Below is a list of publications I have co-authored that are available to view. If you have any issues accessing the PDFs linked here, please reach out! For more information, you can visit my google scholar page. 

Leshin, R.A. & Rhodes, M. (In press). Girls as objects, boys as humans: Young children tend to be objectified along gender lines. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.  

Lei, R. F. & Leshin, R.A. (2025). Addressing fundamental inequalities requires starting early. Psychological Inquiry, 36(2), 142-146. [invited commentary of target article]

Leshin, R.A., Benitez, J., Fu, S., Cordeiro, S. & Rhodes, M. (2025). "Kids and Girls": Parents convey a male default in child-directed speech. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(11), e2420810122.

Arnold, S., Burke, N., Leshin, R.A., & Rhodes, M. (2024). Infants’ visual attention to own- and other-race faces is moderated by experience with people of different races in their daily lives. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(11), 2686–2699

Leshin, R.A. & Rhodes, M. (2023). Structural explanations for inequality reduce children’s biases and promote rectification only if they implicate the high-status group. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(35), e2310573120.

Leshin, R.A., Yudkin, D., Van Bavel, J., Kunkel, L., & Rhodes, M. (2022). Parents’ political ideology predicts how their children punish. Psychological Science, 33(11), 1894-1908.

Benitez, J., Leshin, R.A., & Rhodes, M. (2022). The influence of linguistic form and causal explanations on the development of social essentialism. Cognition, 229, 105246.

Lei, R.F., Leshin, R.A., Moty, K., Foster-Hanson, E., & Rhodes, M. (2022). How race and gender shape the development of social prototypes in the United States. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. 151(8), 1956–1971.

Leshin, R.A., Lei, R.F., Byrne, M., & Rhodes, M. (2022). Who is a typical woman? Exploring variation in how race biases representations of gender across development. Developmental Science. 25(2), e13175.

Leshin, R.A., Leslie S.J., & Rhodes, M. (2021). Does it matter how we speak about social kinds? A large, pre-registered, online experimental study of how language shapes the development of essentialist beliefs. Child Development. 92(4): e531-547.

Lei, R.F., Leshin, R.A., & Rhodes, M. (2020). The development of intersectional social prototypes. Psychological Science. 31(8): 911-926.

Rhodes, M., Rizzo, M.T., Foster-Hanson, E., Moty, K., Leshin, R.A., Wang, M., Benitez, J., & Ocampo, D. (2020). Advancing developmental science via remote unmoderated research with children. Journal of Cognition & Development. 21(4): 477-493

Foster-Hanson, E., Cimpian, A., Leshin, R.A., & Rhodes, M. (2020). Asking children to 'be helpers' can backfire after setbacks. Child Development. 91(1): 236-248.