Congratulations Andrea Yuly-Youngblood!
/We are proud to announce that Andrea Yuly-Youngblood successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation on "Children's Emergent Beliefs about Social Rank and Gender" today. Completion of a PhD is extremely challenging under the best of circumstances, but Andrea was tasked with doing so in a pandemic where we had to shut down the lab and come up with alternate ways of testing our child participants (on Zoom!). Andrea displayed incredible perseverance and resilience throughout this time. We are grateful to all of the families that contributed their time to this project; we would not have been able to complete it without your patience, flexibility, and willingness to jump into the online world along with us.
Andrea's research, advised by Dr. Boseovski, examined whether children understand the difference between status and power, and the way that gender intersects with this understanding. Her findings reveal that power is understood fairly early in contrast to status and that children favor high status characters of their own gender, but that there is also some evidence of favoritism toward boys as leaders. These findings are important for our understanding of perceived social inequalities and children's emerging ideas about their own career aspirations.
She will be officially Dr. Andrea Yuly-Youngblood following her graduation this summer! Please join us in congratulating her on this tremendous achievement!
