Maliki Eyvonne Ghossainy
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Areas of Research


Epistemic Vigilance
  • Children’s understanding of deception
  • The development of the ability to detect deception
  • Social and cognitive factors that facilitate vs. impair selective trust
  • The influence of linguistic behaviors on selective trust and social preference

Belief Formation
  • Children’s use of natural and supernatural concepts 
  • Children's beliefs about the relationship between reality and possibility
  • Children’s beliefs about reality and non-reality
  • Children's essentialist reasoning based on social categories

Secondary Research  Areas
  • Disgust and Mating
  • Moral judgements across cultures
  • Gender differences in parental investment
  • Economic parity across gender
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