Faculty
Gail Heyman
Professor
I am a developmental psychologist with interests in both social and cognitive development. My research examines how children make inductive inferences, from several different perspectives. Of particular interest is how children use different information (such as linguistic form, gender, personality traits and abilities) to make inferences about themselves and others.
Social Cognition
Conceptual Development
Inductive Inference
Social Categories, including Gender
Reasoning about Traits and Abilities
Achievement Motivation
Heyman, G.D. (in press). Children's interpretation
of ambiguous behavior: Evidence for a "boys
are bad" bias. Social Development.
Heyman, G.D. & Gelman, S.A. (In press). Preschool
children's use of novel attributes to make inductive
inferences about people. Cognitive Development.
Gelman, S.A., Hollander, M., Star, J. & Heyman,
G.D. (2000). The role of language in the construction
of kinds. In D.L. Medin (Ed.), The Psychology
of learning and motivation: Advances in research
and theory (Vol. 39, pp. 201-263). San Diego:
Academic Press.
Heyman, G.D., & Gelman, S.A. (2000). Beliefs
about the origins of human psychological traits.
Developmental Psychology, 36, 663-678.
Heyman, G.D., & Gelman, S.A. (2000). Preschool
children's use of traits labels to make inductive
inferences. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology,
77, 1-19.
Gelman, S.A., & Heyman, G.D. (1999). Carrot-eaters
and creature-believers: The effects of lexicalization
on children's inferences about social categories.
Psychological Science, 10, 489-493.
Heyman, G.D., & Gelman, S.A. (1999). The use
of trait labels in making psychological inferences.
Child Development, 70, 604-619.
Heyman, G.D., & Dweck, C.S. (1998). Children's
thinking about traits: Implications for judgments
of the self and others. Child Development,
69, 391-403.
Heyman, G.D., & Gelman, S.A. (1998). Young
children use motive information to make trait
inferences. Developmental Psychology, 34,
310-321.
Cain, K.M., Heyman, G.D., & Walker, M.E. (1997).
Preschoolers' ability to make dispositional predictions
within and across domains. Social Development,
6, 53-75.
Heyman, G.D., & Dweck, CS (1994). The development
of motivation. International Encyclopedia of
Education. Pergamon Press.
Heyman, G.D., & Dweck, CS (1992). Achievement
goals and intrinsic motivation: Their role and
their relation in adaptive motivation. Motivation
and Emotion, 16, 231-247.
Heyman, G.D., Dweck, CS & Cain, K.M. (1992).
Young children's vulnerability to self-blame and
helplessness: Relationship to beliefs about goodness.
Child Development, 63, 401-415.
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