*Recording made during the summer of 2019 (video source)*

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Research Aims

Key questions keeping me up at night:

• How do we break into the economic market as children?

• How do we develop and change as consumers as we age?

• How do social norms guide our economic decision making?

Research News

Recent Publications:

• Echelbarger, M., Good, K., & Shaw, A. (2020). Will she give you two cookies for one chocolate?: Children’s intuitions about trade. Judgment and Decision Making, 16(6), 959-971. (shared first authorship)

• Echelbarger, M. (2020). Children and money. In H. Montgomery (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Childhood Studies. New York: Oxford University Press.

• Echelbarger, M., Maimaran, M., & Gelman, S. A. (2020). Children’s variety seeking in food choices. Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 5(3), 322-328.

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Upcoming & Recent Invited Talks:

• Methods Hour, University of Michigan - 3/26/21

• Social Psychology Brownbag, Loyola University Chicago - 3/3/21

• Developmental Psychology Area Colloquium, University of Chicago - 1/25/21 

• Developmental Psychology Brownbag, University of Texas - 11/30/20

• Cognitive Science Seminar, University of Michigan - 10/26/20

• Cooperation Lab, Boston College - 9/30/20

• Developmental Psychology Brownbag, University of Virginia - 9/23/20

• Marketing Research Brownbag, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University - 9/11/20

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Upcoming & Recent Conference Talks:​

• Finding Your Writing Community: In-Person and Online - SRCD 2021 Professional Development Session (Chair)

• Undervaluing the Positive Impact Prosocial Acts Have on Others Starts Early (work with Nicholas Epley) in "From Expectations to Experiences: Understanding Prosociality in Childhood" - SRCD 2021 Symposium (Chair)

• Older Children Expect Debts to be Repaid (work with Megan Norris and Nicholaus Noles) in "Clarifying Links Between Children’s Sociomoral Reasoning and Reasoning About Money" - SPSP 2021 Symposium (Chair: James Dunlea)​

• Co-organizer of SRCD Special Topics Workshop "Addressing and Reducing Inequality Through Developmental Science" - 11/9/20-11/10/20

Recent Conference Posters:

• Not Knowing How to Know: Adults Underestimate the Efficacy of Getting Perspective - SJDM 2020 

Public Communications:

• A Behavioral Scientist's Advice for Giving the Perfect Gift (Forge, article)

• Kids are probably more strategic about swapping Halloween candy and other stuff than you may think (The Conversation, research brief)

• Kids can have their cake and their broccoli too (Chicago Booth Review, article)

• Saving money is hard to do (Million Bazillion, podcast interview)