Selected Publications

The Role of Visual Representations in Children’s Learning about Biological Variability

Menendez, D., Rosengren, K. S., & Alibali, M. W. (2020, online). Do details bug you? Effects of perceptual richness in biological reasoning.  Applied Cognitive Psychology, 34, 1101-1117. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3698 (pdf)

Menendez, D., Mathiaparanam, O. N., Liu, D., Seitz, V. C., Alibali, M. W., & Rosengren, K. S. (2020, online). Representing variability: The case of life cycle diagrams. The Journal of Competency Based Education – Life Sciences Education.  19:ar49 https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.19-11-0251 (pdf)

Menendez, D., Donovan, A.M., Mathiaparanam, O.N., Klapper, R.E., Yoo, S.H., Rosengren, K.S., Alibali, M.W. The Role of Visual Representations in Undergraduate Students’ Learning about Genetic Inheritance. Educ. Sci. 2024, 14, 307. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14030307.

Menendez, D., Donovan, A. M., Mathiaparanam, O. N., Seitz, V., Sabbagh, N. F., Klapper, R. E., Kalish, C. W., Rosengren, K. S., & Alibali, M. W. (2024). Deterministic or probabilistic: U.S. children’s beliefs about genetic inheritance. Child Development, 95, e186–e205. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14053.

Menendez, D., Mathiaparanam, O. N., Seitz, V., Liu, D., Donovan, A. M., Kalish, C. W., Alibali, M. W., & Rosengren, K. S. (2023). Like mother, like daughter: Adults’ judgments about genetic inheritance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 29(1), 63–77. https://doi.org/10.1037/xap0000436.

Menendez, D., Rosengren, K.S., Alibali, M.W. (2022). Detailed bugs or bugging details? The influence of perceptual richness across elementary school years. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 213, 105269. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105269.

Parent-Child Conversations about Covid-19

Menendez, D., Klapper, R. E., Golden, M. Z., Mandel, A. R.,  Nicholas, K. A., Schapfel, M. H., Silsby, O. O., Sowers, K. A., Sumanthiran, D., Welch, V. E., Rosengren, K. S. “When will it be over?” U.S. children’s questions and parents’ responses about the Covid-19 pandemic. PLOS One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256692 (pdf)

Menendez D, Klapper RE, Golden MZ, Mandel AR, Nicholas KA, Schapfel MH, et al. (2021) “When will it be over?” U.S. children’s questions and parents’ responses about the COVID-19 pandemic. PLoS ONE 16(8): e0256692. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256692.

Menendez, D., Li, Z., Klapper, R.E. et al. COVID-19 and Child Adjustment: The role of Coparenting Conflict and Child Temperament. J Child Fam Stud 33, 2251–2261 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-024-02841-y.

Ünlütabak B, Trujillo Hernandez G, Velioğlu İ, Menendez D, Rosengren KS (2024) Children’s questions and teachers’ responses about COVID-19 in Türkiye and the US. PLoS ONE 19(7): e0307475. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0307475.

Yoo, S.H., Hernandez, G.T, Menendez, D., Klapper, R.E., Martin, S., Nicholas, K.A., Sumanthiran, D., Rosengren, K.S. (2023). “Will I Get Sick?”: Parents’ explanations to children’s questions
about a novel illness. Cognitive Development 68, 101383 \. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2023.101383.

Conceptual Development: Children’s Understanding of Death

Bridgewater, E., Menendez, D., & Rosengren, K. S. (in press). Capturing death in animated films: Can films stimulate parent-child conversations about death? Cognitive Development. (pdf)

Menendez, D., Hernandez, I. G., & Rosengren, K. S. (2020). Children’s emerging understanding of death. Child Development Perspectives, 1-6. (pdf)

Gutiérrez, I. T., Menendez, D., Jiang, M. J., Hernandez, I. G., Miller, P., & Rosengren, K. S. (2019). Embracing death: Mexican parent and child perspectives on death. Child Development, 1-21. (pdf)

Martinčeková, L., Jiang, M. J., Adams, J. D., Menendez, D., Hernandez, I. G., Barber, G., & Rosengren, K. S. (2018). Do you remember being told what happened to grandma? The role of early socialization on later coping with death. Death Studies, 44(2), 78-88. (pdf)

Miller, P. J., Rosengren, K. S., & Gutiérrez, I. T. (2014). I. Introduction. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 79(1), 1-18. (pdf)

Interaction of Cognitive and Motor Development: Children’s Drawings

Kirkorian, H. L., Travers, B. G., Jiang, M. J., Choi, K., Rosengren, K. S., Pavalko, P., & Tolkin, E. (2020). Drawing across media: A cross-sectional experiment on preschoolers’ drawings produced using traditional versus electronic mediums. Developmental Psychology, 56(1), 28-39. (pdf)

Braswell, G., & Rosengren, K. (2008). The interaction of biomechanical and cognitive constraints in the production of children’s drawing. In Drawing and the Non-Verbal Mind: A Life-Span Perspective (pp. 123-138). (pdf)

Braswell, G. S., Rosengren, K. S., & Pierroutsakos, S. L. (2007). Task constraints on preschool children’s grip configurations during drawing. Developmental Psychobiology, 49(2), 216-225. (pdf)

Interaction of Cognitive and Motor Development: Action Errors

Jiang, M. J., & Rosengren, K. S. (2018). Action Errors: A window into the early development of perception–action system. In: Vol. 55. Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 145-171. (pdf)

Rosengren, K., Schein, S., & Gutiérrez, I. (2010). Individual differences in children’s production of scale errors. Infant Behavior and Development, 33(3), 309-313. (pdf)

Rosengren, K. S., Gutiérrez, I. T., Anderson, K. N., & Schein, S. S. (2009). Parental reports of children’s scale errors in everyday life. Child Development, 80(6), 1586-1591. (pdf)

DeLoache, J. S., Uttal, D. H., & Rosengren, K. S. (2004). Scale errors offer evidence for a perception-action dissociation early in life. Science, 304(5673), 1027-1029. (pdf)