{"id":6398,"date":"2024-08-07T15:15:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T19:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=6398"},"modified":"2025-05-14T10:38:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:38:59","slug":"tara-mandalaywala","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/profile\/tara-mandalaywala\/","title":{"rendered":"Tara Mandalaywala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Director:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thecadlab.org\/\">Cognition Across Development Lab<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Biographical Sketch<\/h3>\n<p>Tara Mandalaywala received her PhD in Comparative Human Development from the University of Chicago in 2014. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychology at New York University from 2014 \u2013 2018. Before joining the BU faculty, she was an Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 2018 \u2013 2024.<\/p>\n<h3>Selected Publications<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Tian, Y., Gonzalez, G., &amp; Mandalaywala, T.M. (2024). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/desc.13527\">Beliefs about social mobility in young American children.<\/a> Developmental Science.<\/li>\n<li>Shahbazi, G., Samani, H., Mandalaywala, T. M., Borhani, K., &amp; Davoodi, T. (2024). The development of social essentialist reasoning in Iran: Insight into biological perception, cultural input, and motivational factors. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. <a href=\"https:\/\/psycnet.apa.org\/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fxge0001616\">Advance online publication<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Mandalaywala, T. M., &amp; Legaspi, J. K. (2023). <a href=\"https:\/\/psycnet.apa.org\/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fdev0001578\">Automatic encoding across social categories in American children and adults<\/a>. Developmental Psychology, 59(12), 2296\u20132303.<\/li>\n<li>Mandalaywala, T. M. (2022). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/spc3.12660\">Do nonhuman animals reason about prestige-based status?<\/a> Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 16(4), e12660. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/spc3.12660\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Mandalaywala, T. M., Tai, C., &amp; Rhodes, M. (2020). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0234398\">Children\u2019s use of race and gender as cues to social status<\/a>. PLoS ONE, 15(6), Article e0234398.<\/li>\n<li>Mandalaywala, T.M., Ranger-Murdock, G., Amodio, D.M. and Rhodes, M. (2019), <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/cdev.13008\">The Nature and Consequences of Essentialist Beliefs About Race in Early Childhood<\/a>. Child Development, 90: e437-e453.<\/li>\n<li>Mandalaywala, T. M., Parker, K. J., &amp; Maestripieri, D. (2014). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0956797614544175\">Early Experience Affects the Strength of Vigilance for Threat in Rhesus Monkey Infants.<\/a> Psychological Science, 25(10), 1893-1902. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0956797614544175\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1569,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6743,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6398\/revisions\/6743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/psych\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}