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Nicole Baltazar
Background
Nicole is a doctoral student in the Developmental Psychology program, working primarily with Dr. Katherine Kinzler. She graduated with an A.B. in psychology from the University of Chicago in 2006. Nicole successfully defended her Master’s thesis, titled Effects of learned danger stereotypes on racially biased attentional allocation, in 2008. Her dissertation title is Social influences on children’s face perception. She has served as a TA for several undergraduate courses, including Fundamentals of Psychology and Developmental Psychology. Currently, Nicole teaches a quarterly Adolescent Psychology course in the University of Chicago’s Seminars for Elementary Specialists and Mathematics Educators (SESAME) program.
Research Interests
In general, Nicole is interested in the development of social cognition: how children think about people, groups, and other aspects of their social world. She is particularly interested in how social information, such as stereotypes, expectations of social threat, and group membership, influences children’s face perception and perception of emotional expressions.
Publications
Donders, N. C. [Baltazar, N, C.], Correll, J., & Wittenbrink, B. (2008). Danger
Stereotypes Predict Racially Biased Attentional Allocation. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 1328-1333.
Recent Presentations
Baltazar, N. C., Kinzler, K. D., & Shutts, K. (2009). Specificity in children’s memory for negative social information. Poster presented at the Cognitive Developmental Society, San Antonio, TX.
Donders, N. C. [Baltazar, N. C.], Correll, J., Wittenbrink, B., & Sadler, M. S. (2009). Stereotypes, prejudice, and threat as separable social category associations. Poster presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
