Faculty
GAIL HEYMAN
Professor
CONTACT:
| Email: | gheyman@ucsd.edu |
| Phone: | (858) 822-2482 |
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BIOGRAPHY:
Research Interests
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.
Areas of Interest
Social Cognition
Conceptual Development
Inductive Inference
Social Categories, including Gender
Reasoning about Traits and Abilities
Achievement Motivation
Selected Publications
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.
