Grants & Awards

Aldrich, N. 2010 Language Learning Dissertation Grant, “Children’s Narrative Ability and their Socio-Cognitive Understanding of Jealousy” ($2000)

Aldrich, N. 2010 Doctoral Student Research Grant, “Children’s Socio-Cognitive Understanding of Jealousy” ($1900)

Galazyn, M. Tuition Scholarship, the Kosciuzsco Foundation

Horger, M. 2018 Doctoral Student Research Grant, “The Use of Noninvasive Technology to Code Sleep States in Infants” ($1500)

Jovic, S. Open Society Institute Fellowship

Kirkman, C. (2010-2011). “Capturing Continuity: Micro-coding the Developmental Trajectory of Preschoolers’ Ability to Inhibit, ” Graduate Center Doctoral Student Research Grant.

Manes, R. 2011 American Psychological Association Student Travel Award

Powers, K. (2010-2011). Graduate Center Doctoral Student Research Grant, “The Effects of Video Games on Information Processing: A Meta-analytic Investigation ” ($1900)

Brooks, P.J., Powers, K. (201-2012) Teaching with Technology Mini-Grant, “College of Staten Island PSY 100 Hybrid Initiative” ($1999.40)

Shane-Simpson, C. (2018). Early Career Travel Grant, Society for the Teaching of Psychology  

Shane-Simpson, C. & Brooks, P. J. (2016). Wikimedia Foundation Wikipedia Travel Grant 

Tagaki, Y. (2010-2011) Graduate Center Doctoral Students Research Grant
“Adolescents’ and young adults’ moral thinking as agents in real-life moral dilemmas”

Victory, F. Grant for conference travel, National Science Foundation, The Alliances for Graduate Education in the Professoriate Program

Victory, F. 2011 CUNY Graduate Center Presidential Research Fund ($500). “Including Affect When Coding Initiating Joint Attention in Children with Autism”. Funding to present at APS conference in Washington DC

Yuklel-Sokmen, O., (2011-2012) Student Technology MiniGrant, CUNY College of Staten Island, May 2011, “Early Gestural Communication and Social Coordination in At-Risk Twins” ($2000)

 

Publications

Alfieri, L., Brooks, P.J., Aldrich, N.J., & Tenenbaum, H.R. (2010, in press).
Does discovery-based instruction enhance learning? Journal of Educational Psychology.

Aldrich, N.J., Tenenbaum, H.R., Brooks, P.J., Harrison, K., & Sines, J. (2011).
Perspective taking in children’s narratives about jealousy. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 29 (1), 86-109.

Aldrich, N. J., & Brooks, P. J. (2017). Linguistic and socio-cognitive predictors of school-age children’s narrative evaluations about jealousy. First Language, 37(2), 130-149. 

Aldrich, N. J., Brooks, P. J., Yuksel-Sokmen, P. O., Ragir, S., Flory, M. J., Lennon, E. M., Karmel, B. & Gardner, J. M. (2015). Infant twins’ social interactions with caregivers and same-age siblings. Infant Behavior and Development, 41, 127-141.

DeNigris, D. & Brooks, P. J. (in press). The role of language in temporal cognition in 6- to 10-year-old children. Journal of Cognition and Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/15248372.2018.1483372

DeNigris, D., Brooks, P. J., Obeid, R., Alarcon, M., Shane-Simpson, C. & Gillespie-Lynch, K. (2018). Bullying and identity development: Insights from autistic and non-autistic college students. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 48(3), 666-678.

Etengoff, C., (June, 2011). Constructing narratives of sexual identity within religious university contexts. The 2011 LGBTQ & Allies Adult Education Research Conference Proceedings, Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services, University of Alberta, Canada.

Etengoff, C., (In Press). ‘Fashioning Identities in Virtual Environments,’ in Fashions: Exploring fashion through culture. Probing the Boundaries at the Interface Series. (pp.135-150). J.L. Foltyn (Ed.), Oxford, UK: The Inter-Disciplinary Press. ISBN: 978-1-84888-015-3

Etengoff, C., (Accepted). ‘Playing with Pixels: Youth, Identity, and Virtual Play Spaces,’ Childhoods Today.

Berger, S. E., Harbourne, R. T., and Horger, M. N. (2018). Chapter two: Cognition-action trade-offs reflect the organization of attention in infancy. In J. B. Benson (Ed.), Advances in Child Development and Behavior (45-86). New York, NY: Elsevier.

Karras-Jean Gilles, J., Astuto, J., Gjicali, K., & Allen, L. (2017). Longitudinal Sample Retention in Randomized Evaluation Research: An Exploratory Study in an Urban, Low-Income Context. American Journal of Evaluation. https://doi.org/10.1177/1098214017742719

Berger, S. E. & Kim, H. H. (2010, March). New walkers’ strategies for descending stairs. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MD.

Daiute, C., & Lucic, L. (2010), Situated cultural development among youth separated by war. International Journal of Intercultural Relations,34, 615 – 628.

Moore, B., Brooks, P. J., & Rabin, L. (2014). Developments in diachronic thinking and event ordering in 5- to 10- year-old children. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 38(3), 282-292.

Obeid, R., Schwartz, A. M., Shane-Simpson, C., & Brooks, P. J. (Eds.) (2017). How We Teach Now: The GSTA Guide to Student-Centered Teaching. e-book published by the Society for the Teaching of Psychology. Available at  How We Teach Now: The GSTA Guide to Student-Centered Teaching

Obeid, R., & Brooks, P. J. (in press). Associations between manual dexterity and language ability in school-age children. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools. 

Obeid, R., Brooks, P. J., Powers, K., Gillespie-Lynch, K. & Lum, J. A. G. (2016). Statistical learning in Specific Language Impairment and Autism Spectrum Disorder: A meta-analysis. Frontiers in Psychology | Language Sciences, 7, 1245.   https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01245

Obeid, R., Daou, N., DeNigris, D., Shane-Simpson, C., Brooks, P. J., & Gillespie-Lynch, K. (2015). A cross-cultural comparison of knowledge and stigma associated with autism spectrum disorder among college students in Lebanon and the United States. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 45(11), 3520-3536.

Park, H., Ruck, M., Killen, M., Crystal, D. (in press), Intergroup contact and evaluations of Race-based exclusion in urban minority children and adolescents. Journal of Youth and Adolescence.

Powers, K. L., Brodsky, J. E., Blumberg, F. C. & Brooks, P. J. (2018). Creating developmentally-appropriate measures of media literacy for adolescents. In APAScience ’18: Technology, Mind, and Society Proceedings. New York, NY: ACM.  https://doi.org/10.1145/3183654.3183670

Powers, K. & Brooks, P. J. (2014). Evaluating the specificity of effects of video-game training. In F. Blumberg (Ed.) Learning by Playing: Frontiers of Video Gaming in Education (pp. 302-329). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Powers, K., Brooks, P. J., Aldrich, N. J., Palladino, M. & Alfieri, L. (2013). Effects of video-game play on information processing: A meta-analytic investigation. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 20(6), 1055-1079.

Powers, K. L., Brooks, P. J., Galazyn, M., & Donnelly, S. Testing the efficacy of MyPsychLab to replace traditional instruction in a hybrid course. Psychology Learning and Teaching, 15(1), 6-30. 

Sawyer, J. & Brooks, P. J. (2018). Conducting scholarship of teaching and learning in diverse undergraduate psychology classrooms. SAGE Research Methods Cases.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781526445032

 Sawyer, J., Obeid, R., Bublitz, D., Schwartz, A., Brooks, P. J. & Richmond, A. S. (2017). Which active learning methods are most effective: Cooperative learning, writing-to-learn, multimedia instruction, or some combination? Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, 3(4), 257-271.

Shane-Simpson, C., Manago, A., Gaggi, N., & Gillespie-Lynch, K. (2018). Why do college students prefer Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram? Potential tensions between privacy and self-disclosure, and implications for social capital. Computers in Human Behaviors, 86, 276-288.

Hotez, E., Shane-Simpson, C., Pickens, J., Ginnola, M., D’Onofrio, J., & Gillespie-Lynch, K. (2018). Designing and evaluating a summer transition program for incoming and current college students on the autism spectrum: A participatory action approach. Frontiers in Psychology, 9(46).

Gupta, R., Fraser, J., Shane-Simpson, C., Danoff-Burg, S., & Ardalan, N. (2018). Estimating scale, diversity, and professional training of environmental educators in the U.S. Environmental Education Research, 1-17.

Shane-Simpson, C. and Gillespie-Lynch, K. (2017). Examining potential mechanisms underlying the Wikipedia gender gap through a collaborative editing task. Computers in Human Behavior, 66, 312-328.

Shane-Simpson, C., Brooks, P. J., Obeid, R., Denton, E. & Gillespie-Lynch, K. (2016). Associations between compulsive Internet use and the autism spectrum. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 23, 152-165. 

Shane-Simpson, C., Che, E., & Brooks, P. J. (2016). Giving psychology away: Implementation of Wikipedia editing in an introductory human development course. Psychology Learning and Teaching, 15(3), 268-293. 

Spring, T., Saltzstein, H., & Peach, R. (2012). Children’s eyewitness identification as implicit moral decision-making.  Applied Cognitive Psychology (2012) Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/acp.2871

 Spring, T., Saltzstein, H., Vidal, B. (2015). A moral developmental perspective on children’s eyewitness identification: Does intent matter? Archives of Scientific Psychology (2015), Vol 3(1), https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/arc0000011

Spring, T., Saltzstein, H. (2017). A re-examination of data confirming decisional bias as implicit moral judgments. International Journal of Developmental Science, Vol. 11, no.3-4, DOI 10.3233/DEV-160192

Yuksel, P. & Brooks, P. J. (2017). Encouraging usage of an endangered ancestral language: A supportive role for caregivers’ deictic gestures. First Language, 37(6), 561-582. 

 

Conference Presentations & Posters

Ahmed, T. (2011, August). How do Social Partners Influence Relationship Formation in Emerging Adulthood. American Psychological Association Convention.

Ahmed, T. (2011, March). Transference and Attachment: How Social Partners Influence Relationship Formation in Emerging Adulthood.” Eastern Psychological Association, Cambridge MA.

Aldrich, N.J., & Brooks, P.J. (2011, July). Slow-mapping in children’s acquisition of ‘all’. Poster session presented at the Triennial International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Montreal, Canada.

Aldrich, N.J., & Brooks, P.J. (2011, March). Slow-mapping in children’s acquisition of all. In A. Ninio (Chair). Slow mapping in the acquisition of vocabulary and syntax. Paper symposium presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Canada.

Aldrich, N.J., Ragir, S., Brooks, P.J., Karmel, B.Z., & Gardner, J.M. (2010, April). Early social coordination and communication among twins at risk for developmental delay. Poster presented at the Biennial Conference on Human Development, New York, NY.

Aldrich, N.J., Ismaili, L., Ragir, S., Brooks, P.J., Karmel, B.Z., & Gardner, J.M. (2010, March). Twins at risk for developmental delay: Beneficial effects of early social coordination. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Brooklyn, NY.

Alfieri, L., Brooks, P.J., Aldrich, N.J., & Tenenbaum, H.R. (2010, April). The limitations of discovery-based instruction. Poster presented at the Biennial Conference on Human Development, New York, NY.

Alfieri, L., Brooks, P.J., Aldrich, N.J., & Tenenbaum, H.R. (2010, March). Does discovery-based instruction enhance learning? Paper session presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Brooklyn, NY.

Babel, L. (2018, May) Dynamics Relations between Kindergarten Readiness and Academic Redshirting. Poster presented at the Jean Piaget Society, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Babel, L. (2017, June) Redshirting: A Critical, Historical Analysis of the Theories, Policies, and Practices of Children’s Transition into Kindergarten. Poster presented at the Society for the History of Children and Youth. Rutgers University, Camden, NJ.

Dow, E., Burke, C., Bender, M., Woike, B. (2010, January). Implicit and explicit motives influence qualities of goal achievement over time. Poster presented at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology.

Dow, E., Burke, C., Bender, M., Woike, B. (2009, May). Motivation and Goals: Relationships between explicit and implicit motives, mood, progress and attainability. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science.

Etengoff, C., (April, 2010). Wired kids: Exploring the technologization of Cultural Tool Theory. Paper presentation at the Exploring Childhood Studies: A Graduate Student Conference, Rutgers-The State University, Camden, NJ.

Etengoff, C., (April, 2010). The highway to hell: redefining risk behaviors in culturally meaningful terms. Poster presentation at the Conference on Human Development, Fordham University, New York.

Etengoff, C., (March, 2010). Keeping the faith during emerging adulthood: A study of biculturalism amongst Modern-Orthodox Jews. Paper presented at the Critical Issues of Emerging Adulthood Symposium: Religious and Ethnic Identity, Mortality, and Anxiety, Chair: Etengoff, C., Eastern Psychological Association Spring 2010 Meeting, Brooklyn, New York.

Etengoff, C., (March, 2010). God and I: A gendered experience?. Poster presentation at The Annual Symposium for Research in Adult Development, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Etengoff, C., (September, 2009). The fashion of virtual space & place. Paper presented at the 2009 1st Global Fashion Conference: Exploring Critical Issues, Oxford, UK.

Etengoff, C., & Freyberg, R (2006). Judeo-Christian values and the female body image. Poster presented at the 2006 Annual Ferkauf Graduate School Student Research Conference, Bronx, NY.

Horger, M., Berger, S., Orr, E., and Benish-Weisman, M. (2017, May) The Relation between Culture, Parental Values, and Young Children’s Play. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science, Boston, MA and Psychology Research Day, New York, NY.

Horger, M., Saad, P., Zillig, A., and Berger, S. (2017, October) Regress for Success: Returning to Crawling Places Attentional Demands on New Walkers. Poster presented at the Cognitive Development Society, Portland, OR

Horger, M., Saad, P., Scher, A., and Berger, S. (2018, July) Infants’ Ability to Consolidate New Information Depends on the Timing of a Nap Relative to Learning and Test. Poster presented at the International Congress of Infant Studies, Philadelphia, PA.

Horger, M., Friedman, D., Scher, A., and Berger, S. (2018, July) Individual Differences in the Quality of Night Sleep Influence Infants’ Preparedness for Learning the Following Day. Poster presented at the International Congress of Infant Studies, Philadelphia, PA.

Hougaard, N. (2011, Sept). International Society of Cultural and Activity Research (ISCAR), Rome, Italy.

Daiute, C., & Lucic, L. Jean Piaget Society, Berkeley CA, June 2011.

Jewkes, A. M., & Poulakos, A.  (2009, May).  Understanding obesity in young children: A study using the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey.  Paper presented at the National Head Start Association Annual Training Conference, Orlando, FL.

Jewkes, A. M., Lively, D. L., Tapp, A. R., & Poulakos, A.  (2009, April).  “Never stop reflecting”:  Using a reflective teaching framework with student teachers.  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.

Jewkes, A. M., Lively, D. L., Tapp, A. R., & Poulakos, A.  (2008, November).  Creating reflective practitioners: Using a reflective teaching approach with early childhood student teachers.  Paper presented at the National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators Fall Conference, Dallas, TX.

Johnston, M. (2010, June). Jean Piaget Society, St. Louis MO.

Kim, H. & Berger, S. (2010, March). International Society of Infant Studies (ISIS).

Kreniske, P. (2010, Nov).TITLE, American Anthropological Association Meeting, New Orleans, LA, November 2010.

Lucic, L. & Daiute, C. (2011, Sept). , International Society of Cultural and Activity Research (ISCAR), Rome, Italy, September 2011

Manes, R. L. (2011, August) American Psychological Association (APA) Convention, Washington DC.

Manes, R. L. (2011, May). Understanding What Healthy Means among Overweight  and Obese Adolescents. Presentation presented at the Public Health Association of New York City Conference, New York, NY.

Manes, R. L. (2011, April). Exploring Understandings of Health among Overweight and Obese Adolescents. Paper presented at the International Conference on Body Image and Identity in Contemporary Society, The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY.

Pascall-Brown, L. (2011, Sept). International Society of Cultural and Activity Research (ISCAR), Rome, Italy, September 2011.

Podluka, D. (2011, Sept). International Society of Cultural and Activity Research (ISCAR), Rome, Italy, September 2011

Poulakos, A., Ruck, M. D., Peterson-Baladali, M., & Bone, J.  (2010)  Rights reasoning of maltreated children living in state care.  Paper presented at the Society of Research in Adolescence Conference, Philadelphia, PA.

Powers, K., Alfieri, L., Aldrich, N.J., Palladino, M., & Brooks, P.J. (2011, April). The effects of video games on information processing: A meta-analytic investigation. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.

Powers, K.L., Alfieri, L., Aldrich, N.J., Palladino, M.A., & Brooks, P.J. (2011, April). A meta-analytic review of the effects of video game play on information processing. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Canada.

Son, M. (2011, Aug). Successful Pathways: Lessons Learned from Dominican College Students. American Psychological Association Convention, Washington DC.

Spring, T. & Saltzstein, H. (2016, June) A Re-examination of eyewitness identification: confirming decisional bias as implicit moral judgment. Paper presentation at the Jean Piaget Society: 46th Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois. 

Spring, T. & Saltzstein, H. (2013, March) A Developmental Perspective on Children’s Eyewitness Identification: Does Intent Matter? Paper presentation at the American Psychology – Law Society Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon.

Spring, T. & Saltzstein, H. (2011, June) The effects of moral framing on eyewitness identification: A developmental perspective. Paper presentation at the Jean Piaget Society: 41st Annual Meeting, Berkley, California.  

Spring, T. & Saltzstein, H. (2010, September) A Developmental Perspective on Children’s Eyewitness Identification: The Impact of Intention and Outcome. Paper presentation at the 5th Annual International Social Science Research Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.  

Spring, T. & Saltzstein, H. (2010, March) The Effects of Moral Framing on Eyewitness Identifications: A Developmental Perspective. Paper presentation at the American Psychology – Law Society Conference, Vancouver, Canada.

Spring, T. & Saltzstein, H. (2006, June) Children’s eyewitness testimony as moral decision-making: A replication and extension. Paper presentation at the Jean Piaget Society: Art and Human Development, Baltimore, Maryland.

Spring, T. (2006, May) A Moral Decision-Making Approach to Children’s Eyewitness Testimony:  A Replication and Extension. Presented as a symposium at the Association for Psychological Science (APS) 18th Annual Convention, New York, NY.

Saltzstein, H. & Spring, T. (2011, April) Children’s Eyewitness Identification as Moral Decision-making. Invited talk presented at the Hofstra University Psychology Colloquium, Hempstead, New York. 

Saltzstein, H. & Spring, T. (2007, March) Children’s Eyewitness Identification as Moral Decision-Making: A Replication and Extension. Paper presentation at the Off the Witness Stand: Using Psychology in the Practice of Justice Conference, New York, NY.  

Saltzstein, H. & Spring, T. (2005, August) A Moral Decision-Making Approach to Children’s Eyewitness Testimony:  A Replication and Extension. Presented as a symposium at the American Psychological Association (APA) Annual Convention, Washington, D.C. 

Strashnaya, R., “Constructing the Visual Self: Dressing for Occasions.” Paper to be presented at the 2011 3rd Global Fashion Conference: Exploring Critical Issues, Oxford, UK.

Strashnaya, R., “Constructing the Visual Self: Dressing for Occasions.” Presented at All- Psychology Student Research Day Data Blitz, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, N.Y., April 2011.

Victory, F. “How Parents of Children with Autism are Impacted by their Child’s Diagnosis”. Paper to be presented at Association of Psychiatrists and Psychologists for Adolescents and Children. Athens, Greece, May, 2011.

Victory, F., Kemp, A., Siller, M., Hutman, T., Sigman, M. “Including Affect When Coding Initiating Joint Attention in Children with Autism.” Poster to be presented at the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, D.C., May 2011.

Victory, F. “The Inter-Relationships Among Religion, Marriage, Family, and Parenting”. Paper to be presented at 9th Annual Mid-Year Religion and Spirituality Conference & Pre-Conference Institute, Columbia, MD, April, 2011.

Victory, F., Siller, M., Hutman, T., Sigman, M. “Including Affect When Coding Initiating Joint Attention in Children with Autism.” Paper presented at All- Psychology Student Research Day Data Blitz, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, N.Y., April 2011.

Victory, F. “Understanding Rabbi’s views, experiences, and interpretations of intellectual disabilities”. Poster presented at International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities, Rome, Italy, October 2010.

Yuksel-Sokmen, O., Aldrich, N., Brooks, P., Ragir, S., Lennon, E., Gardner, J. (2011, October). Early gesture use and joint attention in at-risk twins. Poster to be presented at the conference for Cognitive Developmental Society, Philadelphia, PA.

Yuklel-Sokmen, O., (2011, July). Parent-child matching of sentence structure in early German acquisition. International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), Montreal, Canada.

Grose-Fifer, J., Sheneeka, S., Yuksel-Sokmen, O., Zottoli, T.M., Hoover, S., Navarro, K. (2011, April). Gender differences in the feedback-related negativity (FRN) in a simple gambling task. Gognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS), San Francisco, CA.