Annie Spokes

Annie Spokes
Annie
Spokes
Graduate Student
Harvard University

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Annie's research interests are broadly in the social cognitive development of infants and young children. Specifically, she is interested in how they divide the world into social groups and how this affects their behavior toward others. Her research also focuses on which social groups are most salient and influential across contexts.

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Advisor/s: 
Elizabeth Spelke
Lab Website:  Harvard Lab for Developmental Studies Harvard Evolutionary Psychology Lab

Projects

Early Reasoning about Affiliation and Kinship

CBMM Publications

A. C. Spokes and Spelke, E. S., “At 4.5 but not 5.5 years, children favor kin when the stakes are moderately high”, PLOS ONE, vol. 13, no. 8, 2018.
A. C. Spokes and Spelke, E. S., “Four-year-old children favor kin when the stakes are higher”, Cognitive Development Society (CDS) . Portland, OR, 2017.
A. C. Spokes, Venkatesan, T., and Spelke, E. S., “Five-month-old infants attend to responsive caregivers”, Cognitive Development Society (CDS). Portland, OR, 2017.
A. C. Spokes, Howard, R., Mehr, S. A., and Krasnow, M. M., “Like adults, children make consistent welfare tradeoff allocations”, Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting. Austin, Texas, 2017.
A. C. Spokes, Howard, R., Mehr, S. A., and Krasnow, M. M., “Like Adults, children make consistent welfare tradeoff allocations”, in Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary, 2017.
A. C. Spokes and Spelke, E. S., “The cradle of social knowledge: Infants' reasoning about caregiving and affiliation”, Cognition, vol. 159, pp. 102-116, 2017.
A. C. Spokes and Spelke, E. S., “Children’s Expectations and Understanding of Kinship as a Social Category”, Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 7, no. 440, pp. 1664-1078, 2016.
A. C. Spokes, Howard, R., Mehr, S. A., and Krasnow, M. M., “Welfare-tradeoff ratios in children”, Human Behavior and Evolution Society. Vancouver, Canada, 2016.
A. C. Spokes, “How Infants Reason About Affective States and Social Interactions”, International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS) . New Orleans, Louisiana , 2016.
A. C. Spokes and Spelke, E. S., “The Functions of Infants’ Social Categorization: Early Reasoning about Affiliation and Social Networks”, in International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS), New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016.
A. C. Spokes and Spelke, E. S., “Early Reasoning about Affiliation and Social Networks”, in International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS), New Orleans, LA, 2016.
A. C. Spokes and Spelke, E. S., “Early Reasoning about Affiliation and Caregiving”, Cognitive Development Society (CDS). 2015.
A. C. Spokes and Spelke, E. S., “Early reasoning about affiliation and kinship.”. Poster presentation at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia, PA, 2015.
A. C. Spokes, “Infants’ Reasoning about Affiliation and Caregiving”, Cognitive Development Society (CDS) | More on Development workshop. Columbus, Ohio, 2015.
A. C. Spokes, “Infants’ Reasoning about Affiliation and Caregiving”, Cognitive Development Society (CDS) Biennial Meeting. 2015.