About Me
I'm a postdoctoral fellow in the Psychology Department at Wesleyan University. I earned my doctorate in Developmental Psychology at the University of Virginia, where I was an Institute of Education Sciences predoctoral Virginia Education Science Training (VEST) fellow through the Curry School of Education and a fellow in the International Max Planck Research School on the Life Course (LIFE). I am broadly interested in how children interact with and learn from play and media. My interests began when I spent a year working at an Apple store, where I watched young children quickly and easily immerse themselves in digital devices -- much more so than their parents! I currently study how parents and children engage together in physical and digital versions of spatial play, the impact of play-based interventions on children's mathematical and spatial development, and biases in children's numerical estimation. I have also studied characteristics of popular children's media, parents' and children's gendered beliefs about spatial play, and whether television shows and books can promote prosocial behavior. |