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Name	Stella Christie
Contact Information	christie@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
Language ability	English, Chinese
Province	Beijing

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Name

Stella Christie

Contact Information

christie@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn

Language ability

English, Chinese

Province

Beijing

University/Lab Affiliation and Title	Tsinghua University
Faculty	Social Science
Academic Background & Achievements	1999-2004: Bachelor of Psychology, Harvard University, magna cum laude with highest honors 2004-2010: PhD in Cognitive Psychology, Northwestern University
Work Experience	2010-2012: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of British Columbia 2012-2018: Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College 2018: Tenured Associate Professor, Swarthmore College 2015-2016: Visiting Scholar, Stanford University 2018-present: Tenured Associate Professor, Tsinghua University 2018-present: Chief Researcher, Brain and Intelligence Lab, Tsinghua University 2018-present: Founder, Tsinghua University THBI Child Cognition Research Center
Awards	2016: Nominated for James McDonnell Understanding Human Cognition Award

University/Lab Affiliation and Title

Tsinghua University

Faculty

Social Science

Academic Background & Achievements

1999-2004: Bachelor of Psychology, Harvard University, magna cum laude with highest honors
2004-2010: PhD in Cognitive Psychology, Northwestern University

Work Experience

2010-2012: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of British Columbia
2012-2018: Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College
2018: Tenured Associate Professor, Swarthmore College
2015-2016: Visiting Scholar, Stanford University
2018-present: Tenured Associate Professor, Tsinghua University
2018-present: Chief Researcher, Brain and Intelligence Lab, Tsinghua University
2018-present: Founder, Tsinghua University THBI Child Cognition Research Center

Awards

2016: Nominated for James McDonnell Understanding Human Cognition Award

Areas of Focus	Cognitive Development and Learning Processes Analogy Reasoning Formation and Development Language Acquisition Spatial Intelligence Number Concept Social Cognition Creative Problem Solving
Publications	Analogy Use in Parental Explanation, Gao, Y., Que, K., Tan, Z., Zhang, Y., & Christie, S., 2022 How to Cultivate Early Childhood Creativity, Bai, H. & Christie, S., 2022 Why Do Infants Love to Ask 'Why', Gao, Y., Que, K., & Christie, S., 2022 Early Play as the Foundation for Lifelong Learning, Lv, J., Fang, Y., Fan, W., Yang, H., & Christie, S., 2022 Why Play Equals Learning: Comparison as a Learning Mechanism in Play, Christie, S., 2021 East-West Revisited: Is Holistic Thinking Relational Thinking?, Zhang, J., & Christie, S., 2021 Learning Sameness: Object and Relational Similarity Across Species, Christie, S., 2021 Development of Analogical Reasoning: A Novel Perspective from Cross-Cultural Studies, Christie, S., Yang, G., & Qiuchen, M., 2020 The Cognitive Science of Designing Urban Spaces for Children, Christie, S., Jinyun, L., Yijin, F., Xili, H., 2020 Relational and Object Similarity in Children and Apes, Christie, S., 2020 Object Bias Disrupts Rule-Based Generalization Across Domains, Orticio, E., & Christie, S., 2020 Structure Mapping for Social Learning, Christie, S., 2017 Sensitivity to Relational Similarity and Object Similarity in Apes and Children, Christie, S., Gentner, D., Call, J., & Haun, D., 2016 Children Prefer Diverse Samples for Inductive Reasoning in the Social Domain, Noyes, A. & Christie, S., 2016 Language Helps Children Succeed on a Classic Analogy Task, Christie, S. & Gentner, D., 2014 Infants Make Quantity Discriminations for Substances, Hespos, S.J., Dora, B., Rips, L.J. & Christie, S., 2012 Where Hypotheses Come From: Learning New Relations by Structural Alignment, Christie, S. & Gentner, D., 2010 Mutual Bootstrapping Between Language and Analogical Processing, Gentner, D. & Christie, S., 2010 Relational Language Supports Relational Cognition in Humans and Apes, Gentner, D. & Christie, S., 2008 Relational Similarity in Identity Relation: The Role of Language, Christie, S. & Gentner, D., 2007 Using Numbers to Structure Space, Gentner, D. & Christie, S., 2006 Clarifying the Role of Alignability in Similarity Comparisons, Jameson, J., Gentner, D., Day, S., Christie, S., Colhoun, J. & Bartels, D., 2005 Four Types of Mental Imagery Processing in Upright and Tilted Observers, Mast, F.W., Ganis, G., Christie, S. & Kosslyn, S.M., 2003

Areas of Focus

Cognitive Development and Learning Processes
Analogy Reasoning Formation and Development
Language Acquisition
Spatial Intelligence
Number Concept
Social Cognition
Creative Problem Solving

Publications

Analogy Use in Parental Explanation, Gao, Y., Que, K., Tan, Z., Zhang, Y., & Christie, S., 2022
How to Cultivate Early Childhood Creativity, Bai, H. & Christie, S., 2022
Why Do Infants Love to Ask 'Why', Gao, Y., Que, K., & Christie, S., 2022
Early Play as the Foundation for Lifelong Learning, Lv, J., Fang, Y., Fan, W., Yang, H., & Christie, S., 2022
Why Play Equals Learning: Comparison as a Learning Mechanism in Play, Christie, S., 2021
East-West Revisited: Is Holistic Thinking Relational Thinking?, Zhang, J., & Christie, S., 2021
Learning Sameness: Object and Relational Similarity Across Species, Christie, S., 2021
Development of Analogical Reasoning: A Novel Perspective from Cross-Cultural Studies, Christie, S., Yang, G., & Qiuchen, M., 2020
The Cognitive Science of Designing Urban Spaces for Children, Christie, S., Jinyun, L., Yijin, F., Xili, H., 2020
Relational and Object Similarity in Children and Apes, Christie, S., 2020
Object Bias Disrupts Rule-Based Generalization Across Domains, Orticio, E., & Christie, S., 2020
Structure Mapping for Social Learning, Christie, S., 2017
Sensitivity to Relational Similarity and Object Similarity in Apes and Children, Christie, S., Gentner, D., Call, J., & Haun, D., 2016
Children Prefer Diverse Samples for Inductive Reasoning in the Social Domain, Noyes, A. & Christie, S., 2016
Language Helps Children Succeed on a Classic Analogy Task, Christie, S. & Gentner, D., 2014
Infants Make Quantity Discriminations for Substances, Hespos, S.J., Dora, B., Rips, L.J. & Christie, S., 2012
Where Hypotheses Come From: Learning New Relations by Structural Alignment, Christie, S. & Gentner, D., 2010
Mutual Bootstrapping Between Language and Analogical Processing, Gentner, D. & Christie, S., 2010
Relational Language Supports Relational Cognition in Humans and Apes, Gentner, D. & Christie, S., 2008
Relational Similarity in Identity Relation: The Role of Language, Christie, S. & Gentner, D., 2007
Using Numbers to Structure Space, Gentner, D. & Christie, S., 2006
Clarifying the Role of Alignability in Similarity Comparisons, Jameson, J., Gentner, D., Day, S., Christie, S., Colhoun, J. & Bartels, D., 2005
Four Types of Mental Imagery Processing in Upright and Tilted Observers, Mast, F.W., Ganis, G., Christie, S. & Kosslyn, S.M., 2003

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