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Overview

Karl S. Rosengren is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and social sciences, with significant contributions to subfields such as education, social psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, and sociology and political science.

The main topics of Karl S. Rosengren's work include animal and plant science education, visual and cognitive learning processes, child development and digital technology, science education and pedagogy, grief, bereavement, and mental health, child and animal learning development, as well as vaccine coverage and hesitancy.

Recent papers by Karl S. Rosengren and frequent collaborators provide insight into their scholarly contributions. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Children's Emerging Understanding of Death," 2020, Child Development Perspectives
  • "Do details bug you? Effects of perceptual richness in learning about biological change," 2020, Applied Cognitive Psychology
  • "Attempting to break the fourth wall: Young children's action errors with screen media," 2021, Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies
  • "When will it be over?" U.S. children's questions and parents' responses about the COVID-19 pandemic," 2021, PLoS ONE
  • "Detailed bugs or bugging details? The influence of perceptual richness across elementary school years," 2021, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Karl S. Rosengren has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • David Menéndez
  • Martha W. Alibali
  • Rebecca E. Klapper
  • Olympia N. Mathiaparanam
  • Seung Heon Yoo

Publications appear regularly in venues such as PLoS ONE, Cognitive Development, Child Development Perspectives, Memory & Cognition, and Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies.

Best Publications

  • The coexistence of natural and supernatural explanations across cultures and development.

    Cristine H. Legare;E. Margaret Evans;Karl S. Rosengren;Paul L. Harris

  • Grasping the Nature of Pictures

    Judy S. DeLoache;Sophia L. Pierroutsakos;David H. Uttal;Karl S. Rosengren

  • Beyond Labeling: The Role of Maternal Input in the Acquisition of Richly Structured Categories

    Susan A. Gelman;John D. Coley;Karl S. Rosengren;Erin Hartman

  • As Time Goes By: Children's Early Understanding of Growth in Animals

    Karl S. Rosengren;Susan A. Gelman;Charles W. Kalish;Michael McCormick

  • Children achieve adult-like sensory integration during stance at 12-years-old.

    Melissa L. Peterson;Melissa L. Peterson;Evangelos Christou;Karl S. Rosengren

  • Generalizability of center of pressure measures of quiet standing

    Richard J. Doyle;Elizabeth T. Hsiao-Wecksler;Brian G. Ragan;Karl S. Rosengren

  • Emotion and motivated behavior: Postural adjustments to affective picture viewing

    Charles H Hillman;Karl S Rosengren;Darin P Smith

  • The Credible Shrinking Room: Very Young Children's Performance With Symbolic and Nonsymbolic Relations

    Judy S DeLoache;Kevin F. Miller;Karl S. Rosengren

  • Scale Errors Offer Evidence for a Perception-Action Dissociation Early in Life

    Judy S. DeLoache;David H. Uttal;Karl S. Rosengren

  • Self-Efficacy and Balance Correlates of Fear of Falling in the Elderly

    Edward McAuley;Shannon L. Mihalko;Shannon L. Mihalko;Karl Rosengren

  • Muscle quality, aerobic fitness and fat mass predict lower-extremity physical function in community-dwelling older adults.

    Mark M. Misic;Karl S. Rosengren;Jeffrey A. Woods;Ellen M. Evans

  • Physical Activity and Functional Limitations in Older Women: Influence of Self-Efficacy

    Edward McAuley;James F. Konopack;Katherine S. Morris;Robert W. Motl

  • Imagining the impossible : magical, scientific, and religious thinking in children

    Karl Sven Rosengren;Carl N. Johnson;Paul L. Harris

  • A New Look at Children's Private Speech: The Effects of Age, Task Difficulty, and Parent Presence

    Douglas A. Behrend;Karl Rosengren;Marion Perlmutter

  • Measuring Disability and Function in Older Women: Psychometric Properties of the Late-Life Function and Disability Instrument

    Edward McAuley;James F. Konopack;Robert W. Motl;Karl Rosengren

  • Exploring the relation between preschool children's magical beliefs and causal thinking

    Karl S. Rosengren;Charles W. Kalish;Anne K. Hickling;Susan A. Gelman

  • Gait adjustments in older adults: activity and efficacy influences.

    Karl S. Rosengren;Edward McAuley;Shannon L. Mihalko

  • A new approach to detecting asymmetries in gait.

    K. Alex Shorter;John D. Polk;Karl S. Rosengren;Elizabeth T. Hsiao-Wecksler

  • Seeing Is Believing: Children's Explanations of Commonplace, Magical, and Extraordinary Transformations

    Karl S. Rosengren;Anne K. Hickling

  • Evolution challenges : integrating research and practice in teaching and learning about evolution

    Karl S. Rosengren;Sarah K. Brem;E. Margaret Evans;Gale M. Sinatra

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward McAuley
Edward McAuley University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Geert J.P. Savelsbergh
Geert J.P. Savelsbergh Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Judy S. DeLoache
Judy S. DeLoache University of Virginia
David H. Uttal
David H. Uttal Northwestern University
Susan A. Gelman
Susan A. Gelman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Charles W. Kalish
Charles W. Kalish University of Wisconsin–Madison
John van der Kamp
John van der Kamp Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Paul L. Harris
Paul L. Harris Harvard University
Martha W. Alibali
Martha W. Alibali University of Wisconsin–Madison
Marion Perlmutter
Marion Perlmutter University of Minnesota

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