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60
Citations
13208
World Ranking
3549
National Ranking
1996

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association
  • 1982 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Lynn S. Liben is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States and conducts research primarily within the social sciences. Their work encompasses multiple subfields, including education, gender studies, developmental and educational psychology, automotive engineering, and statistics and probability.

The main topics in Lynn S. Liben's research include gender roles and identity studies, early childhood education and development, spatial cognition and navigation, gender studies in language, cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, geography education and pedagogy, and parental involvement in education.

Several recent papers authored or co-authored by Lynn S. Liben illustrate their range of interests and research activity. These include:

  • Felt Pressure to Conform to Cultural Gender Roles: Correlates and Consequences (2020), published in Sex Roles
  • Mothers' distancing language relates to young children's math and literacy skills (2020), Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • Can a Domain-General Spatial Intervention Facilitate Children's Science Learning? A Lesson From Astronomy (2020), Child Development
  • Guided STEM Activity Kits for Parents With Preschool Children: Design, Frequency of Use, and Parent Evaluation (2024), Journal of Research in Childhood Education
  • Linking parents' play strategies with their preschoolers' STEM skills: The mediating roles of child STEM talk and self-regulated learning (2024), Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Their frequent co-authors include Karen L. Bierman, Morgan D. Mannweiler, Lacey J. Hilliard, Corinne A. Bower, and Meg L. Small.

Lynn S. Liben publishes work in venues such as the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, PsycTESTS Dataset, Journal of Intelligence, Sex Roles, and Child Development.

Professional recognition includes being named a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2008 and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association in 1982.

Best Publications

  • Developmental Intergroup Theory: Explaining and Reducing Children's Social Stereotyping and Prejudice

    Rebecca S. Bigler;Lynn S. Liben

  • A developmental intergroup theory of social stereotypes and prejudice.

    Rebecca S. Bigler;Lynn Susan Liben

  • The developmental course of gender differentiation: conceptualizing, measuring, and evaluating constructs and pathways.

    Lynn Susan Liben;Rebecca S. Bigler

  • Developmental Differences in Children′s Gender Schemata about Others: A Meta-analytic Review

    Margaret L. Signorella;Rebecca S. Bigler;Lynn S. Liben

  • A cognitive-developmental approach to racial stereotyping and reconstructive memory in Euro-American children

    Rebecca S. Bigler;Lynn S. Liben

  • The Pseudoscience of Single-Sex Schooling

    Diane F. Halpern;Lise Eliot;Rebecca S. Bigler;Richard A. Fabes

  • Race, ethnicity, and culture in child development: contemporary research and future directions.

    Stephen M. Quintana;Frances E. Aboud;Ruth K. Chao;Josefina Contreras-Grau

  • Cognitive Mechanisms in Children's Gender Stereotyping: Theoretical and Educational Implications of a Cognitive-based Intervention

    Rebecca S. Bigler;Lynn S. Liben

  • A Sex Difference in Mental Rotation in Young Infants

    Paul C. Quinn;Lynn S. Liben

  • Differing levels of gender salience in preschool classrooms: effects on children's gender attitudes and intergroup bias.

    Lacey J. Hilliard;Lynn S. Liben

  • Pink and Blue Collar Jobs: Children's Judgments of Job Status and Job Aspirations in Relation to Sex of Worker

    Lynn S. Liben;Rebecca S. Bigler;Holleen R. Krogh

  • Gender, Values, and Occupational Interests Among Children, Adolescents, and Adults

    Erica S. Weisgram;Rebecca S. Bigler;Lynn S. Liben

  • Gender-Related Schemata and Constructive Memory in Children.

    Lynn S. Liben;Margaret L. Signorella

  • How Geoscientists Think and Learn

    Kim A. Kastens;Cathryn A. Manduca;Cinzia Cervato;Robert Frodeman

  • Race and the workforce: occupational status, aspirations, and stereotyping among African American children.

    Rebecca S. Bigler;Cara J. Averhart;Lynn S. Liben

  • Understanding maps as symbols: the development of map concepts in children.

    Lynn S. Liben;Roger M. Downs

  • Spatial representation and behavior across the life span

    Lynn S. Liben;Arthur H. Patterson;Nora. Newcombe

  • Barrier effects in the cognitive maps of children and adults

    Nora Newcombe;Lynn S. Liben

  • Understanding Person-Space-Map Relations: Cartographic and Developmental Perspectives.

    Lynn Susan Liben;Roger Michael Downs

  • Spatial representation and behavior across the life span : theory and application

    Lynn S. Liben;Arthur H. Patterson;Nora Newcombe

Frequent Co-Authors

Rebecca S. Bigler
Rebecca S. Bigler The University of Texas at Austin
Elizabeth J. Susman
Elizabeth J. Susman Pennsylvania State University
Diane Hughes
Diane Hughes New York University
Nora S. Newcombe
Nora S. Newcombe Temple University
Diane F. Halpern
Diane F. Halpern Claremont McKenna College
Vanessa A. Green
Vanessa A. Green Victoria University of Wellington
Paul C. Quinn
Paul C. Quinn University of Delaware
Janet Shibley Hyde
Janet Shibley Hyde University of Wisconsin–Madison
Stephen T. Russell
Stephen T. Russell The University of Texas at Austin
Carol Lynn Martin
Carol Lynn Martin Arizona State University

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