Publications

King, R.A., Emery, L.A., Shutts, K., & Kinzler, K.D. (2025). The development of socioeconomic cognition in childhood. In press at Annual Review of Developmental Psychology.

King, R.A.*, Fukuda, E.*, Shutts, K., & Kinzler, K.D. (2025). Examining factors that facilitate young children’s social connections: An experimental approach. Developmental Psychology. PDF

King, R.A., Jordan, A.E., Liberman, Z., Kinzler, K.D., & Shutts, K. (2023) Young children apply the homophily principle to their reasoning about social relationships. Developmental Psychology. PDF

Scott, K.E., King, R.A., Cochrane, A., Kalish, C.W., & Shutts, K. (2023). Social cognitive skills predict children’s academic achievement. Journal of Cognition and Development. PDF

King, R.A., Scott, K.E., Renno, M.P., & Shutts, K. (2020). Counterstereotyping can change children’s thinking about boys’ and girls’ toy preferences. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. PDF

Submitted & Under Review

King, R.A., & Kinzler, K.D. (invited submission, RSF Journal of the Social Sciences). Lifestyles of the rich and impoverished: The emergence of wealth- and geography-based associations in childhood.

Shachnai, R.+, Heck, I.A., King, R.A., & Kinzler, K.D. (revise & resubmit). Children’s abstract reasoning about vertical occupational hierarchies.

In Prep

King, R.A., Nguyen, R.+, Heck, I.A., & Kinzler, K.D. (in prep). The developmental origins of socioeconomic inequality and mobility (mis)perceptions.

Ramkissoon, I.+, King, R.A., Heck, I.A., & Kinzler, K.D. (in prep). The developmental roots of sociopolitical worldviews.

*Equal contribution

+Thesis student advisee

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