Elise Mahaffey @elisemahaffey.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Come see the Lucca/ Benitez labs present at CDS! I’ll be presenting results of a registered report project investigating 5-8 year olds’ and adults’ inferences about learning and teaching with difficult tasks (poster session 4) 051
Reposted by Elise MahaffeySarah L. Kiefer @sarahkiefer.bsky.social · 04/03/2026New paper out in Child Development (@srcdorg.bsky.social) with Dave Sobel (@candmlab.bsky.social)! ✨ We investigated how 5- to 7-year-old children decide to take on easy versus hard tasks while pursuing a goal. doi.org/10.1093/chid...doi.orgChildren's decision to challenge themselves on a novel task relates to their metacognitive monitoring of their abilityAbstract. We examined potential processes by which children decide to make hard as opposed to easy choices to accomplish a goal. Five- to 7-year olds (N = 34116
Reposted by Elise MahaffeySarah L. Kiefer @sarahkiefer.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Last week I gave my 1st conference talk at #SRCD2025 in a symposium @elisemahaffey.bsky.social and I co-chaired together “The effort equation: Towards an integrative understanding of the factors that drive children’s adaptive persistence” with speakers @elainewang.bsky.social and Alexis Burke! 141
Elise Mahaffey @elisemahaffey.bsky.social · 30/04/2025The Early Child Cognition Research Group at ASU (PIs: Kelsey Lucca and Viridiana Benitez) will be presenting our work at #SRCD2025! Hope to see you there! 0103
Elise Mahaffey @elisemahaffey.bsky.social · 19/03/2024The Early Childhood Cognition Research Group at ASU (PIs Kelsey Lucca and Viridiana Benitez) is excited for CDS 2024! We will be presenting work related to curiosity, persistence, multilingualism, culture, and child-directed language. Come say hi! 1142