I study social and cognitive development, including social categories, gender and racial biases, inequality, and STEM engagement.
My past research includes topics in the following areas:
*Parent-child conversations about race and racism.
*Gender backlash of children and adults.
*Longitudinal intervention on Pre-Kindergarten girls’ science engagement.
*Children's essentialist and stigmatizing beliefs about novel mental disorders.
*Preschooler’s causal-and-effect learning from fantasy compared to real storybooks.Â