* Authors contributed equally to the work
underline Undergraduate student co-author
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. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14053 Pre-print
Yoo, S. H., Trujillo-Hernandez, G., Menendez, D., Klapper, R. E., Nichols, K., Martin, S., Sumanthiran, D., & Rosengren, K. S. (2023). “Will I get sick?”: Parents’ explanations to children’s questions about a novel illness. Cognitive Development, 68, 101383. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2023.101383
Menendez, D. (2023). Cues to generality: Integrating linguistic and visual information when generalizing biological information. Journal of Educational Psychology, 115(8), 1110–1124. doi: https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000812 Pre-print
Menendez, D., Brown, S. A., & Alibali, M. W. (2023). Some correct strategies are better than others: Individual differences in strategy evaluations influence strategy adoption. Cognitive Science, 47(3), e13269. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13269 Pre-print
Menendez, D., Sabbagh, N. F., Alibali, M. W., & Rosengren, K. S. (accepted). Timelines or time cycles: Exposure to different spatial representations of time shapes sketching and diagram preferences. Education Research for Policy and Practice.
Menendez, D., Mathiaparanam, O. N., Seitz, V., Liu, D., Donovan, A. M., Kalish, C. W., Rosengren, K. S., & Alibali, M. W. (in press). Like mother, like daughter: Adults’ judgments about genetic inheritance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. Pre-print
Menendez, D., Rosengren, K. S., & Alibali, M. W. (2022). Detailed bugs or bugging details? Influence of perceptual richness on biological reasoning across elementary school. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 213, 105269. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105269
Menendez, D., Klapper, R. E., *Mandel, A. R., *Nicholas, K. A., *Schapfel, M. H., *Silsby, O. O., *Sowers, K. A., *Sumanthiran, D., *Welch, V. E., & Rosengren, K. S. (2021). “When will it be over?” U.S. children’s questions and parents’ responses about the COVID-19 pandemic. PlosOne, 16(8), e0256692. Pre-print
Bridgewater, E., Menendez, D., & Rosengren, K. S. (2021). Capturing death in animated films: Can films stimulate parent-child conversations about death? Cognitive Development, 59, 101063. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2021.101063 Pre-print
Menendez, D., Mathiaparanam, O. N., Liu, D., Seitz, V. C., Alibali, M. W., & Rosengren, K. S. (2020). Representing variability: The case of life cycle diagrams. CBE-Life Science Education, 19, ar49. doi: https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.19-11-0251
Peters, D., Menendez, D. & Rosengren, K. S. (2020). Reframing mental illness: The role of essentialism on stigmatization and perceived treatment efficacy. Memory & Cognition, 48(8), 1317-1333. doi: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-020-01061-1
Menendez, D., Rosengren, K. S., & Alibali, M. W. (2020). Do details bug you? Effects of perceptual richness in biological reasoning. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 34, 1101–1117. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3698
*Menendez, D., *Jiang, M. J., Edwards, K. M., Rosengren, K. S., & Alibali, M. W. (2020). Evaluating and communicating about the healthiness of foods: Predictors of parents’ judgments and parent-child conversations. Cognitive Development, 55, 100913. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.100913
Menendez, D., Hernandez, I. G., & Rosengren, K. S. (2020). Children’s emerging understanding of death. Child Development Perspectives, 14, 55-60. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12357
Gutiérrez, I. T., Menendez, D., Jiang, M. J., Hernandez, I. G., Miller, P., & Rosengren, K. S. (2020). Embracing death: Mexican parent and child perspectives on death. Child Development, 91, e491-e511. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13263
Martinčeková, L., Jiang, M. J., Adams, J., Menendez, D., Hernandez, I. G, Barber, G., & Rosengren, K. S. (2020). Do you remember being told what happened to grandma? The role of early socialization on coping and bereavement. Death Studies, 44, 78-88. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2018.1522386
Brown, S. A., Menendez, D., & Alibali, M. W. (2019). Strategy adoption depends on characteristics of the instruction, learner, and strategy. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 4, 1-18. doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s41235-019-0158-3
Alibali, M. W., Brown, S. A., & Menendez, D. (2019). Understanding strategy change: Contextual, individual, and metacognitive factors. Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 56, 227-256. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.acdb.2018.11.004
French, J. A., Menendez, D., Herrmann, P. A., Evans, E. M., & Rosengren, K. S. (2018). Cognitive constraints on understanding lifespan changes. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 173, 205-221. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2018.03.018
Rosengren, K. S., Jiang, M. J., Kalish, C. W., Menendez, D., & Hernandez, I. G. (2018). Commentary: What heals and why? Children’s understanding of medical treatments. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 83, 175-183. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/mono.12370
Benjet, C., Menendez, D., Albor, Y., Borges, G., Orozco, R., & Medina-Mora, M. E. (2018). Adolescent predictors of incidence and persistence of suicide related outcomes in young adulthood: A longitudinal study of Mexican youth. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 48, 755-766. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12397
Borges, G., Benjet, C., Orozco, R., Medina-Mora, M. E., & Menendez, D. (2017). Alcohol, cannabis and other drugs and subsequent suicide ideation and attempt among young Mexicans. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 91, 74-82. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2017.02.025
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Menendez, D., Alibali, M. W., & Rosengren, K. S. (2018). Effects of priming variability on adults learning about metamorphosis. In C. Kalish, M. Rau, T. Rogers, and J. Zhu (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp.2102-2107). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Brown, S. A., Menendez, D., & Alibali, M. W. (2018). How do people evaluate problem-solving strategies? Efficiency and intuitiveness matter. In C. Kalish, M. Rau, T. Rogers, and J. Zhu (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1414-1419). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW
Menendez, D., & Gelman, S. A., (Stage 1 registered report accepted). Discovering the world of viruses: Testing the influence of anthropomorphic representations on children’s learning about COVID. Developmental Psychology.
Menendez, D., Donovan, A. M., Mathiaparanam, O. N., Klapper, R. E., Yoo, S. H., Rosengren, K. S., & Alibali, M. W. (Revision under review). The role of visualizations in adults’ learning about genetic inheritance. Education Sciences. Pre-print
Menendez, D., & Gelman, S. A. (Revision under review). Genes vs. germs: Children’s biological causal models of disability. Cognitive Development.
*Menendez, D., *Li, Z., Klapper, R. E., Sturge-Apple, M. L., & Rosengren, K. S. (Revision under review). COVID-19 and child adjustment: The role of coparenting conflict and child temperament. Journal of Child and Family Studies.
*Menendez, D., *Labotka, D., Umscheid, V. A., & Gelman, S. A. (Revision under review). The social aspects of illness: U.S. children’s and parents’ explanations of the relation between social categories and illness. Child Development.
Ünlütabak, B., Velioğlu, I., Trujillo-Hernandez, G., Menendez, D., & Rosengren, K. S. (under review). What is coronavirus? Content analysis of children’s books about COVID-19 in Türkiye and the United States. Pre-print
Ünlütabak, B., Trujillo Hernandez, G. Velioğlu, İ., Menendez, D., & Rosengren, K. S. (under review). Children’s Questions and Teachers’ Responses about COVID-19 in Turkey and the US. Pre-print