Past Researcher Profiles

By Chia-wa Yeh, Head Teacher and Research Coordinator

How do young children perceive older adults, such as their grandparents? More specifically, do they view them as competent and helpful individuals?

These are the questions Stanford…

By Chia-wa Yeh, Head Teacher and Research Coordinator

How do children learn about themselves? Do they actively seek out information from others about things like their abilities or personality?

Peter Zhu, a fourth-year doctoral…

By Chia-wa Yeh, Head Teacher and Research Coordinator

How might environmental noise affect children’s learning? Are young children sensitive to the type of sounds that best suits their changing goals?

Rondeline Williams, a fifth-year…

By Chia-wa Yeh, Head Teacher and Research Coordinator 

How might children develop a sense of self through social interactions with others? This is a topic Mika Asaba explored as a graduate student in developmental psychology at…

By Chia-wa Yeh, Head Teacher and Research Coordinator

In the past few years, more than one hundred 4- and 5-year-olds at Bing have played a game featuring appealing green cartoon aliens called Gazorps. The game is part of a study, designed…

By Chia-wa Yeh, Head Teacher and Research Coordinator

Sophie Bridgers, a beloved Stanford researcher known to Bing Nursery School children as “game room teacher,” worked and interacted with 2-year-olds at Bing for the past three years.…

Are horses like zebras or are zebras like horses? Can girls do math as well as boys or vice versa? How does the order of the nouns communicate information to adults and children? …

By Chia-wa Yeh, Head Teacher and Research Coordinator
 

Research is an integral part of Bing Nursery School. Each year about 40 Stanford researchers work with children at Bing as participants in their studies. One of these is…