I am generally interested in children's social cognition. Specifically, I am interested in how children use the people in their environment to support their cognitive development. Previously, my research has focused on how factors such as past reliability and information type affect children's information seeking. Currently, I am exploring how similar factors, such as conventionality, partner capability, and situational constraints affect children's social interactions in the domains of prosocial and cooperative behaviour.  Click Here for a copy of my CV.

E-mail:  kristen.dunfield at gmail dot com

Kristen is currently a postdoctoral fellow at The Ohio State University:
Social Cognitive Infant Lab

Dunfield, K.A., Kuhlmeier, V.A., O’Connell, L., & Kelley, E.  (2011).  Examining the diversity of prosocial behavior:  helping, sharing, and comforting in infancy.
Infancy.

Dunfield, K.A., & Kuhlmeier, V.A.  (2010).  Intention-mediated selective helping in human infants. 
Psychological Science.

Fitneva, S., & Dunfield, K.A.  (in press).  Selective information seeking after a single encounter.
Developmental Psychology.