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Welcome to
Sean Duffy's webpage!
Office: Phone: 856-225-6204 |
Biography:
I conduct research on a variety of topics
including the development of quantitative reasoning
in children, reconstructive memory, cultural
variations in psychological processes, and most recently on how people
think about the environment.
Visit
the Culture, Cognition and Development Laboratory new webpage!
Read my blog: Confessions of a
Raging Experimentaholic.
Check out these cool movies
from the International Studies course Prof. Marmorstein and I taught in
Japan!
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before asking me for letters of recommendation
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before scheduling an appointment with me if I am assigned to you as
your advisor.
Publications:
Duffy,
S., & Verges, M. (under review). Forces of nature affect implicit
connections with nature. Journal of
Environmental Psychology.
Verges,
M. & Duffy, S. (under revision). Connected to birds, but not bees:
Verges,
M. & Duffy, S. (under revision). Spatial representations elicit
dual-coding
effects in mental imagery. Cognitive
Science.
Duffy, S., & Kitayama, S. (in press).
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.
Duffy, S.,
Toriyama, R., Itakura, S., & Kitayama, S. (in press). Development
of cultural attention strategies
in young children in North America
Duffy,
S., & Verges, M. (in press). It
matters a hole lot: Perceptual
affordances of waste containers influence recycling compliance. Environment and Behavior.
Duffy, S., & Crawford, L. E. (2008). Primacy
or recency effects in the formation of inductive categories. Memory and Cognition, 36, 567-577.
Huttenlocher, J., Vasilyeva, M., Newcombe, N., &
Duffy, S. (2008). Developing symbolic capacity one step at a time. Cognition, 106, 1-12.
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.
Duffy, S., & Kitayama, S. (2007). Mnemonic
context effect in two cultures: Attention to memory representations?
Cognitive Science, 31, 1009-1020.
Kitayama, S., Duffy, S., & Uchida, Y. K. (2007). Self as cultural mode of being. In S. Kitayama and D. Cohen (Eds.) The Handbook of Cultural Psychology. (pp. 136-174). New York: Guilford Press.
Duffy, S. (2007). Psychology. In V. Bowman (Ed.) Scholarly Resources for Children and Childhood Studies. (pp. 183-209). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press.
Duffy, S., Huttenlocher, J., & Crawford, L.E.
(2006). Children use categories to
maximize accuracy in estimation. Developmental
Science, 9, 598-604.
Duffy, S., Huttenlocher, J., Levine, S., & Duffy,
R. (2005). How infants encode spatial
extent. Infancy, 8, 81-90.
Duffy, S., Huttenlocher, J., & Levine, S. (2005).
It's all relative: How young children encode
extent. Journal of Cognition and Development, 6, 51-63.
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.
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.
Huttenlocher, J., Duffy, S., & Levine, S. (2002). Infants and toddlers discriminate amount: Are they measuring? Psychological Science, 13, 244-249.
