Barbara W Sarnecka

Biographic Data

ID84931
NAMEBarbara W Sarnecka
GIVEN NAMESBarbara W
FAMILY NAMESarnecka
SIGNATURESARNECKA B W
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Irvine
ORCID0000-0003-2432-3712
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS9
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • Esports as a Cultural Microcosm for Studying Psycholinguistics

    Open AccessJeff Coon, Alexander Etz et al.ARTICLEGames and Culture2023References: 4

    Esports have become increasingly popular as naturalistic experimental settings. In large part, this popularity is due to esports helping researchers balance ecological validity and experimental control; esports provide situations in which people are naturally motivated to learn and act in a complex yet restricted environment. Since players often learn and act collaboratively, many researchers have used esports as a setting in which to study commu…

  • Intuitive Sociology

    Open AccessAnita Jones Thomas, Vivian Mitchell et al.ARTICLEOpen MIND2022

    From an early age, children recognize that people belong to social groups. However, not all groups are structured in the same way. The current study asked whether children recognize and distinguish among different decision-making structures. If so, do they prefer some decision-making structures over others? In these studies, children were told stories about two groups that went camping. In the hierarchical group, one character made all the decisi…

  • Learning to represent exact numbers

    Open AccessBarbara W SarneckaARTICLESynthese2021Cited by: 1References: 48

  • Toddlers prefer those who win but not when they win by force

    Open AccessAnita Jones Thomas, Lotte Thomsen et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2018Cited by: 3References: 57

    Social hierarchies occur across human societies, so all humans must navigate them. Infants can detect when one individual outranks another1–3, but it is unknown whether they approach others based on their social status. This paper presents a series of seven experiments investigating whether toddlers prefer high- or low-ranking individuals. Toddlers aged 21–31 months watched a zero-sum, right-of-way conflict between two puppets, in which one puppe…

  • No Child Left Alone

    Open AccessAnita Jones Thomas, Ashley J Thomas et al.ARTICLECollabra2016

    In recent decades, Americans have adopted a parenting norm in which every child is expected to be under constant direct adult supervision. Parents who violate this norm by allowing their children to be alone, even for short periods of time, often face harsh criticism and even legal action. This is true despite the fact that children are much more likely to be hurt, for example, in car accidents. Why then do bystanders call 911 when they see child…

  • Children’s number-line estimation shows development of measurement skills (not number representations)

    Dale J Cohen, Barbara W SarneckaARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2014Cited by: 5References: 2

    Children's understanding of numbers is often assessed using a number-line task, where the child is shown a line labeled with 0 at one end and a higher number (e.g., 100) at the other end. The child is then asked where on the line some intermediate number (e.g., 70) should go. Performance on this task changes predictably during childhood, and this has often been interpreted as evidence of a change in the child's psychological representation of int…

  • The development of contingent reciprocity in children

    Open AccessBailey R House, Bailey House et al.ARTICLEEvolution and Human Behavior2013

  • How counting represents number

    Open AccessBarbara W Sarnecka, Susan CareyARTICLECognition2008