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Katherine Kinzler
Biography
Katherine D. Kinzler joined the faculty of the University of Chicago in 2008 as a Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in Psychology. She received her B.A. in Cognitive Science from Yale College, and her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Harvard University in 2008. Professor Kinzler's research focuses on the development of social cognition, with particular emphasis on investigating infants' and children's attention to language and accent as an indicator of group membership.
Research Interests:
Development of social cognition
Social categories
Empathy
Face perception
Cultural learning
Trust and perceptions of threat
Selected publications
Kinzler, K.D., Shutts, K., DeJesus, J., & Spelke, E.S. (in press). Accent trumps race in guiding children's social preferences. Social Cognition.
Kinzler, K.D., & Shutts, K. (2008). Memory for "mean" over "nice": The influence of threat on children's face memory. Cognition, 107,775-783.
Kinzler, K.D., Dupoux, E., & Spelke, E.S. (2007). The native language of social cognition. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 104, 12577-12580.
