{"id":723,"date":"2013-07-24T10:37:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T14:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=723"},"modified":"2018-11-06T13:57:08","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T18:57:08","slug":"natalie-emmons-ph-d","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/profile\/natalie-emmons-ph-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Natalie Emmons, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My research program looks at how individuals acquire knowledge and beliefs about the world. By utilizing methods from psychology and anthropology, I cross-culturally investigate the nature and development of diverse psychological and biological conceptions (e.g., \u201cperson,\u201d \u201cspirit,\u201d \u201cnatural selection\u201d). I am especially interested in the intersection of psychological and biological causal reasoning and how both are used in everyday reasoning. Through my research on intuitive and scientific theory formation, I have developed education interventions aimed at promoting scientific literacy. These interventions employ realistic picture storybooks and have yielded substantial learning gains in elementary school-aged children.<\/p>\n<p>Representative publications:<\/p>\n<p><b>Emmons<\/b>, N. A., &amp; Kelemen, D. A. (in press). The development of children\u2019s pre-life reasoning: Evidence from two cultures.\u00a0<i>Child Development<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Kelemen, D.,\u00a0<b>Emmons<\/b>, N. A., Seston, R., &amp; Ganea, P. (in press). Young children can be taught basic natural selection using a picture storybook intervention<i>. Psychological Science<\/i>.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3324,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3324"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2540,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/723\/revisions\/2540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cdl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}