Publications

Schwartzstein, A., & Hwang, H. G. (2025). Becoming partisan: The development of children’s social preferences based on political markers. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Advance online publication. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0001831 [pdf]. Data & analytic code available on OSF

©American Psychological Association, 2025. This paper is not the copy of record and may not exactly replicate the authoritative document published in the APA journal. The final article is available, upon publication, at: 10.1037/xge0001831”

Colomer, M., Hwang, H. G., Burke, N., & Woodward, A. (2024). Development of infants’ preferential looking toward native language speakers across distinct social contexts. Developmental Psychology, 60(1), 124–134. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001669 [pdf]. Data & analytic code available on OSF

Hwang, H. G., Filippi, C. A., Morales, S., Fox, N. A., & Woodward, A. (2023). Children’s social wariness toward a different‐race stranger relates to individual differences in temperament. Developmental Science, e13390. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/desc.13390 [open access pdf]. Data & analytic code available on OSF

Hwang, H.G. & Markson, L. (2023). Black and White Children’s Race-Based Information Endorsement and Teacher Preference: Effects of School and Neighborhood Racial Demographics. Developmental Psychology. Advance online publication. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0001507 [pdf] Data & analytic code available on OSF

Hwang, H.G., Debnath, R., Meyer, M., Salo, V. C., Fox, N.A. & Woodward, A. (2021). Neighborhood racial demographics predict infants’ neural responses to people of different races. Developmental Science24(4), e13070. [pdf] Data & analytic code available on OSF  

Hwang, H.G. & Markson, L. (2020). Development of social exclusion detection in early childhood: Different trajectories of verbal report and social preference. Journal of Cognition & Development21(2), 166-190. doi: 10.1080/15248372.2019.1706521. [pdf] Data & analytic code available on OSF 

Hwang, H.G., Suh, J., Balbona, J., Sodhi, S., & Markson, L. (2019). The crude ostracism detection system: Pupils react to minimal cues of exclusion. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships37(4), 1225-1244. doi: 10.1177/0265407519891242. [pdf] Data & analytic code available on OSF

Hwang, H. G. & Markson, L (2018). Locals don’t have accents: Children weigh phonological proficiency over syntactic or semantic proficiency when categorizing individuals. Journal of Child Language, 45(4), 1018 – 1034. [pdf]

Hennefield, L.*, Hwang, H. G.*, Weston, S., & Povinelli, D (2018). Meta-analytic techniques reveal that corvid causal reasoning in the Aesop’s Fable paradigm is driven by trial-and-error learning. Animal Cognition21(6), 735 – 748. [pdf] (*denotes equal contribution)

Hwang, H.G., Marrus, N., Irvin, K., & Markson, L. (2017). Three-year-old children detect third-party social exclusion. Journal of Cognition & Development18(5), 515 – 529. [pdf]

DeJesus, J., Hwang, H. G., Dautel, J. B., & Kinzler, K. D. (2017). Bilingual children prefer familiar native accents to familiar nonnative accents. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology164, 178 – 191. [pdf]

DeJesus, J., Hwang, H. G., Dautel, J. B., & Kinzler, K. D. (2017). ‘American = English-speaker’ before ‘American = White.’ The development of children’s reasoning about nationality. Child Development89(5), 1752 – 1767. [pdf]