Selected Publications

Jennifer Amsterlaw, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences

Scientific Publications

Amsterlaw, J. (2006). Children’s beliefs about everyday reasoning. Child Development, 77, 443-464.

Amsterlaw, J., & Wellman, H. (2006). Theories of mind in transition: A microgenetic study of the development of false belief understanding. Journal of Cognition and Development, 7, 139-172.

Amsterlaw, J., Zikmund-Fisher, B. J., Fagerlin, A., & Ubel, P. A. (2006) Can avoidance of complications lead to biased healthcare decisions? Judgment and Decision Making, 1, 64-75.

Ahn, W., Gelman, S. A., Amsterlaw, J., Hohenstein, J., & Kalish, C. W. (2000). Causal status effect in children’s categorization. Cognition, 76 (2), B35-B43.

Selected Conference Presentations

Lee, T. R., Amsterlaw, J., Reeve, S., Bell, P., & Meltzoff, A. N. (2006). From world to lab and back: Relating children’s understanding of thinking in everyday and experimental contexts. Poster presented at meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.

Amsterlaw, J., Lagattuta, K. H., & Meltzoff, A. (2005). Young children’s beliefs about the effects of emotional and physical states on cognitive performance. Poster presented at meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, San Diego, CA.

Amsterlaw, J. (2005). How do children distinguish reasoning from other kinds of thinking? Poster presented at meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA.

Amsterlaw, J. (2003). A microgenetic study of theory of mind development. Paper presented at meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, FL.

Amsterlaw, J. (2003). What makes thinking good or bad? Children’s developing knowledge about the reasoning process. Poster presented at meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Park City, Utah.

Lizotte, D., & Amsterlaw, J. (2001). Reasoning about reasoning: A descriptive study of young adults’ everyday theories of cognition. Poster presented at meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Virginia Beach, VA.