Sunday, May 20, 2012
Research

I am generally interested in children's social cognition. Specifically, I am interested in how children use the people in their environment to support their cognitive development. Previously, my research has focused on how factors such as past reliability and information type affect children's information seeking. Currently, I am exploring how similar factors, such as conventionality, partner capability, and situational constraints affect children's social interactions in the domains of prosocial and cooperative behaviour.  Click Here for a copy of my CV.

Teaching

At Queen's University:

Teaching Assistant:

Psychology 202 - Statistics in Psychology

Psychology 235 - Abnormal Psychology

Psychology 355 - Comparative Cognition

Primary Instructor:

Psychology 251C - Developmental Psychology

Selected Publications

Dunfield, K.A., Kuhlmeier, V.A., O’Connell, L., & Kelley, E.  (2011).  Examining the diversity of prosocial behavior:  helping, sharing, and comforting in infancy.
Infancy.

Dunfield, K.A., & Kuhlmeier, V.A.  (2010).  Intention-mediated selective helping in human infants. 
Psychological Science.

Fitneva, S., & Dunfield, K.A.  (in press).  Selective information seeking after a single encounter.
Developmental Psychology.

Dunfield, K.A., & Kuhlmeier, V.A. (in press).  Evidence for partner choice in toddlers: Considering the breadth of other-oriented behaviours.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Johnson, S. C., Dweck, C. S., & Dunfield, K. A. (accepted). How universals and individual differences can inform each other:
The case of social expectations in infancy.
In M. Banaji & S. Gelman (Eds.) Navigating the Social World: What Infants, Children, and Other Species Can Teach Us.
Contact Information

E-mail:  kristen.dunfield at gmail dot com

Kristen is currently a postdoctoral fellow at The Ohio State University:
Social Cognitive Infant Lab

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