Research

Journal Publications

Monroe, A. J., Chandler-Campbell, I. L., Damico, K. N., Danovitch, J. H., & Mills, C. M. (2024). The role of truth and bias in parents' judgments of children's science interests. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 244, 105949. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2024.105949

Mills, C. M., Goldstein, T. R., Kanumuru, P., Monroe, A. J., & Quintero, N. B. (2024). Debunking the Santa myth: The process and aftermath of becoming skeptical about Santa. Developmental Psychology, 60(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001662
[Selected as the January 2024 Developmental Psychology Editor's Choice]

Sands, K. R., Monroe, A. J., & Mills, C. M. (2023). How do fish breathe underwater?: Young children's ability to evaluate and remember different types of explanations regarding biological phenomena. Cognitive Development, 66, 101330. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2023.101330

Mills, C. M., Danovitch, J. H., Mugambi, V. N., Sands, K. R., & Monroe, A. J. (2022). Cognitive reflection and authoritarianism relate to how parents respond to children's science questions. Developmental Psychology, 58(3), 417. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001309

Conference Presentations/Posters (presenting author underlined)

Monroe, A. J., & Mills, C. M. (2025, May 1-3). Children do not demonstrate testimonial injustice when evaluating ordinary and improbable claims [Poster session]. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN, United States.

Heinrich, M. D., Day, A., Lambert, E., Mohan, S., Nalladdhigal, S., Fuller, T., Monroe, A. J., Simms, S., & Holub, S. C. (2025, May 1-3). “Eat it because I said so!”: Observations of parents’ explanations during controlling feeding [Poster session]. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN, United States.

Monroe, A. J., Crighton, F. E., Khan, A., Mehra, S., Goldstein, T. G., & Mills, C. M. (2024, March 21-23). Do parents' scientific or religious values relate to the lies they tell their children? [Poster session]. Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Pasadena, CA, United States.

Liu, Y., Monroe, A. J., Goldstein, T. G., & Mills, C. M. (2024, March 21-23). How do beliefs about the acceptability of different kinds of lies relate to the promotion of Santa Claus? [Poster session]. Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Pasadena, CA, United States.

Quintero, N. B., George, S., Gangardiwala, Z., Mitra, R., Monroe, A. J., & Mills, C. M. (2024, March 21-23). Investigating individual differences in parents' perceptions of difficulty answering scientific questions [Poster session]. Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Pasadena, CA, United States.

Monroe, A. J. Khan, A., Yoo, A., Danovitch, J. H., & Mills, C. M. (2023, March 23-25). Can children distinguish between irrelevant and contradictory evidence for claims? In C. T. Yang (Moderator), When children navigate misinformation and disagreement, how far does evidence matter? [Flash talk symposium]. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, UT, United States.

Monroe, A. J., Damico, K. N., Danovitch, J. H., & Mills, C. M. (2022, April). Parental authoritarianism and science attitudes predict accuracy in judging children's interests [Poster session]. Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Madison, WI, United States.

Mills, C. M., Danovitch, J. H., Espinel, A., Monroe, A. J., & Stagni, A. (2021, April 7-9). Supporting, contradictory, or irrelevant?: Children's evaluation of evidence for scientific claims [Poster session]. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN, United States.

Monroe, A. J. (2020, April). Does group membership affect people's endorsement of events? [Poster sessions] Collegium V Honors College and Undergraduate Research Scholar Awards, Richardson, TX, United States.

Monroe, A. J., Wang, A., Lockhart, K., & Keil, F. (2019, July). Do mechanistic arguments impact endorsement of pseudoscience? [Poster session]. 3rd Annual Summer Internship Poster Session, New Haven, CT, United States.

Wang, A., Monroe, A. J., Lockhart, K., & Keil, F. (2019, July). Are soft sciences more easily rejected than hard sciences? [Poster session]. 3rd Annual Summer Internship Poster Session, New Haven, CT, United States.

Mills, C. M., Mugambi, V., Pattisapu, C., Sands, K. R., Monroe, A. J., Williams, A., & Danovitch, J. H. (2019, March). Examining individual differences in how parents respond to children's questions about biology [Poster session]. Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD, United States.