Wesleyan University
erchase Barry Finder ’09 (BA/MA) completed work on his Master’s thesis, “Rethinking Developmental Transitions.” Dominic Gibson ’10 completed his senior thesis entitled “Two’s Company: Children’s Early Meanings of the Word ‘Two.’” Gwynne Hunter ’10 also completed her senior thesis, “How minimal group membership affects rapid judgments.” Both presented their research at the Psychology Department 2010 Poster … Read more
Kyle MacDonald ’10 completed his senior thesis and presented his research at the Psychology Department 2010 Poster Session.
Jessica Sullivan ’08 and Ariel (Ballinger) Starr ’07 co-authored a new article with Hilary Barth. Their work on children’s numerical estimation will appear in the journal Cognitive Development. PDF
Keera Bhandari ’08/MA ’09 is the author (with Hilary Barth) of a new journal article based on her Master’s thesis research. The article appears in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology -(PDF). Keera also successfully defended her thesis, and finished collecting data for her final study of how preschool children make use of the testimony of … Read more
Lauren Feld ’11 co-authored a paper with Prof. Shusterman on emotion regulation in trichotillomania. The paper is also authored by Drs. Nancy Keuthen and Lee Baer at Massachusetts General Hospital and will appear in Behavior Research and Therapy. PDF
The lab also welcomed its newest and youngest member, Callahan Jane! Callie was born on July 30th to Hilary Barth and her husband Sean Gomez.
Jenn Garcia ’10 worked with postdoctoral fellow Mariah Schug on her ongoing studies of the development of group bias in childhood. Mariah also traveled to the Faroe Islands to collect data for a series of collaborative studies. Kyle MacDonald ’10 completed data collection for two experiments in an ongoing series of studies investigating children’s numerical … Read more
Barry Finder ’09 (BA/MA) presents his poster entitled “Nonproficient counters understand that numbers represent sets” at the 2009 Wesleyan Psychology Poster Session. Christian Hoyos ’11 presents his poster entitled “Children’s ability to use direct and indirect landmarks for navigation” at the 2009 Wesleyan Psychology Poster Session. Sarah Edelman ’09 presents her Senior Thesis research at … Read more