste Congresso de Psicologia, Salvador, Brasil.

• Tudge, J., Vadehra, P., Wang, Y., Stone, K., & Freitas, L. (2011, April). From materialism to social well-being: Links with gratitude among children and adolescents. Poster presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Canada.

• Vadehra, P., Freitas, L., Wang, Y., Stone, K., & Tudge, J. (2011, April). Changes in the expression of gratitude among American children and adolescents. Poster presented at the biennial meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Canada.

• Vadehra, P., Lane, C., Stone, K., & Tudge, J. (2011, February). Are children grateful? Development of gratitude in children and adolescents. Poster presented at the Southeastern Symposium on Child and Family Development, Greensboro.

• Vadehra, P., Wang, Y., Freitas, L., Stone, K., & Tudge, J. (2010, March). “If you take me to Disneyland, I’ll give you a hug.” Expressions of gratitude in children. Paper presented as part of a symposium “The development of gratitude in children and adolescents” (Jonathan Tudge, chair; Scott Heubner, discussant). The Conference on Human Development, New York City.