EDUCATION
2020 Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Developmental Psychology
University of Waterloo
2015 Master of Applied Science (M.A.Sc.), Developmental and Communication Science
University of Waterloo
2014 Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Honours in Psychology, Biology Minor
University of Waterloo
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2023 Society for Research in Child Development Early Career Travel Award ($500)
2020 Ontario Graduate Scholarship ($15,000)
2020 President’s Graduate Scholarship ($10,000)
2019 Society for Research in Child Development Graduate Student Travel Award ($300)
2019 Ontario Graduate Scholarship ($15,000)
2019 President’s Graduate Scholarship ($10,000)
2018 Best Research Project Award, International Summer School in Affective Sciences
2018 Development 2018 Travel Award ($120)
2017 Cognitive Development Society Diversity Travel Award ($550)
2015 Provost Doctoral Entrance Award ($5000)
2015 The Cognitive Science Society Marr Prize for Best Student Paper ($1000)
2015 The Cognitive Science Society Student Travel Grant ($500)
2010 Faculty of Science Entrance Scholarship ($500)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
Doan, T. & Wu, Y. (2024, July). Children and adults consider others' resources when inferring their emotions. Talk presented at the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Friedman, O., Doan, T., & Denison, S. (2024, June). Doing things intentionally: Probability raising and control. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. West Lafayette, Indiana.
Doan, T., Friedman, O., & Denison, S. (2023, March). Probability as input for children's emotion inferences. Talk presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting. Salt Lake City, Utah.
Doan, T., Friedman, O., & Denison, S. (2023, March). Preschoolers consider probability information when inferring people's surprise. Talk presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting. Salt Lake City, Utah.
Doan, T., Friedman, O., & Denison, S. (2022, June). Children consider different kinds of evidence when inferring people's desires. Talk presented at Development 2022: A Canadian Conference on Developmental Psychology. Calgary, Alberta.
Doan, T., Friedman, O., & Denison, S. (2021, July). Development in children’s use of probability to infer emotions. Flash talk presented at the Interdisciplinary Advances in Affective Cognition pre-conference workshop at the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Virtual.
Lu, J., Doan, T., & Denison, S. (2021, April). Can children use numerical reasoning to compare odds in games? Talk presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting. Virtual.
Doan, T., Friedman, O., & Denison, S. (2019, March). Children use probability to make quality judgments before happiness judgments. Talk presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting. Baltimore, Maryland.
Doan, T., Friedman, O., & Denison, S. (2017, October). A pleasant surprise: Children use probability to infer people’s surprise and happiness. Talk presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society. Portland, Oregon.
Doan, T., Denison, S., Lucas, C., & Gopnik, A. (2017, April). Belief revision in theory of mind: Can training induce conceptual change in desire-based reasoning?. Talk presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting. Austin, Texas.
Doan, T., Castro, A., Bonawitz, E., & Denison, S. (2017, April). This puzzle is hard! Difficulty of one task affects children's exploration on a second task. Talk presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting. Austin, Texas.
Denison, S., Doan, T., & Biro, N. (2016, August). Can preschoolers direct their learning based on difficulty? Evidence from word learning. Talk presented at a pre-conference workshop of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Doan, T., Denison, S., Lucas, C., & Gopnik, A. (2015, July). Learning to reason about desires: An infant training study. Talk presented at the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Pasadena, California.
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Doan, T. & Wu, Y. (2024, March). Who did it? Children infer agent responsibility from others' emotional reactions. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society. Pasadena, California.
Doan, T., Ong, D., & Wu, Y. (2023, November). Emotion understanding as third-person appraisals: Integrating appraisal theories with developmental theories of emotion. Poster presented at the Princeton Summit on Affective Science. Princeton, New Jersey.
Doan, T., Friedman, O., & Denison, S. (2022, July). Choices are treated as probabilistic when the outcome is unknown. Poster presented at the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Toronto, Ontario.
Lu, J., Doan, T., & Denison, S. (2021, July). Can children use numerical reasoning to compare odds in games? Poster presented at the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Virtual.
Lebel, M., Doan, T., McCrackin, S., Denison, S., & Itier, R. (2021, July). Are you talking about me? A pilot investigation of how gender modulates the effects of self-relevance and valence on emotional feelings. Poster presented at the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Virtual.
Doan, T., Friedman, O., & Denison, S. (2021, April). Do you like what I like? Children’s understanding of the subjectivity of preferences. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting. Virtual.
Doan, T., Friedman, O., & Denison, S. (2021, April). Young children’s close counterfactual reasoning and happiness inferences. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting. Virtual.
Doan, T., Friedman, O., & Denison, S. (2020, July). Can preschoolers use probability to infer others’ desires? Poster presented at the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Virtual.
Doan, T., Friedman, O., & Denison, S. (2019, October). Children can use probability to infer happiness without considering prior beliefs or close counterfactuals. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society. Louisville, Kentucky.
Doan, T., Friedman, O., & Denison, S. (2019, March). Three- to four-year-olds use probability to infer other people’s surprise. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting. Baltimore, Maryland.
Doan, T., Friedman, O., & Denison, S. (2018, July). Children use probability to infer other people’s happiness. Poster presented at the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Madison, Wisconsin.
Doan, T., Friedman, O., & Denison, S. (2018, May). Same outcome, different chances: Five- and six-year-olds use probability to infer happiness. Poster presented at Development 2018. St. Catharines, Ontario.
Doan, T., Friedman, O., & Denison, S. (2017, November). An unlikely surprise: Children use probability to infer other’s surprise and happiness. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Vancouver, British Columbia.
Doan, T., Friedman, O., & Denison, S. (2017, April). Probability (but not belief) improves children's surprise judgments. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting. Austin, Texas.
Doan, T., Biro, N., & Denison, S. (2015, October). Preschoolers direct their own learning based on difficulty level in a memory task. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society. Columbus, Ohio.
Doan, T. & Denison, S. (2015, April). Training can improve infants' understanding of other people's preferences. Poster presented at the Graduate Psychology Discovery Conference. Waterloo, Ontario.
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