Child Narratives Lab at UCI

See below for our exciting announcement! To learn more, visit: https://news.uci.edu/2021/09/30/nih-awards-over-2-5-million-for-research-to-improve-interviewing-of-young-witnesses/

How do cultural differences influence parent-child reminiscing behaviors? And, how does an event's valence affect which reminiscing functions are emphasized by caregivers of varying subcultural groups?

Read our recently published article to find out:

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Check out how our colleagues at Florida International University are using the psychology of interviewing to combat the spread of the coronavirus!

New DIY contact tracing app expands the fight against COVID-19, using the science of memory With new US COVID-19 cases topping 200,000 a day, contact tracers are overwhelmed. Here's how infected people can start tracing and notifying contacts themselves.

How should parents discuss an unshared event with their child?

See the attached infographic to learn how to establish ground truth, transparency, and trust in the parent-child relationship.

Read our full article for more information, here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0885201420301015?casa_token=oOrqtfrA-o0AAAAA:XUjvgRzl0oyV1GwJ1b1iSE7mgSFDo5sUeMdy8Ej_HBesypIQUSssBUmuSd-gyVxBhXXik5ByEDY

Based on her continued commitment to mentoring in diversity programs, one of our lab's 5th year Ph.D. students, Alma Olaguez, was awarded the President's Dissertation Year Fellowship! This fellowship will fund her dissertation work on juror's emotional reactions and decision-making in emotionally evocative cases. Congratulations, Alma!

Learn more, here: https://socialecology.uci.edu/news/uci-honors-graduate-students

Emily Slonecker, a 5th year Ph.D. student from our lab, was recently awarded the Alison-Clarke Stewart Graduate Dissertation Award for her excellent dissertation proposal. This award is accompanied by funding for dissertation research examining how food memories differ among ethnic and subcultural groups within the United States and influence caregiver food choices. Congratulations, Emily!

We are delighted to introduce our lab’s new post-doctoral researcher: Dr. Joanna Peplak. Dr. Peplak recently received her Ph.D. in developmental psychology from the University of Toronto for her work on ethically relevant emotions such as compassion and schadenfreude. With the Child Narratives Lab, she plans to explore the interplay between socialization, emotions, and event recall using both narrative and experimental approaches. Welcome to the team, Dr. Peplak!

What makes some children especially vulnerable to the power of suggestion?

Read our investigation into how demographic, cognitive, and psychosocial factors influence children’s suggestibility, here:

Individual Differences in Children’s Suggestibility: An Updated Review (2020). Individual Differences in Children’s Suggestibility: An Updated Review. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse: Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 158-182.

We are thrilled to announce that data collection for one of our new studies, “Predicting and preventing behaviors that risk the spread of the novel coronavirus/COVID 19”, is well underway! With the Ad Lab at UC Riverside as our partner, we hope to uncover how this unprecedented pandemic is affecting the lives of adolescents. Stay tuned and stay safe!

Listen to Dr. Klemfuss explain our study here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=520&v=KYTam69WLHw&feature=emb_logo

Learn more about the Ad Lab, directed by Dr. Tuppet Yates, here: https://adlab.ucr.edu

Predicting and preventing behaviors that risk the spread of covid-19 | J. Zoe Klemfuss, PhD | UCI Proposal submitted to UCI's "COVID-19 Basic, Translational and Clinical Research Funding Opportunity" supported by the UCI Joint Research Fund that was estab...

Facts or feelings: Which should be emphasized during child interviews? Read a recent article from our lab showing that the way children are questioned about stressful events affects their ability to process and report their experiences:

Talking about emotions: Effects of emotion-focused interviewing on children’s physiological regulation of stress and discussion of the subjective elements of a stressful experience This is the first study to examine the effect of questioning children about emotions and cognitions versus facts on children’s stress reactivity and r…

Congratulations to Dr. Klemfuss for being a recipient of the prestigious Hellman Fellowship for the 2020-2021 academic year! Read more about her plans to study how rapport-building techniques may help interviewers elicit complete and accurate reports from children:

https://socialecology.uci.edu/news/klemfuss-and-riis-named-hellman-fellows-2020-21
https://news.uci.edu/2020/06/25/five-uci-junior-faculty-named-hellman-fellows-for-2020-21/

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Five UCI junior faculty named Hellman Fellows for 2020-21 Assistant professors in chemistry, computer science, dance and psychological science awarded grants to support research, scholarly work

How well are children able to report the order of past events? Can they make sense of questions asking what happened “after”, “before”, “first”, and “last”? And, how can practitioners use this information to effectively question children?

Check out this recent article from our lab:

(PDF) Order of Encoding Predicts Young Children’s Responses to Sequencing Questions. PDF | We propose that young children exhibit an order of encoding bias, such that they are inclined to report or act out events in the order in which... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate