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Karen Wynn joined the Department of Psychology at Yale University in 1999. She received her B.A. in Psychology in 1985 from McGill University in Montreal, and her Ph.D in Cognitive Science in 1990 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at the University of Arizona from 1990-1999.
Karen Wynn has received a James McKeen Cattell Foundation Sabbatical Award, the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology, and the National Academy of Sciences Troland Research Award. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association.
Supervisors: Susan Carey
Phone: 203-436-1406
Address: Department of Psychology
Yale University
Box 208205
New Haven CT 06520-8205
USA
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Developmental Science, Sep 1, 2009
Developmental Science, May 1, 2008
Appetite, Jul 1, 2019
Learning what to eat is a critical problem that humans must solve over the course of ontogeny. Re... more Learning what to eat is a critical problem that humans must solve over the course of ontogeny. Recent research underscores the importance of social learning processes to the development of food preferences in infancy and early childhood, but research investigating how (and whether) learned edibility information is generalized remains inconclusive. Here we investigate whether 18-month-olds generalize socially learned information about plant edibility. Across two experiments, infants watched an adult eat fruit from one type of plant and then were presented with a choice between two new plants: one was the same type of plant the adult had eaten from, and the other was a different type of plant. Infants' reaching and eating behavior was assessed during the choice phase. The results showed that 18-month-olds generalize edibility to the same type of plant. These findings provide new insights into the nature of human food learning processes early in development.
Psychological Science, Sep 28, 2017
Journal of Vision, Mar 30, 2010
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Sep 1, 2017
Developmental Science, Dec 3, 2021
These studies investigate the influence of adults’ explicit attention to commonalities of appeara... more These studies investigate the influence of adults’ explicit attention to commonalities of appearance on children's preference for individuals resembling themselves. Three findings emerged: (1) An adult's identification of two dolls’ respective similarity to and difference from the child led 3‐year‐olds to prefer the similar doll (study 1,n = 32). (2) When the adult did not comment on similarity, children age 6 years but not younger preferred physically similar individuals (study 2,n = 68), suggesting that a spontaneous preference for physically similar others does not emerge before school age. (3) Four‐ but not 3‐year‐olds generalized an adult's pedagogical cues about similarity, leading them to prefer a self‐resembling doll in a new context (study 3,n = 80). These findings collectively suggest that the preference for individuals resembling ourselves develops through a process of internalizing adults’ attention to, and messages about, similarities of appearance.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2016
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Sep 20, 2010
Developmental Science, May 1, 2002
Developmental Science, Sep 1, 2009
Developmental Science, May 1, 2008
Appetite, Jul 1, 2019
Learning what to eat is a critical problem that humans must solve over the course of ontogeny. Re... more Learning what to eat is a critical problem that humans must solve over the course of ontogeny. Recent research underscores the importance of social learning processes to the development of food preferences in infancy and early childhood, but research investigating how (and whether) learned edibility information is generalized remains inconclusive. Here we investigate whether 18-month-olds generalize socially learned information about plant edibility. Across two experiments, infants watched an adult eat fruit from one type of plant and then were presented with a choice between two new plants: one was the same type of plant the adult had eaten from, and the other was a different type of plant. Infants' reaching and eating behavior was assessed during the choice phase. The results showed that 18-month-olds generalize edibility to the same type of plant. These findings provide new insights into the nature of human food learning processes early in development.
Psychological Science, Sep 28, 2017
Journal of Vision, Mar 30, 2010
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Sep 1, 2017
Developmental Science, Dec 3, 2021
These studies investigate the influence of adults’ explicit attention to commonalities of appeara... more These studies investigate the influence of adults’ explicit attention to commonalities of appearance on children's preference for individuals resembling themselves. Three findings emerged: (1) An adult's identification of two dolls’ respective similarity to and difference from the child led 3‐year‐olds to prefer the similar doll (study 1,n = 32). (2) When the adult did not comment on similarity, children age 6 years but not younger preferred physically similar individuals (study 2,n = 68), suggesting that a spontaneous preference for physically similar others does not emerge before school age. (3) Four‐ but not 3‐year‐olds generalized an adult's pedagogical cues about similarity, leading them to prefer a self‐resembling doll in a new context (study 3,n = 80). These findings collectively suggest that the preference for individuals resembling ourselves develops through a process of internalizing adults’ attention to, and messages about, similarities of appearance.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2016
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Sep 20, 2010
Developmental Science, May 1, 2002
Mütefekkir, 2021
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