Recent Publications – Gelman Lab

Recent Publications

Olive, daughter of Dr. Rachel Fine (CDL lab alumna), reading Dr. Susan Gelman’s book The Essential Child.

 

Recent Journal Articles and Book Chapters


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Gelman, S. A. (in press). Looking beyond the obvious. American Psychologist.

Nancekivell, S. E., Davidson, N. S., Noles, N. S., & Gelman, S. A. (in press). Preliminary evidence for progressions in ownership reasoning over the preschool period. Developmental Psychology.

Sun, X., Nancekivell, S. E., Shah, P., & Gelman, S. A. (in press). How essentialist reasoning about language acquisition relates to educational myths and policy endorsements. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications.

Troncoso, S. C., Schudson, Z. C., & Gelman, S. A. (in press). Women versus females: Gender essentialism in everyday language. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research.

DeAngelis, E. R., Ridge, K. E., Gelman, S. A., Reyes-Jaquez, B., & Koenig, M. A. (2023). Understanding the value of telescopic testimony: With age, a predominantly White Midwestern sample of children credits knowledge to speakers whose statements go beyond the evidence. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 231, 105652.

Echelbarger, M., & Gelman, S. A. (2023). Children’s evaluations of scarce (and abundant) resources: When does the “why” matter? Cognitive Development, 66, 101312.

Gross, E.B. How to get to where they are: Notes from an open group with unhoused LGBTQIA2S+ youth. (2023). Health Promotion Practice.

Labotka, D., & Gelman, S. A. (2023). “It kinda has like a mind”: Children’s and parents’ beliefs concerning viral disease transmission for COVID-19 and the common cold. Cognition, 235, 105413.

Labotka, D., Sabo, E., Bonais, R., Gelman, S. A., & Baptista, M. (2023). Testing the effects of congruence in adult multilingual acquisition with implications for creole genesis. Cognition, 235, 105387.

Nancekivell, S. E., Davidson, N. S., Noles, N. S., & Gelman, S. A. (2023). “She should get her own cat”: Parent-child conversations about ownership and sharing. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 63, 434-445.

Orvell, A., Elli, G., Umscheid, V., Simmons, E., Kross, E., & Gelman, S. A. (2023). Learning the rules of the game: The role of generic “you” and “we” in shaping children’s interpretations of norms. Child Development, 94(1), 159-171.

Umscheid, V. A., Smith, C. E., Warneken, F., Gelman, S. A., & Wellman, H. M. (2023). What makes Voldemort tick? Children’s and adults’ reasoning about the nature of villains. Cognition, 233, 105357.

DeJesus, J. M., Gelman, S. A., & Lumeng, J. C. (2022). Children expect others to prefer handmade items. Developmental Psychology.

Lee, Y., & Gelman, S. A. (2022). The development of digital ownership in children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.

Muradoglu, M., Marchak, K., Gelman, S. A., & Cimpian, A. (2022). Formal explanations shape children’s representations of animal kinds and social groups. Developmental Psychology.

Echelbarger, M., Roberts, S. O., & Gelman, S. A. (2022). Children’s concern for equity and ownership in contexts of individual-based and group-based inequality. Journal of Cognition and Development, 23(1), 3-19.

Gelman, S. A., Davidson, N. S., & Umscheid, V. A. (2022). The role of object features and emotional attachment on preschool children’s anthropomorphism of owned objects. Cognitive Development, 62, 101165.

Labotka, D., & Gelman, S. A. (2022). Scientific and folk theories of viral transmission: A comparison of COVID-19 and the common cold. Frontiers in Psychology, 3818.

Orvell, A., Gelman, S. A., & Kross, E. (2022). What “you” and “we” say about me: How small shifts in language reveal and empower fundamental shifts in perspective. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 16(5), e12665.

Salvador, C. E., Orvell, A., Kross, E., & Gelman, S. A. (2022). How Spanish speakers express norms using generic person markers. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 1-11.

Roberts, S. O., Ho, A. K., Kteily, N., & Gelman, S. A. (2022). Beyond Black and White: Conceptualizing and essentializing Black–White identity. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 28(1), 13–28.

Foster-Hanson, E., Roberts, S. O., Gelman, S. A., & Rhodes, M. (2021). Categories convey prescriptive information across domains and development. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 212, 105231.

Gelman, S. A., Cuneo, N., Kulkarni, S., Snay, S., & Roberts, S. O. (2021). The roles of privacy and trust in children’s evaluations and explanations of digital tracking. Child Development, 92(5), 1769-1784.

Gülgöz, S., Alonso, D. J., Olson, K. R., & Gelman, S. A. (2021). Transgender and cisgender children’s essentialist beliefs about sex and gender identity. Developmental Science, 24(6), e13115.

Labotka, D., Gelman, S. A., & Jipson, J. L. (2021). Parent-child conversations about animals on a visit to a (virtual) zoo. Cognitive Development, 60, 101123.

Nancekivell, S. E., Sun, X., Gelman, S. A., & Shah, P. (2021). A slippery myth: How learning style beliefs shape reasoning about multimodal instruction and related scientific evidence. Cognitive Science, 45(10), e13047.

Noles, N. S., Gelman, S. A., & Stilwell, S. (2021). To give or to receive? The role of giver versus receiver on object tracking and object preferences in children and adults. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 21(5), 369-388.

Roberts, S. O., Ho, A. K., & Gelman, S. A. (2021). Should individuals think like their group? A descriptive-to-prescriptive tendency toward group-based beliefs. Child Development, 92(2), e201-e220.

Sun, X., Nancekivell, S., Gelman, S. A., & Shah, P. (2021). Growth mindset and academic outcomes: a comparison of US and Chinese students. NPJ Science of Learning, 6(1), 1-9.

Sun, X., Nancekivell, S., Gelman, S. A., & Shah, P. (2021). Perceptions of the malleability of fluid and crystallized intelligence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150(5), 815.

Tasimi, A., & Gelman, S. A. (2021). A dollar is a dollar is a dollar, or is it? Insights from children’s reasoning about “dirty money”. Cognitive Science, 45(4), e12950.

DeJesus, J. M., Umscheid, V. A., & Gelman, S. A. (2021). When gender matters in scientific communication: The role of generic language. Sex Roles, 85, 577–586.

Soter, L. K., Berg, M. K., Gelman, S. A., & Kross, E. (2021). What we would (but shouldn’t) do for those we love: Universalism versus partiality in responding to others’ moral transgressions. Cognition217, 104886.

Foster-Hanson, E., Roberts, S. O., Gelman, S. A., & Rhodes, M. (2021). Categories convey prescriptive information across domains and development. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology212, 105231.

Gelman, S. A. (2021). Generics in society. Language in Society50(4), 517-532.

Roberts, S. O., Ho, A. K., & Gelman, S. A. (2021). Should individuals think like their group? A descriptive-to-prescriptive tendency toward group-based beliefs. Child Development, 92(2), e201-e220.

Sun, X., Nancekivell, S., Gelman, S. A., & Shah, P. (2021). Growth mindset and academic outcomes: a comparison of US and Chinese students. NPJ Science of Learning6(1), 1-9.

Tasimi, A., & Gelman, S. A. (2021). A dollar is a dollar is a dollar, or is it? Insights from children’s reasoning about “dirty money”. Cognitive Science, 45(4), e12950.

DeJesus, J. M., Gelman, S. A., & Lumeng, J. C. (2020). Children’s implicit food cognition: Developing a food Implicit Association Test. Cognitive Development, 54, 100889. doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.100889

Echelbarger, M., Maimaran, M., & Gelman, S. A. (2020). Children’s variety seeking in food choices. Journal of the Association for Consumer Research5(3), 322-328.

Gelman, S. A., & DeJesus, J. (2020). Intelligence in childhood. In R. Sternberg (Ed.), Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence, 2nd ed. (pp. 155-180). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Gelman, S. A., & Fine, R. D. (2020). The role of essentialism in children’s social judgments. In J. Decety (Ed.), The social brain: A developmental perspective. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Gelman, S. A., & Marchak, K. A. (2020). Do our intuitions mislead us? The role of human bias in scientific inquiry. In K. McCain & K. Kampourakis (Eds.), What is scientific knowledge? An introduction to contemporary epistemology of science. New York: Routledge.

Labotka, D., & Gelman, S. A. (2020). The development of children’s identification of foreigner talk. Developmental Psychology56(9), 1657-1670.

Lee, D., Orvell, A., Briskin, J., Shrapnell, T., Gelman, S. A., Ayduk, O., Ybarra, O., & Kross, E. (2020). When chatting about negative experiences helps—and when it hurts: Distinguishing adaptive vs. maladaptive social support in computer-mediated communications. Emotion, 20(3), 368-375. doi.org/10.1037/emo0000555

Marchak, K. A., Bayly, B., Umscheid, V., & Gelman, S. A. (2020). Iconic realism or representational disregard? How young children and adults reason about pictures and objects. Journal of Cognition and Development, 21(5), 774-796. doi.org/10.1080/15248372.2020.1802276

Marchak, K. A., McLaughlin, M., Noles, N. S., & Gelman, S. A. (2020). Beliefs about the persistence of history in objects and spaces in the United States and India. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 51(5), 309-332.

Meyer, M., Roberts, S. O., Jayaratne, T. E., & Gelman, S. A. (2020). Children’s beliefs about causes of human characteristics: Genes, environment, or choice? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149(10), 1935-1949. doi.org/10.1037/xge0000751

Nancekivell, S. E., Shah, P., & Gelman, S. A. (2020). Maybe they’re born with it, or maybe it’s experience: Toward a deeper understanding of the learning style myth. Journal of Educational Psychology, 112(2), 221-235.

Orvell, A., Kross, E., Gelman, S. A. (2020). “You” speaks to me: Effects of generic-you in creating resonance between people and ideas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(49), 31038-31045.

Preston, S. D., & Gelman, S. A. (2020). This land is my land: Psychological ownership increases willingness to protect the natural world more than legal ownership. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 70, 101443. doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101443

Raman, L., Marchak, K. A., & Gelman, S. A. (2020). Children’s understanding of food and activities on body size. Cognitive Development, 54. doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.100865

Roberts, S. O., Ho, A. K., Gülgöz, S., Berka, J., & Gelman, S. A. (2020). The role of group status and group membership in the practice of hypodescent. Child Development, 91(3), e721-e732.

 

For research articles prior to 2020, please check out Dr. Gelman’s Google Scholar page.

 

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Books



Gelman, S. A. (Ed.) (2014). Childhood cognitive development: Five-volume set. London: SAGE Publications.

Banaji, M. R., & Gelman, S. A. (Eds.) (2013). Navigating the social world: What infants, children, and other species can teach us. New York: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199890712.001.0001

Gelman, S. A., Taylor, M G., & Nguyen, S. (2004). Mother-child conversations about gender: Understanding the acquisition of essentialist beliefs. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. Volume 69, No. 1. Amazon.com

Gelman, S. A. (2003). The essential child: Origins of essentialism in everyday thought. New York: Oxford University Press. Amazon.com

Scholnick, E., Nelson, K., Gelman, S. A., & Miller, P. (Eds.) (1999). Conceptual development: Piaget’s legacy. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. Amazon.com

Gelman, S. A., Coley, J. D., Rosengren, K., Hartman, E., & Pappas, A. (1998). Beyond labeling: The role of maternal input in the acquisition of richly-structured categories. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. Serial No. 253, Vol. 63, No. 1. Amazon.com

Hirschfeld, L. A., & Gelman, S. A. (Eds.). (1994). Mapping the mind: Domain specificity in cognition and culture.Cambridge University Press. Amazon.com

Hirschfeld, L. A., & Gelman, S. A. (2002). Cartografia de la Mente [in 2 volumes]. Barcelona, Spain: Gedisa. [Spanish translation of Mapping the mind.]

Gelman, S. A., & Byrnes, J. P. (Eds.) (1991). Perspectives on language and thought: Interrelations in development.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Amazon.com

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