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Stella Christie
Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
Tsinghua University
Beijing
Language: English, Chinese
Cognition
Development
Learning
Analogy
Language
Spatial
Number
Social
Creativity
Problem-Solving
Areas of Focus
- Cognitive Development and Learning Processes
- Analogy Formation and Development
- Language Acquisition
- Spatial Intelligence
- Concept of Number
- Social Cognition
- Creative Problem Solving
Work Experience
- 2010-2012 - University of British Columbia - Postdoctoral Researcher
- 2012-2018 - Swarthmore College - Assistant Professor
- 2018 - Swarthmore College - Tenured Associate Professor
- 2015-2016 - Stanford University - Visiting Scholar
- 2018-present - Tsinghua University - Tenured Associate Professor
- 2018-present - Tsinghua University - Chief Researcher, Brain and Intelligence Lab
- 2018-present - Tsinghua University - Founder, THBI Child Cognition Research Center
Academic Background & Achievements
- 1999-2004 Bachelor of Psychology: Harvard University
- 2004-2010 PhD in Cognitive Psychology: Northwestern University
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 Infants Love to Ask 'Why', Gao, Y., Que, K., & Christie, S., 2022
- Early Play as a Foundation for Lifelong Learning, Lü, 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
Awards
- 2016: Nominated for the James McDonnell Understanding Human Cognition Award
