Judith Danovitch, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Life Sciences Building, 347
Education
- PhD Psychology, Yale University, 2005
- AB Psychology and Biology, Harvard University, 2000
Research Interests
How preschool and elementary school children seek out and evaluate information; How children think about information sources, including the internet
Recent Representative Publications
Danovitch, J. H., Mills, C. M., Sands, K., & Williams, A. J. (in press). Mind the gap: How incomplete explanations influence children's interest and learning behaviors. Cognitive Psychology.
Mills, C. M., Danovitch, J. H., Mugambi, V., Sands, K., & Pattisapu Fox, C. (in press). “Why do dogs pant?”: Characteristics of parental explanations about science predict children’s knowledge. Child Development.
Danovitch, J. H., Mills, C. M., Duncan, R. G., Williams, A. J., & Girouard, L. N. (2021). Developmental changes in children’s recognition of the relevance of evidence to causal explanations. Cognitive Development, 58, 101017.
Williams, A. J., Danovitch, J. H., Mills, C. M. (2021). Exploring sources of individual differences in children’s interest in science. Mind, Brain, and Education, 15, 67-76.
Danovitch, J. H. & Lane, J. (2020). Children’s belief in purported events: When claims reference hearsay, books, or the internet. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 193, 104808.
Tong, Y., Wang, F., & Danovitch, J. H. (2020). The role of epistemic and social characteristics in children’s selective trust: Three meta-analyses. Developmental Science, 23, e12895
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