Jamie Amemiya, PhD

Hello and welcome to my website! I am currently an NSF SBE Postdoctoral Fellow at UChicago working with Dr. Lin Bian in the Early Social Thinkers Lab. I will be starting as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Occidental College in August 2023. I am broadly interested in the development of social cognition as it relates to how children and adults think about societal problems. My current research interests include how children and adults reason about the causes of social inequality, how they represent social categories and societal hierarchies, and their reasoning about why people disagree.

Representative Articles:

• Amemiya, J., Mortenson, E., Heyman, G. D., & Walker, C. M. (in press). Thinking structurally: A cognitive framework for understanding how people attribute inequality to structural causes. Perspectives on Psychological Science. doi: doi.org/10.1177/17456916221093593 PDF

• Amemiya, J., Mortenson, E., Ahn, S., Walker, C. M., & Heyman, G. D. (2022). Children acknowledge physical constraints less when actors behave stereotypically: Gender stereotypes as a case study. Child Development, 93, 72-83. doi:10.1111/cdev.13643 PDF 

• Amemiya, J., & Wang, M. T. (2018). Why effort praise can backfire in adolescence. Child Development Perspectives, 12, 199-203. doi:10.1111/cdep.12284 PDF

• Amemiya, J., Walker, C. M., & Heyman, G. D. (2021). Children’s developing ability to resolve disagreements by integrating perspectives. Child Development, 92, e1228-e1241. doi:10.1111/cdev.13603 PDF

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E-mail: jamemiya@uchicago.edu | Twitter: @JamieAmemiya