Nina Ye
Doctoral Student
Nina Ye is a doctoral student in the Applied Human Development program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research broadly focuses on children’s social-cognitive development. Specifically, she investigates how children make use of intentions to learn and share information. The questions that guide her research are 1) What constitutes a reliable speaker to children? 2) How do children infer the intentions of others? 3) How do children’s own intentions shape their decision to share information with others?
Nina’s work has been published in the Journal of Cognition and Development and the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. She has also presented her research at the Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, the Cognitive Development Society Meeting, and the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development.
Education
MSocSc, Psychology, National University of Singapore
BSocSc (Hons), Psychology, National University of Singapore
Selected Publications
Ye, N. N., Ronfard, S., & Corriveau, K. (in press) Understanding how peer culture is transmitted requires an understanding of peer teaching. Brain and Behavioral Sciences.
Ye, N. N.*, Cui, Y. K.*, Ronfard, S., & Corriveau, K. (2025). The development of children’s teaching varies by cultural input: Evidence from China and the U.S. Frontiers in Developmental Psychology, 3, https://doi.org/10.3389/fdpys.2025.1511224
Ye, N. N. & Ding, X. P. (2024). Children infer intentions by assessing epistemic attitudes in interpersonal interactions. Journal of Cognition and Development, 1-26, https://doi.org/10.1080/15248372.2024.2430193
Ye, N. N., Heyman, G. D., & Ding, X. P. (2021). Linking young children’s teaching to their reasoning of mental states: Evidence from Singapore. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 209, 105175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105175
Selected Presentations
Ye, N. N., Cui, Y. K., Ronfard, S., & Corriveau, K. H. (2025, May). The development of children’s teaching varies by cultural input: Evidence from China and the U.S. Symposium presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development.
Ye, N. N. (2024, March). How do children learn about different entities? Flash talk presented at the biennial meeting of the Cognitive Development Society pre-conference workshop, “Building a Global Research Collaborative: Experiences and Findings from the Developing Belief Network."
Ye, N. N., & Ding, X. P. (2023, March). Preschool children use mentalizing inferences in the process of selective trust. Symposium presentation at Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Biennial Meeting.
Ye, N. N., Heyman, G. D., & Ding, X. P. (2021, January). Linking young children’s teaching to their reasoning of mental states: Evidence from Singapore. Poster at Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD), online.