Developmental Psychology

Shari Liu

Title: Social Curiosity and Social Learning Abstract: Learning does not occur in isolation. From parent-child interactions to formal classroom environments, humans explore, learn, and communicate in rich, diverse social contexts. Rather than simply...

Title: Folk philosophy of mind: Conceptual representations of mental life in early and middle childhood Abstract: Attributions of mental capacities play a central role in many of the richest traditions in developmental, cognitive, and social psychology...

Title: Evolutionary and Developmental Origins of Uniquely Human Social Cognition Abstract: Humans exhibit a remarkable pattern of sociality characterized by cooperation and competition on exceptional scales, rich cultures comprised of both universally...

Title: Using Automated Controlled Rearing to Characterize the Origins of Cognition Abstract: One of the great unsolved mysteries in psychology concerns the origins and basis of cognition. How do newborns transform sensory input into knowledge? What...

Title: Faces, objects, and agents: How infants and children understand the visual world Abstract : How we experience the world and interact with it is ultimately tied to how we represent relevant aspects of the world, such as objects and people. In my...

William James Hall, Basement Auditorium The Psychology Department's annual Harvest Day is a fun and informative afternoon of presentations by the faculty describing their research. It will be held in William James Hall 1 (basement classroom) from 1:00 to...

Laboratory for Developmental Studies Seminar Presenter - Young-eun Lee, Graduate Student

Laboratory for Developmental Studies Seminar Presenter - Jayden Ziegler, Graduate Student

Laboratory for Developmental Studies Seminar Presenter - Shari Liu, Graduate Student