Selected Recent Presentations involving Developmental Students

This list shows some recent or upcoming presentations by students and recent graduates involved in developmental research at Temple. Student authors are indicated in bold.

Albert, D., Chein, J., Smith, A., Uckert, K., & Steinberg, L. (March, 2012). The future is now: Differences between adolescents and adults in neural and behavioral markers of intertemporal choice evaluation. Poster to be presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Chicago.

Albert, D., Chein, J., Uckert, K., O'Brien, L., & Steinberg, L. (March, 2011). Task-dependent differences in the influence of peers on adolescent decision-making and reward processing. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Montreal, Canada.

Balcomb, F., Newcombe, N.S., Ferrara, K., & Funk, A.Y. (March, 2010). Changes in context-bound memory may provide the foundations for episodic memory. International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MD.

Budescu, M. & Taylor, R.D. (March, 2011). The role of household routine as a protective factor among poor African American families. Poster presented at the Biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Montreal, QC.

Budescu, M. & Taylor, R.D. (March, 2011). Ethnic identity and academic engagement: The moderating role of attributional style. Poster presented at the Biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Montreal, QC.

Budescu, M. & Taylor, R.D. (March, 2010). Neighborhood incivilities and ethnic socialization among African American families. Symposium speaker and moderator for Society for Research on Adolescence biennial meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

Budescu, M. & Taylor, R.D. (March, 2010). Kinship support and ethnic identity among low-income, urban adolescents. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Philadelphia, PA.

Cianni, L., Shi, B., & Xie, H. (March, 2010). Romantic relationships during early adolescence: Friend network, popularity, and school adjustment. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Philadelphia, PA

Cline, J., Steinberg, E., & Drabick, D. A. G. (June, 2011). Baseline parasympathetic functioning moderates the relation between punitive parental behaviors and conduct disorder symptoms. Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Prevention Research.

Cline, J., Chen, D., & Drabick, D. A. G. (March, 2011). Predicting children’s hostile attributions from caregivers’ emotion-focused reactions: The moderating role of autonomic activity. Poster presented at the Biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Montreal, Canada.

Cline, J., Chen, D., Carpenter, J.L., & Drabick, D.A.G. (March, 2011). Autonomic nervous system functioning moderates the relations among victimization, ODD, and depressive symptoms. Poster presented at the Biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Montreal, Canada.

Cline, J., & Drabick, D. A. G. (June, 2010). The effects of child autonomic functioning on parenting among contextually disadvantaged youth. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Prevention Research, Denver.

Dawes, M., & Xie, H. (March, 2011). Perceived popularity status and aggression: Exploring the role of motivation for popularity. Poster presentation at the Biennial meeting of the Society of Research in Child Development, Montreal, Canada.

Dawes, M., Wurster, T., Hock, A., & Xie. H. (March, 2012) Private Reactions and
Perceived Peer Reactions to Physical Fight in School and the Role of Personal Characteristics. Poster to be presented at the 2012 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Vancouver, Canada.

Fisher, K., Ferrara, K., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. (March, 2010). Exploring the role of dialogic inquiry and exploration in guided play: An experimental study. Poster presented at the XVIIth International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MD.

Fisher, K., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Newcombe, N.S., Golinkoff, R. (2011). (March, 2011). Untangling playful-learning: Exploring the impact of dialogic inquiry and exploration in play-based pedagogies. Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, PQ.

Fisher, K., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Newcombe, N.S., Golinkoff, R. (March, 2011). When playful learning trumps direct instruction: The case of shape learning. Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, QC.

Frick, A. & Newcombe, N.S. (October, 2011). Development of mental rotation in 3- to 5-year-olds. Cognitive Development Society, Philadelphia, PA.

Frick, A., & Newcombe, N.S. (March, 2011). Spatial scaling abilities in 3- to 6- year-olds. Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, QC.

Funk, A., Twyman, A., Newcombe, N.S. (March, 2011). Three-year-old children’s successful use of a “middle” search strategy. Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, QC, March 2011.

Funk, A. Y., Twyman, A. D., & Newcombe, N. S. (March, 2010). Local and global cue use in children. Presentation at the XVIIth International Conference on Comparative Cognition, Melbourne, FL.

George, N., Goksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2011, March). Children’s use of causal verbs. 4th Annual Inter-Science of Learning Center Student and Post-Doc Conference, Washington, DC.

Göksun, T., Ferrara, K., Winslow, C., George, N., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (March, 2010). Forces and Motion: How Young Children Understand Causal Events. Poster presented at the XVIIth International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MD.

Göksun, T., Tynan, E., Roseberry, S., George, N., Ferrara, K., Stahl, A., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (March, 2010). A new angle to infant causality. Poster presented at the XVIIth International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MD.

Holden, M.P., Newcombe, N.S. & Shipley, T.F. (November, 2010). Recognition memory and the category adjustment model: A forced-choice location memory study. Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO, November 2010.

Nardi, D., Newcombe, N.S. & Shipley, T.F. (May, 2011). Individual differences in reorientation. American Psychological Society, Washington, DC.

Parish-Morris, J., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R.M. (March, 2010). Toddlers plugged into books: Reading electronic console books in the home affects traditional story comprehension. Poster presented at the XVIIth International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MD.

Parish-Morris, J., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R.M. (2011, June). Motion Categorization in Persons with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Presentation at the Cross-University Collaborative Mentoring Conference, Lehigh University, PA.

Parish-Morris, J., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Pulverman, R., Golinkoff, R.M., Schultz, R., Paterson, S., (2011, May) Understanding intentions predicts relational vocabulary in preschoolers with ASD., San Diego, CA.

Reed, J., Fisher, K., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (March, 2011). The art of learning: The impact of arts-enriched pedagogy on school readiness skills in Head Start children. Poster presented at the Society of Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Montreal, Canada.

Reed, J., Hirsh-Pasek, K., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2012, April). The art of the matter: Playful learning in an arts-enriched preschool. American Education Research Association meeting, Vancouver, Canada.

Resnick, I., Shipley, T.F., Newcombe, N., Massey, C., & Wills, T. (October, 2011). Progressive alignment of geologic time. Geological Society of America, Minneapolis, MN.

Roseberry, S., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R.M. (March, 2010). Honey, we shrunk the Sesame characters! Going beyond symbols to increase language learning. Paper presented at the XVIIth International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MD.

Roseberry, S., Göksun, T., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R.M., Misitzis, Y. (March, 2010). Categorization of space: Relational and distance changes in dynamic events. Paper presented at the XVIIth International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MD.

Rosenberry, S., Hirsh-Pasek, K, Richie, R., & Golinkoff, R.M. (2011, March). Blicking through video chats: Contingent interactions help toddlers learn language. Society for Research in Child Development Conference, Montreal, QC, Canada.

Rosenberry, S., Richie, R., Hirsh-Pasek, K, & Golinkoff, R.M. (2011, March). Babies catch a break: 7- to 9- month-olds track statistical probabilities in continuous, dynamic events. Society for Research in Child Development Conference, Montreal, QC, Canada.

Schinazi, V. R., Dara-Abrams, D., Epstein, R., Nardi, D., Newcombe, N. & Shipley, T. (August, 2010). From the real to the virtual world: Individual differences in navigation. Spatial Cognition 2010, Mount Hood, Oregon.

Smith, A., Chein, J., & Steinberg, L. (November, 2011). Developmental differences in reward processing in the presence of peers. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington.

Smith, A., Chein, J., Weigard, A., & Steinberg, L. (March, 2012). Influence of peers on the calculation of risk in a probabilistic gambling task. Paper presented as a part of a symposium entitled “Factors Affecting Susceptibility to Peer Influence on Risky Behavior: The Role of Puberty, Situational Context, and Parenting” at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Vancouver.

Stahl, A., Roseberry, S., Tynan, E., Song, L., Golinkoff, R., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2010, March). Breaking up is not hard to do: Transitional probabilities facilitate dynamic event segmentation. Poster Session presented at International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MD.

Stahl, A., Rosenberry, S., Tynan, E., Golinkoff, R.M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2011, March). Infants divide and conquer: Using transitional probabilities to segment events. Society for Research in Child Development Conference, Montreal, QC, Canada.

Wurster, T., & Steinberg, L. (March, 2012). Gender differences and predictors of romantic conflict in adolescent relationships. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Vancouver.

Wurster, T., Xie, H. (March, 2012). Physical Fights and Audience Behavior: The Influence of Peers. Poster presented at the 2012 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Vancouver, BC

Wurster, T.J. & Xie, H. (March, 2011). Aggressive and prosocial behaviors: The success of bistrategic youths. Poster presentation at the Society of Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Montreal, Canada.

Xie, H., & Shi, B. (March, 2010). Popular and non-popular subtypes of physically aggressive preadolescents: Differences in peer affiliations and continuity of aggression. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, Philadelphia, PA.