Publications

Burcu Ünlütabak, Graciela Trujillo Hernandez, İlayda Velioğlu, David Menendez, Karl S. Rosengren (2024). Children’s questions and teachers’ responses about COVID-19 in Turkey and the US. Plos ONE, 19(7), e0307475.

David Menendez, Danielle Labotka, Valerie A. Umscheid, Susan A. Gelman (2024). The social aspects of illness: Children's and parents' explanations of the relation between social categories and illness in a predominantly white U.S. sample. Child Development, 0(0), 0.

David Menendez, Zhi Li, Rebecca E. Klapper, Melissa L. Sturge-Apple, Karl S. Rosengren (2024). COVID-19 and Child Adjustment: The role of Coparenting Conflict and Child Temperament. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 33, 2251-2261.

David Menendez, Andrea Marquardt Donovan, Olympia N. Mathiaparanam, Rebecca E. Klapper, Seung Heon Yoo, Karl S. Rosengren, Martha W. Alibali (2024). The Role of Visual Representations in Undergraduate Students’ Learning about Genetic Inheritance. Education Sciences, 14(3), 307.

David Menendez, Susan A. Gelman (2024). Children’s biological causal models of disability. Cognitive Development, 70, 101448.

David Menendez, Andrea Marquardt Donovan, Olympia N. Mathiaparanam, Vienne Seitz, Nour F. Sabbagh, Rebecca E. Klapper, Charles W. Kalish, Karl S. Rosengren, Martha W. Alibali (2024). Deterministic or probabilistic: U.S. children's beliefs about genetic inheritance. Child Development, 95(3), e186-e205.

Seung Heon Yoo, Graciela Trujillo Hernandez, David Menendez, Rebecca E. Klapper, Sarah Martin, Katrina A. Nicholas, Dillanie Sumanthiran, Karl S. Rosengren (2023). “Will I get sick?”: Parents’ explanations to children’s questions about a novel illness. Cognitive Development, 68, 101383.

David Menendez (2023). Cues to generality: Integrating linguistic and visual information when generalizing biological information. Journal of Educational Psychology, 115(8), 1110–1124.

David Menendez, Sarah A. Brown, Martha W. Alibali (2023). Some correct strategies are better than others: Individual differences in strategy evaluations influence strategy adoption. Cognitive Science, 47(3), e13269.

David Menendez, Nour F. Sabbagh, Martha W. Alibali, Karl S. Rosengren (2023). Timelines or time cycles: Exposure to different spatial representations of time shapes sketching and diagram preferences. Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 1-19.

David Menendez, Olympia N. Mathiaparanam, Vienne Seitz, David Liu, Andrea Marquardt Donovan, Charles W. Kalish, Martha W. Alibali, Karl S. Rosengren (2022). Like mother, like daughter: Adults’ judgments about genetic inheritance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 29(1), 63–77.

David Menendez, Karl S. Rosengren, Martha W. Alibali (2022). Detailed bugs or bugging details? The influence of perceptual richness across elementary school years. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 213, 105269.

David Menendez, Rebecca E. Klapper, Michelle Z. Golden, Ava R. Mandel, Katrina A. Nicholas, Maria H. Schapfel, Olivia O. Silsby, Kailee A. Sowers, Dillanie Sumanthiran, Victoria E. Welch, Karl S. Rosengren (2021). “When will it be over?” U.S. children’s questions and parents’ responses about the COVID-19 pandemic. PLOS ONE, 16, e0256692.

Enrica E. Bridgewater, David Menendez, Karl S. Rosengren (2021). Capturing death in animated films: Can films stimulate parent-child conversations about death?. Cognitive Development, 59, 101063.

David Menendez, Olympia N. Mathiaparanam, David Liu, Vienne Seitz, Martha W. Alibali, Karl S. Rosengren (2020). Representing variability: The case of life cycle diagrams. CBE-Life Science Education, 19, ar49.

David Menendez, Matthew J. Jiang, Kaitlin M. Edwards, Karl S Rosengren, Martha W. Alibali (2020). Evaluating and communicating about the healthiness of foods: Predictors of parents' judgments and parent-child conversations. Cognitive Development, 55, 100913.

David Menendez, Iseli G. Hernandez, Karl S. Rosengren (2020). Children's emerging understanding of death. Child Development Perspectives, 14(1), 55-60.

David Menendez, Karl S. Rosengren, Martha W. Alibali (2020). Do details bug you? Effects of perceptual richness in learning about biological change. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 34, 1101-1117.

Danielle Peters, David Menendez, Karl S. Rosengren (2020). Reframing mental illness: The role of essentialism on perceived treatment efficacy and stigmatization. Memory & Cognition, 48(8), 1317-1333.

Isabel T. Gutiérrez, David Menendez, Matthew J. Jiang, Iseli G. Hernandez, Peggy Miller, Karl S. Rosengren (2020). Embracing Death: Mexican Parent and Child Perspectives on Death. Child Development, 91(2), e491-e511.

Lucia Martinčeková, Matthew J. Jiang, Jamal D. Adams, David Menendez, Iseli G. Hernandez, Gregory Barber, Karl S. Rosengren (2020). Do you remember being told what happened to grandma? The role of early socialization on later coping with death. Death Studies, 44, 78-88.

Sarah A. Brown, David Menendez, Martha W. Alibali (2019). Strategy adoption depends on characteristics of the instruction, learner, and strategy. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implication, 4, 1-18.

Martha W. Alibali, Sarah A. Brown, David Menendez (2019). Understanding strategy change: Contextual, individual, and metacognitive factors. Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 56, 227-256.

Corina Benjet, David Menendez, Yesica Albor, Guilherme Borges, Ricardo Orozco, Maria-Elena Medina-Mora (2018). Adolescent Predictors of Incidence and Persistence of Suicide-Related Outcomes in Young Adulthood: A Longitudinal Study of Mexican Youth. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behaviors, 48(6), 755-766.

Sarah A. Brown, David Menendez, Martha W. Alibali (2018). How do people evaluate problem-solving strategies? Efficiency and intuitiveness matter. In C. Kalish, M. Rau, T. Rogers, and J. Zhu (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1414-1419). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

David Menendez, Martha W. Alibali, Karl S. Rosengren (2018). Effects of priming variability on adults learning about metamorphosis. In C. Kalish, M. Rau, T. Rogers, and J. Zhu (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp.2102-2107). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Karl S. Rosengren, Matthew J. Jiang, Charles W. Kalish, David Menendez, Iseli G. Hernandez (2018). COMMENTARY: WHAT HEALS AND WHY? CHILDREN'S UNDERSTANDING OF MEDICAL TREATMENTS.. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 83(2), 175-183.

Jason A. French, David Menendez, Patricia A. Herrmann, E. Margaret Evans, Karl S. Rosengren (2018). Cognitive constraints influence an understanding of life-cycle change. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 173, 205-221.

Guilherme Borges, Corina Benjet, Ricardo Orozco, Maria-Elena Medina-Mora, David Menendez (2017). Alcohol, cannabis and other drugs and subsequent suicide ideation and attempt among young Mexicans. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 91, 74-82.