Publications

(2024). Children’s questions and teachers’ responses about COVID-19 in Turkey and the US. Plos ONE, 19(7), e0307475.

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(2024). COVID-19 and Child Adjustment: The role of Coparenting Conflict and Child Temperament. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 33, 2251-2261.

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(2024). The Role of Visual Representations in Undergraduate Students’ Learning about Genetic Inheritance. Education Sciences, 14(3), 307.

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(2024). Children’s biological causal models of disability. Cognitive Development, 70, 101448.

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(2024). Deterministic or probabilistic: U.S. children's beliefs about genetic inheritance. Child Development, 95(3), e186-e205.

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(2023). “Will I get sick?”: Parents’ explanations to children’s questions about a novel illness. Cognitive Development, 68, 101383.

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(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.

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(2022). Like mother, like daughter: Adults’ judgments about genetic inheritance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 29(1), 63–77.

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(2022). Detailed bugs or bugging details? The influence of perceptual richness across elementary school years. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 213, 105269.

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(2021). “When will it be over?” U.S. children’s questions and parents’ responses about the COVID-19 pandemic. PLOS ONE, 16, e0256692.

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(2021). Capturing death in animated films: Can films stimulate parent-child conversations about death?. Cognitive Development, 59, 101063.

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(2020). Representing variability: The case of life cycle diagrams. CBE-Life Science Education, 19, ar49.

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(2020). Evaluating and communicating about the healthiness of foods: Predictors of parents' judgments and parent-child conversations. Cognitive Development, 55, 100913.

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(2020). Children's emerging understanding of death. Child Development Perspectives, 14(1), 55-60.

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(2020). Do details bug you? Effects of perceptual richness in learning about biological change. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 34, 1101-1117.

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(2020). Reframing mental illness: The role of essentialism on perceived treatment efficacy and stigmatization. Memory & Cognition, 48(8), 1317-1333.

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(2020). Embracing Death: Mexican Parent and Child Perspectives on Death. Child Development, 91(2), e491-e511.

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(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.

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(2019). Strategy adoption depends on characteristics of the instruction, learner, and strategy. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implication, 4, 1-18.

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(2019). Understanding strategy change: Contextual, individual, and metacognitive factors. Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 56, 227-256.

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(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.

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(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.

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(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.

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(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.

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(2018). Cognitive constraints influence an understanding of life-cycle change. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 173, 205-221.

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(2017). Alcohol, cannabis and other drugs and subsequent suicide ideation and attempt among young Mexicans. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 91, 74-82.

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