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