Hilary Barth

Children’s Inferences About Novel Groups from Verbal Statements

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Faculty Sponsor: Hilary Barth Live Poster Session: Zoom Link Abstract: The way we speak about social groups can change beliefs about those groups and create stereotypes; statements about one group can even affect the way we think about a second distinct group. In this ongoing project, we introduced children and adults to two novel social … Read more

Left Digit Effect in Number Line Estimation with Leading Zero and Ten-Thousands Target Numerals

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Faculty Sponsor: Hilary Barth Live Poster Session: Zoom Link Abstract: When people estimate where numerals should go on a number line, their placements are overly dependent on leftmost digits. For example, on a 0-1000 line, they place 398 far to the left of where they place 403. In two experiments we asked if this is … Read more