Gorana Gonzalez
BS Psychology, 2015, University of Florida
MS Developmental Science, 2022, UMass Amherst
PhD Developmental Science, 2024, UMass Amherst
Advisor:
Dr. Tara Mandalaywala
Office Hours:
by appointment
Center and Institute Affilitation:
Center for Research on Families
Research
I'm interested in how children learn about race and racism and how they perceive institutional systems and representatives of those systems. For example, how do children perceive interactions between police and children of different races?
Publications
In prep Gonzalez, G., & McAuliffe, K. Explicit norms promotes costly fairness in children.
Accepted 2021 Mandalaywala,T., Gonzalez,G., &Tropp,L. How intergroup contact and exposure predict anti-Asian prejudice in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations.
Accepted 2021 Gonzalez, G.*, Ahl, R.E.*, Cordes, S., & McAuliffe, K. Children strategically conceal selfishness. Child Development (Working paper available.)
2020 Prétôt, L., Gonzalez, G., & McAuliffe, K. Children avoid inefficient but fair partners in a cooperative game. Scientific Reports.
2020 Gonzalez, G., Blake, P., Dunham, Y., & McAuliffe, K. In-group bias does not influence inequity aversion in children. Developmental Psychology. LINK
2018 Liu, S., Gonzalez, G., & Warneken, F. Worth the wait: Children trade off delay and rewards for self – and other-benefiting decisions. Developmental Science, e12702. PDF
Presentations
Gonzalez, G., & McAuliffe, K. (May 2019). Be fair: do explicit norms promote fairness in children? Data Blitz presented at the meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society (HBES), Boston, MA, USA.
Gonzalez, G., Ahl, R.E., Cordes, S., & McAuliffe, K. (March 2019). Fairness façade: will children strategically use a “veil of fairness”? Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Baltimore, MD, USA.
Gonzalez, G., & McAuliffe, K. (July 2018). Be fair: do explicit norms promote fairness in children? Poster presented at the meeting of the Society of Philosophy and Psychology (SPP), Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Gonzalez, G., Blake, P., Dunham, Y., & McAuliffe, K. (April 2017). In-group bias does not influence inequity aversion in children. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Austin, TX, USA.
Liu, S., Gonzalez, G., & Warneken, F. (April 2017). Children weigh the costs and rewards in altruistic decision-making. In Children’s Reasoning about the Costs and Rewards of Prosocial Decisions. Symposium conducted at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Austin, TX, USA.
Grisham, E., Musselman, D., Barnette, T., Powers, M., Gonzalez, G., Conway, J., Klein, R., & Redford, L. (April 2015). Implicit preference for White people over Black people decreases with repeated Implicit Association Tests (IATs). Poster presented at the University of Florida Undergraduate Research Forum, Gainesville, FL, USA.