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Kristin Hansen Lagattuta is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of psychology and social sciences, with specific focus on developmental and social psychology as well as education and cognitive neuroscience.

The researcher's main areas of study include:

  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

Lagattuta's published work is present in several peer-reviewed journals, most frequently appearing in:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Cognitive Development
  • Child Development
  • Emotion

Representative recent publications include:

  • "Dichotomous thinking about social groups: Learning about one group can activate opposite beliefs about another group" (2021, Cognitive Psychology)
  • "Children's and adults' beliefs about the stability of traits from infancy to adulthood: Contributions of age and executive function" (2020, Cognitive Development)
  • "This is not what I expected: The impact of prior expectations on children's and adults' preferences and emotions." (2021, Developmental Psychology)
  • "Guilt promotes honesty in preschoolers." (2022, Developmental Psychology)
  • "Consistency among social groups in judging emotions across time." (2020, Emotion)

The researcher collaborates frequently with several co-authors, notably:

  • Hannah J. Kramer
  • Karen Hjortsvang Lara
  • Maritza Miramontes
  • Fengling Ma
  • Xianming Luo

Their contributions also extend across multiple subfields, including social psychology, education, developmental and educational psychology, applied psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. Lagattuta's work explores complex aspects of moral and emotional judgment within both childhood and adolescent populations, often examining how social and cognitive factors influence development over time.

Best Publications

  • Behavioral Assessment of Emotion Discrimination, Emotion Regulation, and Cognitive Control in Childhood, Adolescence, and Adulthood

    Nim Tottenham;Nim Tottenham;Todd A Hare;B.J. Casey

  • Differences in early parent-child conversations about negative versus positive emotions: implications for the development of psychological understanding.

    Kristin Hansen Lagattuta;Henry M. Wellman

  • When You Shouldn't Do What You Want to Do: Young Children's Understanding of Desires, Rules, and Emotions

    Kristin Hansen Lagattuta

  • Thinking about the Past: Early Knowledge about Links between Prior Experience, Thinking, and Emotion

    Kristin Hansen Lagattuta;Henry M. Wellman

  • Mothers' and Fathers' Use of Internal State Talk with their Young Children

    Jennifer LaBounty;Henry M. Wellman;Sheryl Olson;Kristin Lagattuta

  • The development of self-conscious emotions: Cognitive processes and social influences.

    Kristin Hansen Lagattuta;Ross A. Thompson

  • Preschoolers' understanding of the link between thinking and feeling: Cognitive cuing and emotional change.

    Kristin Hansen Lagattuta;Henry M. Wellman;John H. Flavell

  • Feeling and Understanding: Early Emotional Development

    Ross A. Thompson;Kristin H. Lagattuta

  • Developing understandings of mind.

    Henry M. Wellman;Kristin H. Lagattuta

  • Thought-Bubbles Help Children with Autism Acquire an Alternative to a Theory of Mind:

    Henry M. Wellman;Simon Baron-Cohen;Robert Caswell;Juan Carlos Gomez

  • Do you know how I feel? Parents underestimate worry and overestimate optimism compared to child self-report.

    Kristin Hansen Lagattuta;Liat Sayfan;Christi Bamford

  • Can children recognize pride

    Jessica L. Tracy;Richard W. Robins;Kristin H. Lagattuta

  • Theory of Mind for Learning and Teaching: The Nature and Role of Explanation.

    Henry M. Wellman;Kristin H. Lagattuta

  • Helping the In-Group Feels Better: Children’s Judgments and Emotion Attributions in Response to Prosocial Dilemmas

    Drika Weller;Kristin Hansen Lagattuta

  • Bridging Theory of Mind and the Personal Domain: Children’s Reasoning About Resistance to Parental Control

    Kristin Hansen Lagattuta;Larry Nucci;Sandra Leanne Bosacki

  • A new measure for assessing executive function across a wide age range: children and adults find happy-sad more difficult than day-night.

    Kristin Hansen Lagattuta;Liat Sayfan;Michael Monsour

  • Forgetting common ground: six- to seven-year-olds have an overinterpretive theory of mind.

    Kristin Hansen Lagattuta;Liat Sayfan;Amanda J. Blattman

  • Children's judgments about prosocial decisions and emotions: gender of the helper and recipient matters.

    Drika Weller;Kristin Hansen Lagattuta

  • Thinking about the future because of the past : Young children's knowledge about the causes of worry and preventative decisions

    Kristin Hansen Lagattuta

  • Beliefs About Thought Probability: Evidence for Persistent Errors in Mindreading and Links to Executive Control

    Kristin Hansen Lagattuta;Liat Sayfan;Christina Harvey

Frequent Co-Authors

Henry M. Wellman
Henry M. Wellman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ross A. Thompson
Ross A. Thompson University of California, Davis
Simon Baron-Cohen
Simon Baron-Cohen University of Cambridge
John H. Flavell
John H. Flavell Stanford University
Andrew N. Meltzoff
Andrew N. Meltzoff University of Washington
Paul D. Hastings
Paul D. Hastings University of California, Davis
Jessica L. Tracy
Jessica L. Tracy University of British Columbia
Larry Nucci
Larry Nucci University of California, Berkeley
Sheryl L. Olson
Sheryl L. Olson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Richard W. Robins
Richard W. Robins University of California, Davis

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