J Zoe Klemfuss
Biographic Data
| ID | 5762136 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Zoe Klemfuss |
| GIVEN NAMES | J Zoe |
| FAMILY NAME | Klemfuss |
| SIGNATURE | KLEMFUSS J Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1967-8324 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Experimentally testing effects of rapport and age on children’s transgression reports during a virtual interview
Adolescents' meaning making of salient emotional experiences during the Covid‐19 pandemic
INTRODUCTION: This mixed-method longitudinal study examined American adolescents' meaning making of salient COVID-19 pandemic events. METHOD: = 15.76 years; 46% Latine) narrated their most emotionally impactful pandemic experience at two time points ~30 days apart between July 2020 and March 2021. Narratives were coded for (1) content (i.e., event-type, relation to the pandemic, and the valence of the event [positive or negative]), (2) linguistic…
Parent–adolescent conversations about mental health and well-being shaped adolescents’ anxiety/depression during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic posed challenges to the mental health and well-being (MHW) of adolescents. The present study aimed to explore how parent-adolescent conversations may have protected (or threatened) adolescent mental health during the first year of the pandemic. We examined how parents and adolescents discussed MHW together and the influence of parents' affective conversational climate on changes in adolescent anxiety/depression over time. Pa…
Remember when? The retrieval of early childhood memories in black and white American young adults
Culture and gender influence adults’ ability to retrieve early memories. Previous research has mainly focused on White and Asian samples, leaving Black Americans understudied despite distinctive socialisation practices that could influence memory retrieval within and across gender. This study examined memory retrieval in Black (n = 97, 67% female) and White (n = 98, 77% female) participants (Mage = 21.65 years). Participants were given five minut…
Yes, no, maybe so: Caregiver autonomy support, conversation context, and children’s memory performance
The extant literature on the use of autonomy support during caregiver-child conversations has focused primarily on conversations about fun, shared experiences, with limited consideration of unshared experiences or attention toward the role of conversation context. The present study examined how autonomy support, conversation context, and child age interact to predict 3-to-5-year-old children's disclosure of accurate information when discussing an…
Fact- and emotion-focused conversations elicit differential patterns of reporting and distress in children
We examined the role of emotion- versus fact-focused conversations in the details children reported about a stressful event and whether the details provided were prompted or spontaneously offered. We also tested how these conversational strategies, in conjunction with children’s emotion regulation skills, influenced children’s event-related distress. Children (N = 100 8- to 13-year-olds) experienced a stressor in the laboratory and were randomly …
Schadenfreude and sympathy following President Trump’s Covid-19 diagnosis: Influence on pre-election voting intentions
Schadenfreude and sympathy are often experienced at the intergroup level; however, little research has been conducted to examine their role in one of the most prominent and emotionally evocative intergroup contexts: the political arena. In this study, we assessed a sample of 506 Americans’ (Age M = 41.69 years, SD = 13.94; 57% women) schadenfreude and sympathy (and related cognitions) in response to then-President Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis (a sa…
Subcultural, ideological, and valence-based differences in caregiver reminiscing functions
Researchers have identified cultural differences in caregiver beliefs about the functions of parent-child reminiscing. However, this work has largely been limited to comparisons between Asian or Asian American and European American caregivers discussing autobiographical events, broadly. In the present study, 365 caregivers of 3- to 12-year-old children from four U.S. subcultures (African, Asian, European, and Hispanic/LatinX) reported about the f…
Law enforcement investigation of non-sexual child abuse: Physical abuse, neglect and Abusive Head Trauma
This study examined the experiences of law enforcement in investigating physical abuse, neglect and Abusive Head Trauma (AHT). Law enforcement ( N = 388) in the United States were surveyed regarding case characteristics, investigative strategy, interrogative approaches, frequency/content of perpetrator admissions and interagency interaction across cases of physical abuse, neglect and AHT. Results revealed that exposure rates matched those of nati…
Language Style Matching in Preschooler-Adult Dyads: Associations with Dyad Familiarity and Children's Age
Language style matching (LSM) offers promise as an unobtrusive measure of synchrony between members of conversational dyads, but no studies have explored key questions related to LSM in developmental context. We examined LSM in young children's ( N = 87, Mage = 54.63 months) interactions with caregivers versus experimenters, and evaluated links between LSM and expressive vocabulary. LSM was significantly higher among caregiver-child than experime…
A survey of potential jurors’ perceptions of interrogations and confessions
Author(s): Mindthoff, Amelia; Evans, Jacqueline R; Perez, Gissel; Woestehoff, Skye A; Olaguez, Alma P; Klemfuss, J Zoe; Normile, Christopher J; Scherr, Kyle C; Carlucci, Marianna E; Carol, Rolando N; Meissner, Christian A; Michael, Stephen W; Russano, Melissa B; Stocks, Eric L; Vallano, Jonathan P; Woody, William Douglas
Legal and psychological perspectives on children’s competence to testify in court
What the stories children tell can tell about their memory: Narrative skill and young children's suggestibility
The authors examined the relation between children's narrative ability, which has been identified as an important contributor to memory development, and suggestibility. Across 2 studies, a total of 112 preschool-aged children witnessed a staged event and were subsequently questioned suggestively. Results from Study 1 indicated that children's ability to provide a high-quality narrative of the event was related to resistance to suggestive question…
What the stories children tell can tell about their memory: Narrative skill and young children's suggestibility
The authors examined the relation between children's narrative ability, which has been identified as an important contributor to memory development, and suggestibility. Across 2 studies, a total of 112 preschool-aged children witnessed a staged event and were subsequently questioned suggestively. Results from Study 1 indicated that children's ability to provide a high-quality narrative of the event was related to resistance to suggestive question…
Schadenfreude and sympathy following President Trump’s Covid-19 diagnosis: Influence on pre-election voting intentions
Schadenfreude and sympathy are often experienced at the intergroup level; however, little research has been conducted to examine their role in one of the most prominent and emotionally evocative intergroup contexts: the political arena. In this study, we assessed a sample of 506 Americans’ (Age M = 41.69 years, SD = 13.94; 57% women) schadenfreude and sympathy (and related cognitions) in response to then-President Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis (a sa…
Language Style Matching in Preschooler-Adult Dyads: Associations with Dyad Familiarity and Children's Age
Language style matching (LSM) offers promise as an unobtrusive measure of synchrony between members of conversational dyads, but no studies have explored key questions related to LSM in developmental context. We examined LSM in young children's ( N = 87, Mage = 54.63 months) interactions with caregivers versus experimenters, and evaluated links between LSM and expressive vocabulary. LSM was significantly higher among caregiver-child than experime…
What the stories children tell can tell about their memory: Narrative skill and young children's suggestibility
The authors examined the relation between children's narrative ability, which has been identified as an important contributor to memory development, and suggestibility. Across 2 studies, a total of 112 preschool-aged children witnessed a staged event and were subsequently questioned suggestively. Results from Study 1 indicated that children's ability to provide a high-quality narrative of the event was related to resistance to suggestive question…
Legal and psychological perspectives on children’s competence to testify in court
A survey of potential jurors’ perceptions of interrogations and confessions
Author(s): Mindthoff, Amelia; Evans, Jacqueline R; Perez, Gissel; Woestehoff, Skye A; Olaguez, Alma P; Klemfuss, J Zoe; Normile, Christopher J; Scherr, Kyle C; Carlucci, Marianna E; Carol, Rolando N; Meissner, Christian A; Michael, Stephen W; Russano, Melissa B; Stocks, Eric L; Vallano, Jonathan P; Woody, William Douglas
Language Style Matching in Preschooler-Adult Dyads: Associations with Dyad Familiarity and Children's Age
Language style matching (LSM) offers promise as an unobtrusive measure of synchrony between members of conversational dyads, but no studies have explored key questions related to LSM in developmental context. We examined LSM in young children's ( N = 87, Mage = 54.63 months) interactions with caregivers versus experimenters, and evaluated links between LSM and expressive vocabulary. LSM was significantly higher among caregiver-child than experime…
Subcultural, ideological, and valence-based differences in caregiver reminiscing functions
Researchers have identified cultural differences in caregiver beliefs about the functions of parent-child reminiscing. However, this work has largely been limited to comparisons between Asian or Asian American and European American caregivers discussing autobiographical events, broadly. In the present study, 365 caregivers of 3- to 12-year-old children from four U.S. subcultures (African, Asian, European, and Hispanic/LatinX) reported about the f…
Law enforcement investigation of non-sexual child abuse: Physical abuse, neglect and Abusive Head Trauma
This study examined the experiences of law enforcement in investigating physical abuse, neglect and Abusive Head Trauma (AHT). Law enforcement ( N = 388) in the United States were surveyed regarding case characteristics, investigative strategy, interrogative approaches, frequency/content of perpetrator admissions and interagency interaction across cases of physical abuse, neglect and AHT. Results revealed that exposure rates matched those of nati…
Fact- and emotion-focused conversations elicit differential patterns of reporting and distress in children
We examined the role of emotion- versus fact-focused conversations in the details children reported about a stressful event and whether the details provided were prompted or spontaneously offered. We also tested how these conversational strategies, in conjunction with children’s emotion regulation skills, influenced children’s event-related distress. Children (N = 100 8- to 13-year-olds) experienced a stressor in the laboratory and were randomly …
Schadenfreude and sympathy following President Trump’s Covid-19 diagnosis: Influence on pre-election voting intentions
Schadenfreude and sympathy are often experienced at the intergroup level; however, little research has been conducted to examine their role in one of the most prominent and emotionally evocative intergroup contexts: the political arena. In this study, we assessed a sample of 506 Americans’ (Age M = 41.69 years, SD = 13.94; 57% women) schadenfreude and sympathy (and related cognitions) in response to then-President Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis (a sa…
Yes, no, maybe so: Caregiver autonomy support, conversation context, and children’s memory performance
The extant literature on the use of autonomy support during caregiver-child conversations has focused primarily on conversations about fun, shared experiences, with limited consideration of unshared experiences or attention toward the role of conversation context. The present study examined how autonomy support, conversation context, and child age interact to predict 3-to-5-year-old children's disclosure of accurate information when discussing an…
Adolescents' meaning making of salient emotional experiences during the Covid‐19 pandemic
INTRODUCTION: This mixed-method longitudinal study examined American adolescents' meaning making of salient COVID-19 pandemic events. METHOD: = 15.76 years; 46% Latine) narrated their most emotionally impactful pandemic experience at two time points ~30 days apart between July 2020 and March 2021. Narratives were coded for (1) content (i.e., event-type, relation to the pandemic, and the valence of the event [positive or negative]), (2) linguistic…
Parent–adolescent conversations about mental health and well-being shaped adolescents’ anxiety/depression during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic posed challenges to the mental health and well-being (MHW) of adolescents. The present study aimed to explore how parent-adolescent conversations may have protected (or threatened) adolescent mental health during the first year of the pandemic. We examined how parents and adolescents discussed MHW together and the influence of parents' affective conversational climate on changes in adolescent anxiety/depression over time. Pa…
Remember when? The retrieval of early childhood memories in black and white American young adults
Culture and gender influence adults’ ability to retrieve early memories. Previous research has mainly focused on White and Asian samples, leaving Black Americans understudied despite distinctive socialisation practices that could influence memory retrieval within and across gender. This study examined memory retrieval in Black (n = 97, 67% female) and White (n = 98, 77% female) participants (Mage = 21.65 years). Participants were given five minut…
Experimentally testing effects of rapport and age on children’s transgression reports during a virtual interview
Psychology (12 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Identity, Memory, and Therapy (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (4 works) · Memory Processes and Influences (4 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Cognition (3 works)