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Koleen McCrink
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Koleen McCrink, assistant professor of psychology, joined the faculty in 2009. Before coming to Barnard, she held a postdoctoral research position at Harvard University and has also taught at Rutgers University and Yale University. At Barnard, she teaches developmental psychology and introductory psychology.
She has received the James Grossman Prize for best dissertation in psychology, a graduate research fellowship from the National Science Foundation, and a Yale graduate school fellowship.
Professor McCrink’s research focuses on the development of numerical cognition from infancy through adulthood, looking at why and how infants, children, and adults perform mathematical operations.
Publications
McCrink, K. & Wynn, K. “Large-Number Addition and Subtraction by 9-Month-Old Infants,” Psychological Science (2004).
McCrink, K., Santos, L. & Bloom, P.) “Children's and Adult's Judgments of Equitable Resource Distributions,” Developmental Science (2009).
McCrink., K., Dehaene, S. & Dehaene-Lambertz, G. “Moving Along the Number Line: The Case for Operational Momentum in Nonsymbolic Arithmetic,” Perception and Psychophysics (2007).212.854.8893
kmccrink@barnard.edu
EDUCATION:
B.A., Douglass College, Rutgers University
M.A., M.Ph., Ph.D., Yale University
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SPECIALIZATIONS:
Infant development
Ccognitive development
Mmathematical cognition