We present our findings regularly at the major conferences in our field, including the Society for Research in Child Development, Cognitive Development Society, Jean Piaget Society, and the Association for Psychological Science. Below is a sample of recent graduate student-faculty collaborations. 


Cognitive Development Society

2022 (MADISON, WI)

Children’s Moral Judgments About Necessary and Luxury Resource Inequality in Unprovoked and Retaliatory Situations ➢Jessica S. Caporaso, Courtney L. Ball, Janet J. Boseovski, Stuart Marcovitch, & Madelyn Church

The Relation between Memory for Temporal Context and Executive Function in Preschool and School-Age Children ➢ Kathleen M. Bettencourt & Stuart Marcovitch

2019 (LOUISVILLE, KY)

Breakfast comes after Dinner?: The Relation between Preschoolers’ Temporal Memory, Time Knowledge, and Cognitive Flexibility ➢ Kathleen M. Bettencourt, Jessica R. Barselow, and Stuart Marcovitch

“I Wanna Play in Here!”: An Observational Investigation of Childhood Play in Indoor and Outdoor Exhibits ➢ Kimberly E. Marble, Courtney L. Ball, Janet J. Boseovski, Stuart Marcovitch, Kathleen Bettencourt, and Jessica S. Caporaso

“Tamanduas are smellier than a skunk!”: Children’s Learning Preferences and Memory in a Natural Science Center ➢ Jessica S. Caporaso, Kathleen M. Bettencourt, Kimberly E. Marble, Janet J. Boseovski, Thanujeni Pathman, Christopher D. Erb, Margaret Scales, and Stuart Marcovitch

Associations between aggression type, gender, and intentionality on children’s trait attributions toward transgressors ➢ Andrea C. Yuly, Rachel C. Croce, and Janet J. Boseovski

2017 (Portland, Or)

Exploring How Temporal Memory Develops and the Underlying Neural Processes that Support It Using ERP (PDF) ➢                                                                                                                                                   Kathleen M. Bettencourt, Laurel Everett, Yixin Chen, and Thanujeni Pathman

Moral Understanding and Executive Function in the Resolution of Preschool Peer Conflict (PDF) ➢        Jessica S. Caporaso and Stuart Marcovitch

Targeting the Dynamics of Cognitive Control Across Development: Evidence from Reaching Behavior in the Simon Task (PDF) ➢                                                                                                                                Christopher D. Erb, Andrew McBride, and Stuart Marcovitch

Is “Same As Me” Always Better? Children’s Evaluations of Novel Cultural Information Provided by In-Group and Out-Group Informants (PDF) ➢                                                                                    Kimberly E. Marble, Janet J. Boseovski, Stuart Marcovitch, Cherie Boyer, Robin Hancock, and Candace Lapan

Differences Between Tablet Learning and Traditional Learning in Elementary School Children (PDF) ➢
Natalie Suchy and Stuart Marcovtich

2015 (Columbus, OH)

The Role of Executive Function in the Development of Social Competence (PDF) ➢
Jessica S. Caporaso, Stuart Marcovitch, and Janet J. Boseovski

Children’s Self-Evaluations Following Social Comparison: The Effect of Target Trait Information (PDF) ➢
Candace Lapan, Janet J. Boseovski, and Carmen Ball

Who Would You Rather Learn From? Children’s Justification of Informant Preferences in Cultural Learning ➢
Kimberly E. Marble, Janet J. Boseovski, Stuart Marcovitch, Cherie Boyer, Robin Hancock, and Candace Lapan

2013 (Memphis, TN)

A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place: The Role of Executive Function in Children's Organizational Strategy Use (PDF) ➢
Naomi Chatley, Stephanie E. Miller, and Stuart Marcovitch

Who Is Right? Children's Use of Local and Global Information in Decision Making (PDF) ➢
Candace Lapan, Janet J. Boseovski, Chelsea Hughes, Laura Parker, and Kimberly Marble


Jean Piaget Society

2022 (PHILADELPHIA, PA)

How Do Social Power and Social Status Impact Children’s Social Preferences? ➢ Andrea C. Yuly-Youngblood, Janet J. Boseovski, Kelsey Black, and Kelsey Barrett

2021 (VIRTUAL)

Do Zookeepers Fix “Boo-Boos” Too? Children’s Evaluation of Expertise Boundaries in a Natural Science Center Context ➢ Kimberly E. Marble, Janet J. Boseovski, Jessica S. Caporaso, Kathleen M. Bettencourt, Christopher D. Erb, Margaret L. Scales, Thanujeni Pathman, and Stuart Marcovitch

The Influence of Aggression Type, Gender, and Intentionality on Children’s Willingness to Befriend Aggressors ➢ Andrea C. Yuly, Rachel C. Croce, and Janet J. Boseovski

2018 (amsterdam, netherlands)

The Effect of Peer Interaction on Sustained Attention During the Flanker Task (PDF) ➢
Jessica S. Caporaso, Amber Campos, Janet J. Boseovski, and Stuart Marcovitch

How Much Do You Know? Children’s Generalization of Cultural Knowledge (PDF) ➢
Kimberly E. Marble, Janet J. Boseovski, Skyler Ferguson, and Kara Lowery

2017 (San francisco, ca)

Reflection when Resolving Peer Conflict: The Use of Mindfulness Training to Improve Preschool Social Competence (PDF)                                                                                                                                   Jessica S. Caporaso and Stuart Marcovitch

The Effect of Referent Status in Social Comparison on Children's Performance Perceptions (PDF)   Delaney A. Collyer, Janet J. Boseovski, Candace Lapan, Ethan Zell, and Stuart Marcovitch

Differences Between Tablet Learning and Traditional Learning in Elementary School Children (PDF)    Natalie Suchy and Stuart Marcovitch

2014 (San Francisco, CA)

Organization Is the Key to Success: The Differential Effects of Executive Function on Sorting and Clustering Strategies in Preschoolers (PDF) ➢
Naomi Chatley, Stephanie E. Miller, and Stuart Marcovitch

2013 (Chicago, IL)

The Development of Social Stereotyping in 3- to 6-Year-Olds: Stereotype Content Across Social Groups and Age Effects (PDF) ➢
Candace Lapan, Janet J. Boseovski, and Katie McClinton


Society for Research in Child Development

2023 (Salt Lake City, UT)

Children’s Conservation Attitudes After Visiting an Animal Hospital Exhibit (PDF) Lindsay G. Jarvis, Jessica S. Caporaso, Janet Boseovski, Anjali Pradeep, and Lindsey Zarecky

Science Educator or Veterinarian? Children’s Naturalistic Judgments of Expertise at a Science Center (PDF) Anjali Pradeep, Jessica Caporaso, Janet Boseovski, Lindsay Jarvis, and Lindsey Zarecky

2021 (VIRTUAL)

The Ability to Place Events in Time and its Relation to Executive Function during Preschool (PDF) ➢ Kathleen M. Bettencourt, Jessica R. Barselow, and Stuart Marcovitch

“He will help”: Children’s Perceptions of Wealthy and Knowledgeable People (PDF) ➢ Kimberly E. Marble, Janet J. Boseovski, M. Faith Latham, and Ashleigh R. McCall

Examining the Interplay Between Social Status and Competence Understanding Across Development (PDF) ➢ Andrea C. Yuly and Janet J. Boseovski

Does Transgressor Gender and Intentionality Influence Children’s Decisions to Befriend a Transgressor? (PDF) ➢ Andrea C. Yuly, Rachel C. Croce, and Janet J. Boseovski

2019 (Baltimore, MD)

The Influence of Time Knowledge and Retrieval Strategies on Temporal Memory in Middle and Late Childhood (PDF) ➢  Kathleen M. Bettencourt and Thanujeni Pathman

Testing the Negative Priming Account of Perseverative Sorting in the Pre-School Years (PDF) ➢ Jessica S. Caporaso, Christopher D. Erb, and Stuart Marcovitch

Trait or Testimony? Children’s Trust in Informants’ Evaluative Judgments (PDF) ➢ Rachel C. Croce and Janet J. Boseovski

Why did she do that? Chinese children attribute positive and negative behaviors to personality traits over situations (PDF) ➢ Kimberly E. Marble, Nora Guan, Janet J. Boseovski, and Fengling Ma

“You’re not a boy or a girl”: Children’s predictions about perceptually gender ambiguous people (PDF) ➢ Andrea C. Yuly, Janet J. Boseovski, and Kestyn Harris

2017 (Austin, Tx)

"What Do You Want To Do Next?": Preschoolers' Emotional Responses to Peer Conflict (PDF)     Jessica S. Caporaso and Stuart Marcovitch

Patterns of Self-Other Overlap in Children (PDF)                                                                                     Delaney A. Collyer and Stuart Marcovitch

"Because She's Native": Children's Use of Expertise to Learn About Novel Cultural Information (PDF)   Kimberly E. Marble, Janet J. Boseovski, Skyler Ferguson, and Kara Lowery 

2015 (Philadelphia, PA)

The Effects of Guilt on Preschoolers’ Cognitive Flexibility and Inhibition (PDF) ➢
Candace Lapan, Janet J. Boseovski, Angela Dyson, and Vanessa Alvarado

Delighting in Others’ Disaster: Development of Schadenfreude in Middle Childhood (PDF) ➢
Candace Lapan, Janet J. Boseovski, Sarah Creech, Sarah Mofford, and Morgan Jewells

Children’s Use of Informant Opinion for Cultural Practices ➢
Kimberly E. Marble, Janet J. Boseovski, Stuart Marcovitch, Cherie Boyer, and Robin Hancock

If It’s Not Positive, Don’t Say It: Role of Expertise, Consensus, and Informational Valence in Children’s Evaluative Judgement ➢
Kimberly E. Marble, Janet J. Boseovski, Chelsea Hughes, Angela Dyson, Robin Hancock, and Laura Parker

2013 (Seattle, WA)

Learning Through Doing: How Individual Differences in Executive Function Predict Action Memory in Preschoolers (PDF) ➢
Naomi Chatley, Stuart Marcovitch, and Lili Sahakyan

Mood Effects on Children's Judgments of Stigmatized Groups: Happiness Increases Positive Attributions and Helpfulness Predictions (PDF) ➢
Candace Lapan Lassiter and Janet J. Boseovski

Odd One Out: Young Children Fail to Display Memory Benefits for Conceptually and Perceptually Distinct Information [PowerPoint PDF] ➢
Stephanie E. Miller, Melissa McConnell Rogers, Stuart Marcovitch, and Naomi Chatley


Southeastern Psychological Association

2019 (Jacksonville, Fl)

Gender Differences in Affiliation and Liking for Gender Ambiguous Individuals (PDF) ➢ Kestyn G. Harris, Andrea C. Yuly, and Janet J. Boseovski


Miscellaneous Conferences and Posters

2023 (Graduate Research Showcase)

The Underrepresentation of the Appalachian People in Empirical Research (PDF) Lindsay G. Jarvis and Stuart Marcovitch