Publications

2025

Kramer, H. J., Stutesman, M., Blaylock, D., & Taylor, L. K. (in press). Ethno-religious socialization among majority and minority group children in a post-conflict society. Social Development.

Kramer, H. J., McLoughlin, N., Corriveau, K.H., & Dautel, J. D. (in press). Religiosity, religious values, and science values in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. PLoS One.

Williams-Gant, A. J., Weisman, K., Amin, T. G., Ghossainy, M. E., Soueidan, G., Nissel, J., Kenderla, P., Abdel-Hak, M., Anggoro, F. K., Bangayan, S., Burdett, E. R. R., Chau, E., Chen, E. E., Chua, J., Coetzee, L., Coley, J. D., Dahl, A., Dautel, J. B., Davis, H. E., Davis, L., DeLeon, A., Diesenduck, G., Evans, D., Feeney, A., Fong, F. T. K., Foo, X., Garcia, A., Gonzalez-Rubio, I., Guerrero, G., Gurven, M., Hu, Y., Huachorunto, K., Indrawati, K., Jee, B. D., Kahwa, M., Kahwa, U., Korah, R., Kramer, H. J., Kushnir, T., Kyriakopoulou, N., Lebepe, L., Lee, H. J., Lesage, K. A., Leshabana, P., Li, P. H., Li, D., Llacua, J. T., Marin, A., Marshall, J., Masebe, N., McAuliffe, K., McLaughlin, A., McMullan, A., McShane, C., Min, C., Mutegeki, M., Namara, O., Nichols, S., Nicolopoulou, A., Nielsen, M., Otali, E., Parise, K., Paucar, X., A., Payir, A., Poonawalla, S., Reyes-Jaquez, B., Riddick, S., Rockers, P., Ruiz, J. K., Sanjidah, R., Shneidman, L., Skopeliti, I., Srinivasan, M., Stegall, J., Stephens, J., Stutesman, M. G., Sun, J., Tarullo, A., Taylor, L. K., Theogen, I., Toong, D., Turan-Küçük, E. N., Tusiime, P. T., Ventura, E. P., Xu, J., Ye, N., Yu, Y., Yucel, M., Zhang, W., Zhao, X., Corriveau, K. H., Richert, R., A., & the Developing Belief Network (2025). Working across religions, cultures, settings, and development: Protocol for wave 2 data collection with children and parents by the Developing Belief Network. PLoS One.

2024

Kramer, H. J., Lara, K. H., Gweon, H., Zaki, J., Miramontes, M., & Lagattuta, K.H. (2024). This too shall pass, but when? Children’s and adults’ beliefs about the time duration of emotions, desires, and preferences. Child Development, 95, 1299-1314. doi: 10.1111/cdev.14072

Lagattuta, K. H., Kramer, H. J., Miramontes, M., Wu, Y. J., & Lara, K. H. (2024) Children’s understanding of mind and emotion: Implications for mental health. In A. Samson, D. Sander, & U. Kramer (Eds.), Change in emotion and mental health. Elsevier.

Weisman, K., Ghossainy, M. E., Williams, A. J., Payir, A., Lesage, K. A., Reyes-Jaquez, B., Amin, T. G., Anggoro, F. K., Burdett, E. R. R., Chen, E. E., Coetzee, L., Coley, J. D., Dahl, A., Dautel, J. B., Davis, H. E., Davis, E. L., Diesendruck, G., Evans, D., Feeney, A., Gurven, M., Jee, B. D., Kramer, H. J., Kushnir, T., McAuliffe, K., McLaughlin, A., Nichols, S., Rockers, P. C., Shneidman, L., Srinivasan, M., Tarullo, A. R., Taylor, L, K., Yu, Y., Yucel, M., Zhao, X., Corriveau, K. H., Richert, R. A., & the Developing Belief Network (2024). The development and diversity of religious cognition and behavior: Protocol for Wave 1 data collection with children and parents by the Developing Belief Network. PLoS One, 19, e0292755

2022

Kramer, H. J., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2022). Developmental changes in emotion understanding during middle childhood. In D. D. Dukes, E. Walle, & A. C. Samson, (Eds.), Oxford handbook on emotional development (pp. 157-173). Oxford University Press.

Kramer, H. J., Parra, L. A., Lara, K. H., Hastings, P. D., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2022). Consistency among social groups in judging emotions across time. Emotion, 22, 880-893. doi: 10.1037/emo0000836

Lagattuta, K. H., & Kramer, H. J. (2022). Theory of mind and moral cognition: Developmental changes in integrating mental states and moral judgments. In M. Killen & J. Smetana (Eds.), Handbook of moral development (3rd Ed, pp. 305-320). Psychology Press.

2021

Kramer, H. J., Goldfarb, D., Tashjian, S. M., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2021). Dichotomous thinking about social groups: Learning about one group can activate opposite beliefs about another group. Cognitive Psychology, 129, 101408. doi: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2021.101408

Kramer, H. J., Wood, T. D., Lara, K. H., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2021). Children’s and adults’ beliefs about the stability of traits from infancy to adulthood: Contributions of age and executive function. Cognitive Development, 57, 1-15. doi: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.100975

Lagattuta, K. H., & Kramer, H. J. (2021). Advanced emotion understanding: Children’s and adults’ knowledge that minds generalize from prior emotion events. Emotion, 21, 1-16. doi: 10.1037/emo0000694

Lagattuta, K. H., & Kramer, H. J. (2021). Advanced theory of mind in middle childhood and adulthood: Inferring mental states and emotions from life history. In S. Lecce & R.T. Devine (Eds.), Theory of mind in middle childhood and adolescence: Integrating multiple perspectives (pp. 15-36). Taylor and Francis.

Lara, K. H., Kramer, H. J., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2021). This is not what I expected: The impact of prior expectations on children’s and adults’ preferences and emotions. Developmental Psychology, 57, 702-717. doi: 10.1037/dev0001177x

2019

Lara, K. H., Lagattuta, K. H., & Kramer, H. J. (2019). Is there a downside to anticipating the upside? Children’s and adults’ reasoning about how prior expectations shape future emotions. Child Development, 90, 1170-1184. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12994

2018

Bouffard, N., Stokes, J., Kramer, H. J., & Ekstrom, A. D. (2018). Temporal encoding strategies result in boosts to free recall performance comparable to spatial ones. Memory and Cognition, 46, 17-31. doi: 10.3758/s13421-017-0742-z

Kramer, H. J., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2018). Affective forecasting. In M. Bornstein, M. E. Arterberry, K. L. Fingerman, & J. E. Lansford (Eds.), The Sage encyclopedia of lifespan human development (71-72). Sage.

Lagattuta, K. H., Tashjian, S. M., & Kramer, H. J. (2018). Does the past shape anticipation for the future? Contributions of age and executive function to advanced theory of mind. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 226, 122-133. doi: 10.1027/2151-2604/a000328

2017

Goldfarb, D., Lagattuta, K. H., Kramer, H. J., Kennedy, K., & Tashjian, S. M. (2017). When your kind cannot live here: How generic language and criminal sanctions shape social categorization. Psychological Science, 28, 1597-1609. doi: 10.1177/0956797617714827

Kramer, H. J., Goldfarb, D., Tashjian, S. M., & Lagattuta, K. H. (2017). “These pretzels are making me thirsty”: Older children and adults struggle with induced-state episodic foresight. Child Development, 88, 1554-1562. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12700

Lagattuta, K. H., & Kramer, H. J. (2017). Try to look on the bright side: Children and adults can (sometimes) override their tendency to prioritize negative faces. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146, 89-101. doi: 10.1037/xge0000247

2016

Lagattuta, K. H., Elrod, N. M., & Kramer, H. J. (2016). How do thoughts, emotions, and decisions align? A new way to examine theory of mind in middle childhood and beyond. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 149, 116-133. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2016.01.013

2015

Kramer, H. J., Lagattuta, K. H., & Sayfan, L. (2015). Why is happy-sad more difficult? Focal emotional information impairs inhibitory control in children and adults. Emotion, 15, 61-72. doi: 10.1037/emo0000023

Lagattuta, K. H., Kramer, H. J., Kennedy, K., Hjortsvang, K., Goldfarb, D., & Tashjian, S. (2015). Beyond Sally’s missing marble: Further development in children’s understanding of mind and emotion during middle childhood. Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 48, 185-217.