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CURRENT LAB MEMBERS

Kimberly Linetsky

Kim is a doctoral student in the Educational Psychology program at UA. She is interested in how children form beliefs about their world. ​She is currently working on the “free will” project, exploring children’s beliefs about the kinds of things they can control in others, and the “natural events” project, exploring how children explain the natural events that occur in the world (e.g., like floods or flowers blooming).

Nghi (Sherry) Nguyen

Sherry is a doctoral student in the Educational Psychology program at UA. She is interested selective social learning in children  and residential mobility. ​She is currently working on the “media richness” project, exploring how much children trust video versus audio interactions, and the “repetition effect” project, exploring whether a source who repeats misinformation becomes more believable.

Liz Robinson

​Liz is an incoming doctoral student in the Educational Psychology program at UA. She is interested in screens and children’s exposure to digital media. 

Adleigh Faulkenburg

​Adleigh is in the accelerated master’s program in Human Development at UA. She is interested in how parents pass information to their children. Her research project is focused on children’s financial beliefs and behaviors.

Angel Reed

Angel is a student majoring  in HDFS. ​They is currently working on the media richness project, exploring how much children trust video versus audio interactions. 

Katie Birmingham

Katie is a Nursing major. She is working on the “money talks” project exploring how children’s’ beliefs about money are influenced by their parents. 

Annaleigh Eason

Angel is a Biology major. ​She is currently working on the “repetition effect” project, exploring how repeated misinformation might becomes more believable over time.

Janey Watson

Janey is an HDFS and a Math major. She is working on the “money talks” project exploring how children’s’ beliefs about money are influenced by their parents. 

Clara Smith

Clara is a Psychology major. ​She is currently working on the “digital media” project, exploring how exposure to digital media affects children’s executive function.

LAB ALUMNI

Sarah Cagle (Biology, 2018 – Biology) – Children’s Early Conceptions of Free Will and the Controllability of Thoughts, Actions, and Feelings
Grace Parente (BA, 2018 – Communicative Disorders) – Children’s Judgments of Contrasting Words
Nicole Chambers (BS, 2017 – Chemistry) – Children’s Early Conceptions of Free Will and the Controllability of Thoughts, Actions, and Feelings
Shakira Savage (MS, 2016 – HDFS) ​- What Not to Swear: How Do Children Learn Bad Words?
Melissa Chapman (MS, 2016 – HDFS) – Does Group Membership Affect Children’s Judgments of Social transgressions
Courtney Ricciardi (BS, 2016 – Psychology) – The effect of temporary, transgressor related factors on children’s moral evaluations
Laurie Williams (MS, 2015 – HDFS) – Children’s Evaluations of Moral and Conventional Retaliations
Azaliah Israel (MS, 2014 – HDFS) – Does Father Involvement/Warmth Predict Adolescent Risky Sexual Behavior and Intergenerational Teenage Pregnancy?
Hannah Medders (BS, 2014 – Psychology) – Multimodal categorization: Categorizing things you can’t see
Sarah Tharani (BS, 2014 – Health Studies) – Children’s Willingness to Trust Facts and Opinions
Jamie Cummings (PhD, 2013 – Educational Psychology) – Theory of Mind and Moral Judgment in Children with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder
Alissa Simpson (MS, 2013 – HDFS) – Impact of Teacher Beliefs, Education, Experience and Training on Quality Child Care
Erica Mathis (BS, 2013 – Psychology) – Children’s Willingness to Trust Facts and Opinions
Jessy Thorn (MS, 2012 – HDFS) – Judging the Victims and Beneficiaries of Social Actions
Gayle Faught (BS, 2012 – Psychology) – Word Unlearning: What Happens When Children Have To Correct A Word Learning Error?
Ethan Gros (BS, 2012 – Psychology) – Do Children Believe that People “Get What They Deserve”?
Kim Sanders (MS, 2011 – HDFS) – Individual Differences in Rural Children’s Video Word Learning
Jenna Montgomery (BS, 2011 – Psychology) – Preschoolers Ability to Distinguish between Lying and Ignorance
Alicia Leslie (MS, 2010 – HDFS) – The Consequences of Reversing Trust or Not Reversing Trust
Katelyn Davis (BS, 2010 – Psychology) – Do Children Use Past Actions to Determine the Future Reliability of an Actor?
Brandy Fields (MS, 2009 – HDFS) – Written Word Learning
Lakeshia Hardy (MS, 2008 – HDFS) – The Early Start Sign Language Program: Using Sign Language to Advance Language Development in Young Children
Rebekah Allen (MS, 2008 – HDFS) – Word Learning from Videos: Evidence from 2-year-olds
Anna Beth Keith (BS, 2008 – Psychology) – Multimodal Word Learning in Preschool Children
Andrea Emerson (BS, 2007 – HDFS) – Object Movement and Location in Children’s Word Learning
Travis Hartin (BS, 2009 – Psychology) – Object Movement and Location in Children’s Word Learning AND From Act to Actor: Does Social Domain Information Support Trait Attributions about an Actor?