Nina Ye
Doctoral Student
Nina Ye is a doctoral student in the Applied Human Development program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She studies how children effectively learn and transmit information, with a focus on the ways children trust and learn from others. This interest extends to how children perceive and understand others’ concealed intentions, and how they determine others’ trustworthiness.
Nina’s undergraduate dissertation, “Linking Young Children’s Teaching to Their Reasoning of Mental States: Evidence from Singapore,” was published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology in 2021. She has also presented her research at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development and the Society for Research in Child Development.
Education
MSocSc, Psychology, National University of Singapore
BSocSc (Hons), Psychology, National University of Singapore
Selected Publications
Ye, N. N., Heyman, G. D., & Ding, X. P. (2021). Linking young children’s teaching to their reasoning of mental states: Evidence from Singapore. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 209, 105175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105175
Selected Presentations
Ye, N. N., & Ding, X. P. (2023, March). Preschool children use mentalizing inferences in the process of selective trust. Symposium presentation at Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Biennial Meeting.
Ye, N. N., & Ding, X. P. (2022, January). Children can infer deceptive intent from indirect information. Poster at Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD), online.
Ye, N. N., Heyman, G. D., & Ding, X. P. (2021, January). Linking young children’s teaching to their reasoning of mental states: Evidence from Singapore. Poster at Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD), online.