Sarah Suárez
Postdoctoral Associate
Dr. Sarah Suárez is a postdoctoral associate in the Social Learning Lab at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She studies children’s conceptual development, causal learning, and critical thinking in informal learning contexts, with an interest in understanding the nature and development of individual differences.
Pronouns: she/her
Education
PhD, University of Minnesota's Institute of Child Development
BS, Animal Science, Cornell University
Selected Publications
Suárez, S. & Koenig, M. (in press). Learning from “Thinkers”: Development and Individual Differences in Children’s Eva. Child Development.
Pesch, A., Suárez, S., & Koenig., M. A. (2018). Trusting Others: Shared Reality in Testimonial Learning. Current Opinion in Psychology.
Ridge, K. E., Pesch, A., Suárez, S., & Koenig., M. A. (2018). Insights into children's testimonial reasoning. In M. Saylor & P. Ganea (Eds.), Language and concept development from infancy through childhood: Social motivation, cognition, and linguistic mechanisms of learning. Springer Press.
Suárez, S. & Koenig, M.A. (2016). The Selective Social Learner as an Agent of Cultural Group Selection. Commentary on Richerson et al.’s "Cultural Group Selection Plays an Essential Role in Explaining Human Cooperation: A Sketch of the Evidence." Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Stephens, E., Suárez, S., & Koenig, M.A. (2015). Early Testimonial Learning: Monitoring Speech Acts and Speakers. Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Vol. 48.
Selected Presentations
Suárez, S. & Koenig, M. (2018). What individual differences in children’s social learning can tell us about the nature and development of authoritarian values. Talk presented at the 2018 Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Suárez, S. & Koenig, M. (2018). The Development of Epistemological Understanding: Exploring Potential Mechanisms of Change and Sources of Individual Variation. Talk presented at the National Academy of Education Spring Fellows Retreat, Washington, DC.
Suárez, S. Zajac, M.*, Ridge, K., Grennell, A. (2017). 7 C’s Evaluation Tool for the Minnesota Children’s Museum: Discussion of Findings and Future Directions. Report presented at the Early Learning Initiative Committee, Minneapolis, MN.
Suárez, S. & Koenig, M. (2017). Bases for Belief: Children’s Learning from Speakers Use Evidence or Intuition to Make Predictions. Poster presented at the Society’s for Research in Child Development’s Biennial Meeting, Austin, TX.
Huffer-Kiesow, L.*, Hetherington, C., Suárez, S., & Koenig, M. (2017). The Influence of Deception and In-Group Bias on Children’s Learning Decisions. Poster presented at the Society’s for Research in Child Development’s Biennial Meeting, Austin, TX.
Suárez, S. & Koenig, M. (2017). Children’s Use of Speaker Calibration for Selective Trust: Developmental Trends and Individual Differences. In E. Luchkina’s (Organizer), The changing mechanism of selective trust: evidence from 3-to- 8-year- olds. Talk presented at the Society’s for Research in Child Development’s Biennial Meeting, Austin, TX.
Suárez, S. & Koenig, M. (2016). Learning from "Thinkers": Children's Use of Speaker Reasoning as a Cue for Social Learning is Related to Parent Epistemological Perspectives. In S. Suárez (Organizer), The Development of Individual Differences in Children’s Social Learning: New Insights into the Potential Role of Parents’ Epistemological Perspectives. Symposium conducted at the Jean Piaget Society’s 46th Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.