Publications

Journal Publications

2024 & In Press

1. Amemiya, J., Heyman, G. D., & Gerstenberg, T. (in press). Children use disagreement to infer what happened. Cognition. PDF

2. Rett, A., Amemiya, J., Hwang, B., Goldwater, M., & Walker, C. M. (in press). Children’s recognition of causal system categories among unique events. Developmental Psychology.

3. Amemiya, J., Heyman, G. D., & Walker, C. M. (in press). How barriers become invisible: Children are less sensitive to constraints that are stable over time. Developmental Science. PDF

4. *Donovan, B. M., Weindling, M., *Amemiya, J., Salazar, B., Lee, D., Syed, A., Stuhlsatz, M., & Snowden, J. (2024). Humane genomics education can reduce racism. Science, 383, 818-822. doi: 10.1126/science.adi7895 

*Corresponding author. PDF (open access)

5. Amemiya, J., & Bian, L. (2024). Why are there no girls? Increasing children’s recognition of structural causes of the gender gap in STEM. Cognition, 245, 105740. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105740 PDF

6. Amemiya, J., Heyman, G., & Walker, C.M. (2024). Calculated comparisons: Manufacturing societal causal judgments by implying different counterfactual outcomes. Cognitive Science. doi:10.1111/cogs.13408 PDF (open access)

2023

7. Amemiya, J., Mortenson, E., Heyman, G. D., & Walker, C. M. (2023). Thinking structurally: A cognitive framework for understanding how people attribute inequality to structural causes. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 18, 259-274. doi:10.1177/17456916221093593 PDF

8. Amemiya, J., *Widjanarko, K., *Chung, I., Bian, L., & Heyman, G. D. (2023). Children can represent complex social status hierarchies: Evidence from Indonesia. Child Development, 94, 1730-1744. doi:10.1111/cdev.13951
   *Student mentee. PDF

9. Amemiya, J., Heyman, G. D., & Walker, C. M. (2023). Emphasizing others’ persistence can promote unwarranted social inferences in children and adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152, p2977. doi:10.1037/xge0001428 PDF

10. Ahn, S., Amemiya, J., & Heyman, G. D. (2023). Children’s evaluative judgments of conformers and nonconformers. Infant and Child Development, 32, e2439. doi:10.1002/icd.2439 PDF 

2022

11. Zhao, L., Li, Y., Qin W., Amemiya, J., Fang, F., Compton, B. J., & Heyman, G. D. (2022). Overheard evaluative comments: Implications for beliefs about effort and ability. Child Development, 93, 1889-1902.doi:10.1111/cdev.13829 PDF

12. Amemiya, J., Mortenson, E., Ahn, S., Walker, C. M., & Heyman, G. D. (2022). Children acknowledge physical constraints less when actors behave stereotypically: Gender stereotypes as a case study. Child Development, 93, 72-83. doi:10.1111/cdev.13643 PDF 

13. Yu, C., Qian, M. K., Amemiya, J., Fu, G., Lee, K., & Heyman, G. D. (2021). Young children form generalized attitudes based on one encounter with an outgroup member. Developmental Science, 25, e13191. doi:10.1111/desc.13191 PDF

2021

14. Amemiya, J., Walker, C. M., & Heyman, G. D. (2021). Children’s developing ability to resolve disagreements by integrating perspectives. Child Development, 6, e1228-e1241. doi:10.1111/cdev.13603 PDF

15. Heyman, G. D., Compton, A., Amemiya, J., Ahn, S., & Shao, S. (2021). Children’s reputation management and the challenge of learning what is socially valued. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 30, 315-320. doi:10.1177/09637214211009516 PDF

16. Amemiya, J., *Liu, Z., Compton, B. J., & Heyman, G. D. (2021). Children’s judgments of positive claims people make about themselves. Infant and Child Development, 30, e2212. doi:10.1002/icd.2212 PDF

*Student mentee.

17. Fine, A. D., Amemiya, J., Frick, P., Steinberg, L., & Cauffman, E. (2021). Perceptions of police from ages 13 to 22 among Black, Latino, and White justice-involved males. Law and Human Behavior, 3, 243-255. doi: 10.1037/lhb0000445 PDF

2020

18. Ahn, S., Amemiya, J., Compton, B. J., & Heyman, G. D. (2020). Children approve of lying to benefit someone else’s reputation. Cognitive Development, 56, Article 100960. doi:10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.100960 PDF

19. Wang, M. T., Degol, J., Amemiya, J., Parr, A., & Guo, J. (2020). Classroom climate and children’s academic and psychological wellbeing: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Developmental Review, 57, Article 100912. doi:10.1016/j.dr.2020.100912 PDF

20. Amemiya, J., Fine, A., & Wang, M. T. (2020). Trust and discipline: Adolescents’ institutional and teacher trust predict classroom behavioral engagement following teacher discipline. Child Development, 91, 661-678. doi:10.1111/cdev.13233 PDF

21. Amemiya, J., *Mortenson, E., & Wang, M. T. (2020). Minor school infractions are not minor: School infractions for minor misconduct may increase adolescents’ defiant behavior and contribute to racial disparities in school discipline. American Psychologist, 75, 23-36. doi:10.1037/amp0000475 PDF

*Student mentee.

  **Awarded Society for Research on Adolescence Student Poster Award

  **Dissertation project was awarded the National Academy of Education/Spencer Fellowship

2019

22. Fredricks, J., Parr, A., Amemiya, J., Wang, M. T., & Brauer, S. (2019). What matters for urban adolescents’ engagement and disengagement in school: A mixed methods study. Journal of Adolescent Research, 34, 491-527. doi: 10.1177/0743558419830638 PDF

23. Wang, M. T., Degol, J., & Amemiya, J. (2019). Older siblings as academic socialization agents for younger siblings: Developmental pathways across adolescence. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 48, 1218-1233. doi: 10.1007/s10964-019-01005-2 PDF

24. Parr, A. P., Amemiya, J., & Wang, M. T. (2019). Student learning emotions in middle school mathematics classrooms: Investigating associations with dialogic instructional practices. Educational Psychology, 39, 636-658. doi:10.1080/01443410.2018.1560395 PDF

25. †Binning, K. B., †Wang, M. T., & †Amemiya, J. (2019). Persistence mindset among adolescents: Who benefits from the message that academic struggles are normal and temporary? Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 48, 269-286. doi:10.1007/s10964-018-0933-3

†Shared first authorship. PDF

2018

26. Amemiya, J., & Wang, M. T. (2018). Why effort praise can backfire in adolescence. Child Development Perspectives, 12, 199-203. doi:10.1111/cdep.12284 PDF

27. Amemiya, J., & Wang, M. T. (2018). African American adolescents’ gender and perceived school climate moderate how academic coping relates to achievement. Journal of School Psychology, 69, 127-142. doi:10.1016/j.jsp.2018.05.001 PDF

28. Galla, B., Amemiya, J., & Wang, M. T. (2018). Using expectancy-value theory to explain academic self-control. Learning and Instruction, 58, 22-33. doi:10.1016/j.learninstruc.2018.04.004 PDF

29. Salazar, A. M., Jones, K. R., Amemiya, J., Cherry, A., Brown, E., Catalano, R., & Monahan, K. C. (2018). Defining and achieving permanency among older youth in foster care. Children and Youth Services Review, 87, 9-16. doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.02.006 PDF

2017

30. †Wang, M. T., †Chow, A., & †Amemiya, J. (2017). Who wants to play? Sport motivation trajectories, sport involvement, and the development of depressive symptoms. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 46, 1982-1998. doi:10.1007/s10964-017-0649-9

†Shared first authorship. PDF

31. Amemiya, J., *Kieta, J., & Monahan, K. C. (2017). Adolescent offenders’ qualitative reflections on desistance from crime. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 27, 765-781. doi:10.1111/jora.12313 PDF

*Student mentee.

2016

32. Amemiya, J., & Wang, M. T. (2016). Transactional relations between motivational beliefs and help seeking from teachers and peers across adolescence. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 46, 1743-1757. doi:10.1007/s10964-016-0623-y PDF

33. Amemiya, J., VanDerhei, S., & Monahan, K. C. (2016). Parsing the persisters: Etiological mechanisms and criminal offense patterns of moderate- and high-level persistent offenders. Development and Psychopathology, 29, 819-835. doi:10.1017/S095457941600050X PDF

34. Amemiya, J., Monahan, K. C., & Cauffman, E. (2016). Leaders and followers in juvenile offending: Distinguishing correlates and adjustment to incarceration. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 43, 899-922. doi:10.1177/0093854815622660 PDF

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

1. Amemiya, J., Heyman, G. D., & Walker, C. M. (2022). The role of alternatives in children’s reasoning about constrained choices. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Toronto, Canada: Cognitive Science Society. PDF

2. Amemiya, J., Heyman, G. D., & Walker, C. M. (2021). How people make causal judgments about unprecedented societal events. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. PDF

3. Rett, A., Amemiya, J., Goldwater, M., Walker, C. M. (2021). Children's use of causal structure when making similarity judgments. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. PDF