Publications

Vasquez, K. (2026). Children (and Adults) Need Status to Disseminate their Innovations. Behavioral & Brain Sciences. Read for free here.

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.

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.