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The Structure and Development of Logical Representations in Thought and Language
(2015-09-22)
The expressive power of human thought and language comes from the ability to systematically combine a finite vocabulary of concepts into a boundless number of meaningful thoughts. What properties of conceptual representations ...
Abstract Representations of Attributed Emotion: Evidence From Neuroscience and Development
(2015-05-12)
Humans can recognize others’ emotions based on overt cues such as facial expressions, affective vocalizations, or body posture, or by recruiting an abstract, causal theory of the conditions that tend to elicit different ...
Childhood Anxiety Disorders: Developmental Risk Factors and Predictors of Treatment Response
(2016-07-26)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is the evidence-based treatment of choice for childhood anxiety disorders. Its blend of cognitive and behavioral coping strategies for anxiety management has more empirical support than ...
The Developmental Origins of Logical Inference: Deduction and Domain-Generality
(2016-09-15)
Is there a fundamental divide between the types of thoughts that human adults can entertain and those available to infants and nonhuman animals? The research in this dissertation explores the developmental origins of ...
The Development of Character Judgments From Faces
(2015-03-30)
First impressions play a central role in human social interaction. In particular, the face is a rich source of information that perceivers use in making both initial and lasting character judgments. Despite the large and ...
Breaking and Entering: Verb Semantics and Event Structure
(2015-02-25)
Any event can be construed from a variety of perspectives. While this flexibility is fundamental to human ingenuity, it poses a challenge for language learners who must discern which meanings are encoded in their language ...
Social Learning in Early Childhood: Learning When to Seek Help and How to Give It
(2018-05-10)
The amount and kinds of information that humans have access to is vastly increased by our ability to learn from and teach others. It is impossible, however, for a single person to learn all of this information in a lifetime. ...
Family Matters: Tracing the Social Cognitive Development of Kinship Understanding
(2018-05-10)
Kinship provides the major framework for social organization, but when do infants and children develop understanding of these social relationships and how they affect social behaviors? This dissertation proposes that ...
The Association Between Children’s Beliefs About Emotions and Symptoms of Depression
(2017-05-08)
This dissertation examines the association between children’s beliefs about the malleability of emotions and their symptoms of depression. In Study 1a, I report on the development of a novel method of assessing beliefs ...