Psychology Graduate Students
- Title
- Graduate Student
- Developmental Psychology
- Division Social Sciences Division
- Department
- Psychology Department
- Phone 000 000 0000
- Website
- Office Location
- Social Sciences 2, Room 203
- Office Hours By Appointment
- Mail Stop Psychology Faculty Services
Research Interests
Early Childhood Development Lab
My work focuses on how infants and young children develop and understand the physical world.
Research Interests: Child-robot interactions, children's understanding of helping behavior, & how children share/allocate resources
Biography, Education and Training
I am a developmental psychologist who works in the Early Childhood Development Lab under the direction of Dr. Su-hua Wang. My research has two main veins:
1. Children's understanding of prosocial behavior: helping, sharing, fairness
2. Children's interactions with technology, particularly robotic toys, conversational voice interfaces (e.g., Siri, Alexa) & learning through games on tablets
My dissertation research focuses on how famlies make menaing out of their interactions with technological devices.
Honors, Awards and Grants
- 2020 Grad Slam Finalist
- 2020 Google Women Techmakers Scholar
Selected Publications
Antovich, D., Gluck, S., Goldman, E. J., & Graf-Estes, K. (2019). Specificity of representations in infants’ visual statistical learning. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.
Goldman, E. J., & Wang, S., (2019). Comparison Facilitates the Use of Height Information by 5-Month-Olds in Containment Events. Developmental Psychology. Advance online publication.http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0000823
Wang, S., & Goldman, E. J. (2016). Infants actively construct and update their representations of physical events: Evidence from change detection by 12-month-olds. Child Development Research, 2016, 1-11. DOI: 10.1155/2016/3102481
Teaching Interests
Instructor of Record (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Developmental Psychology (Summer 2021)
Social and Emotional Development (Winter 2021)
Introduction to Psychology (Summer 2020)
Teaching Assistant (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Developmental Psychology
Research Methods
Social and Emotional Development
Developmental Psychopathology
Health Psychology
Clinical Psychology
Abnormal Psychology
Teaching Certicicates through CITL (Center for Innovation and Learning)
2021 Teaching Certificate in Writing Pedagogy
2020 Teaching Certificate in Course Design and Delivery
2019 Teaching Certificate in Inclusive Teaching
