Current Research
Children’s Credibility Judgements
Dr. Catharine Echols, Language Development Lab – Studying how children decide whether a speaker’s statements are believable.
Children’s Domain Creativity
Dr. Jacqueline Woolley and Taryn Crone, Imagination and Cognition Lab – Studying children’s development of creativity across multiple areas such as art and pretend play.
Language and Cognitive Development in Childhood
Dr. Katharine Tillman, Austin Thought Lab – Studying how young children learn new words and concepts and how language and cognitive development are related.
Using Eating Utensils in Children and Adults
Dr. Jeffrey Lockman and “Mark” Liang-Chi Chen, The Action Lab – Studying how children use eating utensils.
Past Research
Vision in Natural Tasks
Sara Schroer, Vision, Cognition, and Action Virtual Reality Lab – Studying how children use their eyes while engaging in everyday, natural behaviors.
Polyregulation Study
Nicole Perry, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences – Understanding co-regulation and physical synchrony between both teachers and young children and caregivers and young children
Language and Cognitive Development in Childhood
Austin Thought Lab, Department of Psychology – Understanding how children think about objects, numbers, time, colors, and cause-and-effect relationships, and how they learn language related to these concepts
Physical Activity in Preschool Study
Andrew Koepp, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences – Understanding how children’s physical activity during the school day relates to their attention and behavior in the classroom
Ambient Temperature and Physical Activity Study
Andrew Koepp, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences – Understanding how ambient temperature affects children’s outdoor physical activity
Goodness Gracious Study
Imagination & Cognition Lab, Department of Psychology – Understanding how children interpret the thoughts and emotions of others
Serial Box Study
Cognition, Culture and Development Lab, Department of Psychology – Examining how children solve tasks and use information provided by adults
Artifact Study
Cognition, Culture and Development Lab, Department of Psychology – Examining the effect of observing a tool used in a ritual context on children’s perceived instrumental function of the tool
Families of Four
Sarah Murphy, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences – Developing and validating an observational coding system to understand how families function after the birth of a second child
Acquisition of English Past Tense in Bilingual Children
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders – Profiling and comparing English past tense marking systems in two simultaneous bilingual groups relative to their English monolingual counterparts
Parenting and Children’s Sexuality Development
Diana Orozco-Lapray, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences – Exploring the degree to which parents (a) are aware of their child’s emerging sexuality and (b) consider physical and sexuality education during the early years of parenthood
Ritual Study
Cognition, Culture and Development Lab, Department of Psychology – Examining how the cost of entry into a group affects children’s willingness to co-operate with in-group and out-group members, as well as their commitment to in-group values
Peer Belief Revision Study
Cognition, Culture and Development Lab, Department of Psychology – Examining the development of imitation and the mechanisms of imitation as they relate to learning in individual and group settings
