Publications

Below, you’ll find my research organized by publication type and year. For questions on any specific publication, feel free to email me.

Vasquez, K. & Shaw, A. (2026). Good person, but bad friend: Children’s developing evaluations of tattletales. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Read for free here.

Vasquez, K. (2026). Children (and adults) need status to disseminate their innovations. Behavioral & Brain Sciences. Read for free here.  Cambridge Core is experiencing a system outage, which prevents manuscript downloads. Tidier PDF to come!

Hok, H.*, Vasquez, K.*, Barakzai, A., Shaw, A. (2024). The non-meek inherit the Earth: Children generalize dominance, but not submissiveness. Developmental Psychology. Read for free here.

*Indicates authors contributed equally

Tompkins, R., Vasquez, K., Gerdin, E., Dunham, Y., & Liberman, Z. (2024). Expectations of intergroup empathy bias emerge by early childhood. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Read for free here.

Vasquez, K., Tompkins, R., Olson, K. R., Dunham, Y. (2023). Children's memory for gender-neutral pronouns. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Read for free here.

Vasquez, K. & Shaw, A. Social sages: Popularity as a distinct form of social status emerging in middle childhood. (Revised and Resubmitted, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General). Read for free here.