Tiffany Doan

Ph.D., University of Waterloo - Developmental Psychology

M.A. Sc., University of Waterloo - Developmental and Communication Science

Broadly speaking, Tiffany is interested in children's social cognitive development. She is mainly interested in children's understanding of emotions and her primary research focuses on whether children can use probability to infer other people’s emotions. She also explores whether infants can predict people’s behaviours from their emotions, and young children's understanding of preferences. In addition to these research interests, she also studies how information about difficulty influences children's exploration and self-directed learning.

Publications

Doan, T., Friedman, O., & Denison, S. (2021). Oh… so close! Children’s close counterfactual reasoning and emotion inferences. Developmental Psychology, 57, 678-688.

Doan, T., Friedman, O., & Denison, S. (2021). Toddlers and preschoolers understand that some preferences are more subjective than others. Child Development, 92, 853-861.

Lu, J., Doan, T., & Denison, S. (2021). Can children use numerical reasoning to compare odds in games? In T. Fitch, C. Lamm, H. Leder, & K. Teßmar-Raible (Eds.), Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 2409-2415). Cognitive Science Society.

Doan, T., Castro, A., Bonawitz, E., & Denison, S. (2020). “Wow, I did it!”: Unexpected success increases preschoolers’ exploratory play on a later task. Cognitive Development, 55, 100925.

Doan, T., Friedman, O., & Denison, S. (2020). Young children use probability to infer happiness and the quality of outcomes. Psychological Science, 31, 149-159.

Doan, T., Friedman, O., & Denison, S. (2018). Beyond belief: The probability-based notion of surprise in children. Emotion, 18, 1163-1173.

Doan, T., Friedman, O., & Denison, S. (2018). Children use probability to infer other people’s happiness. In T.T. Rogers, M. Rau, X. Zhu, & C. W. Kalish (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 1628-1632). Cognitive Science Society.

Doan, T., Denison, S., Lucas, C., & Gopnik, A. (2015). Learning to reason about desires: An infant training study. In D.C. Noelle, R. Dale, A.S. Warlaumont, J. Yoshimi, T. Matlock, C.D. Jennings, & P.P. Maglio (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 578-583). Cognitive Science Society.