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Dr. Cecilia Shore
Professor of Psychology

University Affiliations
Dept. of Psychology
Psychology Faculty
Developmental Psychology


Education
Ph. D., 1981
University of Colorado


Awards and Activities
Distinguished Educator in the College of Arts and Science, 2000

Co-founder, APA's Preparing Future Faculty program at Miami University


Other links
My research lab
My personal homepage

Cecilia Shore, Ph. D.
Department of Psychology
212 Psychology Building
Miami University
Oxford, Ohio 45056

(513) 529-2401 (voice)
(513) 529-2420 (fax)

shorec@muohio.edu (e-mail)
www.users.muohio.edu/shorec (personal homepage)
Research Interests
My research is on cognitive and language development in toddlers and preschoolers. My early research focused on children's discovery of symbols in language and play, the linkages between developments in these domains, and individual differences in these abilities. Some of my work has explored parents' support of children's language and symbolic play development. Much of children's early language and play is embedded in their understanding of events. Another thread of research involves children's understanding of causality. We have begun to study children's understanding of the relationship between intentions and desires, that is, mental representations of means and ends. Some research investigates whether children understand that the causal principles that apply to the real world may be different from those that apply in imagination or fiction. This research is related to other "theory of mind" developments, such as understanding pretense and dreaming. Recent work investigages children's understanding of symbols such as written words.
Representative Publications

Meyer, S. & Shore, C. (in press). Children's understanding of dreams as mental states. Dreaming: Journal of the Association for the Study of Dreams.

Simons, K. J., Paternite, C. E., & Shore, C. (2001). Quality of Parent/Adolescent Attachment and Aggression in Young Adolescents. Journal of Early Adolescence, 21(2), pp. 182-203.

Shore, C. (1998). Play and language: Individual differences as evidence of development and style. In D.P. Fromberg & D. Bergen (Eds), Play from Birth to Twelve and Beyond, pp. 165-174. NY: Garland Press.

Shore, C. (1995). Individual differences in language development. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

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