Toni Falbo is a Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology and a Faculty Research Associate of Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Falbo earned the status of Fellow of the American Psychological Association in 1982 and Fellow of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology in 2009. She has served as President of Division 34 (Society for Environmental, Population, and Conservation Psychology) of the American Psychological Association and as President of the Southwestern Psychological Association. In 2007 she won the Newman-Proshansky Award from Division 34 for her contribution to the field of Population Psychology.
Falbo is most well-known for her research about sibling effects on a variety of outcomes, including academic achievement, psychological adjustment, and loneliness. Since 1978, she has published 38 journal articles and chapters about sibling effects, examining these effects within child, adolescent, adult, and elderly populations. She is internationally recognized as a leading expert on only children, including Chinese only children. In addition, Falbo has made significant contributions to the study of ethnic minority education and cross-cultural research. For example, in 1996 she published Latino High School Graduation, with Harriett D. Romo, and most recently she published an article comparing the family obligation values of Korean and American college students.
Falbo runs the Social Psychology and Human Development Lab: Siblings, Family & Culture.
Ph.D.
in Social Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1973
M.A.
in Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1969
B.A.
in Psychology, George Washington University, 1968
Falbo uses both quantitative and qualitative methodologies to address problems in education and health. She is an internationally recognized expert on only children, including their academic, social, emotional, and health outcomes. Falbo is also an expert on conducting cross-cultural research and research aimed at improving the education of ethnic minorities in the U.S.
Interim Graduate Advisor,
Department of Educational Psychology (2018 - 2020)
Chair,
Graduate Studies Committee, Educational Psychology Department (2013 - 2018)
Faculty Advisor,
Hogg Foundation for Mental Health (1992 - 1994)
President,
Division 34 (Society for Environmental, Population, and Conservation Psychology), American Psychological Association (1984 - 1985)
President,
Southwestern Psychological Association (1983)
Departmenal Review Committee,
Institutional Review Board, University of Texas
Oh, H., Falbo, T. & Lee, K. (2020). Culture moderates the relationships between family obligation values and the outcomes of Korean and European American college students. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 51(6), 511-525. doi:.
Falbo, T. & Lin, S. (2020). Birth Order. Encyclopedia of Creativity (3ed., Vol. 1, pp. 129-133): Elsevier. doi:.
Falbo, T. & Rodgers, J.L. (2019). Population Psychology. Handbook of Population (2ed., pp. 499-520): Springer.
Falbo, T. (2018). Evaluations of the behavioral attributes of only children in Beijing, China: moderating effects of gender and the one-child policy. Heliyon, 4(4). doi:.
Falbo, T. & Hooper, S.Y. (2015). Chinas Only Children and Psychopathology: A quantitative synthesis. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 85(3), 259-274. doi:.
Lin, S.L., Falbo, T., Qu, W., Wang, Y. & Feng, X. (n.d.). Chinese Only Children and Loneliness: Stereotypes and Realities (in press). American Journal of Orthopsychiatry.
Newman-Proshansky Award
- American Psychological Association Division 34 (Population and Environmental Psychology) (2007)
