Research
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Latest papers
Other-Oriented Perfectionism in Children and Adolescents: Development and Validation of the Other-Oriented Perfectionism Subscale-Junior Form (OOPjr).
Journal of psychoeducational assessment · 2022
Machiavellian strategist or cultural learner? Mentalizing and learning over development in a resource-sharing game.
Evolutionary human sciences · 2021
You seem certain but you were wrong before: developmental change in preschoolers' relative trust in accurate versus confident speakers.
PloS one · 2014 · senior author
Latest funding
- $87,281
Changing lives by changing minds: Enhancing social emotional competence by combining multiple evidence-based approaches
SSHRC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $138,999
Intrapersonal Expression of Perfection: The Perfectionistic Self-Relationship
SSHRC · 2021 · Co-investigator
- $168,000
A Systematic Examination of How a Speaker's Linguistic and Paralinguistic Cues Affect Children's and Adults' Learning and Memory
NSERC · 2017 · Principal investigator
4 publications.
Other-Oriented Perfectionism in Children and Adolescents: Development and Validation of the Other-Oriented Perfectionism Subscale-Junior Form (OOPjr).
Hewitt PL, Smith MM, Flett GL, Ko A, Kerns C, Birch S, Peracha H
Machiavellian strategist or cultural learner? Mentalizing and learning over development in a resource-sharing game.
Baimel A, Juda M, Birch S, Henrich J
You seem certain but you were wrong before: developmental change in preschoolers' relative trust in accurate versus confident speakers.
Brosseau-Liard P, Cassels T, Birch S
Perfectionistic self-presentation in children and adolescents: development and validation of the Perfectionistic Self-Presentation Scale--Junior Form.
Hewitt PL, Blasberg JS, Flett GL, Besser A, Sherry SB, Caelian C, Papsdorf M, Cassels TG, Birch S
Changing lives by changing minds: Enhancing social emotional competence by combining multiple evidence-based approaches
Principal investigators: Birch, Susan A.J.
Keywords: social-emotional competence; social cognition; social cognitive biases; cognitive biases; social perspective taking; education; behavioral intervention; social emotional development; quality of life; research methods
Intrapersonal Expression of Perfection: The Perfectionistic Self-Relationship
Principal investigators: Hewitt, Paul L.
Keywords: perfectionism; self; perfectionistic self-relationship
A Systematic Examination of How a Speaker's Linguistic and Paralinguistic Cues Affect Children's and Adults' Learning and Memory
Principal investigators: Birch, Susan
The nature of the interpersonal expression of perfectionism: perfectionstic self-presentation
Principal investigators: Hewitt, Paul L.
Keywords: perfectionism; perfectionistic self-presentation; personality
The nature and development of selective social learning: the role of credibility cues and their implications for social cognition and decision-making
Principal investigators: Birch, Susan A.J.
Keywords: social learning; social cognition; development; decision-making; theory of mind; knowledge attribution; impression formation; leadership; credibility judgments; knowledge acquisition; cultural transmission; learning biases; prosocial behavior
The evolution of religion and morality
Keywords: religion; morality; evolution of religion; cognitive science of religion; prosociality; cultural evolution; gene-culture coevolution
Children's and adult's evaluations of social sources of information: the effects on learning and impression formation
Principal investigators: Birch, Susan A.J.
Keywords: social learning; theory of mind; knowledge attribution; epistemic reasoning; impression formation; social reasoning; trait attribution
The role of inhibitory mechanisms and source memory in perspective-taking
Principal investigators: Birch, Susan
The role of knowledge assessment in children's social judgments and interpersonal learning
Principal investigators: Birch, Susan A.J.
Keywords: social interaction; social cognition; interpersonal learning; social transmission of knowledge; knowledge assessment; social development
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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