Shaylene Nancekivell

Present Assistant Professor, Psychology, University of North Carolina Greensboro

2018-2019 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Renison University College

2017-2019 Visiting Scholar, Psychology, University of Michigan

Education

2016 Ph.D. Developmental Psychology, University of Waterloo

2012 MASc. Developmental and Communication Science, University of Waterloo

2011 Honours B.A. Anthropology, University of Western Ontario

Publications

Journal Articles and Refereed Proceedings

Nancekivell, S.E. & Maurer, B.A., (in press) When does ownership matter?: Parents’ reasoning about children’s conflicts over their possessions. Social Development.

Attisano, E., Nancekivell, S.E., Tran, S. & Denison, S. (in press). “So, what is it?” Examining parent-child interactions with artifacts in a museum. Early Childhood Research Quarterly.

Nancekivell, S.E., Sun, X., Gelman, S.A. & Shah, P. (2021). A slippery myth: How learning style beliefs shape reasoning about multimodal instruction and related scientific evidence. Cognitive Science, e13047.

Sun, X., Nancekivell, S.E., Gelman, S.A. & Shah, P. (2021). Growth mindset and academic outcomes: A comparison of US and Chinese students. npj: Science of Learning.

Attisano, E., Nancekivell, S.E., & Denison, S. (2021). Components and mechanisms: How children talk about machines in museum exhibits. Frontiers in Psychology: Special Topic Cognitive Development in Informal Learning Institutions.

Sun, X., Nancekivell, S. E., Gelman, S.A. & Shah, P., (in press). Perceptions of the malleability of fluid and crystallized intelligence. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

Nancekivell, S.E., Denison, S., & Friedman, O. (2020). Preschoolers recognize that losses loom larger than gains. In S. Denison, M. Mack, Y. Xu, & B.C Armstrong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Nancekivell, S.E., Ho, V., & Denison, S., (2020) Who knows what? Preschoolers appreciate the link between ownership and knowledge. Developmental Psychology. Advanced online publication.

Nancekivell, S.E., Shah, P., & Gelman, S.A. (2020). Maybe they’re born with it or maybe it’s experience: Towards a deeper understanding of the learning style myth. Journal of Educational Psychology, 112, 221–235.

Nancekivell, S.E., Gelman, S.A., & Friedman, O. (2019). Ownership matters: People possess a naive theory of ownership. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 23, 102-113.

Nancekivell, S.E., & Friedman, O. (2018). Spoiled for choice: Identifying the building blocks of folk-economic beliefs. Commentary on Boyer and Peterson in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Weatherhead, D.W., & Nancekivell, S.E. (2018). Brungarians use it differently! Children’s understanding of artifact function as a cultural convention. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 18, 89-103.

Nancekivell, S.E., & Friedman, O. (2017). She bought the unicorn from the pet store: Six-to-seven-year-olds are strongly inclined to generate natural explanations. Developmental Psychology, 53, 1079-1087.

Nancekivell, S.E., & Friedman, O. (2017). “Because it’s hers”: When preschoolers use ownership in their explanations. Cognitive Science, 41, 827-843.

Nancekivell, S.E., & Friedman O. (2014). Mine, yours, no-one's: Children’s understanding of how ownership affects object use. Developmental Psychology, 50, 1845-1853.

Nancekivell, S.E., & Friedman, O. (2014). Preschoolers selectively infer history when explaining outcomes: Evidence from explanations of ownership, liking, and use. Child Development, 85, 1236-1247.

Nancekivell, S.E., Van de Vondervoort, J.W., & Friedman, O. (2013). Young children’s understanding of ownership. Child Development Perspectives, 7, 243-247.

Book Chapters

Nancekivell, S. E. & Friedman, O. (2019). I owe you an explanation: Children’s beliefs about when people are obligated to explain their actions. In T. Lombrozo, J. Knobe, & S. Nichols (Eds.), Oxford studies in experimental philosophy (Vol. 3). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Nancekivell, S.E., Millar, J.C., Summers, P.C., & Friedman, O. (2016). Ownership rights. In J. Sytsma & J.W. Buckwalter (Eds.). A Companion to Experimental Philosophy. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Technical Reports

Attisano, L., Tran, S, Nancekivell, S.E., & Denison, S. (March, 2020) Discussions about Artifacts at the Waterloo Region Museum. Report prepared for the Waterloo Region Museum, Region of Waterloo.

Ho, V., Attisano, L., Nancekivell, S.E., & Denison, S. (February, 2019) Day in the Life: Waterloo Region Museum. Report prepared for the Waterloo Region Museum, Region of Waterloo.

Courses Taught

University of North Carolina Greensboro

Developmental Psychology

Cognitive Development

Renison University College

Social Research Methods

Lifespan Processes

University of Waterloo

Developmental Psychology

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