Curriculum Vitae

Sean E. Duffy

EDUCATION

2003 Ph.D. in Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

2002 M.A. in Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

1999 B.A. in Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

AWARDS

2004 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science

2003 Center of Excellence Visiting Scholar Grant, Kyoto University

2002 National Science Foundation, East Asia Summer Institute, Japan

1999 Four-year Graduate Fellowship, University of Chicago

1995 Four-year College Honors Scholarship, University of Chicago

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Rutgers University, Camden, NJ. September 2005 - present

Research Fellow, Research Center for Group Dynamics, The Institute for Social Research.
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. September 2003 – September 2005

Postdoctoral Fellow, LIFE: Evolutionary and Ontogenetic Dynamics Program.
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany. September 2003 – September 2005

Research Assistant for Professor Janellen Huttenlocher.
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. January 1998 – June 2003

Research Assistant for the General Social Survey.
National Opinion Research Center, Chicago, IL. May – September 1998

COURSES

The Psychology of Childhood

Method and Theory in Psychology

Introduction to Childhood Studies

Cultural Psychology

Computer Applications in Psychology

Cross Cultural Development and Mental Health (With N. Marmorstein)

Graduate Research Methodology

Graduate Statistics

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Developmental psychology, cultural psychology, cognitive psychology, methodology and statistics

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Psychological Society

Society for Research on Child Development (I think, if I remembered to pay my dues this year.)

Psychonomic Society

JOURNAL ARTICLES IN PRESS OR UNDER REVIEW

1. Huttenlocher, J., Duffy, S., & Levine, S. (2002). Infants and toddlers discriminate amount: Are they measuring? Psychological Science, 13, 244-249.

2. Kitayama, S., Duffy, S., Kawamura, T., & Larsen, J. T. (2003). Perceiving an object and its context in two cultures: a cultural look at New Look. Psychological Science, 14, 201-206.

3. Duffy, S., Huttenlocher, J., & Levine, S. (2005). It's all relative: How young children encode extent. Journal of Cognition and Development, 6, 51-63.

4. Duffy, S., Huttenlocher, J., Levine, S., & Duffy, R. (2005). How infants encode spatial extent. Infancy, 8, 81-90.

5. Duffy, S., Huttenlocher, J., & Crawford, L.E. (2006). Children use categories to maximize accuracy in estimation. Developmental Science, 9, 598-604.

6. Duffy, S., & Kitayama, S. (2007). Mnemonic context effect in two cultures: Attention to memory representations? Cognitive Science, 31, 1009-1020.

7. Vasilyeva, M., Duffy, S., & Huttenlocher, J. (2007). Developmental changes in the use of absolute and relative information: The case of spatial extent. Journal of Cognition and Development, 8, 455-471.

8. Huttenlocher, J., Vasilyeva, M., Newcombe, N., & Duffy, S. (2008). Developing symbolic capacities one step at a time. Cognition, 106, 1-12.

9. Duffy, S., & Crawford, L. E. (2008). Primacy or recency effects in the formation of inductive categories. Memory and Cognition, 36, 567-577.

10. Duffy, S., & Verges, M. (in press). It matters a hole lot: Perceptual affordances of waste containers influence recycling compliance. Environment and Behavior.

11. Duffy, S., Huttenlocher, J., & Hedges, L. V, & Crawford, L.E. (under revision). Category effects on estimation for skewed and shifting stimulus frequency distributions.

12. Duffy, S., Toriyama, R., Itakura, S., & Kitayama, S. (in press). Development of culturally-contingent attention strategies in young children in  North America and Japan. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.

13. Kopecky, J., Kitayama, S., Sakai, J., Duffy, S., Krawitz, A., & Meyer, D. E. (under review). Cross-cultural differences in multitasking: Alternative strategies of time sharing among cognitive tasks revealed by comparisons between East Asians and North Americans. 

14. Verges, M., & Duffy, S. (under review). Connected to birds, but not bees: Valence moderates implicit connection with nature.

15. Duffy, S., & Verges, M. (submitted). Forces of nature affect implicit connections with nature.

16. Verges, M., & Duffy, S. (submitted). Perceptual simulation of nouns and verbs.

BOOK CHAPTERS

1. Kitayama, S., & Duffy, S. (2004). Cultural competence - tacit, yet fundamental: Self, social relations, and cognition in the U.S. and Japan. In R. Sternberg & E. Grigorenko (Eds.) Culture and competence: Contexts of Life Success (pp. 55 - 87). Washington: American Psychological Association.

2. Kitayama, S., Duffy, S., & Uchida, Y. K. (2007). Self as cultural mode of being. In  S. Kitayama & D. Cohen (Eds.) The Handbook of Cultural Psychology (pp. 136-174). New York: Guilford Press.

3. Duffy, S. (2007). Psychology. In V. Bowman (Ed.) Scholarly Resources for Children and Childhood Studies. (pp. 183-209).  Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press.

4. Duffy, S., & Kitayama, S. (in preparation). Cultural modes of seeing through cultural modes of being: Cultural influences on visual attention. To appear in E. Balcetis & G.D. Lassiter (Eds.) The Social Psychology of Visual Perception.

WRKING PAPRS (purposely named, as these still have numberous grammatical and spellling errors)

1. Duffy, S., Falcone, D., & Crawford, L.E. (in preparation). The role of attention and estimation in the formation of inductive categories.

2. Crawford, L.E., & Duffy, S. (in preparation). Sequence effects in estimates of spatial location. 

3. Duffy, S., Verges, M., & Robinson, M.* (in preparation). Climate tempers climate change concerns.

4. Verges, M., & Duffy, S. Concerning nature.

 
CONFERENCE POSTERS AND PRESENTATIONS

1. Huttenlocher, J., Duffy, S., & Levine, S. Young children encode extent: Are they measuring? Paper presented at the Society for Research in Child Development biennial meeting in Minneapolis, MN. April, 2001.

2. Duffy, S., Huttenlocher, J., & Levine, S. Young children's use of relational information for discriminating continuous quantities. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development biennial meeting in Minneapolis, MN. April, 2001.

3. Duffy, S., Huttenlocher, J., & Levine, S. The role of relational information in young children's ability to discriminate extent. Paper presented at Midwestern Psychological Association conference in Chicago, IL. May, 2001.

4. Duffy, S., Huttenlocher, J., Levine, S., & Duffy, R. Sensitivity to spatial extent in infants and young children. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development biennial meeting in Tampa Bay, FL., April, 2003.

5. Duffy, S., Huttenlocher, J., & Crawford, L. E. Young children’s use of categories in stimulus estimation. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development biennial meeting in Tampa Bay, FL., April 2003.

6. Duffy, S. Seeing through cultures: Size estimation in the U.S. and Japan. Talk at the Lifecourse and ontogenetic dynamics conference at the Max Plank Institute for Human Development in Berlin, Germany, October, 2003.

7. Duffy, S., & Kitayama, S. Cultural differences in the use of categories for stimulus estimation. Poster presented at Kyoto International Symposium, University of Michigan, December, 2003.

8. Toriyama, R., Duffy, S., Itakura, S., & Kitayama, S. The development of culture-contingent attention: The framed line task in 4 and 5 year-old children. Poster presented at Kyoto International Symposium, University of Michigan, December, 2003.

9. Duffy, S. Culture and friendship. Talk presented at the Lifecourse and ontogenetic dynamics conference in Ann Arbor, MI, April, 2004.

10. Toriyama, R., Duffy, S., Itakura, S., & Kitayama, S. The development of culture-contingent attention: The framed line task in 4 and 5 year-old children. Poster presented at the Japanese Society for Social Psychology, Hokkaido, Japan, July 2004.

11. Duffy, S. Culture, friendship, and social support: Empirical findings on social relationships and social support in Japan and the U.S. Talk presented at the Lifecourse and ontogenetic dynamics conference in Berlin, Germany, October, 2004

12. Dunkley, C.*, & Duffy, S. The development of cultural differences in attention. Poster presentation at the Eastern Psychological Association conference in Baltimore, MD, March, 2006

13. Dunkley, C.*, & Duffy, S. How infants encode extent. Poster presentation at the International Society for Infant Studies conference in Kyoto, Japan, June 2006

14. Hasham, S., Itakura, S., Toriyama, R., & Uchida, Y., & Duffy, S.  Cultural differences in children’s picture books in Japan and the U.S. Poster presentation at the International Society for Infant Studies conference in Kyoto, Japan, June 2006

15. Duffy, S., Dunkley, C.*, & Kassabian, L. The development of cultural differences in attention in the U.S. and Japan. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development biennial meeting in Boston, MA, March, 2007.

16. Duffy, S., Uchida, Y., & Kitayama, S. Symbolic Self Inflation in the U.S. and Japan. Poster presentation at the Association for Psychological Science conference in Washington, D.C., May, 2007.

17. Kassabian, L.*, Duffy, S., & Kitayama, S. The development of cultural differences in attention in the U.S. and Japan. Poster presentation at the Association for Psychological Science conference in Washington, D.C., May, 2007.

18. Crawford, L.E., & Duffy, S. Primacy and recency effects in sequential reproduction of stimulus magnitude. Poster presentation at the Association for Psychological Science conference in Washington, D.C., May, 2007.

19. Lomas, R.*, Robinson, M.*, Duffy, S., Verges, M. Talking the Talk While Walking the Nature Walk: Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors. Poster presentation at the Association for Psychological Science conference in Chicago, IL, May, 2008.

20. Verges, M., Duffy, S., Robinson, M.*, & Lomas, R.* Connected to birds, but not bees: Valence moderates implicit association with nature. Poster presentation at the Association for Psychological Science conference in Chicago, IL, May, 2008.

21. Duffy, S., Crawford, L.E., Falcone, D., & Vecchione, N.* Estimation Influences Inductive Category Formation. Poster presentation at the Association for Psychological Science conference in Chicago, IL, May, 2008.

22. Crawford, L.E., Duffy, S., & Vecchione, N.* Sequence Effects in Estimates of Spatial Location. Poster presentation at the Association for Psychological Science conference in Chicago, IL, May, 2008.

23. Robinson, M.*, Lomas, R.*, Duffy, S., & Verges, M. It matters a hole lot: Perceptual affordances of recycling bins influence recycling compliance. Poster presentation at the Association for Psychological Science conference in Chicago, IL, May, 2008.

INVITED ADDRESSES

1. Duffy, S. Culture and cognition: Implications for the globalization of science. Talk at National Science Foundation. Tokyo, Japan. August, 2002.

2. Duffy, S.  Culture and socio-cognitive development: Emergence of culture contingent attention in Japan and the U.S. Colloquium, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, June 2004.

3. Duffy, S. The development of quantitative skills in young children: On measurement, categorization, and the role of culture in mediating basic psychological processes. Colloquium, Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan, August, 2004.

4. Duffy, S. East Asian culture and psychology. Talk at the New Jersey Multicultural Institute, April 2005.

5. Duffy, S. Culture, cognition and attention: Cultural differences between North Americans and East Asians. Colloquium at Brooklyn College, April 2006.

6. Duffy, S. Cultural variations in attention: How East Asians and North Americans perceive the world in unique ways. Colloquium at the University of Richmond, October, 2006.

7. Duffy, S. The development of the ability to encode spatial extent. Colloquium at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey’s Robert Wood Johnson Medical School’s Institute for Child Development, New Brunswick, February, 2007.

8. Duffy, S. The mathematics of mind: Stimulus estimation and the category adjustment model. Talk at Indiana University, South Bend, October, 2007.