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Our Team
 Marjorie Rhodes
Website: http://www.psych.nyu.edu/rhodes
Email: marjorie dot rhodes at nyu dot edu
My research examines conceptual development and the development of social cognition. In conceptual development, my work focuses on categorization: How do children categorize different kinds of objects? Does category structure vary by domain? How do children use categories to guide their inferences and behavior? How does information about within-category variability influence individuals’ concepts?
In the development of social cognition, my work examines how children categorize people, as well as the implications of social categories for children’s behavior, social inferences, and moral cognition. A primary line of research examines the implications of within-group cooperation and between-group competition for social cognition: Are young children sensitive to the conditions that foster between-group competition? Do they view cooperative relationships as particularly important kinds of social bonds? Are children’s moral judgments sensitive to cooperative and competitive dimensions of social dynamics? Other lines of work examine how cultural context influences social categorization and the acquisition of categories based on gender, race, and ethnicity. |
 Annie Chen
Email: anniechen at nyu dot edu
I received my undergraduate degree in cognitive science at the University of California, Berkeley. After graduation, I worked with Dr. Alison Gopnik and Dr. Liz Bonawitz applying computational methods to understand how children revise their beliefs, and with Dr. Fei Xu studying cognitive development and language acquisition in infants before joining the CDSC lab. I am very interested in how children teach other people and how they learn about the world in general. |
 Dhaya Ramarajan
Hi! I am a first-year graduate student. I've been a teacher for five years, and am very interested in investigating children's conceptual development, particularly the role of their social cognitive abilities in learning. In my free time, I like to salsa dance, put on comedy shows for charity, and travel the world. |
 Lisa Chalik
I am currently a PhD student here in the lab. My research focuses on how children reason about various types of social interactions, especially with regard to moral cognition and social categorization. I am also particularly interested in the dynamics of parent-child conversations on these topics. When I'm not in the lab, I can usually be found baking, taking pictures, or exploring New York City. |
 Noey Neumark
I am currently a junior at NYU, majoring in Psychology and Religious Studies. My interests lie mainly in abnormal and developmental psychology; I would love to ultimately work as a child/adolescent psychologist. I've worked as a counselor at an overnight camp (the same one I attended since I was 8!) for the past few summers, and I really love working with kids. I'm excited for my third semester in the CDSC lab, where I will be running studies as well as entering data. |
 Jurgis Christopher Karuza
I am currently an undergraduate at NYU in the College of
Arts and Sciences, class of 2012, majoring in
psychology. My interest lies in understanding the
intersection between moral development and social
cognition. After graduation, I will be attending the
University of Wisconsin-Madison to pursue a PhD in educational psychology with a focus on human development. |
 Rima Patel
I am a junior at NYU majoring in psychology with a minor in child adolescent & mental health studies and on the pre-med track. I am interested in child development and hoping to be able to work as a child psychiatrist in the future! I love working with children and in the lab, I am able to run studies and code data. |
 Mike Strupp-Levitsky
Hi, I'm a senior Pychology major with minors in Child & Adolescent
Mental Health Studies and Spanish. My research primarily investigates
how individuals come to form complex notions of morality and which
domains of morality are generally deemed most important for making
moral judgments. Although I plan to work in clinical research for the
next couple of years, in the long term I aim to attend a doctoral
program in Clinical Psychology and eventually to do my own research on
treatment interventions for young people. If had a choice, I'd be a
professional soccer player but, with life as it is, I'm thrilled to be
doing what I'm doing.. |
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