Below is a list of publications I have co-authored that are available to access online. For more information, you can visit my google scholar page. 

deMayo, B.E, Gallagher, N.M., Leshin, R.A., & Olson, K.R. (2025). Stability and change in gender identity and sexual orientation across childhood and adolescents. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 90(1-3), 7-172.  

Leshin, R.A. & Rhodes, M. (2025). Girls as objects, boys as humans: Young children tend to be objectified along gender lines. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 129(2), 266-285.  

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.