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Kelly Fisher, M.S.
E-mail: kelly.fisher@temple.edu
Lab Webpage: http://www.temple.edu/devscilab/index.shtml
Lab Webpage: http://www.temple.edu/infantlab
Bio: Kelly is currently in her 2nd year of graduate studies in Developmental Psychology. She received her M.S. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology and B.S. in Psychology from Missouri State University. Her research interests include examining biological and contextual influences on learning processes as well as their application to public policy and intervention research. Kelly is currently examining biological motion perception in infants and children as well as researching the relation between error monitoring, motivation orientation, and error-related negativity potentials in 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders. In addition, she is also examining the influence of parental perceptions of play activities, the relation between play and learning, and the influence of parental perceptions of play on parent-child interaction. Kelly is currently working with Dr. Peter Marshall (Developmental Science Laboratory) and Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek (Temple Infant Laboratory at Ambler).
Tilbe Goksun, M.A.
E-mail: tgoksun@temple.edu
Lab webpage: http://www.temple.edu/infantlab/
Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Bio: Tilbe is a second-year graduate student in developmental psychology. She received her B.A. in psychology from Bogazici University – Istanbul/Turkey in 2002, and MA in Developmental Psychology from Koc University - Istanbul/Turkey in 2005. Her current research includes cross-linguistic and social cues in language development. Particularly, she investigates perceptual and conceptual primitives of verb learning as well as how children understand grammatical categories. She is currently working with Dr. Hirsh-Pasek.
Representative publications and/or presentations
Göksun, T., Jones, M. C., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Roeper, T., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2006, April). What’s Missing? Sensitivity to Ellipsis Signals Grammatical Categories. Paper presented at the Conference on Human Development, Louisville, KY.
Naigles, L., Küntay A., Göksun, T, & Lee, J. (2005). Language specific properties influence children’s acquisition of argument structure. In D. Bamman, T. Magnitskaia, & C. Zaller (eds.). Proceedings of the 30th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 388-398). Somerville, MA: Casadilla Press.
Göksun, T., Küntay A., & Naigles, L. (2005, July). Development of Comprehension of (In)transitivity in Turkish: an Act-out Study. Poster presented at Xth International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Berlin, Germany.
Esra Gures, BA
E-mail: gures@temple.edu
Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Bio: Esra is currently in her first year of graduate studies. She received her BA in Psychology from Koc University, Turkey. Her research interests include peer relations, prosocial behaviors (e.g. helping) and antisocial behaviors (e.g. aggression) and role of parental socialization in child behaviors (e.g. aggression). Esra works with Dr. Hongling Xie.
Haydee Isabella Lanza, MA
E-mail: hlanza@temple.edu
Bio: Isabella is currently a first year in the developmental program. She received her MA in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University and her BA from Williams College. Isabella’s interests include the role of parent-child interaction, emotion regulation and parent symptomology in the development of disruptive behavior disorders in childhood. Isabella currently works with Dr. Deb Drabick.
Joanna M. Lee, M.S.Ed.
E-mail: leej@temple.edu
Bio: Joanna is currently in her third year of graduate studies in the developmental area. She received her M.S.Ed. in Human Development from the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennslyvania and her B.A. from Brown University. Joanna's areas of interest include ethnic identity formation, risk and resilience, and the transition to adulthood among adolescents involved in the juvenile justice and foster care systems. She currently works on the Research on Pathways to Desistance Project with Dr. Laurence Steinberg.
Rebecca Kang McGill, B.A.
E-mail: rebecca.mcgill@temple.edu
Bio: Rebecca received her B.A. in psychology from Vassar College in 2004. Her research interests focus on family functioning of African-Americans. Specifically, she is interested in parenting and its relationship to ethnic-racial socialization in families with adolescents, and how such practices are correlated with positive adjustment for youth. She is also interested in peers as agents of socialization. Rebecca also would like to study contextual factors related to socialization and racial identity. She is currently working with Dr. Ron Taylor.
Kathryn C. Monahan
E-mail: kate.monahan@temple.edu
Bio: Kate is currently in her third year of graduate studies in developmental psychology. She received her BA from University of Portland. Currently, Kate's research interests are in externalizing behavior during adolescence. In particular, Kate is interested in how social relationships influence antisocial activity and initiation of sexual activity in adolescents. Kate works with Dr. Laurence Steinberg.
Lia O'Brien, BA
E-mail: lia.obrien@temple.edu
Bio: Lia is currently in her first year of graduate studies. She received her Bachelors degree from the University of Kansas. Her interests are in the area of adolescent development, specifically aggression and delinquency. She is currently working with Dr. Steinberg.
Julia Parrish
E-mail: jparish@temple.edu
Sarah Roseberry, B.A.
E-mail: sarahr@temple.edu
Lab webpage: http://www.temple.edu/infantlab
Bio: Sarah received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Spanish from the University of Notre Dame in 2005. She is currently working in the Temple Infant Lab with Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek. Her interests include infant and toddler language acquisition, specifically precursors to verb learning, the effects of televised language learning, and social interaction in the verb learning process.
Bing Shi
E-mail: bishi@temple.edu
Bio: Bing is in her second year of graduate studies in Developmental Psychology. She received her MS in Psychology Department from Peking University, China. Her current research is about teenagers’ aggressive behaviors, popularity and social status in their peer groups. Her specific interest is in the reciprocal, dynamic impacts between individual member and group.
Representative presentations and/or publications:
Shi, B., Xie, H. (2007). The structure of peer social groups among preadolescents: gender differences and similarities. Poster accepted at SRCD 2007, Boston.
Shi, B., Su, Y. (2005). Situational effects on children’s deception. Psychological Science (China), 28(4): 816-819.
Shi, B., Su, Y. (2004). Do children have limits on theory of mind use? International Journal of Psychology, 39 (5-6): 162- 163. Suppl.
Alexandra Twyman, BS
E-mail: atwyman@temple.edu
Lab Web Page: http://www.temple.edu/infantlab/
Bio: Alexandra received her degree from the University of Alberta in Canada. While at the U of A, she had the opportunity to study spatial abilities in a wide range of participants from children to chickadees and penguins. She has recently moved to Philadelphia and is immensely enjoying the city. Alexandra is interested in spatial development throughout the lifespan and is currently a part of Dr. Newcombe's laboratory.
Alina Zeleznova, BA
E-mail: alina.zeleznova@temple.edu
Bio: Alina is currently in her first year of graduate studies. She received her BA in Psychology from Rutgers College (New Brunswick, NJ) in 2004. Alina is interested in parenting and adolescent development. She currently works with Dr. Laurence Steinberg.
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