Shutts uses what she learns in her research as a social scientist to influence how kids in the community learn through play at the museum. Her area of expertise is how children make sense of their social world, and how to help kids build their social skills. In an attempt to oversimplify her work, you could say she’s an expert in friendships.
Kristin Shutts
Kristin Shutts, PhD – Slide of the Week
Disciplines across the social and behavioral sciences have documented the critical role of early peer connections in children’s development, yet mechanisms facilitating these connections have not been tested in controlled laboratory settings.
Mentor award winners guide undergraduate learning
The nominations for this year’s recipients read like a textbook of great mentoring practices – meeting students where they’re at, getting to know them as scholars and individuals, and guiding their learning with just the right mix of challenge and support.
Kristin Shutts, PhD – Slide of the Week
Close peer relationships are critical to children’s and adolescents’ healthy development and well-being, yet youth sometimes struggle to make friends.
Waisman investigator receives grant to study interventions to reduce racial biases in children
Waisman Center investigator Kristin Shutts, PhD was recently awarded a $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study whether an intervention given by White parents to their kids would help reduce racial biases in young children.
Kristin Shutts, PhD – Slide of the Week
Can brief messages about health influence children’s consumption of identical foods? Across a series of studies, we manipulated children’s consumption of identical foods (fruit sauces) by pairing those foods with brief messages about each food’s health status.
Social Kids Lab (Shutts)
We study how children navigate the social world. Several ongoing studies address the development of social categories and preferences. We currently have studies for infants, preschoolers, and school-aged children. For more information, call 608.263.5853, email …
Kristin Shutts, PhD – Slide of the Week
How does social information affect the perception of taste early in life? Does mere knowledge of other people’s food preferences impact children’s own experience when eating? In Experiment 1, 5- and 6- year- old children consumed more of a food described as popular with other children than a food that was described as unpopular with other children, even though the two foods were identical.
Kristin Shutts, PhD
Probability Learning: Changes in Behavior Across Time and Development Legend: Left: For each trial in the task, a coin was hidden behind a rock, and participants had to guess where the coin was. There was …
Summer research: From Appleton to Madison
This summer, three students from Lawrence University exchanged the Fox River for Lake Mendota and became temporary Badgers. They were part of a pilot program designed to provide Lawrence undergraduates the opportunity to work with …