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Kathleen H. Corriveau

Kathleen H. Corriveau

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Psychology

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39
Citations
8601
World Ranking
8456
National Ranking
4520

Overview

Kathleen H. Corriveau is affiliated with Boston University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences and psychology, with a significant focus on developmental and educational psychology, education, social psychology, sociology and political science, and health.

Their work includes multiple papers published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • Beliefs of children and adults in religious and scientific phenomena, 2020, Current Opinion in Psychology
  • Beliefs about Unobservable Scientific and Religious Entities are Transmitted via Subtle Linguistic Cues in Parental Testimony, 2021, Journal of Cognition and Development
  • Children's Ideas About What Can Really Happen: The Impact of Age and Religious Background, 2021, Cognitive Science
  • Epistemic justifications for belief in the unobservable: The impact of minority status, 2020, Cognition
  • Unique effects of book-reading at 9-months on vocabulary development at 36-months: Insights from a nationally representative sample of Irish families, 2021, Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Kathleen H. Corriveau collaborates frequently with a number of researchers, including:

  • Paul L. Harris
  • Ayse Payir
  • Amanda S. Haber
  • Yixin Kelly Cui
  • Kathryn A. Leech

Their research is regularly published in several prominent venues, among them:

  • Journal of Cognition and Development
  • Early Childhood Research Quarterly
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Infant and Child Development
  • PLoS ONE

The main topics covered by their research consist of:

  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Science Education and Pedagogy
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Religious Education and Schools

Kathleen H. Corriveau's body of work offers insights into how children and adults understand complex phenomena, including religious and scientific concepts, and how these beliefs and ideas are influenced by age, cultural background, and linguistic cues. Their contributions span various disciplines within the social sciences with an emphasis on developmental processes and educational contexts.

Best Publications

  • Children's selective trust in native-accented speakers.

    Katherine D. Kinzler;Kathleen H. Corriveau;Paul L. Harris

  • Preschoolers Monitor the Relative Accuracy of Informants

    Elisabeth S. Pasquini;Kathleen H. Corriveau;Melissa Koenig;Paul L. Harris

  • Choosing your informant: weighing familiarity and recent accuracy.

    Kathleen Corriveau;Paul L. Harris

  • Cognitive Foundations of Learning from Testimony

    Paul L. Harris;Melissa A. Koenig;Kathleen H. Corriveau;Vikram K. Jaswal

  • Young children's selective trust in informants

    Paul L. Harris;Kathleen H. Corriveau

  • Rhythmic motor entrainment in children with speech and language impairments: tapping to the beat.

    Kathleen H. Corriveau;Usha Goswami

  • Young children's trust in their mother's claims: longitudinal links with attachment security in infancy.

    Kathleen H. Corriveau;Paul L. Harris;Elizabeth Meins;Charles Fernyhough

  • Preschoolers continue to trust a more accurate informant 1 week after exposure to accuracy information

    Kathleen Corriveau;Paul L. Harris

  • Going With the Flow Preschoolers Prefer Nondissenters as Informants

    Kathleen H. Corriveau;Maria Fusaro;Paul L. Harris

  • Preschoolers (sometimes) defer to the majority in making simple perceptual judgments.

    Kathleen H. Corriveau;Paul L. Harris

  • Basic Auditory Processing Skills and Specific Language Impairment: A New Look at an Old Hypothesis

    Kathleen Corriveau;Elizabeth Pasquini;Usha Goswami

  • Accuracy trumps accent in children's endorsement of object labels.

    Kathleen H. Corriveau;Katherine D. Kinzler;Paul L. Harris

  • Question, Explanation, Follow-Up: A Mechanism for Learning From Others?

    Katelyn E. Kurkul;Kathleen H. Corriveau

  • Children Monitor Individuals’ Expertise for Word Learning

    David M. Sobel;Kathleen H. Corriveau

  • Children Trust a Consensus Composed of Outgroup Members—But Do Not Retain That Trust

    Eva E. Chen;Kathleen H. Corriveau;Paul L. Harris

  • “Why Does Rain Fall?”: Children Prefer to Learn From an Informant Who Uses Noncircular Explanations

    Kathleen H. Corriveau;Katelyn E. Kurkul

  • Early tracking of informant accuracy and inaccuracy.

    Kathleen H. Corriveau;Kerstin Meints;Paul L. Harris

  • Judgments About Fact and Fiction by Children From Religious and Nonreligious Backgrounds

    Kathleen H. Corriveau;Eva E. Chen;Paul L. Harris

  • Monoracial and biracial children: effects of racial identity saliency on social learning and social preferences.

    Sarah E. Gaither;Eva E. Chen;Kathleen H. Corriveau;Paul L. Harris

  • Auditory Processing and Early Literacy Skills in a Preschool and Kindergarten Population

    Kathleen H. Corriveau;Usha Goswami;Jennifer M. Thomson

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul L. Harris
Paul L. Harris Harvard University
Usha Goswami
Usha Goswami University of Cambridge
Samuel R. Sommers
Samuel R. Sommers Tufts University
David M. Sobel
David M. Sobel Brown University
Nalini Ambady
Nalini Ambady Stanford University
Mahzarin R. Banaji
Mahzarin R. Banaji Harvard University
Katherine D. Kinzler
Katherine D. Kinzler University of Chicago
Elizabeth J. Robinson
Elizabeth J. Robinson University of Warwick
Michael Daly
Michael Daly National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Christopher A. Walsh
Christopher A. Walsh Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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