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Sean M. Shiverick  |
phone: 608.251.2985
Professor Colleen Moore
American Psychological Association
Society for Research in Child Development
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| Research Interests  Social cognition, cognitive development, understanding of emotion, moral judgment, theory of mind and executive function. Current Research My research focuses on the development of children's mental state knowledge, and the relations among theory of mind, sociomoral judgments and understanding of emotion. I investigate how children's knowledge of other people's desires, beliefs, and intentions influences their interpretations of actions and events, their evaluations of behavior and expectations about the emotions experienced by others. For my dissertation, I examined the separable roles of intentions, action and desire in children's judgments of emotion involving sociomoral situations such as stealing, promising and lying. I argue that children's tendency to focus on desire satisfaction in predicting people's emotions constrains their ability to consider that intentions can impact people's emotional reactions. In addition, this work explores the connections between emotion attributions and sociomoral judgments. Publications and Papers Shiverick, S. M. (in prep). Differentiating the roles of intention and desire in children's judgments of emotions in sociomoral situations. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Shiverick, S. M., & Moore, C. F. (2007). Second-order beliefs about intention and children's attributions of sociomoral judgment. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 97, 44-60.[link] Sabbagh, M. A., Moses, L. J., & Shiverick, S. M. (2006). Executive functioning and preschoolers' understanding of false beliefs, false photographs, and false signs. Child Development, 77, 1034-1049. [link] Kalish, C. W., & Shiverick, S. M. (2004). Children's reasoning about norms and traits as motives for behavior. Cognitive Development, 19, 401-416. [link] Conference Presentations Shiverick, S. M. (2007, March). Happy to do the 'right' thing? The role of intentions in children's inferences of emotion. Poster presented at Biennial Meeting of Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA. Shiverick, S. M. & Moore, C. F. (2005, April). Children's attributions of belief and judgment in the evaluation of ambiguous actions. Poster presented at Biennial Meeting of Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, GA. Shiverick, S. M., & Kalish, C. W. (2003, April). Rules or Preferences? Young children's reasoning about causes of behavior. Poster presented at Biennial Meeting of Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, FL. Shiverick, S. M., & Kalish, C. W. (2001, October). Children's reasoning about rules and traits as causes of behavior. Poster presented at Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society. Virginia Beach, VA. Sabbagh, M. A., Moses, L. J., & Shiverick, S. M. (2001, June). Inhibitory control and young children's understanding of false representations. Poster presented at annual meeting of APA, Toronto, CAN.
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