FACULTY

Kathleen Corriveau

Professor

Director, Social Learning Laboratory

Office: 621 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 322
Email: kcorriv@bu.edu

Professor Corriveau’s Faculty Profile / CV

Professor Corriveau’s research focuses on social and cognitive development in childhood, with a specific focus on how children decide what people and what information are trustworthy.  She is also interested in language and reading development, cross-cultural differences and the role of parenting in children’s social and emotional development.

Jenny Nissel

Research Assistant Professor

Email: nissel@bu.edu

Professor Nissel’s Faculty Profile

Dr. Nissel’s research explores the imagination across cultures and development, with a particular focus on developing beliefs about what’s possible (and not possible) and what’s real (and not real). In her work she also explores engagement with narrative, art, and fictional worlds.