Tess is a Teaching Fellow in the Social Sciences, and teaches in the College's Mind sequence as well as classes in Psychology, such as Developmental Psychology. Tess received her PhD in Psychology from the University of Chicago in 2023, with a concentration in Developmental Psychology. Tess studies how infants and toddlers learn about the world around them through exploration and social interaction. Particularly, she is interested in how early individual differences cascade into later shifts in related developmental areas. Current work focuses on the development of children's help-seeking as a problem-solving strategy, using in-person, online, and archival data across multiple age points. Prior work has investigated relations between children’s early motor abilities and later social cognition.