Faculty
Ageliki Nicolopoulou
B.A. & M.A University of Rhode Island; Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Areas of interest: the development of narrative competence; narrative activities and its role in the construction of reality and identity; comparing different narrative elicitation methods; peer group and peer culture as contexts for development, socialization, and education; the foundations of emergent literacy; understanding and promoting narrative comprehension; play and narrative; narrative and social understanding (including theory of mind); narrative and reading; cultural influences on development..
E-mail: agn3@lehigh.edu
Vitae: Nicolopoulou vitae. pdf
Current Graduate Students
Caitlin Lindley (MS. expected, 2018; Ph.D. expected, 2021)
Thesis title: The relationship between inference-making and overall oral listening comprehension among 4- to 6-year-olds
Ph.D. Graduates
Burcu Unlutabak (Ph.D., 2017)
Dissertation title: Is the curious child universal? Examining the frequency and types of questions asked by turkish preschoolers
Currently: Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Science and Learning Institute and the Dept. of Cognitive Science at John Hopkins University.
Eleni Baldimsti (Ph.D. 2017; Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki; co-advisor)
Dissertation title: Narrative abilities and theory of mind in high functioning autistic school-age children
Aline de Sa (Ph.D., 2012)
Dissertation title: Fostering children's narrative comprehension through inference-making and story engagement
Currently: Research Psychologist, R. Frei Jacinto Infantino (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Hande Ilgaz (Ph.D., 2011)
Dissertation title: Children's representation of perspectives in storytelling and pretend play narratives and their relation to theory of mind abilities
Currently: Assistant Professor, Psychology Department, at Bilkent University (Ankara, Turkey)
Carolyn Brockmeyer (Ph.D., 2009)
Dissertation title: Re-reading the relationship between narrative and theory of mind: The effects of narrative training on the developing understanding of mind
Currently: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics & Project Director, The BELLE Project, New York University School of Medicine
M.S. Graduates
Lisa Connor (M.S., 2012)
Thesis title: Factors affecting the development of character referentiality in preschoolers' narratives
Currently: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Child and Family Studies, University of Tennessee (Ph.D. 2016, University of Kentucky)
Aline de Sá (M.S., 2008)
Thesis title: Low-income preschoolers’ developing conceptions of emotional expressions and situational knowledge
Carolyn Brockmeyer (M.S. 2006)
Thesis title: Preschoolers' narrative abilities under different storytelling conditions
Ruohong Wei (M.S., 2004)
Thesis title: Peer collaboration and narrative development in a preschool classroom
Deborah Ferrara (M.S., 2002)
Thesis title: Adolescent narrative self-understanding
Elizabeth S. Richner (M.S., 1999)
Thesis title: From actors to characters to persons: The development of character representation in young children’s narratives (won the Donald T. Campbell Social Science Research Prize)
Dorene McNamara (M.A. in Sociology, 1999)
Thesis title: Individual differences in adult attachment styles and their connection with representations of actual and ideal love (won the Donald T. Campbell Social Science Research Prize)
Senior Honors Theses - Undergraduates
Gina Maurer (Expected: May 2019)
TBA
Callie Rose Teufert (May, 2018)
Fiction or nonfiction? The effects of genre on verbal ability and reading comprehension"
Jacob Silber (May, 2014)
Filling in the gaps: The development of inference-making abilities as a predictor of narrative listening comprehension"
E. Jacob Puzycki (May, 2014; University Scholars Program)
Physics & Philosophy: A Children's Tale
Lindsay Hough (December, 2011; University Scholars Program)
Perspective-taking abilities in 4-, 5-, and 6-year-olds: Are theory of mind concepts embedded in bookreading understood earlier?
Jillian Kerry (May, 2008; University Scholars Program)
Why narrative? A critical review of the use of narrative in psychological research and its effects on healing and coping
Christine Boblenz (May, 2007)
Promoting social competence in low-income preschoolers with a story-telling and story-acting activity
(won a Williams Writing Prize; first prize)
Taylor Lubitz (May 2007)
Differences in narrative skills between low-and middle-income preschoolers
Sarah Thomas (May 2007)
Tell me a story: How to most effectively elicit narratives from low SES preschool children
Erin Kenney (May, 2006)
Does a narrative-based intervention promote children’s social pretend play?
Amy Rikoon (2005)
Late adolescents' self-defining memories and their relation to psychological well-being
K. Brady Garrity (May, 2004)
Social competence in Head Start classrooms: An assessment of a play intervention
Katie Lomas (December, 2004)
Children's reading achievement: The importance of oral language and narrative skills
Kira Florence (May, 2001)
Once upon a time: Differences between middle- and low-income children's narrative skills
Geneia Esterly (May, 2000)
Teacher-child interactions in Head Start classrooms: Types of child-directed speech, language acquisition, and emotional development
Leigh Wickham (May, 2000)
Are there gender differences in stories and play of low-income preschool children?
Elizabeth Rankin (May, 2000)
Theory of mind and mental states talk in low-income children
Charlene Tai (May, 2000)
Preschool children's conceptions of 'good guys' and 'bad guys'
Carlita Johnston (May, 1999)
Structured storytelling by low-income children and its influence on achievement of language and literacy skills
Meredith Abrams (May, 1998; University Scholars Program)
The critical tension between individual and society: How society affects the development of the individual
(won a Williams Writing Prize)
Travis Beebe (May, 1998; University Scholars Program)
The development of main character in young children's stories
Amy Lederer (May, 1998; University Scholars Program)
Do peer groups affect the nature of spontaneous stories children tell?
Victoria Sbrocco (May, 1998)
Gender differences in preschool children's narratives: A prehistory of moral orientations
Shân Cantrell (May, 1997)
Gender differences in children's stories: Selective appropriation and symbolic reworking