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Megan Norris
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Postdoc at Purdue University • Developmental Scientist • Studying social power, social inequality, and prejudice reduction • Inclusive Teaching • She/Hers • 🏳️‍🌈
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New paper accepted at JEP:G with @sakierahudson.bsky.social, Brandon Kinsler, & former students Ian Davis and Alissa Vandenbark!

Come for the opening Aladdin quote, stay for a developmental perspective on SDO!

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August 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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New study! The messages that American kids receive about immigrants are really mixed 😕 but kids who see and hear good things (e.g., online) are more open to including new immigrant peers in their own social circles 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 #devpsyc #socialpsyc doi.org/10.1016/j.ap...
July 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The Social Development Lab is a great place to work!
I’m hiring a lab manager! Full time, starting this summer. Perfect for a BA/BS grad or post-bac with child or family research experience interested in developmental psych or HDFS. Complete details and application link here: www.elenbaaslab.com/join #devpsyc #socialpsyc #familysci #psychjobs
Join Us | Elenbaas Lab
In the Social Development Lab, we study how children think about people, groups, and society. The lab is supervised by Dr. Laura Elenbaas.
www.elenbaaslab.com
June 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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The Social Development Lab accomplished so much this year!
I'm grateful every day for this persistent, passionate, collaborative team. 🤓❤️
May 6, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Wanted to share a handy little resource with you all (especially those in dev psych) — my lab & I made a "journal submission cheat sheet" that summarizes article types, word limits, & other requirements for the journals we typically submit to. Link below 👇🏼
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
May 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Here's an accessible #SPSPblog @spspnews.bsky.social overview of our recent DP #DevPsyc paper on US parents' attitudes about cross-group peer interactions. Bottom line: many parents want their kids to hang out w/ gender, racial, & social class ingroup peers "just like us." spsp.org/news/charact...
Are Parents Open to Diversity for Their Kids? | SPSP
Kids thrive in diverse friend groups, but this isn’t always what parents choose for them.
spsp.org
September 20, 2024 at 10:27 PM
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I am thrilled that our paper is finally online at Dev Psychology: White parents’ racial socialization during a guided discussion predicts declines in white children’s pro-white biases. psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-... A thread! 1/N
February 22, 2024 at 11:24 PM
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children rationalize social inequities as internal in nature (eg women underrepresented in sci bc women have less sci talent), according to decades of cool yet depressing research. in a new paper, we review recent work on children's structural thinking as a hopeful alternative... (1/3)
Children's structural thinking about social inequities
Across development, young children reason about why social inequities exist. However, when left to their own devices, young children might engage in internal thinking, reasoning that the inequity is ....
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 14, 2023 at 8:41 PM
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October's Editor's Choice: Someone Who Knows and Someone I Trust: Investigating How and With Whom U.S. 8- to 14-year-old Youth Seek to Learn about Racial Inequality

Ellen Kneeskern & Laura Elenbaas

Free to Read: psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...

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September 29, 2023 at 1:48 PM