*Recording made during the summer of 2019 (video source)*
Research Aims
Key questions keeping me up at night:
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How do we break into the economic market as children?
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How do we develop and change as consumers as we age?
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How do social norms guide our economic decision making?
Research News
In response to COVID-19, the Center for Decision Research moved its lab operations online. As a part of this effort, I created and manage the child arm of the CDR Virtual Lab. Learn more about our ongoing work with children here.
Recent Publications:
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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)
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Echelbarger, M. (2020). Children and money. In H. Montgomery (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Childhood Studies. New York: Oxford University Press.
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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.
Upcoming & Recent Invited Talks:
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Methods Hour, University of Michigan - 3/26/21
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Developmental Psychology Brownbag, University of Texas - 11/30/20
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Cognitive Science Seminar, University of Michigan - 10/26/20
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Cooperation Lab, Boston College - 9/30/20
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Developmental Psychology Brownbag, University of Virginia - 9/23/20
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Marketing Research Brownbag, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University - 9/11/20
Upcoming & Conference Talks:
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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 (organized by me)
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Young 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 (organized by James Dunlea)
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Co-organizer of SRCD Special Topics Workshop "Addressing and Reducing Inequality Through Developmental Science" - 11/9/20-11/10/20
Recent Conference Posters:
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Not Knowing How to Know: Adults Underestimate the Efficacy of Getting Perspective - SJDM 2020
Public Communications:
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A Behavioral Scientist's Advice for Giving the Perfect Gift (Forge, article)
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Kids are probably more strategic about swapping Halloween candy and other stuff than you may think (The Conversation, research brief)
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Kids can have their cake and their broccoli too (Chicago Booth Review, article)
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Saving money is hard to do (Million Bazillion, podcast interview)